2011 Siesta Scripture Memory Team: Verse 2!

Hey, Sweet Things!

You guys are so much fun. Thanks for getting excited with us about the app. I’m just thinking about how this whole technology thing was in the mind of God centuries ago when He inscribed His words on the sacred page through the pens of men. Too much to wrap our minds around, isn’t it? He is the One who knows “the end from the beginning,” and “from ancient times, what is still to come.” He says, “My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.” (Isaiah 46:10)

At the moment I’m typing up this post, we have a whopping 9250 entries under Verse 1. Never in my wildest imagination did I picture this. I was pretty blown away by our strong and steady couple of thousand in 2009. Keep in mind that the 9250 is not an exact reflection of participants because there are some replies under comments, like, “I’m copying yours!” and “I’ve never even heard that verse!” I’m not going put a restriction on that because community in Christ is what makes Siestaville work. We do know, however, that way over 8000 are participating because that many women ordered spirals or downloaded the artwork. Others who are participating grabbed their own spirals the easier way from the store. I also want you to picture the many preadolescent girls we have on our team. Don’t you remember loving stickers and pens and school supplies when you were that age? I should have known they’d take to the spirals. Just close your eyes and imagine them reciting some of the verses dearest to your heart. Many of us have lived long enough to know by life experience what they are reciting by faith. It’s such a precious thought to me. They will find Jesus faithful just as we have. Yep, we have junior Siestas but we also have plenty of senior Siestas which delights me just as much. Our joy in standing shoulder-to-shoulder with this mighty band of women is indescribable. I wonder how many football fields we would stretch across. Whew. For just a split second I saw us all in my bright red college drill team uniforms. Scratch that thought.

OK, before I call for your second verses, many of you asked for the exact date of the SSMT celebration next January. I double-checked the weekend with Sabrina and it’s January 20-21, 2012 from Friday evening until Saturday noon. Of course, we’ll get you the proper information starting early next Fall but, if you think you might want to come, put it down on your calendar, start saving your expense money, and plan to memorize your darling little head off. The event itself is our gift to you and your ticket in is your well-used spiral (of either kind).

Are you ready for SSMT Verse 2? I’m giving you a heads-up that I plan to target a lot of James verses this year so, while I’m still going to tell you mine each time, I’ll also suggest a good alternative for those of you who could use an additional idea. Remember! Limit your comments to Name, City, Verse, and Translation. Here’s mine:

Beth, Houston. “My brothers and sisters, do not show prejudice if you possess faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.” James 2:1 The NET Bible

Here’s an alternative I really love and memorized a couple of years ago. My dear coworker, Diane, is memorizing it right now so it’s washing back over my mind:

Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done. The things You planned for us no one can recount to You; were I to speak and tell of them, they would be too many to declare.” Psalm 40:5 NIV

And that, O Lord, is the gospel truth.

OK, Sisters! Bring on Verse 2!

I pray that Christ is so pleased. I feel in my soul that He is.

Have a great weekend!

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  1. 6601
    Leigh says:

    Leigh, Olathe, KS “I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage and He shall strenghten your heart; Wait, I say, on the LORD!” Psalm 27: 13-14, NKJV

  2. 6602
    Susie says:

    Micah 6:8, NAS. In preparation for the Justice Conference in Bend I will be attending next month:
    “He has told you, O man, what is good;
    And what does the LORD require of you
    But to do justice, to love kindness,
    And to walk humbly with your God?”

  3. 6603
    Tina says:

    Tina, Odessa, NIRV,

    Lord, hear my voice when I call out to you.
    Show me your favor and answer me. Ps. 27:7

  4. 6604
    Brittany says:

    Internet down all weekend. Sorry for the late post!

    God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life.

    Psalm 51:10 MSG

  5. 6605
    Jenny, Raleigh says:

    18″Do not call to mind the former things,
    Or ponder things of the past.
    19″Behold, I will do something new,
    Now it will spring forth;
    Will you not be aware of it?
    I will even make a roadway in the wilderness,
    Rivers in the desert. (Is. 43:18-19) NASB

  6. 6606

    From Murfreesboro, TN: ‘Neverless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man in the Lord. For as the woman (is) of the man, even so (is) the man also by the woman; but all things of God.’
    1 Corinthians 11:11-12 (NIV)

  7. 6607
    Heather B. says:

    Heather Tumwater, WA

    God is working in you, giving you the desire to obey Him and the power to do what pleases Him. Phil. 2:13 NLT

  8. 6608
    Laura Bodine says:

    So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17) NKJ

  9. 6609
    Brenda Johnson says:

    Brenda, Dallas, GA, Psalm 91:2 NKJV I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God in Him I will trust.”

  10. 6610
    Katie Morris says:

    “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; See if there be any hurtful way in me and lead me in the everlasting way.” Psalm 139:23-24 NAS
    Katie Morris, Etna, CA

  11. 6611
    Charlotte says:

    Charlotte, Hamilton, OH

    Romans 1:16-17 kjv
    For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
    For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, the just shall live by faith.

  12. 6612
    Martha says:

    “And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.” 1 John 3:23 NIV—Martha, Birmingham, AL

  13. 6613

    Tracy Leigh-Paris, MO-“No one will be able to stand up against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.” Joshua 1:5-NIV

    *Sorry I’m late!*

  14. 6614
    Debra Dickerson says:

    Romans 8:28

    We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose.

