Hey, You Scripture Memorizing Siestas!
Can you believe it’s already July 1st? FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! Where has the summer gone? Well, actually, in Houston we’re ready to say good riddance to it but I don’t think it’s going anywhere soon. As if we didn’t already have the hottest summers in the Wild West, we are setting record temperatures here this year. There is no font big enough for me to type the word “Bummer” as large as I feel it. I do not like hot weather. Especially hot, HUMID weather. But I’m not one to complain. I just walk out the door in the morning and yell at the top of my lungs, “GOOD GRIEF!”
On to much more important things! It’s time for Verse 13! We’ve made it over the hump to the second half of our commitment and I’m really pumped. Yesterday morning on the way to work, I said all the verses in my spiral out loud to God. To His great glory, I did indeed get my Psalm 112 segment memorized and it has been no small delight to me this month.
My selection this time around is coming from our SSBS, Me, Myself and Lies. Jennifer mentions it in Week Three. I’m a little ahead of you so, if you’re staying on schedule, you probably haven’t seen it yet. It’s Proverbs 7:4 out of the NASB. Since I primarily use the NIV, I had never seen it worded like this before.
Say to wisdom “You are my sister” and call understanding your intimate friend.
That’s what I’m saying! “You are my sister” to wisdom and “You are my intimate friend” to understanding. Now, that’s what I call some mighty fine soul mates. Try hanging out with them, why don’t we?
OK, let’s hear yours! Name, city, verse, and reference with translation abbreviations. Hit it, Siestas!
I love you and I’m so proud of you.
The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of disciples, That I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word. He awakens me morning by morning, He awakens my ear to listen as a disciple.
Isaiah 50:4
Lora
Mooresburg
Deuteronomy 8:3
NLT
"Yes, he humbled you by letting you go hungry and then feeding you with manna, a food previously unknown to you and your ancestors. He did it to teach you that people need more than bread for their life; real life comes by feeding on every word of the Lord."
Daimy Penn
Naples, FL
heather in austin, tx
Col. 1.10 NLT
Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and you will continually do good, kind things for others. All the while, you will learn to know God better and better.
Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; He will never let the righteous fall. Psalm 55:22 NIV
Ashley B.
Marrero, LA
okay I'm sorry but I always write down when I post my verses and I fell behind and can't remember so I'm posting all of them that aren't written down – SOOOO sorry if any repeat but I'd rather be safe than sorry!!
"For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich."
– 2 corinthians 8:9 (NIV)
Jan in Katy
Ps. 18:25-27 To the faithful, He shows himself faithful. To the blameless, he shows himself blameless. To the pure, He shows himself pure. To the crooked He shows himself shrewd. You save the humble but bring low those whose eyes are haughty. niv
"Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."- Matthew 4:4 NIV
Kenzie
Katy, TX
Kristi Parks
Eugene OR
Jesus said to the people, "I am the light of the world. If you follow me, you won't be stumbling through the darkness, because you will have the light that leads to life." John 8:12 NLT
Kristi Parks
Eugene OR
Jesus said to the people, "I am the light of the world. If you follow me, you won't be stumbling through the darkness, because you will have the light that leads to life." John 8:12 NLT
Say to wisdom "You are my sister" and call understanding your intimate friend.
Proverbs 7:4 NASB
Tonya, Searcy, AR
Though the mountains and the hills shake, my love will not be removed from you and my covenant of peace will not be shaken says your compassionate Lord.
Isaiah 54:10 COB Holman
Sara Pipkin
Psalm 17:6
I call on you, O God, for you will answer me"
Beth Herring
Oak Grove, La
I'm catching up
When I am afraid, I will trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust, I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me?
Psalm 56:3-4
Donna K
Tx
Can you tell I had surgery this summer?
Psalm 62:5
Find rest, O my soul, in God alone, my hope comes from Him.
