Promise Verses

Each book in the Retreat-In-A-Bag series contains two listings of promise verses in its Appendix.  There is a list of the verses we have selected, each verse written out in its entirety; then there is a separate page listing the references (verse “addresses”) only.

At every women’s retreat, we give each women her own promise verse for the retreat.  They are “randomly” given out, but we always pray that God will make sure that each woman gets the promise that will be meaningful to her.  Our ladies look forward to finding out their promise verse every year.  Often, the promise verse is noted on their retreat name tag, so that as soon as they arrive at the retreat and pick up their booklet and name tag, they can look up their promise verse.

So why would the Appendix mentioned above be handy?  Yes, it is easy enough to compile a list of promise verses on your own.  In fact, we did that ourselves each year for many years.  However, we found that many of the same general promise verses were used from year to year (with the exception of promises specially selected to relate to the retreat theme).  Each time a list was compiled, there was a process of checking and re-checking so that there were no errors when the references were copied onto the name tags.  By using our list of verse references, the process is streamlined and we don’t worry about copying errors.