WHAT???? The 20th verse???? You know what that means, don’t you? Those of you who have clocked in every single time so far have accumulated enough verses to qualify for the celebration! However! If you’ve gotten this far, you surely want to see it all the way to 24 and not just for the celebration but for the fortification and fruit of 2 dozen Scriptures in your darling head. Scripture memory has meant so much to me this year. Except for a full-on-crisis season of time when I promise you I would have lost my ever-loving mind without it, I have never sensed more of a harvest deep in my soul from the process. I so hope you can also testify that your year would have been altogether different without it.
I will get right to it because I am expecting a ton of family over to celebrate Amanda’s 32nd birthday and I have a Texas-size pot of chicken and dumplings to cook! Here’s mine:
Beth, Houston. But set Christ apart as Lord in your hearts and always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks about the hope you possess. Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you. 1 Peter 3:15-16 The NET Bible
Let’s hear it, Siestas! Hey, don’t be alarmed if it takes me a good while to moderate all the verses or even if it sits on zero for a little while. I’ll bring them in every couple of hours so I can still get the most out of a Saturday off. I hope you have some Sabbath time this weekend, too!
Talk to you very soon.
You’re a big deal around here.
Rachel, Frankfort, IL
They will make war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will overcome them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings – and with him will be his called, chosen and faithful followers. Revelation 17:14 NIV
Lindsey from Dubach, LA is memorizing Colossians 3:16 (NIV). “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.”
Joyce, Lebanon, Tennessee
I say to you, he who believes in me greater works than those these will he do because I go to my Father.
John 14:12 NKJV
Margie Allen, TX
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song. Psalm 28:17 NIV
Harriett, St. Albert, Alberta. This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24 NIV
Amy Ann, Tulsa, OK “Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.” – 2 Corinthians 1:21-22 (NIV)
Susan from Beverly
1 Peter 4:19 (NLT) So if you are suffering according to God’s will, keep on doing what is right, and trust yourself to the God who made you, for he will never fail you.
Barbara, Clarence: I am sorry to say I am a SSMT dropout this year…..but this verse would have been the first one I recite at the SSMTC:
My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses for the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer. Psalm 45:1
Diane – Roswell, GA
“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)
“But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children’s children, to such as keep His covenant, and to those who remember His commandments to do them.” Psalm 103:17-18 NKJV
“May my meditation be sweet to Him;
as for me, I will rejoice in the Lord.”
Psalm 104:34(Amplified)
For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. Colossians 1:9 NIV
Kat, Latham, NY
“The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.”
2 Peter 3:9
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.John 3:18 NIV
Cindy, Lexington, KY – For we have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Hebrews 4:15 ESV
Alexander City, AL. Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. II Corinthians 4:16,17 NIV
Karen, Wildwood, MO
“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. I will guide you with my eye.”
Psalm 32:8 (NIV)
Cara, Highlands Ranch: The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. John 10:10 ESV
Thomasine, Rio Rancho
He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
Proverbs 28:13 NIV
Martha,Lynchburg,VA
Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. Isaiah 60:1 KJV
Donna, Sarnia, Ontario
“and He will delight in the fear of the Lord.
He will not judge by what He sees with His eyes
or decide by what He hears with His ears;”
Isaiah 11:3 NIV
Soorin
Eugene, OR
“I tell you the truth, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, Move from here to there and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
Matthew 17:20 (NIV)
Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Luke 10.19 NKJV
Sharon
South Charleston, Ohio
Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
~ 1 Timothy 1:17 (NIV)
“IF you love me, keep my commandments.”
John 14:15
Karen, Battle Creek, MI
““How great you are, Sovereign LORD! There is no one like you, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears.” 2 Samuel 7:22 NIV
Linda, Richmond, VA
“But the truly happy people are those who carefully study God’s perfect law that makes people free, and they continue to study it. They do not forget what they heard, but they obey what God’s teaching says. James 1: 25 (NCV)
“And what is the immeasurable greatness of His power to us who believe, according to the working of His vast strength.”. Ephesians 1:19 (HCSB)
Jennifer, Avon Park, FL
A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions.
Proverbs 18:2 NIV
Loretta of Bloomfield, NJ
I Peter 4:8 (NIV)
For this is the reason the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead so that they might be judged according to men in regard to the body but live according to God in regard to the spirit.
Kosciusko, MS
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Never rely on what you think you know. Remember the Lord in everything you do, and he will show you the right way.”
Proverbs 3:5-6
In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
Ephesians 6:16 NIV
Jane – Irvine, California
“Cease striving and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
Psalm 46:10 New American Standard Bible
Alyson – Tallahassee
Romans 2:13 (Amplified version) – For it is not merely hearing the Law [read] that makes one righteous before God, but it is the doers of the Law who will be held guiltless and acquitted and justified.
Kiana – Fairfield, TX
“If you are generous with the hungry and start giving yourselves to the down-and-out, Your lives will begin to glow in the darkness, your shadowed lives will be bathed in sunlight. I will always show you where to go. I’ll give you a full life in the emptiest of places – firm muscles, strong bones. You’ll be like a well-watered garden, a gurgling spring that never runs dry.” Isaiah 58:10-11 The Message
“If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.” Isaiah 58:10-11 NIV
Annie, Alabama
Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
Psalm 51:12 (NIV)
Allison A. Johnson City, TN; Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:34 NIV
Tammy, Howells, NE From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the Lord is to be praised.
Psalms 113:3 (NIV)
Pat; Kansas
Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him.
Psalm 62:5 NIV
Ephesians 4:32 (NIV)
“32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.”
-Katie, IA
Barb*St Cloud MN*”My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” Psalm 72:26 NIV
Kelley, Olive Branch, MS
The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” (Romans 8:15 NIV)
Rachelle, Gardner, KS–“Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;” Isaiah 40:30, NIV
“How priceless is Your unfailing love! Both high & low among men find refuge in the shadow of Your wings.” Psalm 36:7 NIV
Becky, Springfield, MO
Therefore He is able to save completely those who come to God through Him because he always lives to intercede for them.
Hebrews 7:25 NIV
Laura, Southaven, MS: Turn my eyes from worthless things and give me life through your word. Psalm 119:37 NLT
Vicki, Corpus Christi, Tx…Romans 12:2
Do not conform 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. NIV
Martha, Clearwater,FL
“The life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
Galatians 2:20
Johanna
Carlsbad, CA
Proverbs 12:16,18
“A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.
Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.”
Emily, Topeka, Kansas
“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Do you not say ‘Four months more and then the harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.”
John 4:34-35 (NIV)