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
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance.
Psalm 65:11 NIV
Rae from Farmington, Michigan: “His secret purpose framed from the very beginning [is] to bring us to our full glory. 1 Corinthians 2:7 NEB
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
Carrie Bolt, Happy Valley, Or.
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 and pleasing and perfect will.
Romans 12:2 NIV
Julie from Boyertown, PA: “For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.” Colossians 1:9 NKJV
Brandi from Culloden, WV
Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.
Ephesians 4:31 NLT
Lauren from Dallas, Tx
Galatians 2:20 “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
ESV
Clearwater, FL
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance.
Psalm 65:11 NIV
Teresa in Knoxville, TN:
“Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old,
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”
Isaiah 43:18,19 KJV
Anna in New Palestine, Indiana
“Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of Hosts.”
Jeremiah 15:16 ESV
Kali, Valrico, FL
Hosea 6:3 NLT
“Oh that we might know the Lord! Let us press on to know him. He will respond to us as surely as the dawn or the coming of the rains in the early spring.”
Kim; Wadena, MN
1Thessalonians 5:16-18 NIV
Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
Tracy from Tangent, OR — forgot version above Is 40:28 nkjv
Auneca from Donalsonville, GA
Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lam 3:22-23 NIV
Bethany Mowat, Evart, Michigan Isaiah 41:13 (NIV) “For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.
Leslie Taylor, Great Bend, Ks
1 Corinthians 13: 13 NIV
And now these three remain:faith,hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Teresa from Apex, NC
I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
John 15:5-8, NIV84
Austin, TX. “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.” Prov. 4:23 NIV
Paula from Statesville, North Carolina, “For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him.” Romans 10:12 NIV
Phyllis from Jacksonville, FL
Jeremiah 29:11-14a (NIV)
11 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 hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back from captivity….
Sallie B Howell, Tupelo, MS The mind of man plans his way, But the L ORD directs his steps. (Proverbs 16:9 NASB)
Donna; Round Rock, TX
“But i trust in Your unfailing love;
my heart rejoices in Your salvation.”
Psalm 13:5 NIV
But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.
Luke 2:19
Marlene, Chicago, IL
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him. Romans 4:7-8 NIV
Katherine C. Greenbrier, Arkansas
As for me, I would seek God and to God would I commit my cause. Job 5:8 ESV
Kathy , Princeton NJ
“Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed , yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed ,” says the LORD , who has compassion on you. Isaiah 54:10 NIV
Jennifer Ellis, Guntersville, AL
“Many are the plans in the mind of a man,but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.” Psalm 19:21 ESV
Pat B, Water Valley, MS
Praise the Lord, oh my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name.Psalm 103:1 NIV
Clyde, Tx The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness;his mercies begin afresh each morning. Lamentations 3:22-23
(NLT)
Amy, Midland, TX
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
I am the vine, you are the branches, if a man remains in me and I in him, he will Produce much fruit. Apart from me he can do nothing.John 15;5 kjv
Moreen, Sydney, Australia
HANNAH PRAYED, and said, My heart exults and triumphs in the Lord; my horn (my strength) is lifted up in the Lord. My mouth is no longer silent, for it is opened wide over my enemies, because I rejoice in Your salvation. (1 Samuel 2:1 AMP)
Whitney from Nashville, TN. “Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own. Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he’s the one who will keep you on track.” – Proverbs 3:5-6, The Message.
Lauren from Dallas
“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. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. ” 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 NIV
“For the Lord God will help Me;
Therefore I will not be disgraced;
Therefore I have set My face like a flint,
And I know that I will not be ashamed.” Isaiah 50:7
Fallon, Houston, TX
Psalm 27:13 NLT
I am confident I will see the Lord’s goodness while I am here in the land of the living.
Leslie from Simpsonville, SC
2 Timothy 1:6 (ESV)
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance.
– Psalm 65:11 (NIV)
Paola
Pinellas Park, Florida
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
1Peter 2:9 NKJV
Hannah, Maryville, TN,
“For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.” 2 Corinthians 10:3-4, ESV
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
Penny Charbonneau, Greenville, KY
…Do not fear, for I have redeemed you: I have summoned you by name; you are mine.
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you . When you walk through the fire you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.
Isaiah 43: 1-2 NIV
Susie from McKinney, TX “For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” Matthew 12:37 NKJV
Ange from Meridian, ID: “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.” Jer 29:11 NIV
Janie from Lexington, Ky
Jesus answered, It is written; Man does not live by bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God. Matt. 4:4 NIV
Julie, Cypress, TX. “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;”–Philippians 4:6 (NKJV)
Amber Wooten
Warsaw, IN
“I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him.”
1 Samuel 1:27 NIV84
Linda Nowotny from Boerne, Tx
“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:32 NIV
As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle: be patient bearing with one another in love.
Eph. 4: 1,2. NIV