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!
Every word of God proves true;he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Proverbs 30:5 (ESV)
Deneen
Sterlington, LA
Lauren Gross, Pineville, LA
If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.
Colossians 3:1 NKJV
No wonder my heart is glad and I rejoice. My body rests in safety.
Psalm 16:9
McAllen Texas
“When God’s people are in need, be ready to help them. Always be eager to practice hospitality.”
Romans 12:13 NLT
Martha Parrish, Irving, TX
You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you.
Isaiah 26:3, NLT
Tremont, IL
Because he holds fast to Me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows My name. When he calls to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.
Psalm91:14-16 (ESV)
Jackie UK
Psalm 119 verse 35
Guide me in the path of Your commands
For I delight to walk in it.
Kim, Roswell
Fear not , I am with you be not dismayed, for I am your God, I will strengthen you , I will help you,
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand
Isiah 41:10ESV
PatWilfong, GreenBankWV,
(13) Then little children were brought to Jesus
for him to place his hands on them. And pray for them.
But the disciples rebuked those who brought them.
(14) Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me,
and do not hinder them,
for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
(15) When he had placed his hands on them,
he went on from there.
Matthew 19: 13-15. Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible:NIV.
Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
Hebrews 13:8 (KJV)
Sharon, Radford, VA
August 8, 2015
Matthew 7:7-8 (NIV)
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
Marie Skipper of Granger,Tx
Ephesians 3:16
“I pray that out of His glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being.” NIV
Jennifer, Fort Worth, TX
The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray.
I. Peter 4:7 NIV
Katherine, Atlanta Ga When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. Psalm 56:3 ESV
If we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all righteousness. 1 John 1:8-9
Father I come to you today, asking Your forgiveness for the sins in my life. I choose today to turn away from those sins. I accept your forgiveness and praise you for the love and mercy you so freely offer. Please help me eliminate these sins from my life. In Jesus’ name. AMEN
“…so is My word that goes out from My mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.” Isaiah 55:11
Rebecca Stewart Julian, NC “For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love, and of self-discipline.” 2 Timothy 1:7 NIV
Michelle, Queen City, TX
Matthew 6:34 nlt
So dont worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.
Kay Richmond, Va
I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his Father’s business. instead, I have called you friends ,for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
John 15:15
Jennifer Haglund; Story City, IA
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;” – Proverbs 3:5 (NIV)
Lauren, Fort Worth, TX
I am overwhelmed with joy, in the Lord my God! For he has dressed me with the clothing of salvation and draped me with the robe of righteousness.
Isaih 61:10 NLT
Dianne, Andover, MN
1 Thessalonians 5:24 (AMP)
Faithful is He Who is calling you [to Himself] and utterly trustworthy, and He will also do it [fulfill His call by hallowing and keeping you].
Ephesians 2:15
…by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of two, so making peace…
Lori from St. Catharines, ON
“The king rejoices in your strength, Lord. How great is his joy in the victories you give!”
Psalm 21:1 NIV
Charlotte, Jacksonville, FL. “God is my refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble, Therefore I will not fear,…” Psalm 46:1-2a NASB
Dorla in Lincoln Ne
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.
Eph 2: 1,2 NASB
Pat, Brandon, Fl
Psalm 58:1 Is this any way to run a country? Is there an honest politician in the house?
The Message
Megan, Goodlettsville, TN Proverbs 31:12 (NIV) “She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life.”
Dorothy Williams
Montgomery, AL
2 Corinthians 2:4
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
Paula, Dalhart, TX
“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” Romans 12:12 NIV
I’m catching up!
Kate K.
Lafayette, IN
“I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.” Isaiah 46:4 NIV
Candice from Houston, Texas – “he restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his names’ sake.” Psalm 23:3 NIV
Shelly Verley
Apache Junction, AZ
“Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.”
Colossians 3:14 NASB
Martha Salters
Natchez MS
” 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
John 3:30 (NIV) – He must become greater; I must become less
Jessica Cumming, Ga
James 1:6 NIV
But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
Jessica Cumming, ha
James 1:7 NIV
That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord.
“Hast though not known? Hast though not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of His understanding. ” Isaiah 40:28 (KJV)
Anna, Tx
“Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith.”
Hebrews 10:22 KJV
Lerato Thelejane, Johannesburg
1 Tim 6V 6 KJV
But godliness with contentment is great gain
Nan Vroman, Buffalo, NY
‘Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not be afraid.’
John 14:27, TNIV
Whoever gives heed to instruction prospers, and blessed is he who trusts in the LORD. Proverbs 16:20 NIV
Pat
Crawfordsville, IN
Give thanks in all circumstances for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 NASV
Tara Ford, Beech Creek, KY
Proverbs 3:35 NIV
[35] The wise inherit honor, but fools get only shame.
Rene’, Mineola, TX
2 Timothy 2:13 (NASB)
“If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.”
Ramona Gellick
Medina, Ohio
Psalm 38:9 (NET)
O LORD you understand my heart’s desire; my groaning is not hidden from you.
Rebecca, Winston-Salem, NC
“We were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.” Job 8:9, NIV
Gwen McVey, Longview, Tx -Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,Hebrews 12:1 ESV
Little Elm, TX
Above all else, guard your heart for it is the wellspring of life
Proverbs 4:23 NIV
Jessica Lopez, McAllen, Texas: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” Isaiah 40:5 ESV