Finally!!!!!!!!
Are you ready, Sisters? Do you hear me cheering?? I have never been more excited about doing this.
I am on the verge of doing about 10 backward flips on my hardwoods. I said on the verge. Not quite doing it. Well, I’m doing it in my heart. That counts for a lot around here.
SO LET’S DO THIS THING! Now, promise me this! Promise me you will read this entire post before you leave a single comment. I know you’re about to burst and I am, too, and, for that reason, I’ll keep it as short as possible. It’s so important that we get our ground rules firmly established so that we’ll have a fabulous experience. Remember, hundreds of our participants this time around are brand new so let’s make sure everybody’s on the same page.
A few things you absolutely MUST KNOW:
*Your comment to this post is your official registration onto the team. Everybody starts at Verse 1 no matter when they begin the process. (Word gets around and we often still have people joining in with us even in March and April. We don’t mind how late they begin as long as they can catch up, memorize their verses, and document each one of them on the proper post as an official participant.) This launch post will remain right here in this January 1st 2013 slot all year long and each new person will need to make her first entry here. This is how we track who signed up when we get to the end of the year and it’s party time.
*Your comment must be strictly limited to the following 5 pieces of information: name, city, verse, reference, translation. I’ll say it slower now for those brand new to the process:
Your name (or first name if you prefer), city. Your verse for that two-week period written all the way out, the reference for it (where it is found in the Bible: Book, chapter, verse) AND the *translation you’ve taken it from.
(*For instance, is the Bible you’ve pulled the passage from a KJV, an NAS, HCSB, NIV or NLT? Or is it The NET Bible, The Message or another similar version? The translation almost always appears on the outside spine of a Bible. If not, you will find it on the first few pages. If you’re looking on line, you’ll get an option to choose a translation. Do so as it speaks most clearly to you. We aren’t fussing over translations here in our memory work. You also do not need to stick with one version throughout.)
Just those 5 pieces of information! They will comprise every comment to this post. And the moment you start scrolling through all of them, you’ll see why. Page after page after page after page of Scripture and each one telling a reader exactly where to find it. It is the most powerful sight to behold. This invites people who are not participating in the memory work to reap tremendous benefits by just reading the comments and taking strength from verses they may not have known existed. This way it has the potential to bless our whole community or any weary visitor to our blog. I’ve been in crises before and gotten on the comment pages and scrolled from Scripture to Scripture and practically wept with relief and fresh courage or revelation. That’s why it’s best to keep the SSMT comments as succinct as possible. If you’ve got an exclamation in you that you just can’t hold back, you can occasionally make the briefest comment like, “I really need this one!” or “I’m sharing so-and-so’s verse” but, please, no more than that.
Comments other than the verse-entries on the 1st and 15th of each month can’t be approved. I’m so sorry and I hope you’ll understand. Thousands of us will be doing this together so the moderation process is monumental from the administrative side. The verses will be all Lindsee and I can handle in the comments for our two SSMT days per month. Keep in mind: NONE OF THESE INSTRUCTIONS PERTAIN TO THE OTHER BLOG POSTS HERE AT LPM. We will be completely free to do our regular thing on all other posts! The really stringent rules are only for the 1st and 15th of each month in 2013 and in reference to Siesta Scripture Memory Team. I hope that makes sense!
*Your comment may take 24 hours to get moderated (or posted if you’re new to the blog process) and sometimes a bit longer if it falls over a weekend. We try our hardest to stay up with it but on those days when 500+ come in at once, it’s quite a task! But we love it! It just requires a little patience on all sides! Before you assume that your entry somehow vanished and you’re tempted to write it again, give it one full day and see if it shows up. Keep track of what time you posted it and double check the comments around that same time. The accidental repeats make it much harder to track participation through the course of the year so always double check. If you don’t find it a day later, by all means, post it again!
*Remember that you get to choose your own verse! That’s really important! The ease with which you can memorize a verse is greatly impacted by how much it means to you. The more you need it or want it, the more you’ll absorb it. If you come up dry at times, no problem! You can either share my verse or another in the comment line that really speaks to you.
*PRAY that God will bless you in this endeavor and will enable you to memorize His Word! Ask continually throughout the entire year! When I get stuck and frustrated that I can’t get my words in order, if I’ll stop what I’m doing and ask God to supernaturally infuse me and help me to concentrate, you would not believe how quickly a breakthrough will come.
Are you about to stuff a sock in my mouth?? I’m about 2 seconds from stuffing one in my own mouth. Melissa gave me two new pair of boot socks for Christmas so at least I have fresh choices.
All right, already! Here goes mine! In honor of our process ahead and how willing the Holy Spirit is to help us…
Beth from Houston Texas, But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. John 14:26 NIV84
Here’s one more alternative if you’ve never memorized it for a new year! I just love it for January 1st:
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
May God’s grace abound to you, Sweet Thing. WELCOME! We have such a fabulous challenge ahead of us. GOD, GRANT US YOUR GOOD FAVOR!
So…what are you waiting for??? SIGN IN WITH VERSE ONE!
