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
Kaye from Stone Mtn., Georgia
“One generation will commend your works to another; they will of your mighty acts.”
Psalm 145:4 NIV
Kym Witt, Tulsa, OK
“Dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.” ~Philippians 4:8 (version unknown-got it from a Bible Study guide)
Denetta from Kent, WA I say to myself, “The Lord is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in him!” Lamentations 3:24 (NLT).
Psa 143:8 Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, For in You do I trust; Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, For I lift up my soul to You. NKJV
Marcie- Scottsdale, AZ
The Lord replied,
“My Presence will go with you,
and I will give you rest.”
Exodus 33:14 NIV
Monica from Newbury Park, CA
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Loretta, Stouffville, Ontario
But, the Councelor, 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 NIV
Laura Smith, Zebulon NC You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Judy, Mead WA
Isaiah 43: 18-19 NLT
“But Forget all that-it is nothing compared to what I am going to do. For I am about to do a brand-new thing. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness for my people to come home. I will create rivers for them in the desert.”
Kathy from Chandler, OK: “and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life” Deuteronomy 30:20 NIV
Allison Little from Tulsa, OK
“You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.”
Psalm 16:11 NASB
Tanya K. From West Monroe, LA: Hebrews 12:1,2 NIV:
1therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. 2Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
“Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.”
-Colossians 2:7 (NLT)
Sandi ~ Irvine, CA
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance.
Psalm 65:11 NIV
Jeannie Fishers,IN Those who know your name will trust in you for you,Lord have never forsaken those who seek you. Psalm 9:10 NIV
Susan, North Richland Hills, TX
You crown the year with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow with abundance.
Psalm 65:11
ESV
miranda {lynchburg, va}
“commit to the lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans.” {proverbs 16:3, NIV}
Leah, London, Ontario
“”I have told you these things, so that you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”” (John 16:33, NIV)
Laurel Tatum, Loop Texas
“Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken but endures forever.” Psalm 125:1 NIV
Carrie, Cullman
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:6 NIV
Savannah from San Antonio, Texas “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.” Job 42:2 ESV
Brandy, San Angelo, TX., ” I will instruct you (says the Lord)and guide you along the best pathway for your life; I will advise you and watch your progress.” Psalms 32:8, The Living Bible.
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. Jeremiah 29:11 NIV84
Mollie Lupinacci from Atlanta but moving to Moscow in two weeks.
Jeremiah 29:11 KJV
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Krista, Dardanelle, AR
Philippians 4:6 (KJV)
“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known unto God”
Brooke, Issaquah WA
“For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.” Galatians 5:6 ESV
Romans12:2 (NIV)
“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.”
Abby from Van Alstyne, TX
“Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.”
Colossians 2:7 (NLT)
Anita from Broken Arrow, OK
Psalms 34:4 (NIV)
I sought the Lord, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears.
Meleah Baltimore,MD
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
-Philippians 4:8 (ESV)
April, Boerne,TX
” I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”
Nehemiah 6:3 ESV
Joslin ~ Seminole, FL
John 1:12 NLT
12 But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.
Jesus answered, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 NIV
Debbie Hand, Enid, Oklahoma Psalm 40: 1-3 NIV
1 I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry. 2 He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. 3 He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the Lord and put their trust in him.
Heidi, Snohomish Washington
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:13, WEB
Leslie Tatum, Post, Texas
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” 2 Corinthians 12:9, NIV
Tracy
Spring, TX
He has showed you, O man, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8 NIV
Lonnie Omaha NE
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. Jeremiah 29:11 NIV84
Dana- Fayetteville, NC
He said: “The Lord is my rock, my fortress and mu deliverer.
2 Samuel 22:2 NIV
BrittneyThomas
Lexington, KY
“You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance.”
Psalm 65:11
NIV
Lindsay W, Albuquerque, NM – Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! (Psalms 100:4 ESV)
Kelsie, Albuquerque – 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. (Jeremiah 29:11 NIV)
Alysa, Albuquerque – For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16 NIV)
Tamara from Kelowna, BC, Canada
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
John 14:27, NIV
Leigh Anne
Montgomery, AL
Isaiah 55:11
“so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.”
Addison, Jackson, TN
And Mary said,
“My soul magnifies the Lord, (Luke 1:46 ESV)
christi p cabot, ar
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.-Hebrews 12:1
Romans 15:17 (NASB)
Therefore in Christ Jesus I have found reason for boasting in things pertaining to God.
Kathy from Dayton, Nevada
2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. 4 Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. James 1:2-4 NIV
Kris Clark: Parkville, MO
“From the ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint;lead me to the rock that is higher than I.”
Psalm 61:2 NIV
Brandie S from Lakewood, CO: “Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.” Jeremiah 33:3 (NIV)
Sarah Bechler; Northville MI
Ephesians 1:19 (LNT)
” I pray that you will begin to understand how incredibly great His power is to help those
who believe Him. It is the same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead and
seated Him in the place of honor at Gods right hand in heaven.”