Hey, Scripture Memory Mad-Women!
Look how many verses we have behind us!! Sister friend, if you’ve made it this far, YOU’VE GOT THIS THING IN THE BAG! (Or, in your darling little spiral, to be exact.) We are only two Scriptures away from you having the required amount posted for attending the SSMT celebration. By all means, make your goal all 24 but it’s a great feeling to know that you have ALL.IT.TAKES.TO.CE.LE.BRATE. I do dearly love a party. It won’t be the same if you don’t come so please (if it sounds fun to you) try your hardest. Think about asking for help toward expenses as a Christmas gift from some of your lavishly loving peeps.
Registration will be open until 2 weeks before the event so don’t stress about us running out of room. We only opened it this early so we could choose which space will fit us best at Houston’s First Baptist Church and so we can best prepare to serve you. Since we’re at about 850 registrations, we’ve outgrown the Fellowship Hall where we were last year and will meet in the sanctuary. We’ll make sure that we have the closest possible seating arrangements so no one feels isolated from the group. (There’s no reserved seating for it, of course, but we’ll do everything we can to make it as intimate as possible.) We are looking so forward to seeing your beautiful faces. It will be here before we know it! Click here to register: SSMT Registration
OK, here’s my Scripture for this round:
Beth, Houston. For what credit is it if you sin and are mistreated and endure it? But if you do good and suffer and so endure, this finds favor with God. 1 Peter 2:20 The NET Bible
Let’s hear yours!
I’m mad about you.
From Temecula, CA
“I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” – John 15:5 (NIV)
Linda Bend, OR Psalm 145:18
The Lord is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him in truth.
“Let the morning bring me word of Your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in You. Show me the way I should go, for to You I lift up my soul.” Psalm 143:8 NIV
Betsy, Lincoln Park
“We have also received an inheritance in Him, predestined according to the purpose of the One who works out everything in agreement with the decision of His will, so that we who had already put our hope in the Messiah might bring praise to His glory.” Ephesians 1:11-12 HCSB
Andrea Overland Park, KS
“Let’s keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word.”
Hebrews 10:23
MSG
Shelly, Lakeville, “He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to Him.” John 14:21b, NIV
Marilyn, Amarillo TX: “The LORD make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; The LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace” Numbers 6:25-26 NIV
Elaine, New Orleans, LA
For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. Romans 15:4
Rachel
Fullerton, CA
Eph 1:17-18 (ESV)
“…the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints…”
Sharon, Riverside, Ca.
May the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen Hebrews 13:20,21. NIV
Erin
Chippewa Falls, WI
“You are my witnesses” declares the LORD, “and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he.”
Isaiah 43:10a NIV
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9 NIV
They asked each other “were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the scriptures to us?”
Luke 24:32
Psalm 73:23-26
Yet I am always with you; You hold me by my right hand. You guide me with your counsel and afterward you will take me into glory. Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Beth,Troy
“Finally, brothers and sisters, 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.”
Phil 4:8 (NIV)
Ashley Sullens
Kings Mountain, NC
Ezekiel 36:26 (NAS)
Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you, and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Karen
Tallahassee, FL
Continuing 1 Pet. 1:3-5
..and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you. 1 Pet. 1:4 NIV
Susan, Oak Ridge, TN
Judging others…or not.
How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank our of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck in your brother’s eye. Matthew 7:4-5 (NIV)
Entrusting myself and others to God’s healing, guiding and refining grace.
2 Chronicles 7:14
if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. (NKJV)
Sally
Columbus, OH
“Were I to count them, the would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with You.”
Psalm 139: 18
NIV
Hannah Lee, Natchitoches, LA
August 15- “Do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to perserver so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.” Hebrews 10:35-36
September 1- “The Lord gives his people strength; the Lord grants his people security.” Psalm 29:11
September 15- “She is clothed with strength and dignity.” Proverbs 31:25
Love, love, LOVE this Ministry! Bless y’all!
Jane, Kokomo, IN
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, ‘But the righteous man shall live by faith.'”
Romans 1:16, 17 (NAS)
Vickie, Poplar Bluff, MO:
Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and He will say: Here I am.
Isaiah 58:9 NIV
Anita, Big River, Saskatchewan
God is spirit and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.
John4:24NIV
“I have made you known to them, & will continue to make you known in order that the love(agape) you have for me may be in them & that I myself may be in them.”…..John 17:26
“….The Lord opened her heart to Respond to Pauls message.”
Acts 16:14b
Janae – Riverside,PA(actually @Stone Harbor,NJ on vacation today,though)
1 John 4:16 NIV
“And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.”
Margie Allen,TX
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Tim 3:16-17 NIV
Paige, Overland Park, KS
[Jesus said] “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
Luke 10:27 (ESV)
Amy, Washington D.C.”God doesn’t come and go. God lasts. He’s Creator of all you can see or imagine. He doesn’t get tired out, doesn’t pause to catch His breath.” Isaiah 40:27-31 (in part) The Message
Rebecca, Pineville, LA
He will cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness will be your sheild and rampart.
Psalm 91:4
Crystal, Mullica Hill, NJ:
Romans 8:7, ESV-
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.
Tesa
Perry, GA
Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.
Psalm 9:10
Gillian, Oshawa Onatrio Canada
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:1 NIV
This is the day the LORD has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24 NIV
Carol
Albuquerque, NM
Proverbs 4:25-26-27 NIV
25-Let your eyes look straight ahead fix your gaze directly before you.
26- Make level paths for your feet and take only ways that are firm
27- Do not swerve to the right or to the left ; keep your foot from evil
Nichole, Nashville, TN
“What, what would have become of me had I not believed that I would see the Lord’s goodness in the land of the living!” Psalm 27:13 (AMP)
Sarah, Little Rock
“In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”
John 16:33b NASB
Kimberly, Amarillo TX
“And those whom he predestined he ALSO called, and those whom he called he ALSO justified, and those whom he justified he ALSO glorified.” Romans 8:30
Proud to be an also!
“Boldly & without hindrance he preached the kingdom of God & taught about the Lord Jesus Christ.”…Acts 28:31(UNHINDERED)
Jennifer, Houston: 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 as light to you. Psalm 139:11-12
Nashville
“Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.” (Matthew 5: 42 NIV)
Meggie, Winnipeg, Canada
“Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.” James 1:2-4 NLT
Dawn, Clinton PA
Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul, and maintain good conduct among the non-Christians, so that though they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears.
1 Pet. 2:11-12, NET
Gretchen, Thousand Oaks
1 Peter 2:30 NET For what credit is it if you sin and are mistreated and endure it? But if you do good and suffer and so endure, this finds favor with God.
Kim, Chicago, IL, “and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.” Eph.6:15-16 NIV
Patty – Glendora, CA
“So whether we are here in this body or away from this body our goal is to please Him”. 2Cor 5:9
Susan, Barrie, ON, Canada
“In my distress I called to the LORD and he answered me. From the depths of the grave, I called for help and you listened to my cry. Jonah 2:2 NIV
LuAnn, Winfield, I memorized Duet 30:19 last week for a 1st Place for Health study and this time around I’m adding verse 20. I’m posting it all so you can get the full meaning.
Duet 30:19-20 NIV 19 This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20 and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Natalie, Olive Branch, “Run from anything that stimulates youthful lusts. Instead, pursue righteous living, faithfulness, love and peace. Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts.” 2 Timothy 2:22 (NLT)
Phyllis, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Phil 2:13 & 14 NIV
For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. Do everything without complaining or arguing,