Saturday afternoon: It’s a sweep! 50 out of 50 states! And His banner over us is love.
Friday Evening: Sisters, one of our Siestas worked up some stats but didn’t request it to be listed because it might not be 100% accurate. She felt like it was pretty close though. Listen, if it’s even in the ball park, it’s great fun! Take a look at this:
Siestas Scripture Memory Team Stats:
States: 48 out of 50
Countries or Provinces: 9
Books of the Bible used: 50 out of 66
Verses used most often: Isaiah 33:6 and Zephaniah 3;17
Book of the Bible used most: The Psalms
Number of Bible translations used: 16
Number of Siestas wanting a Jesus-kind-of-year: At 5:42, 2452 and counting!
Is that cool or what? Thank you, Dear Siesta!
Friday noon update: You guys are doing fabulously! KEEP IT UP! We’re looking for just a couple of hundred more from folks who signed up but haven’t had a chance to enter their Scripture yet. Stick with it, Sweet Things! Follow through! I wanted to tell you how timely and wonderful and providential I think our God is. Early in the holidays something (not small) happened that hurt my feelings so badly I almost couldn’t get over it. (Actually, I didn’t get over it very well. Still feel sore today but at some point you’ve got to get a grip.) God knew I’d have to look at about a jillion Scriptures in order to moderate all these comments. You cannot imagine how much He used them (is still using them) to help me push the reset button on my brain. I wrote several of them down and spoke others of them over my own life. He’s so faithful. Nothing is accidental. Anyway, I love y’all and want you to know that my soul is so often fed and encouraged here.
January 1st, 12:04 AM:
UPDATE: Way to go, Siestas! It’s 8:00 AM on New Year’s Day and we are off to a great start! Wanted to answer a question I’ve seen several times. Yes, of course, you can still join us! Sign up on the original “Anybody Game?” post then comment here with your name, city and verse. All are welcome! If you’ll read both posts, you’ll know exactly what to do.
Happy New Year, Beloved Siestas! It’s going to be a JESUS-YEAR for every single one of us who really wants one. And I WANT ONE. NEED ONE.
OK, Ladies! Let’s start memorizing some Scripture! Here’s what you do today (and on the 15ths and 1sts of the months that will follow): You will put your name, your city, and your verse (with reference and translation abbreviation) in a comment to this post . Try to resist making any other comments so that we’ve got almost straight Scripture down the post. It will be a feast for our souls. It will also be fun to see if any of us chose the same verse.
I will always post the verse I’ve chosen in case some of you are having trouble figuring yours out. (You’ll find it below.) You are welcome to memorize the same one I or any other Siesta chooses. However, you still need to put your name, city, and the verse in a comment to this post. It’s a vital part of the accountability. Don’t feel silly or like you’ve copied. That’s what the Body of Christ is for! Many of the first Scriptures I memorized were those I heard other teachers or leaders recite and I knew I wanted those words for myself. It’s a normal part of discipleship so feel free!
Ladies, I’m going to take this privilege that you’ve given me seriously. The ENORMOUS response to the Scripture memory post conveys how much we know we need to get some Scripture in permanent marker on our brains (so pleasing to God!) and what an important factor accountability is. SO, consider me holding you accountable. If you signed up on that post (“Anybody Game?”), I want to see your John Hancock on here two times a month for the next year. And I mean it. LET’S DO THIS THING. NO DROP OUTS. NO QUITTERS. We can do this! And we get to do this together!
Over 2500 signed up and I’m going to estimate that probably 100 accidentally commented twice SO I want to see at least 2400 comments on each 1st and 15th Scripture memory post. Try to do it within the first 24 hours of the post both times each month so you will stick with it and take it seriously. I have learned along the way that when you start putting something off, the power to obey and prosper in it begins to drain and soon we lose our fervor. Resist thinking to yourself by the third or fourth month, “Well, I’m not going to take the time to sign in but I’ll still memorize the Scripture.” I can almost guarantee you (based on experience) that you will not memorize 24 Scriptures by the end of 2009 without sticking with the accountability part of putting your name down each time. SIGN IN TWICE EVERY MONTH! Even come AUGUST!
Along the way I’ll keep cheering you on and will give you some Scripture memory tips if you need them. I’ll be cheered on myself by your priceless participation in the commitment. I’m so serious when I tell you that I believe we’re getting a HUGE nod from God on this. I sense divine DELIGHT.
