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.
Sherry, Walnut Cove, NC
He restores my soul,
He leads me in paths of righteousness
for His name’s sake.
Psalm 23:3 ESV
Tammy Skogen
Greeley, CO
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
Dawn Byers from Alvord, Texas “This first census took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.” Luke 2:2 NAB
Lori Senter from San Antonio, Texas
Do not oppress a foreigner, you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt. E Odis 23:9 NIV
Lindsey Buchanan St. Augustine, FL “No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse.” Psalm 25:3 NIV
Sue from Orillia, Ontario, Canada
“No one who waits for you will be disgraced;
Those who act treacherously without cause will be disgraced.”
Psalm 25:3 HCSB
Midge Miller
Snellville, Georgia
“The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their cry for help.” Psalm 34:15 HCSB
Allie Love from Fairway, KS
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.” John 1:1-2 NIV
Alicia Parker from New Smyrna Beach, FL
“how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly.”
Ephesians 3:3 ESV
Jane from Clinton, MS
“I sought the Lord and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to Him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame.” Psalm 34:4-5 NIV
Missy from Pierre, SD.
“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
Kaye of Hamburg,AR
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11. NIV
Kristi, Lenoir City, TN
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9 NIV
Dacia Edmonson, Bullard, Texas
Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Ephesians 5:1-2 NIV
Rebecca Putman
Lexington KY
“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”
Jeremiah 29:13 NIV
Desiree Walker, Stillwater OK – ” For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.The weapons of our warfare and not of the flesh but mighty in God for pulling down (demolishing) strongholds, casting down arguments and any high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. ” 1 Corinthians 10:3-5
Molly Norwoo from Longview, Tx
“Rejoice in hope; be patient in affliction; be persistent in prayer.”
Romans 12:12 HCSB
2 Peter 1:5-7
“Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone.”
Tammy B – Suffolk, VA
And do not be conformed to this world, but transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Romans 12:2 NKJ
Lucy
Mobile, AL
Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or with compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 2 Corinthians 9:7 NIV
Phillis White from Shelby, NC:
“How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.”
Psalm 133:1. NIV
Marissa Sanchez
Albuquerque, NM
“I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with what the Lord will reveal in us”
Romans 8:18 (KJV)
Denver, PA
Romans 8:3
The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did with the law could not do. He sent his own son in a body like the body we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins.
Pam Jackson from Blue Springs, MO: “Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.” Hebrews 12:14 ESV
Barbara Smith, San Antonio, TX
“No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse.” Ps 25:3 NIV
Dawn Moore, Buford,GA
It is right for me to feel this way about all of you, since I have you in my heart and whether I am in chains or defending and confirming the gospel, all of you share in God’s grace with me.
Phillipians 1:7 NIV
Lisa: Pennsylvania
Psalm 139:1 NKJV
O, Lord, you have searched me and known me.
Cindi Latson, Madison, MS
“You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting Rock.” Isaiah 26:3-4
Cara Railey from Springfield, Missouri: “But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no plans to satisfy the freshly desires.” Romans 13:14 HCSB
Stephanie, Morgantown, WV
Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence.
Psalm 91:3 NKJV
Leise Wells
Valley Mills, TX
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – His good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2 (NIV)
Beverly, Lexington KY
Philippians 1:6 NKJ
…I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Marcy from Vincennes, IN
“He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.”
Deuteronomy 8:3 NIV
Taneisha from Arlington, Tx: “Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God’.” Matt. 4:4 NIV
Gayle from Old Bridge, NJ
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful. Hebrews 10:23 NIV
Katrina from Wichita Falls, TX
FOR I, the LORD your God, hold your right hand. It is I who say to you, “Fear not, I am the one who helps you”
Isaiah 41:13 (ESV)
John 1:17
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. kJV
Mildred, Fayetteville AR Jude 1:3 NLT
Dear friends, I had been eagerly planning to write to you about the faith we all share. But now I find that I must write about something else, urging you to defend the faith that God has entrusted once for all time to His holy people.
Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. Circumcise yourselves to the Lord; remove the foreskin of your heart.
Jeremiah 4:4a
Tammy – Psalm 62:6 nkjv “He only is my rock and my salvation;
He is my defense;
I shall not be moved.”
Kathy in Oklahoma, I commit! Colossians 2:6 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, (ESV)
Sharen Platte City, Mo
Psalm 25:4 (hcsb)
Make your ways known to me LORD; teach me your paths.
Bette, Danville,PA
No one who hopes in you will ever be put to shame, but shame will come to those who are treacherous without cause.
Psalm 25:3 NIV
Mary Saul
Houston,TX
2 Timothy 1:5 clearly recalling your sincere faith that first lived in your grandmother Lois, then in your mother Eunice, and that I am convinced is in you also. HCSB
No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse. Psalm25:3 NIV
Memorizing from San Marcos, CA
“…take hold of the HOPE set before us. This HOPE we have as an anchor of the soul, a HOPE both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil.” Hebrews 6:19 NASB
Karen: Souderton,PA
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.
Cathy, Houston, TX. Now to the God who can do so many awe-inspiring things, immeasurable things, things greater than we could ever ask or imagine through the power at work in us. Ephesians 3:20 (Voice)
Vicky Perrenot, Mesquite, TX
Isaiah 43:2 ESV “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.”
Cindy from Valdosta, GA.
Truly my soul finds rest in God; my salvation comes from him. Psalm 62:1, NIV