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.
Know this my beloved brother: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
James 1:19 (ESV)
Sarah =)
Waxahachie, TX
Hebrews 13:3-4
Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners and those who are being mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering. Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept pure. For God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
Candice
Evanston, IL
Hebrews 13:8 KJV
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever
AMEN!! 🙂
Darlene
Logansport, IN
Don't worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be known to God.
Phil. 4:6 (HCSB)
April P, North Stonington, CT
"Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and even though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy,…" 1 Peter 1:8 NIV
Julie
Tomball, TX
I cry out to God Most High, to God, who fulfills His purpose for me.
Psalm 57:2 NIV
Kim
Perrysburg, OH
Psalm 138:3 (ESV)
On the day I called, you answered me; my strength of soul you increased.
Jenn in Manhattan KS
Deuteronomy 30:11,14 NIV
Now what I am commanding you today
is not too difficult for you
or beyond your reach
No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so that you may obey it.
Becky, Houston, TX
Matthew 7:7-8
Ask adn it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
Sarah
Parker, CO
Therefore, as God's chosen people holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with complassion, kindness, humility,gentleness and patience.
Colossians 3:12
Erika Chapman
Florence, SC
Nicole
Winnipeg, MB
NIV
2 Cor 10 :4
The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
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
Jeannie
Psalm 147:1-3 NIV
Praise the LORD. How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and fitting to praise Him! The LORD builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the exiles of Israel. He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
Pam
Columbia, SC
Kasey Ewing, Bossier City, LA
Isaiah 64:4 Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.
Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God. Trust also in me.
John 14:1 (NIV)
Sue
Troy, MI
If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, "Love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing right. But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. For he who said, "Do not commit adultery, also said, "Do not murder." If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.
Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment!
James 2:8-13 (NIV)
Rhonda
Anderson, IN
"Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit," says the Lord Almighty.
Zechariah 4:6
Kathy
Austin, TX
Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and they power to every one that is to come.
Psalm 71:18 (KJV)
Fran Dockins
Corryton, TN
1 Samuel 14:6B NIV
Nothing can hinder the LORD from saving, whether by many, or by few.
Lisa
Kirkland, WA
Amanda, I can't remember if I remembered to post this or not, so I'm going back, just in case. Thanks!
Romans 8:22-23
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, graon inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redeption of our bodies.
Jennifer Engstrom
Round Rock, Texas
Psalms 31:13
For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side; they conspire against me and plot to take my life.
Eleanor
Memphis, TN
Lori
Bangor, Maine
Psalm 122: 1-2 (HCSB)
I raise my eyes toward the mountains. Where will my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.
Walk in all the way that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.
Deuteronomy 5:33NIV
Jody, Colfax, NC
NKJV Psalms 27:3
Though an army may encamp against me,My heart shall not fear;
though war may rise against me,in this I will be confident.
Psalms 27:4
One thing I have desired of the Lord,that will I seek; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,to behold the beauty of the Lord,and to enquire in his temple.
CC
Grand Prairie,TX
"But the King will rejoice in God; all who swear by God's name will praise him, while the mouths of liars will be silenced."
Psalm 63:11
Matia
Fort Worth, TX
Colossians 3:23 NIV
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as for working for the Lord, not for men
Nicole
Sugar Land,TX
Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in His nostrils; of what account is he? Trust in the Lord.
Isaiah 22:22
Leah
Charlotte, NC
How foolish are those who manufacture idols.
These prized objects are really worthless.
Isaiah 44:9
Ina
Lancaster, Pa
Hebrews 12:1 (NIV)
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
Nancy
Perry, GA
I am the LORD; that is my name!
I will not give my glory to another
or my praise to idols.
Isaiah 42:8, NIV
Trisha
Odessa, TX
Say to wisdom "You are my sister" and call understanding your intimate friend. Proverbs 7:4
Angie
Anna, TX
Say to wisdom "You are my sister" and call understanding your intimate friend. Proverbs 7:4
Mandy
Waco, TX
"Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens you are there; If I make my bed in the depths, you are there."
Psalm 139:7-8 (NIV)
Pam Carrigan, Greensboro, NC
2 Thesalonians 2:13
God picked you out as his from the very start.
Trudi Tedrick
Lynchburg, OH
Pat in Bigfork, MT said:
Mark 1:15
"The time has come," He said. "The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news!"
"Do everything without complaining or arguing." Philippians 2:14
We were gone the whole month of July on vacation, so I am just now playing catch up and posting the verses I worked on while we travelled. (and yes, they coincided with some family drama)
Because the Lord helps me, I will not be disgraced.I have set my face like lint, and I know I will not be put to shame.
Isaiah 50:7
Lavonda
Marietta, Ga
Philippians 1:13 NASB
so that my inprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known through out the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else,
Becky
Indianapolis, IN
"So we make it our goal to please Him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it."
2 Corinthians 5:9 NIV
Beverly
Brenham, TX
God rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to His eyes.
Ps 18:24 (MSG)
Libby
Dallas, TX
"So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Is. 41:10
mk
Seattle
Psalm 17:6
"I call on you, O God, for You will answer me"
Beth
Oak Grove, La
Proverbs 12:4 NIV
A wife of noble character is her husband's crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.
Anne
Lorton, VA
I John 4:9 NIV
God's love was revealed among us in this way: God sent His One and Only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.
Sharon McLaughlin
Panama City Beach, FL
God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us to do good works, which God planned in advance for us to live our lives doing.
Ephesians 2:10 NCV
Kristin
Montgomery, AL
"But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, "God have mercy on me, a sinner."
Luke 18:13
Allison
Montgomery, AL
*have been doing the challenge since March . . . but haven't kept up with entering them in – just catching up 🙂
Janice H.
Summerville, SC
"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin." 1 John 1:7 (NIV)
2 Timothy 1:7 (NIV)
“For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.â€
Amanda May
Olympia, WA
The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it!
Proverbs 27:12
Ezekiel 36:26
I will give you a new heart and put a new Spirit with in you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and five you a heart of flesh.
Tiffany Dallas