OK, my Scripture is one I stumbled on in the NET (New English Translation) some months ago and fell in love with but didn’t memorize right then. I want to do it now as I see so much instability and uncertainty swirling (so unnecessarily) around Christ’s people. The verse is also great in the NIV if you want to give it a look but I’m going to memorize it in this version. Here goes:
“He is your constant source of stability (IS THAT GREAT OR WHAT??); He abundantly provides safety and great wisdom; He gives all this to those who fear Him.” Isaiah 33:6 NET
That’s mine. OK, what about yours? Sign up, Sweet Ones! Keep in mind that it may take a while for you to see your comment show up. We choose to moderate every comment to every post in order to protect our LPM blog from trash. It takes a while to get through several thousand comments when we suddenly have a big response! My blog-brainchild, Amanda, will be flying home with her family all day so I won’t have her help. I’ll get the comments on there though, maybe slowly but surely! And I will treasure every single one and celebrate your impending victory.
Would you pray with me as we launch this year’s commitment?
Our Abba and our God, from cities and states all over this nation and from other parts of this globe, we band together as one beautifully diverse sisterhood to offer You the praise You are so worthy to receive. We thank You for how You have taught us, sustained us, comforted us and even disciplined over the course of the last year and now we entrust every bit of it to You. Redeem what still hurts. Mend what remains broken. Heal what is still sick. We give what is behind us over to You but now we cast a deliberate gaze toward our future. We need You. We want You. We ask You for a pure, unadulterated JESUS-YEAR. We want to have one badly enough to make a joint commitment to hide Your Word in our hearts, to let it renew our brains, and become a Sword in our hands.
We commit this day to memorize or voraciously meditate on 24 Scriptures in 2009. Lord, we know from past experience that You alone can give us the unction to keep a single profound commitment for longer than ten minutes. We believe, however, based on Your Word, that You are the Initiator of all things faith (Hebrews 12:2) and that what You call us to do, You also empower us to do (Hebrews 10:23). We receive from You this day the anointing to memorize Your Word. We invite it to abide in us and bear much fruit. We ask You to make it powerful and healing to us. Transforming and beautifying. Bring forth a one-hundred fold harvest from every Scripture You sow into our spirits and cause us to be mightier in our battles than we’ve ever been in our lives. Start a fire in us that cannot be quenched even by death.
Lord, oddly as I type this prayer to You, it is approaching midnight on January 1st and all sorts of fireworks are going off right around my house as my dear neighbors celebrate the dawn of a New Year. I can see the lights out my breakfast room window and feel the whistles and booms of every bottle rocket all the way down in my chest. I won’t lie. It’s thrilling. But I hope something far more exhilarating is happening in the heavenlies. I pray that some mighty spiritual fireworks are going on over the houses of every single one of these women who love You and seek so desperately to please You…and many under very difficult circumstances. I sense Your own celebration. Your own anticipation. Because as unfathomable as this thought is to each of us, while we want a Jesus-year, You want an us-year. We are looking forward to You. And You, our Lord and our God, are looking forward to us. Mind blowing. We are so relieved that You think more of us than we think of ourselves. Help us to think more like You.
We love You so much, Lord. We want to love You so much more. More love to Thee, O God. More light to see Thee, Lord. Make Your Son the dearest thing in all of life to us this year. And every other thing of true value will be added to us. (Matthew 6:33)
In Jesus’ Saving, Miracle-working, Delivering Name,
Amen.
Tags: Scripture Memory
catch up verse..
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.
Psalm 19:14
omega, houston
Estelle B
Houma, LA
NKJV
John 4:24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."
2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Commit everything you do to the Lord, trust him and he will help you. Psalm 37:5 RSV
Robin Pollitte
Morehead, KY
I am just starting but feel God moving me to do my best …
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 1 John 4:9
Fran Dockins
Corryton, TN
Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceed out of the mouth of God. Matthew 4:4
"It is written, 'Man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"
Matt 4:4
… the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. Gal 5:6, NIV
Shelli Littleton
Fort Worth, Texas
Psalm 5:1-2 NIV
Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my sighing
2 Listen to my cry for help my King an my God for to you I pray.
Jamie-Norman, OK
I've been memorizing, but not blogging the verses; the accountability factor has prompted me to go back and catch up.
John 15:14-17 NIV 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. 16 You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name. 17 This is my command: Love each other.
Eunice Fowler
Iona Station, ON
Beth Schwartz
Lancaster, PA
"So do not throw away your confidence, it will be richly rewarded, you need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God you will receive what He has promised."
