Hey Everyone! Time for our next verse! Queen Esther and I are inching our way through the one-chapter book of Philemon so this puts me on the third verse:
Beth Moore from Houston, Texas: “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” Philemon 3 ESV
I love, love, LOVE the verse below if you could use a recommendation this time around. I love what it promises. I love its rhythm. I love that it moves from “God is able” to the promise that frail humans like us who trust in Him “will abound in EVERY GOOD WORK.” Abundant life (John 10:10) abounds in good works. That, Darling, will preach.
And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. 2 Corinthians 9:8 NIV
DON’T YOU DARE QUIT!!!!
I love you. I’m proud of you. May Jesus be all over you today, loved ones.
Penny, from Romney, WV
God is our refuge and strength, an ever present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1. NIV
Palm Harbor FL
1Peter 5:6-7 (NIV)
Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand that he may lift you up in due time.
Cast your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
Steph, Irvine, CA
“They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long ago devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations.” (Isaiah 61:4, NIV)
Janice, Springdale, AR:
“What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you:
Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?” James 4:1 ESV
Cristina from Seattle, WA: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. Again I will build you, and you shall be built, o virgin Israel!” Jeremiah 31:3-4 ESV
Gracie Garibay
Waxahachie Texas
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
2 Corinthians 12:9 NIV
Alicia from Shoreview, Minnesota: “But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.” 1 Corinthians 2:10 NKJV
Lora, Kernersville, NC – By the grace given me, I tell every one of you: Do not consider yourself more highly than you ought, but rather, think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you. Romans 12:3 NIV
Amy Libdan, Gettysburg, PA
Trust in him at all times, you people, pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge. Psalm 62:8 NIV
Darcy from Parker, CO: “There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is overall, in all, and living through all.” Ephesian 4:5-6 NLT
Because your love is better than life my lips will praise you
Psalm 63:3 NIV
Joy Sanders from Nashville, TN: “Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, My people.”
Ezekiel 37:13 NASB
Carol j from Naperville,Il
Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28 NLT
Diane from Palominas, AZ “She does him good and not evil all the days of her life”. Prov 31:12, NKJV
So submit to [the authority of] God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him] and he will flee from you. James 4:7 Amplified
Ashlyn Campbell from Charlottesville, Va: “The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”
Oops forgot the reference! Romans 8:15 NIV
Jodi from Wellsboro, PA.
You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Psalm 139:3 ESV
Paige from Houston, TX: “Better to be patient than powerful; better to have self-control than to conquer a city.” Proverbs 16:32 – NLT
Conroe, Texas
Ephesians 6 :14 NASB
Stand firm therefore having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteous,
Lori, Toledo
2 Tim 1:3 HCSB “I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I constantly remember you in my prayers night and day.”
Julie Ratcliff, Texarkana,TX. ““And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful.”
2 Timothy 2:24 NIV
Shannon Elliott
South Carolina
I thank God, whom I serve, as my ancestors did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers. ( 2 Timothy 1:3 )
Lynda Rickey Ocala, FL: “You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.” Psalm 139:3. NIV
Hi! Are you memorizing all of Psalm 139? That is my goal too! How is it going for you?
Yes. I love that psalm. It is my second favorite. I memorized psalm 103 last time around.
Maren from Cedar Park, TX
“And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.”
1 John 5:11-13 ESV
Jeri of Missouri City, TX
Colossians 1:11 (NLT)
We also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. May you be filled with joy,
Columbia, SC
“It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect.” Psalm 18:32 NIV
Mary Gray, Fieldale, VA
“Many daughters have done worthily, But thou excellest them all.” Proverbs 31:29 (ASV)
“Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and try Me now in this,” says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it.” (Malachi 3:10)
Diane Jackson from Wood River, IL
And whatever thing you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.
Matthew 21:22 (NKJV)
Sarah, Diana, TX
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 (NIV)
9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Amanda Thibodeaux from Sulphur, Louisiana
The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.
Matthew 7:25 NIV
Shiffra, Kalamazoo, MI
2 Timothy 1:7 (NIV84) For G-d did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.
Ruth Moore Winston-Salem, NC John 1:1-3 NIV
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
Brandy Whitaker East Bend NC
Hebrews 11:1 NIV
“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see”
Amy, Arlington, VA “For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.” Psalms 91:3 (ESV)
Barb Duncan, Lakeland FL “Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.” Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV
Carolyn Dypsky Bishopville, MD
“We also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power so you will have all the endurance and patience you need.” Colossians 1:11 NLT
For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you. (Isaiah 41:13 NIV)
Spring, TX
For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you. (Isaiah 41:13 NIV)
Susie Mcneely Russellville AR
“Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.”
Colossians 4:6 NIV
Dawn Winslow
Clever, MO
Romans 8:35, 37 (NLT) “Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean He no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? 37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.”
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit
but in humility consider others better than yourselves.
Phil 2:3
Gina Ables, Newnan, GA – For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. -Luke 19:10 KJV
Amie Stacy from Fate, Texas: “You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.” Psalm 139:3 ESV
Kathy Gerlach, Andover, KS
You discern my going out and my lying down;you are familiar with all my ways. Psalm 139:3 NIV
Melanie
Midland MI
We all like sheep went astray; we all have turned to our own way, and the LORD has punished Him for the iniquity of us all. Isaiah 53:6 HCSB
Shelley from Brigham City, UT
Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.
Psalm 25:5 ESV
Julie from Irving, TX “When evil men advance against me to devour my flesh, when my enemies and my foes attack me, they will stumble and fall.” Psalm 27:2 (NIV)
Susan Jezek, St Petersburg, Florida
“Do not complain, brethren, against one another, so that you yourselves may not be judged.”
James 5:9a
NASB
I commit! Adri Ann from Hospers. “If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be given you.” John 15:7 NIV
Kelly
Atlanta, GA
“Am I now trying to gain the approval of people, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ!”
Galatians 1:10 NET