READY? AIM! FIRE!
Happy New Year, my dear sisters in Jesus! Last night I wrote a letter to the Lord Jesus right before I went to sleep and recalled His faithfulness through a tumultuous year. Right before I turned out the light, I opened up Daily Light for the last Scripture reading for the year and it offered this verse:
The Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way you went until you came to this place. Deut. 1:31
I could have cried. Yes, He surely did. And He carried you, too. Tightly in His faithful arms.
Only God knows what this particular year has in store for us. He alone sees how the path will wind, and climb, and fall, and rise again. We do not have control over the future as we glance ahead to 2011 but make no mistake. He does and we, His lavishly loved daughters, can indeed prepare to live what He thoughtfully brings our way victoriously. On this first day of the new year, we are not victims. We are called to live as victors, holding up the Shield of Faith in one hand and the Sword of the Spirit in the other.We need BOTH.
It’s finally time to post your first memory verse of 24 in 2011! If you haven’t already read the instructions thoroughly, please look at the post on December 26th titled “Siesta Scripture Memory Instructions.” It will tell you everything you need to know. Just a quick refresher: Your comments will almost entirely consist of these entries:
First name, city, verse, reference, and version.
Please keep it limited to these facts so that the verses stand out prominently for us to behold. You can occasionally say something as brief as “I’m excited!” Or “I need prayer!” but nothing longer than that please. Let’s let the Scriptures themselves rise like we’re looking at them with our 3-D glasses on.
Here’s my first Scripture entry of 24 in 2011:
Beth, Houston: All generous giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or the slightest hint of change. James 1:17 The NET Bible
Be sure and hand write your verse in your spiral to help engrave it on your sweet mind. Also consider writing your contact information on the inside cover in case you leave it somewhere and God causes someone gracious to find it.
I love to claim Psalm 65:11 on the first day of the new year:
You crown the year with Your good blessings, and You leave abundance in Your wake. The NET Bible
Lord, I want an abundance of Your Holy Spirit! (See Luke 11:13!) Abba, go before us this year and leave the fragrance of Your very presence in Your wake!
OK, Siestas! Hit it! I’ve prayed for you and can’t wait to pursue the Lord Jesus Christ with you this year. If some of you don’t know which verse to use this time around, consider Psalm 65:11. It’s a great first round.
Remember to wait 24 hours from the time you post your comment until you assume it got lost and enter it again. So many comments come in at once on these Scripture memory posts that the server bogs down, causing it to take extra time.
I love you, Sisters! Through the power of the Holy Spirit, we can do this! Remember, KEEP IT SIMPLE AND MEANINGFUL!
Lynchburg, VA: You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.
Deuteronomy 13:4 (ESV)
Dawn from Knoxville, TN
“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” 2Timothy 1:17, NIV
Carol, Glendale,AZ
Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. NIV
Tracy, Medicine Lodge, KS
For the Lord your God has arrived to live among you. He is a mighty Savior. He will rejoice over you with great gladness. With His love, he will calm all your fears. He will exult over you by singing a happy song. Zephaniah 3:17 NLT.
Candi South Lyon “For this is or God for ever and ever, he will be our guide even to the end.” Psalm 48:14 NIV
Good verse Candi…thanks for spuring me on to memorize.
“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
Deborah in Michigan ~ Psalms 4:8 NIV
I will lie down and sleep in peace for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.
Hereford, AZ ~ “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.” Psalm 32:8 NKJV
Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil
Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then can condemn? No one. Christ Jesus who died — more than that, who was raised to life — is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
~ Romans 8:33-34 (TNIV) ©2005
Trina, Mansfield, TX. “Search me, Oh God, know my heart, test me, know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” Psalm 139:23-24, NIV
Heather, Bellingham, WA: Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord. They are plans for GOOD, & not for disaster!,…to give you a FUTURE & a HOPE!” Jeremiah 29:11
Amanda,MI: Now 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. EPHESIANS 3:20 NIV
Christa, Detroit
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Psalm 23:6 KJV
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable–if anything is excellent or praiseworthy–think about such things.
