Hey, Scripture Memory Buddies!
Every single month my anticipation of our January celebration doubles! Just picture all those hugs and high fives! Has this been a great support group, or what? Although I know I would have still memorized Scripture because my poor obsessive mind spins out of control without it, I cannot imagine that I would have memorized the same amount over the course of this year. Accountability and COMMUNITY are beautiful things. Of all the activities we’ve gotten to do on our LPM blog, honestly, this is one of my favorites. I hope you’re getting plenty of opportunities to put your memory verses to practice. Just in case you haven’t found them all that practical, you ought to try mine from our last segment. It was on the tongue. Let me simply say that, for some unknown reason, my verse came to my mind about 25 times a day.
I’m also excited about the selection God has impressed on my heart for this round.
“I cry out to God Most High, to God, who fulfills His purpose for me.” Psalm 57:2 NIV
Here’s what God is using that verse to say to me right now: When I’m in a really hard and hurtful situation, somehow the present difficulty of it overrides my conscious thought that God is going to use it in my life and then through my life. Not one time in my entire tenure on this planet has He ever failed to turn around and use the hardship for good. NOT ONCE. Not when I gave Him enough time and cooperation. Yet, in the midst of it, I often can only hang onto Him for dear life while we ride the wave to shore and then stand there in the aftershock and look like I’ve just been on the spin cycle of a washing machine. Afterward, when He invariably turns it into some kind of maturity, intimacy, insight or ministry, I think, “Why didn’t I just trust Him for that at the time??? Why did I have to take it so personally and injuriously?” I want to learn to CONSISTENTLY claim the victory right there in the worst of the pain or crisis. At the very moment that I’m crying out to God Most High for help, as the psalmist says, I want to proclaim that He’s smack in the middle of fulfilling His purpose for me. Challenging stuff.
But that’s one of the things that keeps us so interested and engaged with Christ. We can never get this thing conquered.
I am so honored to take this journey with you. He is everything, Sweet Thing. He is absolutely EVERYTHING! Savor His Presence today.
OK, let’s hear your first name, city, verse and translation!
I love you,
Beth
Geri Patterson
Deer Park, TX
Ephesians 1:11 NASB
In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will.
Annette G. Houston, TX
“I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. You will live in the land I gave your forefathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God.â€
Ezekiel 36:25 – 28 (NIV)
Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are His. He changes times and seasons; He sets up kings and deposes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. He reveals deep and hidden things; He know what lies in the darkness, and light dwells with Him. Daniel 2:20-22 (NIV)
Julie
Boone, NC
For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen
Romans 11:36 NIV
Dana
Boerne, TX
Phil. 4:11 (NIV)
[I am not saying this because I am in need], for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances.
Nancy
Perry, GA
Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD:
keep watch over the door of my lips.
Psalm 141.3, NIV
Trisha
Odessa, TX
Luke 6:27 NIV
"But I tell you who hear me; Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you."
Stephanie, Glen Burnie,MD
"The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to Him."
[2 Chronicles 16:9]
abby lane
nashville, tn
“I cry out to God Most High, to God, who fulfills His purpose for me.†Psalm 57:2 NIV
Angie
Anna, TX
“I cry out to God Most High, to God, who fulfills His purpose for me.†Psalm 57:2 NIV
Mandy
Waco, TX
Philippians 3:10 (Amplified)
My determined purpose is that I may know Him, that I may progressively become more deeply and initimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His person.
Amber P.,
Greer, SC
I know this is late, and understand if it's not posted. I'm just trying to catch-up putting my scriptures on here.
Teach me knowledge and good judgement, for I believe in Your commands.
Psalm 119:66 (NIV)
Lisa
Cartersville, GA
If you have any encouragement from bring united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose.
Philippians 2:1-2 (NIV)
Kim
Saginaw, TX
Concentren su atención en las cosas de arriba, no en las de la tierra,
Colosenses 3:2 (NVI)
Maureen
Cambridge, MA
"If I say 'Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,' even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is a light to you."
