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.
Amy, Sweeny TX
Rejoice in the LORD always. I will say it again, rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to all. The LORD is near. Philippians 4:4-5
Gloria – Cypress, TX – “The Lord is good, a strong refuge when trouble comes. He is close to those who trust in him.” Nahum 1:7 NLT
Mischia, North Carolina
Acts 3:19 “Repent then and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.” (NIV) Esther!
Spring, TX
Be very careful, then, how you live ~ not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
Ephesians 5:15-16
[NIV]
Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise.
NLT
sheila, OK
20 You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. Gen. 50:20
Leigh Gray, Illinois
“I love you, O LORD, my strength.”
Psalm 18:1 ESV
Kristi
Charlotte, NC
Letha. Mountain Home, Arkansas. I know you want briefness, but I must share with you a story before I share my Scripture. On October 1, I committed to try to do the entire Psalm 139 by the end of the year. On October 5, my sweet wonderful mother passed away. When I went to get the box she had told me to find to plan her funeral service, it was detailed and laid out. Psalm 139 was the passage she wanted read at her service. I cannot begin to explain the emotions that went through me when I read those words nor the tightening in my heart when my oldest son read the passage. You would have to know my mother and the life she endured to fully grasp how I knew these promises from her Lord got her through so much difficulty and pain. Therefore, taking them into my life is a blessed privilege in honoring my beautiful, godly mother.
5 You hem me in—behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths,[a] you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
my all time favorite scripture so dear to my heart It helped me get and stay sober…come from Isaiah 57:18-19
and I will personalize and paraphrase
“I have seen how you have acted Victoria, AND I WILL HEAL YOU! I will guide you Victoria and restore comfort to you. I WILL create praise on the your mourning lips Victoria..I offer peace peace perfect peace said the Lord, AND I WILL HEAL YOU….
Heather Louisville/Lagrange, KY
“The mind of the sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace,”
Romans 5:6 (NIV)
Gayna Fort Collins Colorado Psalm 37:39-40 But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord he is their strength in the time of trouble. And the Lord shall help them:he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them becuase they trust in him. KJV
“It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is Thy faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22-23
Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight. Stop doing wrong, learn to do right.
Isaiah 1:16
kimberly mason, tuscaloosa, al:
Colossians 2:15 niv
“and having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.”
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled and the one who humbles himself will be exalted. Luke 14:11 (NIV)
Mary from Columbia, PA
Blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence.
Jeremiah 17:7 NLT
Stephanie, Lititz, PA “Shout with joy to the Lord, O earth!” Psalm 100:1 NLT
Pam, Greensboro, NC
“The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of this world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.” 2 Cor. 10:4 NIV
Zimmerman, MN
Psalm 23:3
He renews my strength. He guides me along right paths, bringing honor to His name. NLT
Pam, Austin, Isaiah 49:3 NIV
“You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.”
Janelle C – Malakoff TX
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.
Ephesians 4:32
Judy, Tyler, Texas. “For by Thee I can run upon a troup; and by my God I can leap over a wall.”
Katherine, Shiremanstown, PA
Fools show their annoyance at once, but the prudent overlook an insult. ~Proverbs 12:16 (NIV)
Wylie, Texas
Luke 4:10 NLT
For the Scriptures say, “He orders his angles to protect and guard you.”
Miranda M.
Bellevue, NE
” So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered into them; they came to life and they stood up on their feet a vast army.” Ezekiel 37:10 (TNIV)
Kristi Knoxville, TN
Eph 1:4 NIV
For He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy amd blameless in His sight.
Marie Justin,Tx
For by grace are Ye saved through Faith, and that not of yourselves, it is a gift of God
Ephesians 2:8 KJV
Karen, Naples
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Matthew 5:4
ESV
Antoinette – Menomonee Falls, WI
A time to weep and a time to laugh.
A time to mourn and a time to dance.
Eccl. 3:4 (NKJV)
My flesh and heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever
Psalm 73:26 (NIV).
Kristi, Charleston, WV Ephesians 6:13 “Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” (NKJV)
Better is a handful of quietness than both the handsfull with travail and vexation of spirit. Ecc 4:6 NRSV
1 corinthians 13:11
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
Sarah, St. Peters, MO
Look to the Lord and His strength; seek His face always.
1 Chronicles 16:11 (NIV)
Sheri – Atlanta, TX
1 Cor 10:31 NKJV
Therefore whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Montgomery, AL
The first chapter of James. (NIV)
Liz Lyons; Cypress, Texas; “A fool uttereth all his mind, but a wise man keepeth it in til afterwards.” Proverbs 29:11 (KJV)
Cindi
Madison, MS
“What does Scripture say? Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.” Romans 4:3 NIV
Lea Lamar, Arkansas
“You will guard him and keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.”
Isaiah 26: 3 NKJV
What goes into a man’s mouth does not make him ‘unclean,’ but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him ‘unclean.’ Matthew 15:11
“Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.”
James 1:12 NIV
Marilyn Gadsden, Al There is no one Holy like the LORD, there is no one besides You there is no rock like our God. 1 Samuel 2:2
Christine, Augusta, Ga.
‘The Lord your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.” Zephaniah 3:17 NKJV
Rebecca, College Station, TX
but solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.
Hebrews 5:14 (NIV)
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.
Psalm 107:1 (NIV)
Karina, Baton Rouge
“You are my hiding place; You protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance.”
Psalm 32:7
NIV
Erin, Phoenix. “Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.” 1 John 4:11-12 (NIV)
Ivy Morrison
Willis, TX
1 Thessalonians 1:3 (NIV)
“We continually remember before our God and Father you work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 28:18 NIV
Michelle, OKC, 26 years old
Romans 16:19
NIV:
Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I am full of joy over you; but I want you to be wise about what is good and innocent about what is evil.