*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!
Pat-Dallas, Tx
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!
For His mercy endures forever.
Psalms 118:1
keelie ferguson, Gunter, Texas “honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce,” proverbs 3:9 ESV
My SIESTA MEMORY VERSE for June 15th (a bit late but still beautiful)
“For the wages of sin is death, but the Gift of God is eternal life IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD.” Romans 6:23 NIV
The Greatest Gift from my Father is His Son Jesus Christ – I see HIM and hear HIM in His Glorious Life Saving WORD every day!!! Grateful beyond all measure!!
Tanya Atwood, Tyler, Texas
FOR JUNE 1st “…knowing that of the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheiritance, for you serve the Lord.” Col 3:24 NKJV
FOR JUNE 15th “May the God of Hope fill you with all joy and peace.” Romans 5:13
Natalie- Austin, tx
Prov 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and he who wins souls is wise.
Kay Richmond, Va
“As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Now remain in my love.”
Spanish ” Asi como el Padre me ha amado a mi, tambien yo los he amado a ustedes permanezcan em mi amor.
John 15:9
For we know in part and we prophesy in part
KJV
Charlene
Norcross GA
Psalm 34:13 – Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. ESV
Lori
Bangor, Maine
Dear friend, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, just as it is well with your soul.
3 John 1:2 NET
Kind words are like honey, sweet to the soul and healthy for the body.
Proverbs 16:24
This is for June 1, 2015
“Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 4:6-7
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11
Kim, Richmond, tx, (Revelation 19:7 esv)
Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready.
Wendi, Kennebunkport, ME
“…may have power together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,”
Eph 3:18 NIV
SIESA Memory Verse for July 1, 2015
NIV Psalm 42:8 By day the LORD directs His love, at night His song is with me — a prayer to the God of my life.
Just returned from a Mission Trip to Norwich, CT where Jesus showed and taught us so much – I am continually amazed at His Love and the way He refreshes us and reveals His Presence – He is personal and purposeful!
1 Sam 12:24 “Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with
all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for
you.” (ESV)
Linda Steriti
Littleton NH
If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food,
James 2:15 NASB
Shanen Pankrez, Grapevine, TX
to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and always to be gentle toward everyone.
Titus 3:4, NIV
Casey, San Antonio, TX. “The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in Whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I call to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and I am saved from my enemies.” Psalm 18:2-3 NIV
Neida, Westminster, CO
2 Timothy 2:21 ESV
Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work.
Nan Vroman, Buffalo, NY
‘But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.’
1 Peter 3:15-16, NIV
He has showed you, O man what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly,to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8
Submit yourselves, then to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. James 4:7. (NIV)
Be joyful always, pray continually. I Thessalonians 5:16-17
Stacy Fountain
Kate Fountain
Mary Dean Fountain
Bess Fountain
Dothan, AL
And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8, NIV
Mary
Winter Park, FL
When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
Romans 6:20
Kimberly Balles Rolling Meadows, IL
And this is my prayer that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight.
Philippians 1:9 NIV
Jessica Solid, Atlanta GA
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.(John 1:14/ NIV)
I memorized May 7th.
Lissa, Greenville, SC
The Lord is compassionate and merciful, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.
Psalm 103:8 NLT
Eugenie, Phoenix, AZ
“I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.”
Psalm 119:11
(NIV)
Mark 5:34. He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.” NIV
Stephanie, Fort Worth, TX;
and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, Ephesians 6:17 (ESV)
…not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Ephesians 2:9 ESV
Jennifer
Fort Worth, TX
Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.
Romans 13:14
Lauren
Fort Worth, TX
This is my command – be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. God is with you wherever you go.
Josua 1:9 NLT
Sherry – Jay, OK
Training the body has some value. But being godly has value in every way. It promises help for the life you are now living and the life to come. 1 Timothy 4:8 NIrV
Sara Langone, Santa Fe, NM ” now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen” Hebrews 11:1 ESV
1 Samuel 25:29 NLT
“You are safe within the care of the Lord your God.”
Rev. 5:8 “And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.” NIV
“Do not conform to the ways of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
Romans 12:2
Ephesians 5:2
…and live in love, just as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant smell.
Christy
Fayetteville, AR
1 Corinthians 1:30-31 NIV
“It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God–that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. 31 Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
Gayla
Cedartown, GA
Matthew 22:37 NIV
Jesus replied, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”
Dawn P., Warren MI
Rom.11.33.ESV Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
Psalms 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
ESV Proverbs 15:23 HOW GOOD IS A TIMELY WORD!
Linda from Orrville, OH
“Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever! AMEN
Ephesians 3:20-21 NIV
Stacy, Greenfield, Indiana
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Romans 12:12 ESV
Linda Grantham from Raymond, MS
Hebrews 4:16 ESV
“Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”
Nan Vroman, Buffalo, NY
‘Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name given under heaven by which we must be saved.’ Acts4:12, TNIV