Hey Siestas!
I’m Kimberly, the Prayer Chaplain for Living Proof Ministries! I pray you are all having MUCH success with your memorization!
I have chosen to memorize my life verse in a different version:
Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praise shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life. Philippians 4:6-7 MSG
God has used this verse in my life to teach me to pray, and not to worry. Worry does NOTHING for the glory of God! Worry just makes us sick and tired…doesn’t bring the change we are hoping for, and will affect our health in a negative way. If we continue in worry, I’ve noticed, it makes things harder and more intense. It’s an energy drainer and joy stealer.
When life happens, and it does, don’t worry! PRAY. Let our praises and petitions shape our worries into prayers. Pray with thanksgiving, letting God have our concerns in exchange for His peace. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle us down, as Christ displaces worry at the center of our lives.
As I add this version of this verse into my memory bank, it’s clear in the actions for the ending reward! I challenge you to try it, the next time worry pops it’s head up in your sweet life!
Blessings in abundance to you all!
Luke 9:23-25 (MSG)
Anyone who wants to come with me has to let me lead. You’re not in the drivers seat I am. Don’t run from suffering embrace it. Follow me and I’ll show you how. Self help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self. What good would it do to get everything you want and loose you, the real you?
Leah Cullen, Ramona CA
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. – 1 John 4:15-16 ()ESV
Allison from Albany, GA: “It is dangerous to be concerned with what others think of you, but if you trust the Lord, you are safe.” Proverbs 29:25 GNT
Linda, Buckeye, AZ
“Let everyone be quick to hear (be a careful, thoughtful listener), slow to speak (a speaker of carefully chosen words and) slow to anger (patient, reflective, forgiving)” James 1:19 AMP
Jill Greer, Medina, TN
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
John 1:17 NIV
Peggy, Yorktown VA
Luke 24:52 And they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. NRSV
Paula Rutherford, Decatur, Tx–
“Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.”
Isaiah 55:2 (NIV-1985 version)
Jackie from Rockwall, TX: The Good Samaritan: “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?” (Luke 10:36, NIV)
Ana from Dayton, TX
“Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.” II Timothy 1:13 ESV
Lisa from Mesquite, TX: You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. 1 John 4:4 (NASB)
Patty Lincoln, Greenville, SC: “It’s in Christ that you, once you heard the truth and believed it (this Message of your salvation), found yourselves home free – signed, sealed, and delivered by the Holy Spirit.” Eph. 1:13 MSG
Margie from Moncks Corner, SC
Be glad for all God is planning for you. Be patient in trouble, and always be prayerful.
Romans 12:12 NLT
Julie from Ridgeville, SC: “Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress where I will not be shaken.” ~ Psalm 62:5-6 NLT
Sarah, Montrose, CO
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Colossians 3:14
Lisa Gaska, Pittsburgh PA. “As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.” Psalm 103:12 NASB
June Greenstreet from Bradford Ontario
“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” Psalms 73:26 ESV
Aj Schwanz from Newberg, Oregon.
“I have a lot to write to you. But I don’t want to use paper and ink. Instead, I hope I can visit you. Then I can talk with you face to face. That will make our joy complete.” 2 John 12 (NIRV)
I love this verse – the face to face part! Thankful for technology to keep us connected, but i sure do love the face to face moments, complete joy!
Deb Brown, Becker MN
Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Don’t be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He won’t leave you or abandon you until all the work for the service of the LORD’s house is finished. 1 Chronicles 28:20 CSB
Lynda Rickey from Ocala, FL Psalm 139:12 (NIV): even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
Christy – Knoxville, TN
Instead, I discipline my body and bring it under strict control, so that after preaching to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
1 Corinthians 9:27
CSB
Open my eyes that I may see
wonderful things in your law.
(Psalm 119:18, NIV)
Wendy Buttrey, Acworth, Ga
For He will order his angels to protect you wherever you go.
Psalms 91:11 NLT
Misty from Aubrey,TX
“Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.”
Psalms 51:1-4 ESV
First Corinthians 15:54 NIV
When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with Immortality then the saying that is written will come true, “death has been swallowed up in victory.
Ephesians 5:1-2 (ESV)
“Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.”
Allison in Fort Worth, TX
“…even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.”
Psalm 139:12 (NIV)
Suzanne
Tenaha, TX
Philippians 4:6-7 MSG
Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praise shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life. Philippians 4:6-7 MSG
“You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”
Psalms 16:11 NKJV
I was just thinking of this verse as i was washing dishes this morning! Praying it for my son who will be going to college in August.
Vonnie Baker
Marble Hill MO
When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O Lord, held me up.
Psalm 94:18 KJV
Williamsville, NY
“And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.”
Ephesians 2:6. NIV
For Your name’s sake, O LORD, Pardon my iniquity, for it is great. Psalm 25:11 NKJV
Wilmer, AL
I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you know in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them”.
John 17:26. NIV
I have made you known to them and will continue to make you known
Ellie Gosnell, Lady Lake, FL
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good. His love endures forever.
Psalm 136:1 NIV
Peg Suveg from Naperville, IL
“His lightning lights up the world; the earth sees and trembles.” Psalm 97:4 (NIV)
emi, white house, tn: “…so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.” Ephesians 1:12 ESV
Hannah Hancock from Winter Haven, FL
“Who is the man who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?”
Psalm 34:12 (NKJV)
Frances, Orange, TX
For this reason I bow my knee before the Father.
Ephesians 3:14 ESV
Tera L from Colorado springs, CO:
Jeremiah 29:11New International Version (NIV)
11 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.
Julie Bentonville,AR
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God’s. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 1John 4:7-8 NKJ
Michelle O’Banion from Grandview, Texas
“You open Your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing” – Psalm 145:16 NIV
Peggy Welch, Bloomington, IN Psalm 78: 4,6,7 portions NIV
We will not hide them from their descendants; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, His power, and the wonders He has done. …so the next generation would know them… Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget His deeds but would keep His commands.
Joan S. from Pittsburgh, PA.
I Corinthians 2:5 ESV
“That your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.”
Sarah Schoolcraft from Kingwood:
“If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we disown him, he will also disown us;”
2 Timothy 2:12 NIV
Deanna Columbia, SC
The Lord is good, a strong refuge when trouble comes. He is close to those who trust in him.
Nahum 1:7 (NLT)
Amy Guth from Canton, MS
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.”
James 1:17 NIV
Denise Cholak from Euless, TX.
with a mighty hand and outstretched arm;
His love endures forever.
Psalm 136:12 NIV
“Do not be like Caan, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous.”
-1 John 3:12 (NIV)
Conna Sullivan
Decatur, TX
Gigi Parisi
Mullica Hill NJ
But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display His unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe in Him and receive eternal life.
1 Timothy 1:16NIV
Hillary Mancuso
Fort Worth, TX
Psalm 18:33 ESV
“He has made my feet like the deer and set me secure on the heights.”
And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. Romans 5:5 NIV