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!
Lisa from New York, “One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and seek him in his temple.” Psalm 27:4 NIV84
Pslm 19: 14
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strenth and my redeemer.
Allison from SC…
‘I would rather be a doorholder in my Father’s house than to dwell in the tents of the wicked.’ Psalm 84:10b NIV
Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. John 14:27 NKV
nancy, houston:
“Oh! May the God of green hope fill you up with joy, fill you up with peace, so that your believing lives, filled with the life-giving energy of the Holy Spirit, will brim over with hope!” Romans 15:13 the message
Just decided to join….
Kelly from Fredericksburg, VA
For our sake He made Him sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become the righteousness of God”.
2 Corinthians 5:21 amplified
Juanita, Virginia Beach
“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
WOW! WOW! WOW! Over 8500 siesta’s memorizing scripture!
Sharon Clinton, N.Y. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own. Proverbs 3:5 NIV
Kathryn, Birmingham, AL “And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6 NIV
Kimberly TN Far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Galatians 6:14
English Standard Version
Amanda in Birmingham
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
Ephesians 4:2 NIV
Psalm 5:3 “In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice;
In the morning I lay my requests before you
AND…wait expectantly!” (NIV)
“Every morning I lay out the pieces of my life on your altar and WATCH for fire to descend.” (Message)
AF Wife, Rodenbach, Germany, “”Through your faithful prayers and the generous response of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, everything he wants to do in me and through me will be done.” Philippians 1:19 The Message (Sorry I’m late, but so happy to find you all)
God bless your AF husband and all our military. God bless all our military families, too.
Shelly G.
Nashville, TN
“Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.” Hebrews 10:35 (ESV)
Becky, Morganton, NC
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. ESV
Michelle from Lewisville,TX Proverbs 24:3-4 NIV By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures.
“Jesus said, Did I not say to you that if you believe you would see the glory of God?”
John 11:40
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
Monica, Anderson – Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and He will establish your plans. Prov 16:3, NIV 2010
Sarah, from Newburgh, IN :
“Taste and see that the Lord is good. Oh, the joys of those who trust in him! Let the Lord’s people show him reverence, for those who honor him will have all they need.” Psalm 34:8-9 NLT
Carrie, Burnsville MN, Psalm 65:11
“You crown the year with your good blessings and You leave
abundance in Your wake.”
Sonjia, Raleigh, MS: “The appetite of the sluggard craves but gets nothing, but the desire of the diligent will be abundantly satisfied.” Proverbs 13:4
Valerie, New Berlin, PA, “And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.” ~ Mark 12:29-31
Melissa, Hampton Roads, VA: “Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed,for his compassions never fail.” Lamentations 3:22 TNIV
Deana, Broken Arrow OK – “Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.” – Luke 6:21 ESV Bible
Kathy from Knoxville, “A wife of noble character, who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value.” Prov.
31:1 NIV
Katie, Hueytown: Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes. Psalm 37:7
Danielle, Cokato, Minnesota: “You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.”
Psalm 65:11
Annette, Toronto ON
Cast away from you all your transgressions which you have committed and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Ezekiel 18:31 NASB
Barb Pleasant Hill, Iowa
“If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you.” John 15:7
NIV My desire for this year is to remain deeply in Him and make His Word dwell deeply in me.
Danielle from Corpus Christi, TX:
“This is what the Lord says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.”
Jeremiah 6:16 (NIV)
Psalm 1 (NIV)
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.
But his delight is in the law of the Lord and on his law he meditates day and night.
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.
Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
Brittany
Plano, TX
“But in your hearts revere Christ as LORD. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.”
1 Peter 3:15-16 (NIV)
Psalm 105:4
Look to the Lord and his strength
Seek his face always.
Char from Inver Grove Heights, MN – “I will instuct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.” Psalm 32:8 TNIV
Kim Oklahoma City
Thanks Mandy!
You’re blessed when you stay on course, steadily walking on the road revealed by God. Your’e blessed when you fallow his directions, doing your best to find Him. Psalm 119:1-2
The Message
“And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,” Hebrews 10:24, NIV, Knoxville, TN
Susan from Jacksonville, FL
Phil 3:7-14 NIV
“But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everyrthing a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ – the rightesouness that comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his suffering becoming like him in his death and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goals to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Sorry so late. Glad to do this again. Will break this long passage up over the next few entries.
Erika from Coral Springs, FL:
“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
Psalm 118: 5-7 (NIV) In my anguish I cried to the Lord, and he answered by setting me free. The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? The Lord is with me; he is my helper. I will look in triumph on my enemies.
Mary, from TN, “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:2 NASB
Laura, Grand Blanc, MI 2 Corinthians 12:9 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 of my weakness, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. (ESV)
Mary Beth, Atlanta, Texas – “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.”2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV)
Alyssa, NC, “I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,” Ephesians 4:1-2 ESV
Shannon, Charleston, But then I will win her back once again. I will lead her out into the desert and speak tenderly to her there. I will return her vineyards to her and transform the Valley of Trouble into a gateway of hope. She will give herself to me there, as she did long ago when she was young, when I freed her from captivity in Egypt. Hosea 2:14-15, New Living Translation
Amy from Enid, OK
So do not throw away your confidence, it will be greatly rewarded. You need to presevere so that when you have done the will of God you will receive what He had promised. hebrews 10:35-36
Jeannie, Arkansas: Psalm 86:11 (NIV) – “Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.”
I want to use this one on the 15th, is it bad to go ahead? Hehe.
From Tehachapi Ca.
Verse 1 for 2011!!
Psalm 19:14 (ESV) May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord my rock and my redeemer.
Robin – Round Rock, TX
“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.” I Peter 1:3
Amy, Omaha, “Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.” Proverbs 3:3, NIV