*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!
Angie, Markham , Ontario
When you pray, keep alert and be thankful.
Be sure to pray that God will make a way.
Colossians 4:2-3 CEV
“He did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.” (2 Chronicles 12:14 NASB)
Teach us to number our days aright that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Psalm 90:12 NIV
Cris, Virginia Beach ,VA -Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters. Colossians 3:23
Karen, Trenton, OH
Psalm 37:24 hcsb
Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, because the Lord holds his hand.
Vonore, TN
If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.
James 1:5-8. (NIV)
Robin T., Laureldale PA – Do not conform any longer to the pattern of the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve God’s will – his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2 (NIV)
King James Bible 2 Coriinthians 1:10
Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
Patti for brentwod TN
Romans 6:9 esv
We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
Debbie, Fort Thomas, KY
Remember, O Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O Lord. Psalm 25:6-7 NIV
Woodbine, Georgia
Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
1 Peter 5:7
Midlothian, Texas
Deuteronomy 3:2 NIV
Do not be afraid of them, the Lord your God himself will fight for you.
Sandy, Brookshire, Texas, Colossians 3:9 “Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices”.
Wendy Buttrey, Acworth, Ga
He energizes those who get tired, gives fresh strength to dropouts. For even young people tire and drop out, young folk in their prime tire, stumble and fall. Isaiah 40:29-30 MSG
NIV 1 Thessalonians 5:16 Be joyful always
5:17 Pray continuously
5:18 Give thanks in all circumstances,
for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
Liane Kent – Harlowton, MT –
We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps. (â€Proverbs‬ â€16‬:â€9‬ NLT)
Candy from St Louis
Continuation of Ephesians 3….may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, (â€Ephesians‬ â€3‬:â€18‬ NIV)
Jamie, Wichita, KS
“But the work which His presence within accomplishes is love, gladness, peace, an even temper…”
Galatians 5:22a Amplified
Michelle Vardeman, Russellville AR:
Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know. Jeremiah 33:3 NIV
Jen Wellman from Spring, TX
Psalm 65:8
“So that those who dwell at the ends of the earth are in awe at your signs,
You make the going out of the morning and the evening to shout for joy.” ESV
Broken Arrow, OK
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever”. Hebrews 13:8 (NIV)
Carol Stainbrook, Kimberling City, MO
“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.” Colossians 3:12 (NIV)
Columbus, GA
I wait for the Lord, my soul wiats and in His word I put my hope. Psalms 103:5
Amy B.
Montezuma, IN
Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You.
Psalm 56:3 NKJV
Carolyn O., Cypress, TX
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ.
Ephesians 3:17b – 18 NIV
Rebecca in Durham: “I pray that from HIS glorious unlimited resources He will empower you with inner strength through hHis Spirit.” (Eph. 3:16, NLT)
Teach me your ways, O Lord,
That I may walk in your truth;
Give me an undivided heart,
That I may fear your name.
Psalm 86:11
NIV
Rebecca
Helena,AL
Denise from Snowcreek,VA. NKJV Proverbs 16:7. When a man’s ways please THE LORD, He makes even his enemies be at peace with him.
Sara J, Midland, TX
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, (â€Ephesians‬ â€3‬:â€17‬ NIV)
Joan Bush (Coppell, TX): …may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge–that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:18-19 NIV
Teresa Cianciotto, Dickinson, TX “The grass withers and the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.” Is 40:8 ESV
Addy Cianciotto, Dickinson, TX “The grass withers and the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.” Is 40:8 ESV
Gabby Cianciotto, Dickinson, TX “Be patient, bearing with one another in love.” Eph 4:2 ESV
Amanda Dales, Rockhampton, Queensland
And may you have the power to understand, as all Gods people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love really is.
Ephesians 3:18 NLT
memphis,Tn
” You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in your word. Psalm 119:114 ESV
( trying to live always with God’s laws)
” I have set the Lord always before me” psalm16:8a. ESV
There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling.
Ephesians 4:4
Marsha B of Angleton TX “And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.” Colossians 3:14 (NIV84)
Ronda, Murfreesboro, TN
“may have the strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth, length, height, and depth, ” Ephesians 3:18 ESV
“For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.”
Ezekiall 36:24
Connie Colston, Waxahachie, TX
Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. Lamentations 3:22 (NIV)
Amy Guth Canton, MS
“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
Revelation 21:4 ESV
Joan DeKoekkoek, Portage, MI
” Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him;
do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they
carry out their wicked schemes. ” Psalms 37 : 7 NIV
Ann from Odessa, FL
And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. (â€Isaiah‬ â€30‬:â€21‬ ESV)
Valarie, Cincinnati, 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, for ever and ever! Amen. “(â€Ephesians‬ â€3‬:â€20-21‬ NIV)â€
Bobbie Lutz
College Station, Tx
Psalm 103:10 (NIV)
He does not treat us as our sins deserve
or repay us according to our iniquities.
Julianne August, Orangeville, Ontario
“By God’s grace and mighty power, I have been given the privilege of serving him by spreading this Good News.” Ephesians 3:7 (NLT)
Nedra, Blue Springs, MO “He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will…” Ephesians 1:5 NASB
Jerrie Reynolds – Longview, TX
Romans 1:16 (NIV)
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
Colleen, Cape Town, South Africa
Thus says God the Lord,
Who created the heavens and stretched them out,
Who spread out the earth and its offspring,
Who gives breath to the people on it
And spirit to those who walk in it,
Isaiah 42:5, NASB
…training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
Titus 2:12 ESV