Encouragement Along the Way - Every Year I choose a New Verse, do you?

Encouragement Along the Way

Glorify the Lord with me; let us exalt his name together.

Psalm 34:3

Jan. 1, 2007

Every Year I choose a New Verse, do you?

Every Year I choose a new verse for the year. Well actually the Holy Spirit chooses the verse; I just choose to acknowledge His prodding. It is kind of like a cattle prod sometimes. I have a life verse, this never changes; it is 2 Cor. 1: 3-6. I know this is my life. Every trial I have ever experienced and I have experienced many has been used by God to touch the lives of someone else. I first discovered this when I was searching for my path in life. My sister recommended a book about 15 women that had chosen their ministries by experiences that had happened to them. I called her back in tears even more confused because I had experienced to some degree 13 of the 15 events. In tears and prayer I sought the Lord. I heard Him (yes I heard Him) tell me that I would comfort so many women as a pastor's wife since all these women will need His comfort and my empathy. This did not comfort me but caused me to beg for the life of my husband the man I loved so deeply! Why? Because at the time he was not saved and I knew divorce was not an option so the only way I could be a pastor's wife was for Mike to die. Yes I was silly and obviously faithless, because Mike did not die, he became a Christian and He is a pastor. And when he counsels he uses his wife's life often. So.....my life verse is unchanging. My yearly verse does change and sometimes it is for both of us, and sometimes it is for me alone. The Bible Study I am doing Breaking Free uses Isaiah 61 !-4 as its core and verse four, the rebuilding of walls long devastated from generation to generation is going to play out in my life probably like 2 Cor 1:3-6. There is a lot of generational devastation and rebuilding to do. So I was surprised when this verse popped into my verse for 2007 prayer. I looked it up and said "really Lord?" Well, I have continued seeking The Lord on this and I continue to return to this, so my verse for 2007 is Psalm 28:7.The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to Him in song. I am very interested on how this will play out. But mostly, I am wondering do you have a verse for the New Year? Do you have a Life Verse, a ministry verse? A couples verse? A Family verse? Or maybe even a Homeschool verse?

Happy New Year!

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Jan. 1, 2007 - My life verse is

Posted by SongOfTheSagebrush

Proverbs 3:5-6, and has been demonstrated hugely in the last year. I'd say this has been the theme for me and my household in the last year, especially. I have the feeling that Nehemiah 4:6 is going to be key in the coming year, but the Lord hasn't completely confirmed that yet...never the less, I think that's where He's going.

I love what you shared about the Lord speaking to you of how you would comfort others as a Pastor's wife, with that seeming so completely unlikely...it encourages me with some things the Lord has spoken to me that haven't made sense at times, but then were not meant for those specific moments in time either.

Blessings,
Anne-Marie

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2 Corinthians 1:3-4 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. This blog is a homeschooling devotional from a bubbe's point of view or watching the next generation excel where I only succeeded.