  15. 6615
    Jenni says:

    Jenni, Great Falls, MT

    Why so downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God. Psalm 142:5 NIV

  16. 6616
    Brandy says:

    Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
    Ephesians 4:32 NIV

    Brandy- Prattville, AL.

  17. 6617
    Sandy says:

    Sandy from Amarillo, Tx
    Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord, keep watch over the door of my lips.
    Psalm 141:3 NIV

  18. 6618

    Ashley, Deer Park, TX

    “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13 NIV

  19. 6619
    Tara Saloga says:

    Tara, Monett MO
    No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. Romans 8:37 NLT

  20. 6620
    Leanne from Canada says:

    Leanne
    Maple Ridge, B.C., Canada

    …For everything in the world-the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does-comes not from the Father but from the world….. 1John 2:16

  21. 6621
    Amanda says:

    Birmingham, AL
    “You have given me greater joy than those who have abundant harvests of grain and new wine. In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, O lord, will keep me safe.” Psalm 4:7-8 NLT

  22. 6622
    April Mullen says:

    God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. NIV

    April, North Carolina

  23. 6623
    Joy Nicol says:

    Joy, Durham, NC
    “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water. (Jer. 2:13) NIV
    Praying HS will show me my broken cisterns….

  24. 6624
    Katherine says:

    Katherine, Russell
    For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, we who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh.
    Philippians 3:3 NIV

  25. 6625
    Stephanie says:

    Stephanie
    Abilene, TX

    Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

    2 Corinthians 3:4-6, ESV

  26. 6626
    Joy Nicol says:

    Joy, Durham, NC.
    I changed the version to The Message vs. NIV:
    “My people have committed a compound sin:
    they’ve walked out on me, the fountain
    Of fresh flowing waters, and then dug cisterns—
    cisterns that leak, cisterns that are no better than sieves. Jer. 2:13 (The Message)

  27. 6627
    Joanne Bowles says:

    Joanne, Dallas Tx
    Cease striving and know that I am God Ps.46:10 NIV

  28. 6628
    Tammie Fay says:

    Tammie, Cleveland, MS
    If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. Colossians 3:1-3 (NKJV)

  29. 6629
    Sarah, Athens says:

    “And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness.” ~Acts 4:31 (NASB)

  30. 6630
    Megan says:

    Megan, Covington, WA

    Psalm 16:5&6

    Lord, You have assigned me my portion and my cup.
    You have made my lot secure. The boundary lines you have fallen for me in pleasent places. Surely I have a delighful inheritance.

  31. 6631
    janie says:

    Janie
    Belton, Tx
    But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. 2 Peter 3:18 NAS

  32. 6632

    Michelle, Moultrie, GA
    Ephesians 1:18-19 NASB
    (18) I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, (19) and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. THese are in accordance with the working of the strength of his migh.

  33. 6633
    Soozi says:

    Ps. 33: 20-22 (NIV)
    We wait in hope for the LORD;
    he is our help and our shield.
    In him our hearts rejoice,
    for we trust in his holy name.
    May your unfailing love be with us, LORD,
    even as we put our hope in you.

    Soozi
    Houston, TX

  34. 6634
    Sparki2003 says:

    Jennifer O.
    Janesville, Wisconsin

    Ephesians 2:8

    For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—

  35. 6635
    Cindy Haas says:

    Cindy, Dallas, TX 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. Is. 43:18-19 NIV

  36. 6636

    Stephanie Solomon, Morgantown, WV
    For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love, and of self-discipline.
    (2Timothy 1:7)

  37. 6637

    Jeremiah 31:3 The Lord appeared to us in the past saying,
    “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.”

  38. 6638

    Jeremiah 31:3 The Lord appeared to us in the past saying,
    “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.”

  39. 6639
    Mandy says:

    “In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God for help; He heard my voice out of His temple; and my cry for help before Him came into His ears.” Psalm 18:6 NASB

    (This is a prayer for my friend, Janet, who suffered a brain aneurism last week and is in ICU. Please pray for her recovery)

  40. 6640
    Victoria says:

    Victoria, Canton, Ga.

    “Poverty and shame will come to him who neglects discipline, but he who regards discipline will be honored.”
    Proverbs 13:18, NAS

  41. 6641
    Lora says:

    Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. Deuteronomy 6:5 NIV

  42. 6642
    Cindy Gandy says:

    Cindy Gandy
    Hazlehurst, MS

    John 14:27 (NKJV)

    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.

  43. 6643
    Amber T says:

    Amber T – Saint Louis, MO
    “In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.” -Proverbs 16:9

  44. 6644
    Cheryl Ann says:

    Cheryl – Yakima, WA – “But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure: then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.” James 3:17

  45. 6645
    Tammy says:

    Tammy, Indianapolis, IN

    “But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”

    Jeremiah 17:7-8 (NIV)

  46. 6646
    Ann says:

    “The Word of the Lord is right and true. He is faithful in all He does.” Psalm 33:4 NIV

  47. 6647
    Teresa Stout says:

    Teresa Stout
    Texarkana, AR

    The Lord is my portion; therefore I will put my hope in Him. Lamentations 3:24 (HCSB)

  48. 6648
    Teri says:

    Teri — Opelousas, LA
    As God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. Colossians 3:12 NRSV

  49. 6649
    Sheila Keedy says:

    For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
    Romans 15:4 ESV

  50. 6650
    Marie says:

    Marie, Post Falls, Idaho –

    “She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the LORD and wept in anguish.” – 1 Samuel 1:10, NKJV

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