*This post is coming to you a few days early as our staff travels with Beth, which you will read more about below.
Hey, Everybody! It’s May! We are making progress, Girls! By now you are getting some verses down in your bones. I was thrilled two weekends ago when we had our clandestine Siesta picture after the end of our Albuquerque Living Proof Live and a bunch of them brought their spirals. Talk about teacher’s pets! Here they are:
OK! I’ve done a little video – a really, really short one this time – where I say my verses to you while I’m on a walk in our woods so this stands as my official entry for Verse 9! I’m doing memory work right now out of Ephesians Chapter Four and it is so powerful. As you’ll hear in this segment, God seems to have a tremendous partiality to the number ONE.
Y’all, I love doing this with you. I love an SSMT year. You are so dear to us. By the time you’re submitting your verses, I’ll be speaking in London at Hillsong Colour Conference. Our whole LPM staff is coming and many of our volunteers. Melissa is with me and will be heading up a short tour with our volunteers after the Hillsong conference ends, giving emphasis to several figures in Christianity who had tremendous influence on Spiritual formation. We are looking extremely forward to it. Her suitcase weighed 10 whole pounds more than mine strictly from books. Made me grin. The girl is a book nerd if you’ll ever meet one. We were so sad Amanda couldn’t come on this trip but she needed to be home with her very busy family this round. We miss her like nobody’s business. Would all of you please pray for us as we labor in this gorgeous field of harvest? Please ask Jesus to pour out His Holy Spirit lavishly upon us and to give us such hearts of love for every person we serve.  When I say, ask Jesus to pour out His Spirit, I mean like GUSHES. FLOODS, TIDAL WAVES of Living Water. Understand what I’m saying? PRAY BIG. Get in there with your faith if you’d be willing and ask God to be enormously present among us here. Ask for many to be saved, many to be delivered from strongholds, healed, and made whole in Jesus. Ask for multitudes to awaken to the breadth and length and height and depth of the borderless love of Jesus. Thank you! I owe you a debt of love which I gladly, joyfully pay.
Ok, Girls! Hit it with those verses!
Joan, La Vernia, Texas:
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4 ESV
June Greenstreet
Bradford Ontario
“but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.” (â€Philippians‬ â€2‬:â€7‬ ESV)
I, even I, am the Lord, and apart from me there is no savior. Isaiah 43:12 NIV
Telena Haneline, Maryville, TN. You show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore. Psalm 16:11 NKJV
Brianna form Jonesboro, AR
You did not choose Me, but I choose you. I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give it to you.
John 15:16 HCSB
John 8:31-32
To the Jews who had believed him Jesus said, “If you hold to my teachings you really are my disciples. Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.
Melissa ~ Black Creek, Ga
and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (â€Ephesians‬ â€3‬:â€19‬ ESV)
Melinda Rowlett, TX
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. (â€Ephesians‬ â€4‬:â€32‬ ESV)
Dale -Palm Desert, CA – “For whoever lacks these qualities is so near sighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins” (2 Peter 1:9)
Jennifer Jackson, Tulsa OK
Be strong in the Lord and the peer of His might.
Ephesians 6:10
“For his anger endures but a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.”
Psalms 30:5
Gloria Davis, Mansfield, OH
“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.”
Colossians 3:12 (NIV)
2 Cor5:7 NIV We live by faith not by sight.
Isaiah 41:10 NIV So do not fear, for I am with you, do not be dismayed, for I am your God I will strength you and help you.
2:Cor 10:4 NIV The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
PS 34:4 NIV I sought the Lord and he answered me, he delivered me from all my fears.
PS: 147:3 NIV He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
RM 15:13 NIV May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him. So that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Joshua 1:8 NIV Do not let the book of the Law depart from your mouth, meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
Zara — Seoul, South Korea
“My soul faints for your salvation, but I hope in your word.”
Psalm 119:81
Houston, TX
And God is able to make ALL grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in EVERY good work.
2 Corinthians 9:8, ESV
Such a great promise! Heaven knows I need it in the healing of my MIND! Glad it applies to every work- works within and works without.
Sing a new song to the Lord, sing to the Lord, all the earth.Psalms 96:1
Maaike Veerbeek, The Netherlands, Dordrecht: In het woord was leven en het leven was het licht voor de mensen. Het licht scheen in de duisternis en de duisternis heeft het niet in haar macht gekregen. Joh1:4+5 NBV
Cara
Umatilla, FL
Psalm 139:9
If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
Stephanie – Tampa, FL We will not hide them from their descendants; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, His power and the wonders He has done. Psalm 78:4 NIV
Dawn Deare, Lafayette LA
Psalm 126:3 NIV84
The Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy.
Anne Acker, Johnson City, TN
Psalm 94:18-19 (ESV)
When I thought, “My foot slips,” your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up. When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.
Amanda; Queen City, TX
Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. Matthew 5:16 NIV
Forrest City, AR
14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight,
O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer. Psalm 19:14 New King James Version (NKJV)
Jolene Jenkins, Suwanee, GA
Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
James 2:12-13 NIV
Ivy Morrison, Dayton TX
Matthew 21:43 MSG
“This is the way it is with you. God’s kingdom will be taken back from you and handed over to a people who will live out a kingdom life.”
Sorry if this is a duplicate. I got behind, and can’t remember when I left off.
Susanna Greenville,TX
I will go before you and make the rough places smooth; I will shatter the doors of bronze and cut through their iron bars.
Isaiah 45:2 NASB
But many who are first will be last, and the last first. Mathew 19:30 Esv
Psalm 46:1 NIV
God is our refuge and strength,
An ever present help in trouble.
Brenda Zabriskie
Lindon, Utah
Romans 15:13
May the God of Hope fill you with all the Joy and Peace as you
TRUST in him, so that you may overflow with Hope by the Power of
the Holy Spirit.
Christy Brey, Jackson, MO, A man who endures trials is blessed, because when he passes the test he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him. (â€James‬ â€1‬:â€12‬ HCSB)
Tami, DS, LA
For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God.
Colossians 3:3
HCSB
Susan, Atlanta, GA
Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he? Isaiah 2:22 ESV
Monica Pribe, Blacklick, OH “You however are not in the flesh but in the Spirit if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him.” Romans 8:9 ESV
Kearney, NE
3For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. 4The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 NIV
Cindy Gandy
Hazlehurst, MS
Psalm 117:2 (KJV)
For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord.
Patricia Gandy
Florence, MS
Psalm 5:3 (KJV)
My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
Laura Hall
Kyle, Texas
“To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the spirit is life and peace.”
(Romans 8:6 ESV)
Karen, Queen City, TX. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. MATT.2:10 NKJ
Michelle Matlock, Queen City, TX
Daniel 3:17 If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it and he will deliver us feom your magesty’s hand. NIV
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
Philippians 4:13 (NKJV)
Prov 30:8-9 ESV
“Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, lest I be full and deny you and say, ‘Who is the LORD?’ or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.”
Shannon Vasquez, Littleton, CO
Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take. -Proverbs 3:6 (NLT)
Beverly, Jackson, TN
“My bones were not hidden from You when I was made in secret,
when I was formed in the depths of the earth. Your Eyes ‘saw
me’ when I was formless, all my days were written in Your book
and planned before a single one of them began.”
-Psalm 139:15-16 HCSB
Kathy, Las Cruces, NM:
“The Lord does not look at the things people look at; the Lord looks at the heart.”
–1 Samuel 16:7 (NIV)