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.
Paula, Russell, KY
For everything comes from Him and exists by His power and is intended for His glory. All glory to Him forever! Amen. Romans 11:36, NLT
Jeremiah 32:17
Oh Sovreign Lord You made the heavens and earth by Your strong and powerful arm. Nothing is too hard for You!
NLT
Inez barnes
Hamburg, AR
“Isaiah 64:4
For since the world began, no ear has heard, and no eye has seen a God like you who works for those who wait for him!” NLT
Pickering, ON, Canada
“Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my sighing.
Listen to my cry for help my king and my God, for to you I pray.” Psalms 5:1-2 NIV
Romans 10:9-10 NLT If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved.
Lichelle Austin, Texas
Psm 46:10 NIV
Be still and know I am God; I will be exaulted amoung the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
Becky, Jacksonville, FL
Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.
Psalm 86:11, NIV
Keller TX, 1 Corinthians 13:12 (ESV)
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
Judy, Houston
I John 3:18 (NIV)
Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
Psalm 25:16 NIV Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted.
Mary
Houston
Melissa, Folsom California
“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.”
Barb, Madison, WI
“The Lord hath heard my supplication; the Lord will receive my prayer.” Psalm 6:9 KJV
(Lord, please help me believe this with my heart)
Sheila
Sevierville, TN
Psalm 34:3-4 ESV
Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt His name, together! I sought the LORD, and He answered me and delivered me from all my fears.
(Do everything without complaining or arguing,)so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life – in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing.
Philippians 2:15,16 (NIV)
Jane, Houston, TX
Create in me a pure heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Psalm 51:10 (NIV)
Nicole, Norman, OK
I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him.
1 Samuel 1:27 (NIV)
*Praise the Lord, we had a positive pregnancy test after 5 years of trying!
Congratulations Nicole! God is good!
Denise, Ocean Springs,MS – In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps. Proverbs 16:9 NIV
Heather, Dadeville ” Do not withhold your mercy from me, Lord; may your love and faithfulness always protect me.” Psalm 40:11 NIV
Mandy, Idabel, And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28 NIV
Christa. Greeneville, TN.
How precious are your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Psalm 139:17 NIV
Vicki, Wilmington NC
If you love me, keep my commandments.
John 14:15 NKJV
Saskatchewan, Canada
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear…
Psalm 46:1,2a
Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.
Psalm 9:10
Cindy
Flemingsburg, KY
Selena – Albany, GA
Those who know Your name trust in You because You have not abandoned those who seek You, Lord. – Psalm 9:10
The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. Psalm 145:18, NIV
Meggie, Winnipeg, Canada
“If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking.”
James 1:5 NLT
But he gives more grace; therefore it says “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” James 4:6 RSV
Autumn in Foster, KY
Ephesians 5:3-4 (NIV)
But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.
Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.
Sorry late!
Kristy
Princeton, NC
Ps 55:22 (NIV)
“Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall”.
Jen, Houston Texas
“May the God of hope fill you will all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit” – Romans 15:13
Jessica, Toronto
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 (New International Version)
Karen
Hope, AR
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:13-14 KJV
How priceless is your unfailing love! Both high and low among men find refuge in the shadow of your wings.
Psalm 36:7 NIV
Lydia, Vicksburg, MS
“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
Isaiah 55:9 NIV
Just got back from 11 days in Spain. What a fabulous trip. Read Robin Jones Gunn “Sisterchicks go Brit” and this is the verse from the book that I am choosing for this memory verse. God was really with my daughter and I on this trip so the verse grew in my heart.
Jeremiah 24:7
I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart.
Tara G.
Kyiv, Ukraine
We have also received an inheritance in Him, predestined according to the purpose of the One who works out everything in agreement with teh 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)
Rene, Overland Park, KS
“Instead of your shame you will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace
you will rejoice in your inheritance.
And so you will inherit a double portion in your land,
and everlasting joy will be yours.” (Isaiah 61:7 NIV)
Georganne, Piedmont, Oklahoma Phillipians 4:6 NASB
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
I posted this Sunday, but could not find it. So I am posting again just to be sure. After all, I already have my plane reservations made for the SSMT celebration!
They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” Acts 16: 31 NAS
Lori, Friendswood,TX
Wilmington, DE, Heather.
“God is our refuge and strength; an ever present help in trouble.” Psalm 46:1, NIV
Diane in Canada: The first of several verses from Lamentations 3. Lamentations 3:19, NIV “I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.”
Susan, Meredith, NH: “Words kill, words give life; they’re either poison or fruit—you choose.”—Proverbs 18:21, The Message
Amy 7634, SF Bay Area, CA:
“Be sure to do what you should, for then you will enjoy the personal satisfaction of having done your work well, and you won’t need to compare yourself to anyone else.”
Galatians 6:4 (NLT 1996)
I Peter 5:10 NASB
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.
Hilda in Pearland
Mary from Columbia, PA
She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.
Proverbs 31:25 NIV
Shannon, Mandeville LA
Ps. 16:8 I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With Him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
Natalie, Houston:
“Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.”
(2 Timothy 2:14 ESV)
**sorry to be posting late!
Isaiah 47:10 (NIV)
You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, “No one sees me.” Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, “I am, and there is none besides me.”
Cindy/Midland
Laura Eloise, Austin – Humble yourselves therefore under God’s mighty hand that He may lift you up in due time. 1 Pet 5:6
Lynda, Monterey:
“But let us who live in the light be clearheaded, protected by the armor of faith and love, and wearing as our helmet the confidence of our salvation.”
~ 1 Thessalonians 5:8, NLT