PS. I thought you guys might find it a bit amusing that I brought in the first 300 comments in the CAR on the way to the airport to catch my Atlanta flight for Passion 2013. Laughing. You keep your blog mama busy. I love you so!
Tags: Scripture Memory 2013
Judy Wine, Manassas Va
I will lift up my eyes to the hills
From whence comes my help?
My help comes from the LORD,
Who made heaven and earth.
Psalm 121: 1-2
Jamie H. Knoxville,TN
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. James 1:5, NASB
Carina, Weatherford, OK
Let me hear of your unfailing love each morning, for I am trusting you. Show me where to walk, for I give myself to you. Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. May your gracious Spirit lead me forward on a firm footing.
Psalm 143:8;10 NLT
Gerri, Amarillo, TX “For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is God’s love for those who fear him;” Psalm 103:11 NIV
Roxie Culp from Little Rock, AR – Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go. Joshua 1:9 NIV
Ephesians 4:29 (NIV)
“Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.”
Kayla Haddon from Edmond, OK Hebrews 13:8 (ESV)
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever”
Dusti, Van Buren, Arkansas…”You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.” Revelation 4:11 (NIV)
Lindsay from Grapevine, Tx: “You crown the year with Your bounty and Your carts overflow with abundance.” Psalm 65:11 (NIV)
Deana, Las Cruces, “May the God of hope fill you with 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 NIV)
Melanie from Johnson City, TN
Psalms 103:8-9 (ESV)
The Lord is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
He will not always chide,
nor will he keep his anger forever.
D’Anne McMillen, Loganville, GA
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 entrust my life.Psalm 143:8 NIV
Rycki from Divide, CO
Mark. 6:31
“So many people were coming and going Jesus said to them ‘Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest. ‘”
Kristi, West Monroe, Louisiana — But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel on that day, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people. Hebrews 8:10 NLT
Psalm 34:1 NKJ
I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
Kelley; Frisco, TX
2 Peter 1:5-7(NIV)
“For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.”
Barb from Carlsbad NM
“Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.” Jer. 33:3 NIV
Amber Zaccagni, Nashville, TN
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.”
Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
Rebecca from Birmingham
For it is God who works in you to will and act according to his good purpose.
Philippians 2:13 NIV
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” 2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV
Marie; Harrison, AR
“She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs with no fear of the future.”
Prov 31:25 NLT
Candace from Cheyenne, WY
Romans 12: 9 (NASB)
“Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.”
Patti, San Rafael,Calif.
1 Sam 2:35 ESV
“I will raise up for myself faithful priests, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind.”
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Bobbi Jo Wells from Montgomery, TX, “Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.” Romans 5:1-2 NIV
Anne from Howell Michigan “My soul follows hard after thee: your right hand upholds me” Psalm 63:8 KJV
Melissa, Richmond KY
“He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.” Ps 91:1 ESV
2 Timothy 1:7
“For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self discipline.”
Patricia, San Diego, CA; ” God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God” 2Cor 1: 3b-4 (ESV)
“Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one think I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,” Philippians 3:13 NIV
“You crown the year with your goodness, and Your paths drip with abundance.” Psalms 65:11 (NKJ)
Cathy Stump, LaRussell, MO
2 Chronicles 8:14 (KJV)
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Lisa from Pennsylvania
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. Hebrews 11:1 NIV
Teresa, Billings: Psam 143:10 NIV
Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good spirit lead me on level ground.
Lou Ann Lardy, Moultrie, GA, “Confess your trespasses to one another and pray for one another that you may be healed. The effective, fervant prayer of a righteous man avails much.” James 5:16, NKJV.
Melinda Stortenbecker; St. Petersburg, FL
She looks well to how things go in her household, and the bread of idleness [gossip, discontent and self-pity] she will not eat.
Prov 31:27 Amplified
Diana, Pueblo, CO. Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” Heb.13:5 NIV. .
Kathy from Midland, TX
Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved. Acts 4:12 NIV
Angie, Saltillo “I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. Psalm 119:11 (NIV)…my fam is along for this journey as well 😉
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go. –Joshua 1:9(ESV)
Ivy Morrison
Willis, TX
“But I, God, search the heart and examine the mind. I get to the heart of the human. I get to the root of things. I treat them as they really are, not as they pretend to be.”
Jeremiah 17:10 MSG
Jennifer Adams from Avera, Ga.
“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5, KJV
Karen from Clarkston, Mi
John 6:37 NIV
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.
Kim Dalman, Lansing,Mi
” In love, He predestined us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will” Ephesians 1:5 NIV
Robyn from Fulshear, TX. “Am I now trying to win the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.”. Galatians 1:10 NIV84
Stephanie…Fredericksburg, VA
“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 your paths straight.” Proc. 3:5-6. NASB
Monica Perdue; Columbus, GA
2 Corinthians 3:17 (CEV)
The Lord and the Spirit are one and the same, and the Lord’s Spirit sets us free.
Diane Archibald, Phoenix, AZ
“He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.” Psalm 107:20 NASB
And as for you, brothers, never tire of doing what is right
2 Thessalonians 3:13 NIV
Kim Todd
Marietta, GA
being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Phillipians 1:6 NIV
Pam Hamilton, OH
1Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
(KJV)