Hi Siestas!
I pray that each of you have great delight in your memory work!
I am pretty much positive I am not the only “planner” in this SSMT group. right? My life is busy in every direction, I need a plan. But also I do dearly love a plan. I like a plan for my family, for myself, and of course for a team project, which all my co-workers would be quick to smile and confirm – actually I like a plan for doing nothing. But, I bet like many of you, my plans don’t always land as expected. Truly, there have been occasions when I leave my house with my nice neat plan for the day and by the time I make my very short drive to the office, my plan has morphed into a totally different direction. Then I come face to face with the choice of believing: failure (of my plans) or faith (in His plans).
This simple verse has engulfed my soul! God is faithful to us in the details of life, the steps we take and He has the perfect plan.
Sabrina Moore from Houston, Texas:
“People can plan what they want to do, but it is the LORD who guides their steps.”
Proverbs 16:9 (ERV)
As I looked up a ton of different translations I loved the revealing truth about “my plans.” What looks like a direction or an action item, actually begins with my heart, my thoughts, my needs.
This I know, I need Him!
This I pray, Lord, You lead.
Praying His faithful guiding steps bless you and your days!
Love, Sabrina
Stephany from El Dorado, KS – Isaiah 43:9 “All nations have gathered together, and people have assembled. Who among them could have revealed this? Who among them could have foretold this to us? They should bring their witnesses to prove that they were right. Let the people hear them. Then they will say that it is true.” (GW)
John 10:10 NKJV
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.
I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
Sadie Keech, Coweta OK
Ephesians 6:15-16 HCSB
“…and your feet sandaled with readiness for the gospel of peace. In every situation take the shield of faith and with it you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.”
Cam, Albuquerque, NM Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways. Psalm 25:8 NIV
Ann, Pawleys Island, SC
If I go up to the heavens, You are there; If I make my bed in the depth, You are there.
Psalm 139: 8 NIV
chas from saratoga, CA, “He renews my strength. He guides me along right paths, bringing honor to his name.” Psalms 23:3 NLT
Open my lips, Lord, and my mouth will declare your praise.
Psalm 51:15
NIV
Boerne, TX
Kathryn, Oceanside CA, “You are good and do good; teach me your statutes.” Psalm 119:68 ESV
Nancy Cozad from Kingwood, Texas
Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
1 Corinthians 13:7 NIV
Fran Scott, Stafford TX
“Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”
Psalm 51:10 NIV
Sheree Campbell, Phoenix, AZ
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God” Matthew 5:8 NIV
Amanda, Pilot Mountain, NC : Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us…
Ephesians 3:20 NIV
Denise from Greer, SC: The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps. Prov. 16:9, ESV
Lynnet Asselta from Flower Mound, TX: “I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours.”
John 17:9 NIV
“These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.”
John 15:11 NKJV
Erika from Prospect, KY – “I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, – Ephesians 3.16 (NIV)
And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:14 NKJ
Debra Ellsworth, Florence AZ
Acts 17:25. American King James
…..seeing He gives to all
Life
Breath
And all things.
Lori Jensen from Mountain View, WY
“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13 (NIV)
Nancy Dal Pian, Port Charlotte, FL
1 Samuel 2:2, NIV
There is no one holy like the Lord; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.
Holly Cox. Greenwood, SC.
Here’s my verse for this time:
“I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; behold, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O Lord.”
Psalms 40:9 ESV
Allie McDonald from Wheaton, IL Isaiah 55:1 NIV ” Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.”
Linda from No.California
“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”
Romans 3:23 NIV
Darcy Rosenberg, TX “But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.” Ruth 1:16 ESV
Marsha R. Columbia SC
Because he holds fast to me in love,
I will deliver him;
I will protect him;
because he knows my name.
Psalm 91:14 ESV
Cheryl from Peoria, IL ~ Philippians 2:3-4 “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interest of others.” NIV
Starkville, MS “And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.”1John 5:14 ESV
Glenda Durano, Albuquerque, NM:
2 Timothy 1:9 HCSB
He has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.
Stephanie from Houston, TX: “I can do all this through Him who gives me strength.” Philippians 4:13
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
Isaiah 35:3 & 4 KJV
Eva, Knoxville, TN – . With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people. Ephesians 6:18b NIV
Carol from Cincinnati, Ohio
Listen, O daughter, give attention and incline your ear:
Forget your people and your father’s house.
Then the King will desire your beauty.
Because He is your Lord, bow down to Him.
The King’s daughter is all glorious within,
Her garments are interwoven with gold.
Psalm 45:11,12,14 NASB
Stacy Baker Detroit, Michigan
“As the deer pants for streams of water so my soul pants for you, my God” Psalm 42:1 (niv)
Pensacola, Fl
“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.”
Psalms 32:8 ESV
Katera, Kentwood, LA
James 1:23,24 NKJV
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like
a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observers
himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he
was.
Paula Hale, Brownwood, Tx
“The people refused to enter the pleasant land, for they wouldn’t believe His promise to care for them.”
Psalms 106:24 NLT
Anita Alberta Canada
Continued Ephesians 3: 16-18 NIV I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Julie, Gresham, OR
“You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.” Isaiah 26:3 (ESV)
Psalm 1:4-6. NKJV
The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of
the righteous. For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly
shall perish.
Andrea Porter Pottstown, PA
Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.
John 17:17 HCSB
Zoey PacNW
Mark 4:14 (NIV)
The farmer sows the word.
Mary Jane, Troy KS
“You have circled this mountain long enough. Now turn north.”
Deuteronomy 2:3 NASB
Martha from Pelican Rapids, MN
“It is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment.” Phil 1:9 ESV
Judy Vitters, Columbia, SC
Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.
Psalm 51:11 NIV
Carrie from Christiansburg, VA
Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?” Matthew 14:31 (NIV)
Elizabeth Hughes, Berrien Springs, MI, “I have set the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.” (Psalm16:8ESV).
Kathy Looper, Visalia California
Hebrews 12:11 KJV
“Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.”
Joy from San Diego, CA. Isaiah 43:7 ESV: …every one who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.
Lisa from Wellington,KS – Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Philippians 4:6 NLT
Emily from Ft. Worth, TX: “Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.”
Hebrews 10:23 (NIV)