OK, my fellow Scripture-memory Siestas! It’s the 15th and you know what that means! It’s time to sign in (name and location) and record our second Scriptures. Remember, this process is a vital part of the accountability that leads to victory so I hope so much to see several thousand Scriptures come in over the next 36 hours. For those of you who are new to our accountability group, we welcome you! Jump in here with us and get some Scripture as your life-elixir. Here’s a little extra motivation! AN EXCERPT FROM AN ANONYMOUS COMMENT left on the mini-tutorial in reference to our first memory verse:
“Last night I had THE WORST anxiety attack that I have EVER had in my life. My sweet husband prayed over me and as I climbed in under the covers just quivering with fear, my verse that I am memorizing just came to me and I started to say it over and over out loud and such a peace and calm washed over me. Never has an anxiety attack stopped dead in its tracks as this one did-I am just in awe that in this short time I am already learning my scripture and realizing just how powerful this thing it! This works! Satan has NO authority over MY MIND to cause that kind of fear! I will wield my sword his way!”
Doesn’t our sister’s testimony get your blood pumping? No, we don’t all have a husband who will pray over us at times of mental torment but, Girlfriend, every single one of us can do exactly what our Siesta did! Wield that Holy Thing!!
Now for a few reminders:
1. Choose a Scripture you yourself really need. If you don’t have one picked out and you feel like you could really use the one I’m memorizing, please feel free to join me and don’t feel lame. That’s what mentors in Christ are for.
2. Limit your comment to your Scripture (entirely written out even if you’re joining me with mine) and your name and city. Remember to add your translation abbreviation because many of your sisters may want to look up your verse and won’t know where to find it otherwise. I know it’s hard not to leave further comments but it’s so much cooler to read one Scripture after another as we go through the post. You did such a great job following this instruction last time. Truly it was one of the most powerful things I’ve ever seen on the blog.
3. Add your verse to your spiral index cards as your second Scripture then begin the same process of memorization/meditation that you did with the first one. Once you get a bit of a handle on the second one, you will then begin doing them BOTH over and over in succession. Don’t get intimidated by this! You can do it. In fact, you’re going to thrive on it! To me, this is when it really starts getting fun and POWERFUL. I love the process of saying a number of Scriptures in a row. You’ll find that the victory is not only won in the spiritual war around us. It’s also won in that very personal war raging within us. Even if you read your two Scriptures over and over and don’t memorize them word for word, remember the primary goal is still accomplished: You are getting the Truth in your brain and holding your thoughts captive to Christ!
A quick word of caution: I am a little concerned for some of you who chose long passages the first time around. You really might consider repeating a portion of it as your second set so you can retain what you’re memorizing. In fact, if you chose a chapter, I’d suggest doing it in as many as four or five segments. I just don’t want you to get discouraged and drop out. Unless you’re pretty experienced at memorization, it’s probably best to stick to shorter segments and see it all the way through to our goal: 24 verses in 12 months!
OK, here’s my 2nd Scripture. Like last time, it’s a verse I really love but have never put to memory. It won’t take you long to figure out what the theme of the Scripture is! And, yes, it’s one I really need for a challenge I’m going through personally. I love it in the NIV:
“And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.” 2 Corinthians 9:8 NIV
Here are a few ways I will (“E”) EXAMINE it:
1. It’s 2nd person. (In other words, me saying it to you about God. As I pray it, on the other hand, I’ll say it like this, “You (God) are able to make all grace abound to me…”)
2. The theme is grace and the Scripture expresses that beautiful theme by repeating two key words: “all” (4X) and “abound” (2X). I can already tell that I’ll be emphasizing the word “ALL” as I repeat it aloud because clearly that was Paul’s inspired intention.
3. I notice that the word “every” is used at the very end of the verse instead of “all.” A little twist that I’ll want to keep in mind.
These are little clues that will help me memorize. I hope they help you see the process of “Examine” in our RENEW acrostic at work!
Incidentally, some of you who gave us the privilege to pray for you yesterday about financial needs might take a look at the verses that appear soon after the one I’ve chosen. If God has not led you otherwise, perhaps you might consider memorizing 2 Corinthians 9:10 or 11. When we have a pure and needy heart before God, these kinds of Scriptures are perfectly appropriate to pray, memorize and believe our faithful Father for. Philippians 4:19 is another terrific Scripture for this occasion.
OK, you sweet things! Get busy! Let me see some Scriptures!
I love you like crazy. May Christ Himself, the Living Logos, empower and inspire you!
John 10:10 (NLT)
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full!
Leann Ford
Florence, AL
Julie
Russell, KY
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
test send
“I am the vine, you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit. Apart from me, you can do nothing.” John 15:5
Natalie Bryant
Waco, TX
Verse 2 ……
that I May know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, …. Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.
Phillippians 3:10 and 12
Rhonda Green
Anderson, Indiana
E Auger, Tifton, GA
Isaiah 51:1 (NIV):
Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the LORD: look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quary from which you were hewn.
So teach us to number our days, that we may present to You a heart of wisdom.
