Jocelyn Everson

  • jocelyn_everson
  • Lake Wylie, SC

  • 1 Chronicles 29:18

    1 Chronicles 29:18 (NLT)
    “OLORD, the God of our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, make your people always want to obey you. See to it that their love for you never changes.

    Created 3 days ago

    Labels: for family

  • Guidelines from 1 Thess

    1 Thessalonians 5:15-24 (NIV)
    Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.

    Created 4 days ago

    Labels: kids memorize

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights

    2012-05-28

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:11

    1 Thessalonians 4:11 (NLT)
    Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before.

    Created 10 days ago

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:12

    1 Thessalonians 4:12 (NLT)
    Then people who are not Christians will respect the way you live, and you will not need to depend on others.

    Created 10 days ago

  • 1 Thessalonians 3:12

    1 Thessalonians 3:12 (NLT)
    And may the Lord make your love for one another and for all people grow and overflow, just as our love for you overflows.

    Created 10 days ago

  • 2 Samuel 22:29

    2 Samuel 22:29 (NCV)
    Lord, you give light to my lamp. The Lord brightens the darkness around me.

    Created 17 days ago

  • Psalm 32:8

    Psalm 32:8 (NLT)
    The LORD says, “I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you.

    Created 21 days ago

  • 2 Samuel 14:14

    2 Samuel 14:14 (NLT)
    All of us must die eventually. Our lives are like water spilled out on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God does not just sweep life away; instead, he devises ways to bring us back when we have been separated from him.

    Created 21 days ago

  • Psalm 9:10

    Psalm 9:10 (NLT)
    Those who know your name trust in you, for you, OLORD, do not abandon those who search for you.

    Created about 1 month ago

  • 1 Samuel 15:22

    1 Samuel 15:22 (NLT)
    But Samuel replied, “What is more pleasing to the LORD: your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Listen! Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission is better than offering the fat of rams.

    Created about 1 month ago

  • Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan

    2012-03-06

  • Point of View

    I've always thought Jesus' response to Peter was a bit harsh.  Peter has just proclaimed that Jesus is the Messiah, the Christ, the Annointed One promised by God for salvation. Yes, he gets a little big…

    Created 3 months ago

    Mark 8:33 (NLT)

  • Blinding Pride

    The rebellion of Korah and his compatriots is rather astounding.  As an outsider, you read the words they spoke to Moses and think WHAT?!  Do you even hear yourself?  They complained that Moses had set…

    Created 3 months ago

    Numbers 14:40 (NLT), Numbers 14:41 (NLT), Numbers 14:45 (NLT), Numbers 16:13 (NLT), Numbers 16:14 (NLT)

  • Earned a Badge — 21-Day Challenge

    2012-02-24

  • Luke 19:10

    Luke 19:10 (NLT)
    For the Son of Man came to seek and save those who are lost.”

    Created 4 months ago

  • Psalm 4:4

    Psalm 4:4 (NLT)
    Don’t sin by letting anger control you. Think about it overnight and remain silent. Interlude

    Created 5 months ago

  • Awake

    I've never noticed this little phrase about Peter, James, and John. Verse 32 says, "Peter and the others had fallen asleep. When the woke up they saw say Jesus' glory and the two men standing with them."…

    Created 5 months ago

    Luke 9:32 (NLT)

  • Crowded Out

    The rocky soil and thorns both are places where the seed grows, however the growth is not deep or to its fullest extent. Neither produce the long-lasting harvest of the good soil. In both places people…

    Created 5 months ago

    Luke 8:13 (NLT), Luke 8:14 (NLT)

  • Surroundings

    When Lot and Abram separate, Abram gives Lot first choice. Wherever Lot goes, Abram will go the other way. Both men were wealthy to the point of encroaching on one another's servants as they lived together…

    Created 5 months ago

    Genesis 13:12 (NLT), Genesis 13:13 (NLT)

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes

    2012-01-04

  • Regret

    We have all done things we wish we hadn't in retrospect.  We find ourselves in a place we didn't expect to be and wish we had made different choices.  It's strange to think that God would experience those…

    Created 5 months ago

    Genesis 6:6 (NLT)

  • Started Following jdeverson99

    5 months

  • Knowledge

    The tree provided knowledge of good and evil. Up until this point, Adam and Eve only knew the good things of God...his constant presence, his audible voice, his bountiful blessings. There was no knowledge…

    Created 5 months ago

    Genesis 3:5 (NLT), Genesis 3:6 (NLT)

  • And That Is What Happened

    Every time God speaks in the first chapter of Genesis, something comes into existence. The NIV says 'and it was so'. But the NLT reads 'and that is what happened'. God spoke and that's what happened.…

    Created 5 months ago

    Genesis 1:7 (KJV)

  • Luke 1:66

    Luke 1:66 (NLT)
    Everyone who heard about it reflected on these events and asked, “What will this child turn out to be?” For the hand of the Lord was surely upon him in a special way.

