Hi! I am K-Mac, the 2nd Kimberly M. in the office, hence the nickname. I couldn’t be happier to finally at least sound like I was cool with this name.
I have had the privilege of being a part of Living Proof Ministries in either a volunteer or staff role for about 13 years. [Every time I have to calculate the years, I think, “How can that be?!” Grin.]
When trying to focus in on what my next memory verse would be, a single verse kept coming to mind: the familiar Matthew 6:33, Seek first the kingdom of God… It kept showing up in sermons, in devotionals, on Instagram, at church, etc. so I figured I had better start there, even though it seemed a bit of a cop-out because I already knew the verse. So I started looking up different translations and finally landed on including the little section of 9 verses in Matthew 6 that ends with verse 33. Having done a fair amount of “casting my cares” (1 Peter 5:7) to God last year regarding anxiety, I was blown away to find this section also addresses anxiety. I guess Jesus and I still have some ground to take in this area. [If you also struggle with areas of anxiety, I highly recommend you watch Beth’s TV teaching called “The Basket Case” on our LPM App, and especially take the time to do the Action Guide once you get to Part 4!] And how fun is this: I just learned that this teaching will re-air on TBN beginning tonight!
I love knowing that what I felt might have been a random selection of Scripture, He has a strategic purpose. And, wow, have I found choosing a portion of Scripture is much easier for my mind to remember than scattered verses!
Keep keeping at it, my SSMT partners!
Matthew 6:25-33 (ESV) – Do Not Be Anxious
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Wendy Bashor – Lone Butte, BC: “The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. Psalm 121:6 NIV
Krystal Vento from Houston, TX-“Bear with one another and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.”
Joy from San Diego, “And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Matt 22:39, ESV
Mauri Grace from Queen City, Texas:
“…they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” – Lamentations 3:23 (ESV)
But godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim 6:6 Niv
Becky, St. Augustine, Florida
“You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.”
Romans 5:6 NIV
Phyllis, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
Romans 12:12 KJV
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer.
Marsha, Batesville, Ms.
Romans 8:4 (NKJV)
“….that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.”
“And knowledge with self-control, and self-contol with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness”
2 Peter 1:6 (NLT)
Let your hope make you glad. Be patient in time of trouble and never stop praying.
Romans 12:12 CEVUK
Debbie from Acworth, Ga: “He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; He enables me to stand on the heights.” Psalm 18:33 (NIV)
Ann, Cataula, GA
It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
Romans 9:16 (NIV)
Belinda Shrader from Grundy, Virginia
7 Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.”
Jeremiah 29:7 (NIV)
Jennifer Tricarico, Fairfax VA “You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day” Psalm 91:5 (ESV)
Jessica from Omaha, NE
“We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves.”
2 Corinthians 4:7 NLT
Shannon Vasquez, Littleton, CO
Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live! ~Deuteronomy 30:19, NLT
Psalm 23: My CUP overflows. (ESV)
Psalm 23: My CUP overflows with blessings. (NLT)
Psalm 23: My CUP runneth over. (KJV)
My CUP is:
Courage
Understanding
Patience
I am late with this one.
In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Ephesians 6:16. NIV
Sharon from TX
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own…
I Cor. 6:19 NIV
Christy in Midland TX, ““Guard my life, for I am faithful to you; save your servant who trusts in you. You are my God” Psalm 86:2 NIV
Stephanie Teahn, Lafayette, OR
This post was for me! Thank you K- Mac.
Matthew 6:25-33 (ESV) – Do Not Be Anxious
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Continuing in Deuteronomy 6…verse 6 “These words which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart.” (NASB)
Sheri New Atlanta, TX
They looked to Him and were radiant, And their faces were not ashamed. Psalm 34:5 NKJV
“May we shout for joy over your salvation, and in the name of our God set up our banners! May the Lord fulfill all your petitions!” Psalms 20:5 ESV
“The LORD will keep you from every kind of harm.
He will watch over your life.
The LORD will watch over your life no matter where you go,
both now and forevermore.”
Psalm 121:7,8 (NIRV)
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 Nasb
Kathy from Gahanna, OH
Isaiah 55:11 (ESV)
So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth,
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
Beaumont, Texas.
Behind and before you encircle me
and rest your hand upon me.
Ps. 139:5 NAB
Charlotte, Seymour, Texas “and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, 11 for which I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher, 12 which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.” 2 Timothy 1:10-12 ESV
Britt – Tucson, AZ
1 Cor 13:8 NIV
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge it will pass away.
Peggy from Homer, Illinois
Isaiah 12:6 ESV
Shout and sing for joy, O inhabitants of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.
“In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”
Ephesians 6:16-17 (NIV 1984)
My computer was down for a long time. It is now up and running, so I am behind on my SSMT posts. This is for Mar 3. I continue in Isaiah 43:22 KJV- “But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel” Jacob’s family had forgotten God. Is this what America has come to? Pray, children, for our nation to turn back to the God who loves His children.
“On the glorious splendor of your majesty and on your wondrous works, I will meditate.”
Psalm 145:5 ESV
Pat from Springfield, MO
“Guide me in Your truth and teach me,
for You are the God of my salvation;
I wait for You all day long.”
Psalm 25:5 HCSB
Kathryn from Austin, TX
“May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.” –Psalm 20:4, NIV
Sharon, Barrington
“For everyone who asks, receives, and the one who searches, finds, and to the one who knocks the door will be opened.” Matthew 7:8 NIV
He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces.” (Isaiah 25:8
Valerie Niblack Emporia Kansas
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 8:38-39 NIV
Tami, Denver, CO:
This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. John 15:8 (NIV)
Elizabeth Peck, Oak Ridge, TN: 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. Ps 37:7 NIV 1984
Kathy from Bryant, AR:
the Lord gives sight to the blind,
the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down,
the Lord loves the righteous. Psalm 146:8 NIV
Shelby from Shreveport, LA
Deuteronomy 28:2 All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God
Dawn from Pottsville, Arkansas…And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)
Tracy from Spring, TX
But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:20-21 NIV
Gayle Failing, from Ludington, Mi.
John 15:6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. NIV
Chris
Canton, NC
Make me to know your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths.
Psalm 25:4
ESV
Diane in Chippewa Falls, Wi: “But our citizenship is in heaven and from it we await a Savior the LORD Jesus Christ who will transform our lowly bodies to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.” Philippians 3:20,21 ESV
Julie from Haltom City, Texas
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions – it is by grace you have been saved.
Eph. 2:4, 5. NIV
Jackie siple rockledge FL
“You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.”
Psalm 63:1 NIV