Psalm 90:12 (NAS)
Beth Moss
Gig Harbor, WA
Beth V said…
Beth V, Sugar Land, Texas
Psalm 27:8
“My heart has heard you say, “Come and talk with me.” And my heart responds, “Lord, I am coming.”
His divine power has given us every thing we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of Him, who called us by His own glory and goodness. Through these He has given us His very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the diving nature and escape the corruptions in the world caused by evil desires. I Peter 1:3-4
Colossians 3:12-18 NKJV
vs. 13 today:
Therefore, as the elect of God, Holy & beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, & forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; & be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching & admonishing one another in psalms & hymns, & spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord
Catching up still:
Hosea 2:19-20 NKJV
I will betroth you to me forever, I will betroth you to me in righteousness and justice, in lovingkindness and mercy, I will betroth you to me in faithfullness, and you shall know the Lord.
“But He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me”.
2 Corinthians 12:9 NIV
Erin Morrow
Ruston,LA
The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught. Then, because so many people were coming and going they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.”
Mark 6:30-31
Carolie
Chugwater, WY
Lohri
Plant City
But the Word is very near you, in your mouth & in your mind & in your heart so that you can do it.
Deut. 30:14 AMP
“And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.”
2 Corinthians 9:8 (NIV)
Kim Kirkland
Fernandina Beach, FL
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. 12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29: 11-13
Julie
Dallas, Tx
Be on guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong. And do everything with love.
1 Corinthians 16: 13-14 NLT
Shelly – Durham, NC
"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."
Zephaniah 3:17 NIV
Mindy from Jacksonville, FL
Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.
2 Cor 9:10
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6-7 NIV
Lindsey McElroy
Grand Junction, CO
"His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness. Through these He has given us His very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the diving nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires." 2 Peter 1:3-4
Kathy, Austin, TX
"But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him. For we are the aroma of Christ among those wheo are being saved and those who are perishing." 2 Cor.2:14-15 NIV
Kathy, Austin, TX
Isaiah 26:3 Thou will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee. RSV
Robin Pollitte
Morehead,Ky.
"In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation."
Psalm 5:3 (NIV)
(For verse 2)
Debbie Nix
Dalzell, SC
"God has said, 'Never will I leave you; never will Iforsake you.' So we say with confidence, 'The Lord is myhelper; I will not be afraid.'" Heb 13:5-6
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6
Shelli L
Fort Worth, TX
Jan 15:
Hebrews 7:24-25 KJV
24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
Eunice Fowler
Iona Station, ON
And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them; that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
Numbers 15:39 (KJV)
Fran
Corryton, TN
"And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work''.
2 Cor 9:8 NIV
Beth Schwartz,
Lancaster, PA
Sue M, Lone Jack,MO
Acts 16: 31
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.
Darcy, Lenoir, NC
Psalm 86:12
I will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart;
I will glorify your name forever.
Jae, Lenoir, NC
Psalm 19:3
There is no speech or language
where their voice is not heard.
Darien, Lenoir, NC
Psalm 19:3,4
There is no speech or language
where their voice is not heard.
Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun,
Such things were written in the Scriptures long ago to teach us. They give us hope and encouragement as we wait patiently for God's promises.
Romans 15:4
Stephanie
Lititz, PA
"But be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry." – 2 Timothy 4:5
Traci- Franklin, TN
"Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished."
Luke 1:45 (NIV)
Missy
Houston
"The Lord will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with every trial he will give you a way out of it and the strength to bear it."
1 Cor 10:13
Not sure what translation
Nikki
Santa Rosa, CA
NIV
I Thessalonians 5:17
pray continually
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strenghten you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41:10 NIV
Susie W.
Moultrie, GA
Christina Modesto, CA
Hebrews 4:16 NKJV
Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Philippians 4:6-7 (NIV)
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.â€
Jaclyn Hauffe
Houston, TX
Psalm 34:2 "My soul will make its boast in the Lord; the humble will hear it and rejoice."
Belinda Kendall–Olathe KS
Zephaniah 3:16, 17 NLT
16 On that day the announcement to Jerusalem will be,
“Cheer up, Zion! Don’t be afraid!
17 For the LORD your God is living among you.
He is a mighty savior.
He will take delight in you with gladness.
With his love, he will calm all your fears.[a]
He will rejoice over you with joyful songs.â€
And see if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalm 139:24 (NASB)
Denise
Slidell, La.
Because Thy loving-kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise Thee.
I will bless Thee as long as I live, I will lift up my hands unto Thy name.
My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness, my mouth offers praises with joyful lips.
Ps. 63:3-5
Proverbs 4:7
"Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding."
You are the foundation on which we stand today. You always save us and give true wisdom and knowledge. Nothing means more to us than obeying you. Isaiah 33:6
For though we live in the world, we do not wage ware as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against Christ, and we take every thought captive to make it obedient to God. 2 Cor 10:3-5
Sabrina in Georgia
But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
Matthew 6:20 NIV
Do all things without grumbling or disputing, so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world.
Philippians 2:14,15
Kristl
Hagerstown, MD
"And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work."
2 Corinthians 9:8 NIV
Staci — Kalamazoo, MI