So far it's been a great birthday! We started off the day with church and then had lunch with my parents. Mom made chicken fajitas and I made guacamole and queso, and then we had cake and ice cream. :)

Then I got to head to the bookstore and spend several gift cards that I got. My family all got me gift cards from there because, well, they know me, and also, I shamelessly begged! ;-) They're having a buy 2 get 1 free sale on Christian fiction so I really went wild! Here's what all I got:

Love's First Light by Jamie Carie
Wind Dancer by Jamie Carie
The Inheritance by Tamera Alexander
Daisy Chain by Mary E. Demuth
In The Shadow of the Sun King by Golden Keyes Parsons
Whispers of the Bayou by Mindy Starns Clark
Scream by Mike Dellosso
Fireflies in December by Jennifer Erin Valent
Havah: The Store of Eve by Tosca Lee
The Real Enemy by Kathy Herman
Ghostwriter by Travis Thrasher
Talking to the Dead by Bonnie Grove
Through the Fire by Shawn Grady
A Daughter's Inheritance by Tracie Peterson and Judith Miller
Dogwood by Chris Fabry
The House in Grosvenor Square by Linore Rose Burkard
Against All Odds by Irene Hannon
Split Ends by Kristin Billerbeck
The Trophy Wives Club by Kristin Billerbeck
Back to Life by Kristin Billerbeck

A lot, I know! But, I had a lot of gift cards and got a lot of free books with their sale! Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go read! :)

Have a great day!!


Blessings,

The verse I chose this week comes from our Me, Myself & Lies study:

2 Corinthians 10:5 NASB

We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,


Blessings

It's verse #12, which is halfway through our year of scripture memory. Here is the next verse that I have chosen:

Psalm 103:11-12 NIV

For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.


Blessings,

After spending weeks in the Psalms with our Cover to Cover reading, I have a long list of scriptures that I want to commit to memory. Here is the verse I have chosen for our current LPM scripture memory:

Psalm 62:1-2 My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.

Blessings,

This week's Cover to Cover was reading was in Psalms once again. Here are just a few of the wonderful scriptures that stood out to me this week.

Psalm 103:8-14 The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever, he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, and he remembers that we are dust.

Psalm 113
1 Praise the LORD.
Praise, O servants of the LORD<
praise the name of the LORD.
2 Let the name of the LORD be praised,
both now and forevermore.
3 From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets,
the name of the LORD is to be praised.
4 The LORD is exalted over all the nations,
his glory above the heavens.
5 Who is like the LORD our God,
the One who sits enthrones on high,
6 who stopps down to look
on the heavens and the earth?
7 He raises the poor from the dust
and lifts the needy from the ash heap;
8 he seats them with princes,
with the princes of their people.
9 He settles the barren woman in her home
as a happy mother of children.
Praise the LORD.

Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.

Psalm 133:1 How good and pleasant it is when brothers live toghet in unity!

Psalm 139:1-5, 23-24 O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise, you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD. You hem me in - behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Psalm 32:1-2 Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the LORD does not count against him and in whose spirit is on deceit.

Psalm 42:1-2a As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.

Psalm 42:5-6 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

Psalm 130: 3-5 If you, O LORD, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could sand? But with you there is forgiveness; therefore you are feared. I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope.

Psalm 141:3 Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.


The verse about brothers getting along and about guarding my mouth were VERY personal this week!

Have a great week!

Blessings,

Another week in the Psalms in our Cover to Cover reading. There are just so many wonderful scriptures that it's hard to pick and not much more I can say about them because they just speak for themselves. Here are just a few of the verses I pulled from this week's reading.

Psalm 108:4 For great is your love, higher than the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

Psalm 121:1-2 I lift up my eyes to the hills—where does my help come from? My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.

Psalm 121:7-8 The LORD will keep you from all harm—he will watch over your life; the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.

Psalm 143:8 Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.

Psalm 144:3-4 O LORD, what is man that you care for him, the son of man that you think of him? Man is like a breath; his days are like a fleeting shadow.

Psalm 1:1-3 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.

Psalm 37:4-9 Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. 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. Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret—it leads only to evil. For evil men will be cut off, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.

Psalm 40:1-3 I waited patiently for the LORD; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the LORD.

Psalm 73:25-26 Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Psalm 84:5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.

Psalm 84:10-12 Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked. For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless. O LORD Almighty, blessed is the man who trusts in you.

Psalm 90:1-4 Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations. Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. You turn men back to dust, saying, "Return to dust, O sons of men." For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.

Psalm 92:4-5 For you make me glad by your deeds, O LORD; I sing for joy at the works of your hands. How great are your works, O LORD, how profound your thoughts!

Psalm 112:1 Praise the LORD. Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who finds great delight in his commands.

Psalm 115:1 Not to us, O LORD, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness.

Psalm 8:1-4 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?

Have a wonderful week!! :)

Blessings,

For those of you doing the Cover to Cover you'll understand that after being in the Psalms for many days, it was VERY difficult to pick a scripture this time! I marked SO many verses worthy of being memory verses! Here is the one I picked for this time:

Psalm 25:4-5 Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.


Blessings,