    Created 5 months ago

  • Real Fruit

    There are lot of things today that we believe to be fruit but really aren't. Walk down the juice isle and see shelves of bottles claiming apple, cranberry, grape juice and then you'll notice that some…

    Created 6 months ago

    Matthew 15:9 (NLT), John 15:4 (NLT), John 15:8 (NLT)

  • Be Humble, Be Ready

    What do you do with Luke 14? Jesus teaches to sit at the low end of the table so you don't embarrass yourself, to be aware that some of the invited guests won't get to eat even a bite at the banquet,…

    Created 7 months ago

    Luke 14:11 (NLT), Luke 14:24 (NLT), Luke 14:33 (NLT)

  • John 14:27

    John 14:27 (NLT)
    “I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid.

    Created 7 months ago

  • Matthew 12:21, Matthew 12:28, Matthew 12:36

    Matthew 12:21 (NLT)
    And his name will be the hope of all the world.”

    Matthew 12:28 (NLT)
    But if I am casting out demons by the Spirit of God, then the Kingdom of God has arrived among you.

    Matthew 12:36 (NLT)
    And I tell you this, you must give an account on judgment day for every idle word you speak.

    Created 7 months ago

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks

    2011-11-08

  • Matthew 12:21

    Matthew 12:21 (NLT)
    And his name will be the hope of all the world.”

    Created 7 months ago

  • More and More

    In Matthew 11:27, Jesus gives us a glimpse at the initimacy of the Trinity. No one really knows the Father or the Son except for them. There is such a unique connected relationship between all three distinct…

    Created 7 months ago

    Matthew 11:27 (KJV), Luke 11:9 (KJV)

  • Perspective

    It's all about perspective, right? How you see things may be different from the way I see things and therefore we can both be right. It's very common phrase today. "You have a different perspective."…

    Created 7 months ago

    Matthew 9:13 (NLT), John 9:41 (NLT)

  • Greater Understanding

    The good seed hear God's word, CLING TO IT, and  patiently produce a huge harvest.  I cling to alot of things but only now am I coming to understand what it means to cling to God's word.  To cling to…

    Created 7 months ago

    Luke 8:15 (NLT), Luke 8:18 (NLT)

  • Matthew 6:21

    Matthew 6:21 (NLT)
    Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.

    Created 7 months ago

  • Ephesians 2:8-10

    Ephesians 2:8-10 (NLT)
    God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God.

    Created 7 months ago

  • Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark

    2011-10-22

  • Ephesians 2:8-9

    Ephesians 2:8-9 (NLT)
    God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God.

    Created 7 months ago

  • Clarity

    As I read today's scripture, portions that have become familiar to me over the years yet are such challenging words I sense a new understanding today.  There seems no grand revelation, just an ability…

    Created 7 months ago

    Luke 5:32 (NLT)

  • The Power of the Spirit

    The Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert and when Jesus left he remained full of the Spirit (4:14). The temptations of the devil did nothing to remove the fullness of the Spirit from Jesus. Jesus remained…

    Created 8 months ago

    Luke 4:1 (KJV), Luke 4:13 (KJV)

  • Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note

    2011-09-08

  • Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan

    2011-09-08

  • Daniel 1:7

    Daniel 1:7 (ASV)
    And the prince of the eunuchs gave names unto them: unto Daniel he gave the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abed-nego.

    Created about 3 years ago

    Labels: thenamesweremember

  • Daniel 1:7

    Daniel 1:7 (ASV)
    And the prince of the eunuchs gave names unto them: unto Daniel he gave the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abed-nego.

    Created about 3 years ago

    Labels: shadrach

  • Daniel 1:7

    Daniel 1:7 (ASV)
    And the prince of the eunuchs gave names unto them: unto Daniel he gave the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abed-nego.

    Created about 3 years ago

    Labels: meshach

  • Daniel 1:7

    Daniel 1:7 (ASV)
    And the prince of the eunuchs gave names unto them: unto Daniel he gave the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abed-nego.

    Created about 3 years ago

    Labels: andabednego

  • Daniel 1:7

    Daniel 1:7 (ASV)
    And the prince of the eunuchs gave names unto them: unto Daniel he gave the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abed-nego.

    Created about 3 years ago

    Labels: werethebabyloniansnamesgiventhem

  • Daniel 1:7

    Daniel 1:7 (ASV)
    And the prince of the eunuchs gave names unto them: unto Daniel he gave the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abed-nego.

    Created about 3 years ago

    Labels: nottheirisraelitenames

  • Love of Darkness

    I say I don't love darkness, but I do because I hide myself from God's light that would reveal what I don't want to change. I shy away from Jesus...all people do because we want to stay in our darkness…

    Created over 3 years ago