RaeLeen
Greenwood,IN
Yahweh my Lord is my strength. Ne makes my feet like those of a deer and enables me to walk on mountain heights.
Habakkuk 3:19
Holman
Casey
Bumpass, VA
"The Spirit of the sovereign Lord is on me because the Lord has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners." Isaiah 61:1 NIV
Sandy P
Eugene, OR
"Those who cling
to worthless idols
forfeit the grace
that could be theirs."
Jonah 2:8
NIV
Christine K.
Eugene, OR
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
Phillipians 4:13
Michelle
Richmond VA
Michelle P
McAllen TX
He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. Phil 1:6
"May God Himself, the God of peace,
sanctify you
through and through.
May your whole spirit,
soul and body
be kept blameless
at the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
The One who calls you is faithful
and He will do it."
2 Thes 4:23-24
NIV
Christine K
Eugene, OR
"… 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."
Eph 5:25b-27
NIV
Christine K
Eugene, OR
"May God Himself, the God of peace,
sanctify you through and through.
May your whole
spirit, soul and body
be kept blameless
at the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
The One who calls you is faithful,
and He will do it."
1 Thes 5:23-24
NIV
Christine K.
Eugene, OR
Stand fast therefore in the liberty
wherewith Christ hath made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Galatians 5:1 (kjv)
Mulls
Chuckey TN
Psalm 46:10
Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
Aimie Markham
Murfreesboro, TN
Cortni B.
Watauga, TX
Proverbs 3:3 NIV
Let love and kindness never leave you; bind them around your neck,
write them on the tablet of your heart.
Heather F
Beaumont, TX
Create in me a clean heart, O God, renew a right spirit within me. Ps 51:10 NLT
Hear my cry O God: listen to my prayer. From the ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Ps. 61:1-2
Melissa
Asheville, NC
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.
2 Timothy 1:7 NIV
C Chamblee
Philadelphia, MS
"yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope." Lam. 3:21 NKJV
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
I John 1:9 (NKJV)
Kristie
Queen City, TX
The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control against such there is no law. Gal 5:22+23
Rebecca H.
Malvern, PA
psalms 23:2
He Makes me lie down in green pastuers, He leads me beside quiet water.
Beth Rottrup
Liberty Lake, Wa
NIV
Psalms 23:3
He restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness For his name's sake
amanda in katy
John 17:13
I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (New Living Translation)
16 Always be joyful. 17 Never stop praying. 18 Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.
NLT
Genesis 2:18
"Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him."
Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart all you who hope in the Lord.
Psalm 31:24
Paula
Atlanta, Tx
Hebrews 3:4 (NIV)
"For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything."
Robin
Katy, TX
1 Corinthians 15:58
Be strong and immovable. Always work enthusiastically for the Lord, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless.
Kara- Marietta, PA
Psalm 57:2
" I cry out to God Most High,
to God, who fulfills his purpose for me."
Lisa
Edinburg, TX
Psalm 17:3
"I have resolved that my mouth will not sin."
Lisa
Edinburg, TX
But even if he doesn't, we want to make it clear to you, your majesty; that we will never serve your gods or worship the gold statue you have set up.
Daniel 3:18 (NLT)
Stacy
Amherst, NE
Belinda Kendall
Olathe KS
I posted this accidentally aonymously on December 15, 2009
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (New Living Translation)
16 Always be joyful. 17 Never stop praying. 18 Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.
1 Cor. 10:31
So wheter you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
Kimberly
Houston, TX
"Do not repay evil with evil, or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing." I Peter 3:9 NIV
Lauren, New Braunfels, TX
Do all things without grumbling or complaining, that you may be blameless and innocent children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world.
Phil.2:14-15 NIV
M – May the words of my mouth & the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock, my Redeemer Ps 19:14
Isaia 40:31 NIV
butthose who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
"Start children off on the way they should go and even when they are old they will not turn from it." Proverbs 22:6
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
James 1: 2-3