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.
Ashley Taylor
Lawrenceville, GA
You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples. Psalm 77:14 NIV
“Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore fear God.” Ecclesiastes 5:7 NIV
Janifer, Glen Burnie, MD
Psalm 96:6 NKJV
Honor and majesty are before Him; Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary.
Kathy, Akron, Ohio
“The wise also will hear and increase in learning, and the person of understanding will acquire skill and attain to sound counsel[so that he may be able to steer his course rightly]. Proverbs 1:5 The Amplified Bible
This was a direct answer to one of my heart’s questions!
1 Corinthians 16:13-14
New International Version (NIV)
13 Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. 14 Do everything in love.
I am not able to memorize all the scriptures. I do recall parts and I get them out and read,study and pray with each verse.They have been such a blessing to pray with them trough the day and at hard times. I have been through a lot this year and with out all these scriptures I don’t think I would have made it. Praise God for His word!
I am so glad I did not let the enemy stop me when I was not able to memorize them correctly.
Danna M.-Atlanta,TX.
But you are a shield around me,O LORD; You bestow glory on me and lift up my head. Psalm 3(NIV)
Danna M.-Atlanta, TX.
But you are a shield around me,O LORD;You bestow glory
on me and lift up my head. Psalm 3:3(NIV)
Chris, Seattle, WA
Isaiah 52:7 NIV
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news,
who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
Dawn in Monett, MO
Isaiah 26:3
You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast because he trusts in you.
Jane, Gulfport – “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer.” Psalm 19:14 (NASB)
Janet, Holmes Beach, FL
And after you have suffered for a little while,
the God of all grace,
who called you to His eternal glory in Christ,
will Himself perfect,confirm, strengthen and establish you.
I Peter 5:10 NIV
Andrea Overland Park, KS
“If I keep my eyes on God, I won’t trip over my own feet.”
Psalm 25:15
MSG
Megan G., Maple Valley
“But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.”
James 1:22 NET
Patti, Ft. Walton Beach, FL; “Then Daniel praised the God of Heaven and said,’Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever, wisdom and power are his.” Daniel 2:20 NIV
Makaela, Lynchburg, Va
“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)
Rita Harrison, Cantonment, FL
“And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who called according to His purpose.”
Romans 8:28 NASB
I plan to do this with yall next year. Yall have fun at the celebration!
Joan Portage,MI
“So I gave my attention to the Lord God to seek him by prayer & supplications…”
Daniel 9:3 NASB
I thought I posted this yesterday, but I am not seeing it on here, so trying again.
Psalm 119:39-40, NLT
Help me abandon my shameful ways,
for your regulations are good.
I long to obey your commandments!
Renew my life with your goodness.
Wendy, Glendora, CA
2 Peter 1:5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. 8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. NIV
Psalms 42:1 KJ
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
We have redemption in Him through His blood
the forgiveness of our trespasses
according to the riches of His grace
that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.
– – Ephesians 1:;7-8 (NIV)
The Lord upholds all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down. Psalm 145:14
Karyn, Elberfeld, IN – Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make you paths straight. Proverbs 3:5,6 (NASB)
Terri from Mechanicsville,
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.”
James 1:17 (NIV)
Becky, Groesbeck, Tx: ” He will cover you with His feathers. He will shelter you with His wings. His faithful promises are your armor and protection.” Psalm 91:4 NLT
Romans 8:30-31 NIV
“And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified. What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?”
Becky, Dayton Ohio,
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.
Isaiah 43:19 NIV
Christa, Kansas City, MO: And now, GOD, do it again–bring rains over our drought-stricken lives.
Psalm 126:4, The Message
Diane, Ontario, Canada
“I say to myself, “The Lord is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in Him.” The Lord is good to those who depend on Him, to those who search for Him.”
Lam. 3: 24-25 NLT
Victoria, Greenbrier AR
Proverbs 31:25 NLT
She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future.
Sheri, FortWorth
“Jesus answered,’I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'”. John 14:6 NIV
Mar Jo – The Woodlands, TX Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Psalm 51:12
Therefore, I urge you brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to Him – this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer 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. Romans 12:1-2 NIV
Darcy, Northern VA. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in Him. I John 4:16 NIV
Elizabeth, Columbia, Mo. (formerly Charlottesville)
Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.
Psalm 86:11, ESV
Susan-Nashville, TN
Ephesians 5:15-17
“Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.”
Karla~Sedro-Woolley~HCSB I John 5:4b
This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith.
Ahvy, Olathe, Kansas
Psalm 86:12. ASV
I will praise thee , O Lord my God , with my whole heart.
May I hear about your loyal love in the morning, for I trust in you.
Show me the way I should go, because I long for you.
Psalm 143:8 NET Bible
Joy – Georgetown, TX – “your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewlery and fine clothes. I Peter 3:3 NIV
The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. Ecclesiastes 10:2
Gena – Houston, TX
It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to the Most High.
Psalm 92:1 (NLT)
Kathryn from Louisville, KY
“The Lord will keep you from all evil;
He will keep your soul.” Psalm 121:7(NASB)
14 “You are the light of the world. A city on a hill can’t be hidden. 15 Also, people do not light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead, they put it on its stand. Then it gives light to everyone in the house.
16 “In the same way, let your light shine in front of others. Then they will see the good things you do. And they will praise your Father who is in heaven.
Matt. 5:14-16 NIrV
Diane C
Vinton, La
“Keep me safe, O God, for in you I take refuge.I said to the Lord, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.” (Psalm 16: 1-2 NIV)
Lori – Syracuse
Ephesians 1:17-19a (NIV)
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
and his incomparably great power for us who believe.
Sandy,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Ephesians 3:16
…that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man;..
Midge, Florence If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Gal 5:25 NKJV
Monroe, LA:
Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall.
NIV
Jennifer S. Okc, OK
2 Corinthians 4:7 NIV
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.