Hebrews 10:35-36 NIV
Sue, Lone Jack, Missouri
Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of the Lord
Hosea 6:3
Oh, that we might know the Lord! Let us press on to know him! Then he will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn or the coming of rains in early spreing.
NLT
Stephanie, Lititz, PA
Jae E, Lenoir, NC
Ps 19:1,2
1 The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
2 Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they display knowledge.
Darien, Lenoir, NC
1 The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
2 Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they display knowledge.
Darcy, Lenoir, NC
Psalm 86:11
Teach me your way, O LORD, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.
The Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you. He will quiet you with His love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
Zeph. 3:17
"Delight yourself also in the LORD, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass."-Psalm 37:4-5
Emily,
Rogue Valley OR
Jennifer Stout, Alvarado TX
Isaiah 33:6 NIV
"And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and dept of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ – to the glory and praise of God."
Philippians 1:9-11 NIV
Jaclyn
Houston, TX
May the words of my mouth, and the meditations of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Oh LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
Psalm 19:14
Jillian
Laramie, WY
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:7
Dana
San Diego, CA
Missy
Houston
Okay – I am gonna go with some I have already learned while I play catchup – Thank you Seeds Family Worship –
Whatever you eat, or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
1 Cor 10:31
NIV
Susie W
Moultrie, GA
NIV
Ephesians 5: 25 – 27
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
Kimberly F.
Edgewood, Wa
Philippians 4:8
Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things.
Nikki
Santa Rosa, CA
NIV
I Thessalonians 5:16
Be joyful always;
Christina Modesto,CA
Psalm 119:14-16 NKJV
I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies, as much as in all riches. I will meditate on Your precepts, and contemplate Your ways. I will delight myself in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
Psalm 34:1 "I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth."
6.Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.7.And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding,will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Phillipians 4:6-7 NIV
Dawn Welch
Canton, Georgia
My first scripture to memorize:
Search me, O God, and know my heart, test me and know my anxious thoughts.
Psalm 139:23 (NASB)
Denise
Slidell, La
The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He will drive out your enemy before you, saying, 'Destroy him!
Deuteronomy 33:27
Kristl from Hagerstown, MD
I will bless the Lord at all times, His praise will continually be in my mouth. O, magnify the Lord with me, let us exalt His name together. O, taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man whose God is the Lord.
Ps 34:1,3,8 NAS
Proverbs 31:26
"She opens her mouth in wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue."
Matthew 6:33 (KJV)
33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Ninette G
Seagoville, Tx
Martha J
Horseshoe Bay, TX
"Because of the Lord's great love, we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning. Great is Thy faithfulness."
Lamentations 3:22,23
Martha J.
Horseshoe Bay, TX
Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. PSALMS 143:8
Sabrina in Georgia
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
Matthew 6:19
Psalm 5:3
In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice, in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly.
Lindsey
Broken Arrow, OK
"He is your constant source of stability; He abundantly provides safety and great wisdom; He gives all this to those who fear Him"
Isaiah 33:6 NET
Staci — Kalamazoo, MI
Angela A.
Roanoke, Virginia
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
Heather Robertson
Cypress, TX
NLT
Psalm 37:4
"Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you your heart's desires."
Isaiah 33:6
"God is your constant source of stability. He abundantly provides safety and great wisdom; He gives all this to those who fear Him!"
Selynda, OKC
The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places: indeed I have a beautiful inheritance.
Psalm 16:6 ESV
Erika Chapman
Florence, SC
I am inputting some of these verses again b/c I lost track of where I was caught up or behind. sorry for the repeat!
Isaiah 33:6 NIV
"He will be the sure foundation for your times, a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is the key to this treasure."
Deb Gladfelter
Seminole, FL
New Living Translation
Psalm 37:5
Commit everything you do to the Lord, trust him and he will help you.
The LORD you God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.
Zephaniah 3:17
Beverly, Brenham, TX
Delight yourself in the Lord; And He will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4 NAS
hoping to grow in HIM
2 Pet 1:3 (NASB)
"Seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by Hiw own glory and excellence."
Karen, Derry NH
A late joiner and doubling up because I NEED to have the Word abiding in me!
Psalm 63:4
I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands.
Anne
Lorton, VA
( I may have accidentally written Alexandria in a previous sign in. I just moved.)
Praise the LORD, O my soul;
all my inmost being, praise His holy name.
Praise the LORD, O my soul,
and forget not all His benefits–
who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases,
who redeems your life from the pit
and crowns you with love and compassion,
who satisfies your desires with good things
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Psalm 103:1-5, NIV
Trisha
Odessa, TX