Finally!!!!!!!!
Are you ready, Sisters? Do you hear me cheering?? I have never been more excited about doing this.
I am on the verge of doing about 10 backward flips on my hardwoods. I said on the verge. Not quite doing it. Well, I’m doing it in my heart. That counts for a lot around here.
SO LET’S DO THIS THING! Now, promise me this! Promise me you will read this entire post before you leave a single comment. I know you’re about to burst and I am, too, and, for that reason, I’ll keep it as short as possible. It’s so important that we get our ground rules firmly established so that we’ll have a fabulous experience. Remember, hundreds of our participants this time around are brand new so let’s make sure everybody’s on the same page.
A few things you absolutely MUST KNOW:
*Your comment to this post is your official registration onto the team. Everybody starts at Verse 1 no matter when they begin the process. (Word gets around and we often still have people joining in with us even in March and April. We don’t mind how late they begin as long as they can catch up, memorize their verses, and document each one of them on the proper post as an official participant.) This launch post will remain right here in this January 1st 2013 slot all year long and each new person will need to make her first entry here. This is how we track who signed up when we get to the end of the year and it’s party time.
*Your comment must be strictly limited to the following 5 pieces of information: name, city, verse, reference, translation. I’ll say it slower now for those brand new to the process:
Your name (or first name if you prefer), city. Your verse for that two-week period written all the way out, the reference for it (where it is found in the Bible: Book, chapter, verse) AND the *translation you’ve taken it from.
(*For instance, is the Bible you’ve pulled the passage from a KJV, an NAS, HCSB, NIV or NLT? Or is it The NET Bible, The Message or another similar version? The translation almost always appears on the outside spine of a Bible. If not, you will find it on the first few pages. If you’re looking on line, you’ll get an option to choose a translation. Do so as it speaks most clearly to you. We aren’t fussing over translations here in our memory work. You also do not need to stick with one version throughout.)
Just those 5 pieces of information! They will comprise every comment to this post. And the moment you start scrolling through all of them, you’ll see why. Page after page after page after page of Scripture and each one telling a reader exactly where to find it. It is the most powerful sight to behold. This invites people who are not participating in the memory work to reap tremendous benefits by just reading the comments and taking strength from verses they may not have known existed. This way it has the potential to bless our whole community or any weary visitor to our blog. I’ve been in crises before and gotten on the comment pages and scrolled from Scripture to Scripture and practically wept with relief and fresh courage or revelation. That’s why it’s best to keep the SSMT comments as succinct as possible. If you’ve got an exclamation in you that you just can’t hold back, you can occasionally make the briefest comment like, “I really need this one!” or “I’m sharing so-and-so’s verse” but, please, no more than that.
Comments other than the verse-entries on the 1st and 15th of each month can’t be approved. I’m so sorry and I hope you’ll understand. Thousands of us will be doing this together so the moderation process is monumental from the administrative side. The verses will be all Lindsee and I can handle in the comments for our two SSMT days per month. Keep in mind: NONE OF THESE INSTRUCTIONS PERTAIN TO THE OTHER BLOG POSTS HERE AT LPM. We will be completely free to do our regular thing on all other posts! The really stringent rules are only for the 1st and 15th of each month in 2013 and in reference to Siesta Scripture Memory Team. I hope that makes sense!
*Your comment may take 24 hours to get moderated (or posted if you’re new to the blog process) and sometimes a bit longer if it falls over a weekend. We try our hardest to stay up with it but on those days when 500+ come in at once, it’s quite a task! But we love it! It just requires a little patience on all sides! Before you assume that your entry somehow vanished and you’re tempted to write it again, give it one full day and see if it shows up. Keep track of what time you posted it and double check the comments around that same time. The accidental repeats make it much harder to track participation through the course of the year so always double check. If you don’t find it a day later, by all means, post it again!
*Remember that you get to choose your own verse! That’s really important! The ease with which you can memorize a verse is greatly impacted by how much it means to you. The more you need it or want it, the more you’ll absorb it. If you come up dry at times, no problem! You can either share my verse or another in the comment line that really speaks to you.
*PRAY that God will bless you in this endeavor and will enable you to memorize His Word! Ask continually throughout the entire year! When I get stuck and frustrated that I can’t get my words in order, if I’ll stop what I’m doing and ask God to supernaturally infuse me and help me to concentrate, you would not believe how quickly a breakthrough will come.
Are you about to stuff a sock in my mouth?? I’m about 2 seconds from stuffing one in my own mouth. Melissa gave me two new pair of boot socks for Christmas so at least I have fresh choices.
All right, already! Here goes mine! In honor of our process ahead and how willing the Holy Spirit is to help us…
Beth from Houston Texas, But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. John 14:26 NIV84
Here’s one more alternative if you’ve never memorized it for a new year! I just love it for January 1st:
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
May God’s grace abound to you, Sweet Thing. WELCOME! We have such a fabulous challenge ahead of us. GOD, GRANT US YOUR GOOD FAVOR!
So…what are you waiting for??? SIGN IN WITH VERSE ONE!
PS. I thought you guys might find it a bit amusing that I brought in the first 300 comments in the CAR on the way to the airport to catch my Atlanta flight for Passion 2013. Laughing. You keep your blog mama busy. I love you so!