Psalm 139:11-12 (NIV)
Pam
Greensboro, NC
Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey – whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?
Romans 6:16 NIV
Tracey Hicks
DeKalb, TX
John 15:7
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will a ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
Teresa
Amarillo, TX
Isaiah 26:4
NLT
"Trust in the Lord always, for the Lord God is the eternal rock."
heather
cypress, tx
So I pray that God, who gives you hope, will keep you happy and full of peace as you believe in him. May you overflow with hope through the power of the holy spirit.
Romans 15:13 NLT
Jennifer
Loveland, Co
Philippians 4:7
"And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."
Catching up – did the same set of verses for the summer…gone a lot so didn't get around to posting…
Eph 3:16-21 NIV
16I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
20Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
1 Peter 2:9(NIV)
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
Julie Prior Lake, MN
Isaiah 55:8-9 NIV
" For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. " As the heavens are higher than your ways are my thoughts than your thoughts."
"…I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my LORD."
Philippians 3:8a (NIV)
"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."
Heb 4:12 / NIV
But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. I will sing to the LORD,for he has been good to me.
Psalm 13: 4-6
Kim
Weatherford TX
"I have resolved that my mouth will not sin." Psalm 17:3b NIV
"Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips."
Psalm 141:3 NIV
Beverly
Brenham, TX
Psalm 57:2 NIV
I cry out to God Most High, to God, who fulfills His purpose for me.
Jo Hannah Willard
Granbury, TX
Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.
Proverbs 16:3 (ESV)
Sarah =)
Waxahachie, TX
Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
1 Thess 5:16-18
Libby
Dallas, TX
Ps. 37:5-6 NIV
Commit your way to the Lord; trust in Him and He will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.
Soozi, Houston, TX
"The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance."
Ps 16:6 NIV
Susan, Katy, TX
"The LORD is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and abounding in love. The LORD is good to all; He has compassion on all He has made.
Ps. 145:8&9
mk
Seattle
"Be at rest, O my soul, for the Lord has been good to you."
Ps. 116:7
mk
seattle
Trudi Tedrick
Lynchburg, OH
Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
"I will study your commandments and reflect on your ways. I will delight in your principles and not forget your word."
Psalm 119:15-16
NLT
Daimy Penn
Naples, FL
Exodus 33:18
"Then Moses said, "Now, show me Your glory"
Beth Herring
Oak Grove, La
Psalm 119:98
NIV
Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me.
Susan in OKC
Romans 6:1-13 (part 7) NIV
Because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.
Bridgette Jencks
Panama City Beach, FL
Acts 16:31 KJV
And they said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be save, and they house.
Sharon McLaughlin
Panama City Beach, FL
"For the Lord longs to be gracious to you; He rises to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for Him!"
Isaiah 30:18
Allison, Montgomery, AL
Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens. Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign Lord comes escape from death.
Psalm 68:19-20 NIV
Kristin
Montgomery, AL
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
1 Corinthians 2:9
KJV
Fran Dockins
Corryton, TN
Janice H.
Summerville, SC
"Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth." Proverbs 27:1 (NIV)
Exodus 14:14 (NIV)
“The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still."
Amanda May
Olympia, WA
I am VERY late posting my verses so I am trying to catch up!!
Hebrews 4:16
Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
My son had to memorize this verse for 5th grade….I memorized it with him……wonderful verse for a kid that took a huge hit to his confidence by being bullied in 4th grade.
Keri
Houston, Tx
The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life-of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalm 27:1
Wendy-Rome, GA
Psalm 141:3 NIV
Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.
Anne
Lorton, VA
Psa 139:15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Celie
Gonzales La.
It is the Lord your God you must follow and him you must revere.
Deuteronomy 13:4 (NIV)
Katie
Delray Beach, FL