Pilippians 4:8 NIV
Nikki, Kansas City
Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.
Psalm 141:3 (NIV)
Tara, Utica
“Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of GOd has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.” Romans 5:5 NKJV
Sue Virginia.
Psalm 90-14
Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
Sharon, San Antonio: And do this understanding the present time. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. Romans 13:11 NIV
Do not call to mind former things or ponder on things of the past. Behold I will do something new. Now it will spring forth;will you be aware of it? I will make a roadway in the wilderness and a river in the desert.
IS 43:18-19
Had computer challenges yesterday. Hope I’m not too late.
“Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do.”
Joshua 1:8
NLV
Melinda, CO
Linda from Pauls Valley, OK
Psalm 92:10 (21st century KJV)
“But my horn shalt Thou exalt like the horn of a unicorn; I shall be anointed with fresh oil.”
(My daughters, 10 & 7, are doing this with me!)
Linda, in the hills of Kentucky,
In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. Proverbs 3:16 NKJ
Erin, Fort Worth
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 (NIV)
Lisa, Cartersville, GA: “You crown the year with Your good blessings, and You leave abundance in Your wake.” Psalm 65:11 NET
Becky, San Angelo: I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands. I have hidden your word in my heart that I may not sin against you. Psalm 119:10-11, NIV.
Ashley Marrero, LA
A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones. Proverbs 12:4 NIV
Peggy, Owenton, KY
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
Isaiah 43:18&19 NAV
Bethany, Macon, GA
“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” Proverbs 4:23 NIV
Jen, Elgin AZ.The spirit of the sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach 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, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion- to betow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladnessinstead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of His splendor. They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations. Isaiah 61:1-4 ( NIV)
Jenny, Tulsa,OK
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 NIV
As a babe in Christ, I only know John 3:16, so I am following the book “100 Bible Verses everyone should know by heart.”
Kerry-Sheridan, wy
This is what the LORD says:
Maintain justice and do what is right. For my salvation is close at hand and my rightoutness will soon be revealed
Is.56:1 NIV study Bible
Kathy, Jacksonville FL. Then the Lord said to him “Peace be with you; do not fear, you shall not die.” So Gideon built an alter there to the Lord and called it The Lord is Peace. Judges 6:23-24a NIV
Stephanie, Burleson, TX
“Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.” Isaiah 49:16, Reformation Study Bible (ESV)
Erika, Chester VA,
Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Matthew 11:28-29 NAS
Stephanie, Pensacola, FL, “Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful & thankful.”, Colossian 4:2, Zondervan NIV Study Bible
Suzanne, Acworth, GA: May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 (NIV)
Janell, Denver
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Ephesians 4:32 NIV
Sherrie,Madison Township,Pa. “If I speak with human
eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m
nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.” 1Cor.13:1
The Message
Bonnie, Baltimore. ” 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)
Berni, Albuquerque: May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:13 NIV
Jodi DFW “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands…” Acts 17:24
Roxie, Jerseyville: “Don’t be selfish; don’t live to make a good impression on others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself.” Philippians 2:3, NLT.
Sheryl, Ankeny, Iowa
“Casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,”
2 Corinithians 10:5 New King James Version
Gretchen in Buffalo, NY
“May the God of hope fill you with all joy as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13
Jeanette, Tualatin, Be Still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. Psalm 46:10 NIV
Lisa, Decatur, AL: You crown the year with Your good blessings, and You leave abundance in Your wake. Psalm 65:11, The NET Bible
If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
1 Corinthians 13:3-5 The Message
Pam, Phoenix, AZ: Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody. 1 Thessalonians 4:11
Toni, Rialto, CA “Then he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith let it be done to you”;” Matthew 9:29 NIV