*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!
Tremont, IL
Look at the nations and watch – and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something on your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.
Habakkuk 1:5 (NIV)
Linda from Raymond, MS
ESV Psalm 27:8
You have said, “seek my face.” My heart says to you, “your face, Lord, do I seek.”
Nothing can hinder the Lord from saving, whether by many or by few. 1 Sam. 14:6
I can do everything through Him who gives me strength.
Philippians 4:13
Anna, Tx
“The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.”
Psalm 19:7
Kristi, Anchorage, Alaska
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.”
Philippians 4:6 NIV
“Therefore, there is now no condemnation who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.”
Romans 8:1-2
Tara Ford, Beech Creek, KY
2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV
[17] Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
Little Elm, TX
Don’t be anxious about anything, but in every situation by prayer and petition with thanksgiving present your request to God.
Philippians 4:6 NIV
Hosea 4:6 NKJV My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Ashley Kurtz, Kingwood, TX
“The Lord directs the steps of the Godly. He delights in every detail of their lives. Though they stumble, they will never fail, for the Lord holds them by the hand.” Psalm 37: 23-24 NLT
Sharon Crow, Winchester, VA
“For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”
1 Corinthians 1:18 (ESV)
Eugenie Wilcox, Phoenix, AZ
“If we were properly evaluating ourselves, we would not be judged, but when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, so that we may not be condemned with the “world”.
1 Corinthians 11:31-32
(HCSB)
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. – 1 John 1:5 ESV
Psalm 56:3
When I am afraid, I will trust in him.
Sheri New Atlanta, TX
O taste and see that the Lord is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Hom.
Psalm 34:8 NKJV
Susan
Tyler, TX
October 8, 2015 at 4:41 p.m.
“Teach me your way, Lord, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.”
Psalm 86:11 (NIV)
Linda Grantham from Raymond, MS
ESV Psalm 31:5 “into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.”
Linda Grantham from Raymond, MS
ESV Acts 3:19-20
“Repent, therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.”
Natalie,Frisco,TX
“He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.”
Isaiah 40:29 NIV
“(But) the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, inpartial and sincere.”
James 3:17 NIV
Lisa
Hendersonville, TN
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil;
For you are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
Psalm 23:4
SIESTA Scripture Memory Verse for October 15, 2015
“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.” Colossians 3L12-13 NIV
Julie Andrews
Chagrin Falls, OH
1 Samuel 2:2 NIV
“There is no one holy like the LORD. There is no one besides you. There is no Rock like our God.”
Jen Andrews
Chagrin Falls, OH
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s spirit dwells in you?
1 Corinthians 3:16
Shannon, Buda, TX
Their descendants will be known among the nations
and their offspring among the peoples.
All who see them will acknowledge
that they are a people the Lord has blessed.
Isaiah 61:9
Amy Smiley, Williams, AZ
“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”
1 John 1:9
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
You anoint my head with oil
My cup runs over.
Psalm 23:5
NIV: Psalm 9:10
Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.
Kearse George, Denver, CO 80209
“Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” -James 4:7 (NIV)
Mandy, Raymond,MS
“Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her.”
Luke 1:45 NIV
Crystal Parrott – Everett, Ontario, Canada
“That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.” James 1:7 NIV
SIESTA Memory Verse for November 1st, 2015
“You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in You. Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal.”
Isaiah 26:3-4 NIV (Isaiah 26 is A Song of Praise)
Nesha Vest – Mechanicsville, VA
“You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.” Psalm 16:11 NIV
11/15/2015
The Lord is my light and my salvation-whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life-of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalm 27:1
Amy
Buda, Texas
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:28 NIV
12/01/2015
“Let anyone of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone.”
John8:7
Michelle,
Bossier City, LA
Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
Hebrews 2:18 (NIV)
Sheri – Portland, Oregon
Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
2 John 9
Tonya Thibodeaux, DeQuincy, Louisiana
Verse 8
Galatians 6:2 – “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”
Austin, Texas
“Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.” Isaiah 30:21 NIV
Holly from Alpharetta, GA
Psalm 40: 9 I proclaim your saving acts in the great assembly; I do not seal my lips, Lord,
as you know.
12/15/2015
“Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill His
promises to her!”
Luke 1:45
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:13
Johnine from Anna, Texas
Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge, even the Most High, your dwelling place,
Psalm 91:9 NKJ
Sara, Greenfield, IN
In my distress I called to the Lord and he answered me.
Psalm 120:1
Sara, Greenfield, IN
For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Isaiah 58:3
Yes, a person is a fool to store up earthly wealth and not have a rich relationship with God. Luke 12:21
Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?
Luke 12:25
Seek the kingdom of God above all else and he will give you everything you need. Luke 12:31
Elaine, New Orleans, LA
Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear. Isaiah 65:24 NIV