Tags: Scripture Memory 2013
Wanda
Hiram
Psalm 56:3-4
3 When I am afraid,
I will put my trust in You.
4 In God, whose word I praise,
In God I have put my trust;
I shall not be afraid.
What can mere man do to me?
NASB
Pam Jones, Dallas
“Do not fear for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”
Isaiah 41:10 NIV
Linda Jewell
Sedona, AZ
You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 29:13 NIV
Karen S,Garnet Valley, PA, “For if, when we were God`s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!” Romans 5:10 NIV
Isaiah 51:7 “Listen to me, you who know right from wrong, you who cherish my law in your hearts. Do not be afraid of people’s scorn, nor fear their insults.”
Mindee from Dallas Texas, He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it. 1 Thessalonians 5:24 NKJV
Candy, La Grange, Texas Let come what will…though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. Job 13:15 KJV
Angie – Orlando, FL
“You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “And My servant whom I have chosen, So that you may know and believe Me And understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, And there will be none after Me.” Isaiah 43:10 (NASB)
Kelly, Phoenix AZ
With joy you will drink deeply from the fountain of salvation!
Isaiah 12:3 NLT
JulieB, Sharpsburg, GA
“But as it is written: What eye did not see and ear did not hear, and what never entered the human mind – God prepared this for those who love Him”
1 Corinthians 2:9 HCSB
Amy Williams
Alma, AR
Joshua 1:5 ESV
“No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.”
For His anger lasts only a moment, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning. Psalm 30:5 NIV
“He will have no fear of bad news; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord.”
Psalms 112:7 NIV
Janelle from Ocala,FL
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6:4-9 NIV
Caylee
Oklahoma City
“It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God; and that in this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him. The Lord will punish men for all such sins, as we have already told you and warned you. For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. Therefore anyone that rejects this instruction does not reject man, but God who gives you His Holy Spirit.”
I Thessalonians 4:3-8
*Verse the Lord gave me to help honor my commitment to save my first kiss for my wedding day.
“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.”
Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
Joy from Lubbock, TX:
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:28 NIV
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2 NIV
Alyssa Ericson
Wheaton, IL
“… I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him for that day.”
1 Timothy 1:12b (NIV)
Jill, Austin
Colossians 3:12 ESV
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and.beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humilty, meekness and patience.
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Mark 11:24 English Standard Version
Angel from Smyrna, Ga
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 John 3:1 (NIV)
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defense of my life: whom shall I dread?
Psalm 27:1 (NASB)
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. Matthew 7:7 NIV
Grove, OK
And this is what He says to all humanity;
The fear of the Lord is true wisdom;
To forwake evil is real understanding.
Job 28:28 NLT
You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you.John 15:3 NLT
Platte City , MO
He has shown you, oh man what is good.
and what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy and to
walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8 NIV
Rebecca B from Moline, IL
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.
Joshua 1:9 NIV
Robin Crawford, Alta Loma, CA – He brought me out into a special place; He rescued me because He delighted in me. Psalm 18:19 NIV
Michelle, Ashburn VA
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
his love endures forever.
Psalm 118:1 NIV
Evin Fahey, Fort Worth, Texas
She is clothed in strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
Proverbs 31:25-26 NIV
Nancy Redkey
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart,
as working for the Lord, not for men,
Colossians 3:23 NIV
Kelsey Jones, Houston Texas
“For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and Godly lives in this present age, while we wait on the blessed hope-the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.”
Titus 2:11-14, NIV
Christine, Laurel, Maryland
“I shall remember the deeds of the Lord; Surely I will remember Your wonders of old. I will meditate on all Your work and muse on Your deeds!” Psalm 77:11-12 NASB
“22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.” Ephesians 4:22-24 NIV
Psalm 16:6 NIV The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;surely I have a delightful inheritance.
Charlene from Holyoke, Ma
Keep me as the apple of your eye;
hide me in the shadow of your wings.
Psalm 17:8 NIV
Gemma, Liverpool, UK.
Proverbs 31:10-12 NIV
A wife of noble character, who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life.
Dawn L.
Conway, AR
“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Jamie from Suwanee, GA
And after the fire came a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. 1 Kings 19:11-13 (NIV)
Kim Eaton – Arden, NC
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. Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
De Ann, Sacramento, CA I love you Lord; you are my strength.. The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior. My God is my rock in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the power that saves me, and my place of safety. Ps 18:1-2 NLT
Have I not commanded you?Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for The Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.
Joshua 1:9 NIV
Amber from Fort Worth, TX:
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience -Colossians 3:12 (NLT)
May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us, establish the work of our hands for us – Yes, establish the work of our hands.
Pslams 90:17 NIV
Susan, Innisfil, ON, Canada
John 14:27 (NASB)
Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.
Leah
Keoma, Alberta, Canada
Psalm 34:19
“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”
Dotti
Jackman, Maine
Jesus answered “It is written, man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” Matthew 4:4 NIV
I meant Psalm 34:18.
Evening, morning, and noon I cry out in distress, and he hears my voice.
Psalm 55:17 (NIV)