If you are unable to watch the video, here is Beth’s message:
Hey girls! You have to know I really love you if I’m going to get on here with all this sunscreen, and with all this sweat, and in the middle of all this beach goings on. But I do love you and want to keep my commitment to you and to the Lord Jesus, and make sure that you know I am still with you in the scripture memory.
I am still memorizing out of the book of Ephesians and I’m in the most interesting verse in Ephesians 4:20. Right before it in verse 19, Paul is talking about the fact that there are people that give themselves over to the flesh. They give themselves over to greed, to callousness of heart, and to every kind of impurity. But he says something in verse 20 that I think is so profound. Ephesians 4:20 says, “But that is not the way you learned Christ.” And I thought about all the opportunities we have for that verse, when someone’s been unloving to us, unkind, or we really want so much to be ugly back to somebody. We’re reminded over and over again “but that is not the way we learned Christ.” That is not what He taught us to do.
I cannot think of a limit to the opportunities that we would have to tuck that verse in our hearts, to be able to say I know better than this. This is not the way I learned Christ. When I depart into the flesh, when I know that I am in an area, maybe even a gray area, maybe it’s not all the way in the ditch, just a gray area. But I can say to myself that’s not the way I learned Christ. I know how I learned Christ. I know what He calls for from me.
Beth, Houston TX
Ephesians 4:20 (ESV) But that is not the way you learned Christ.
We learned Christ in the love and grace and mercy of God the Father who gave Him in our behalf. I’m just crazy about you. Stay with it. It is August 1st and it is a glorious time to celebrate what God has already done in 2015! Have a great day everybody and make sure to put in your verses!
Toni Schumacher Amarillo Texas
Trust in the Lord & do good & dwell in the land & enjoy safe pasture. Delight yourself in the Lord & He will give you the desires of your heart. Psalms 37: 3-4
Deena Wahl, Lumberton, Tx
““Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven.”
Matthew 6:1 NKJV
Sheila H., Mitchell, MB, Canada
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 (NIV)
I’m a day late, but I was not by the internet for the last four days, so please forgive me.
Janice MacNealy…Bethesda, OH
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5&6 NIV
“Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.” Psalm 27:14 (NIV)
Mary Witte, Grand Rapids, MN
If you make the Lord your refuge, if you make the Most High your shelter, no evil will conquer you; no plague will come near your dwelling. Psalm 91:9-10 NLT
Mary-Katherine, New Albany, OH
Luke 1:45, NIV
“Blessed is she who has believed that The Lord would fulfill his promises to her!”
Carla, San Antonio
For the word of the Lord is right, and all His work is trustworthy. Psalm 33:4, HCSB
Heidi Duffield, DeWitt, AR
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are My ways your ways”, declares the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8,9. (NASV)
Meredith Cox, Irmo, SC
Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.”
Luke 9:23
Jan McClure Lexington,KY
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
Ephesians 6:10 ESV
Lindsey in Houston TX
Jeremiah 17:5
This is what the Lord says:
“Cursed is the one who trusts in man,
who draws strength from mere flesh
and whose heart turns away from the Lord.
Lynn Greene, Shelby, NC
“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”
Romans 22:21 NIV
Ella, Gillespie, IL
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” Matthew 5:17 NIV
Rebecca Sprenger, Marana, AZ
“Wisdom belongs to the aged, and understanding to the old.”
Job 12:12 NLT
Brandi Hunter, Memphis, TN.
pray without ceasing;
1 Thessalonians 5:17 NASB
Lori D., Elk Grove, CA
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Isaiah 41:10 NIV
Gwyn Tidwell of Haslet, TX
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. Psalm 116:15 (NIV84)
Sue Pointer, Duncanville, TX
Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning. Psalm 30:5 (NLT)
Lisa Martin
Chesterfield, MO
Romans 14:8 HCSB
If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
Kay in Muscle Shoals AL
In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly. Psalm 5:3 NIV
Tina Shelton – Richmond, TX
He refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for His name sake. Psalm 23:3 NIV
Amy from Everett ,WA
I love You, Lord, my strength.
Psalm 18:1 (HCSB)
Newhall, CA
“But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit that lives in you.”
Romans 8:11 MEV
Lindsey, Scenery Hill, PA
Exodus 20:12 esv
“Honor your father and mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.”
Ruth Moore, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Psalm 103:13,14 ESV
As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear Him. For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.
Jedonne Given, Nashville, TN
“He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. He who is seated at the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down for these words are trustworthy and true.”
Revelation 21:4-5 (NIV)
Carol Peavy
Jena, LA
You were running a good race. Who cut in on you and kept you from obeying the truth? That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you.
Galatians 5:7-8 NIV
Melissa Teakell, Wichita, KS
O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you,
in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Psalm 63:1 NIV84
Psalm 91:14 NLT:
The Lord says, “I will rescue those who love me.
I will protect those who trust in my name.”
Rockford, IL Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come.
Tami – Louisiana
“See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.” (Isaiah 49:16) NIV
“…you are strong and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.”
I John 2:14b ESV
From Kelly Minter’s What Love Is
Kristi S.Morristown, Tn (was Rogersville)
Philippians 4:6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known to God.
Angie Shockney Lafayette, IN
1 Peter 1:14 NIV
As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.
Michelle Wynne, Spokane, WA. (Continuing from vs 5, my July15 & Aug 1 vs)
Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
Philippians 2:9-10. ESV
Jan Witt, Rockwall, TX
He must increase, but I must decrease.
John 3:30 ESV
Merideth Colvert Conroe, Tx
“Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”
Psalm 51:10 (NIV)
Linda Patterson Wolcottville IN
Be doers of the word not hearers only, deceiving yourselves
James 1:22 esv
Sallee Bonham
Belle, Missouri, USA
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
Ephesians 1:18 NIV
Jeri of Missouri City, TX
Psalm 32:8 (NIV)
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.
Dana Roberts, McKinney TX
Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.
Galatians 6:10 NIV
Fran Scott, Stafford, TX 1 Peter 5:7 KJV
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Bethany Stephens, Garland, TX
Micah 6:8 NIV
“He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”
Rhonda Butler, Jackson, Tennessee, “Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.” Proverbs 16:3
Kimberly Moore
Austin, Texas
Hebrews 12:11 NIV
No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
Laura Best from Kenly, NC
“Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.”
Colossians 4:2 NIV
“We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.”
II Corinthians 6:1
KJV
Kelly, Auburn, AL – Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. James 3:10 NIV
Jenna, Fort Worth, Tx
“and let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which you were called in one body;and be thankful.” Colossians 3:15 NKJV