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!Ā 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 moderatedĀ (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,Ā 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.Ā 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.Ā 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
Cyndy Lay; Royse City, TX; As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeeds is dead. James 2:26; NIV
Examine yourselves as to wheather you are in the faith. Test yourselves. 2Cor.13:5
Candias Chalker, Highland, CA Do not conform any longer to the pattern on this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what Godās will is-His good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2 NIV
Christina, Egenhausen:
You crown the year with a bountiful harvest; even the hard pathways overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NLT
Nicole G. Lafayette, IN
I know the LORD is always with me. I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me. Psalm 16:8 NET
Darl, Bakersfield, CA
Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me. Psalm 119:133 NIV
Deborah, Highlands, Texas – Let the morning bring me word or your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way i should go, for to you I lift up my soul. Psalm 143:8,NIV
Lauren: Commerce City, CO
“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland”
Isaiah 43:19 NIV
Anna Ingram
Alvin, Texas
“For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Hebrew 4:12 NKJ
Stacie from Sumner,Wa
blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1Pet.1:3
Jan from Lethbridge, Alberta
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirableāif anything is excellent or praiseworthyāthink about such things.
Philippians 4:8 NIV
Nicole, Dallas, NIV
Mark 12-28-30
29 āThe most important one,ā answered Jesus, āis this: āHear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.[a] 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.ā[b
Mark 12:29
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you, “declares the LORD,”plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (NIV)
Vicki
Sachse, TX
Laurie Robinson. Leander, Texas
Luke 15:7
New International Version (NIV)
7 I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
Katie – Cotati CA
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)
Connie, Bolingbrook, IL
John 16:33 (Amp)
“In this world you will have trouble. But take heart!
I have overcome the world.
[I have deprived it of power to harm you and have
conquered it for you.]
Deborah, Dublin, GA
Psalm 126:3 NIV
The LORD has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy.
Dallas, TX
“The LORD is gracious and righteous;
Our God is full of compassion.
The LORD protects the simple hearted;
When I was in great need, He saves me.
Be at rest once more,O my soul,
For the LORD has been good to you.”
Psalm 116:5-7 NIV84
Katelyn from Lee Summit,Mo
Donāt worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. (Philippians 4:6 NLT)
Kristin from Trinidad, Colorado
“Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.” Jeremiah 33:3 KJV
Brenda Brooke; Ardmore, OK
Nehemiah 4:14 (NIV)
And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives and your homes.”
Sybil Albritton, Springfield Mo, I am teaching you the way of wisdom; I am guiding you on straight paths. Proverbs 4:11, HCSB
Emily from Olathe, KS “Those who know your name trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.” Psalm 9:10 NIV
Rachel from Baltimore
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 early spring. Hosea 6:3 NLT
Lisa Nakama from Pearl City, Hawaii
Jeremiah 1:17-19 AMP
17 But you [Jeremiah], gird up your loins! Arise and tell them all that I command you. Do not be dismayed and break down at the sight of their faces, lest I confound you before them and permit you to be overcome.
18 For I, behold, I have made you this day a fortified city and an iron pillar and bronze walls against the whole landāagainst the [successive] kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land [giving you divine strength which no hostile power can overcome].
19 And they shall fight against you, but they shall not [finally] prevail against you, for I am with you, says the Lord, to deliver you.
Summer Rhone, Royse City, TX
Ecclesiastes 3:11 NIV
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
Hannah, Anchorage, AK
“For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.” 1 John 5:3
ESV
Michelle, Nederland, TX
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, perfect and pleasing will.
Romans 12:2 NIV
Jennifer K. From Florence, AL āāFor I know the plans I have for you,ā declares the Lord, āplans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.āā Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)
Beth, LaVernia, Tx
You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.
Ps 65:11 NIV
Sharon
Pontotoc, MS
For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
And abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You. Psalm 86:5 NASB
Create in me a clean heart O God; And renew a right spirit within me. Psalm 51:10 NIV
Examine yourselves as to wheather you are in the faith. Test yourselves. 2Cor.13:5.
Lesley Islas
Wimberley, Texas
“Not to us, O Lord, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness.”
Psalm 115:1 NIV
Bellaire,Tx. “For I know the plans I have for you,ā declares the Lord, āplans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11 NIV.
“You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.” Psalm 65:11 NIV
Becky, Fort Collins, CO
“Blessed is the one whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on His law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither – whatever they do prospers.” Psalms 1:1-3 NIV
Danae, Escondido, CA: “He will not let your foot slip–he who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.” Psalm 121:3-4, NIV84
Whitney from Ames, Ok
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Prov. 31:30
Kelly from Tigard, Oregon:
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 – “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)
Fairbanks, AK
1 Peter 1:13 NIV
“Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace given you when Jesus Christ is revealed.”
Mary, Fort Dix, NJ
But they that wait upon the lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Isaiah 40:31 NIV
Lisa from Hampton Cove, AL
“Show me your ways, O LORD,
teach me your paths;
guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my Savior,
and my hope is in you all day long.”
Psalm 25:4-5 (NIV)
Allison from Akron, OH
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
[II Corinthians 5.17, NKJV]
Melinda Trevino from Ferris, Texas
Proverbs 21:23 New King James Version (NKJV)
23 Whoever guards his mouth and tongue
Keeps his soul from troubles.
Dorothy from Portland, OR
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance.
Psalm 65:11 NIV
Tammy from Lakewood, CO
Luke 1:45 (NIV)
Blessed is she who has believed that The Lord would fulfill his promises to her!
Kristi from Clovis, California
2 Corinthians 3:17 ESV
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Michele Simmons – Vancouver, WA
11 For I know the plans I have for you,ā declares the Lord, āplans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11
New International Version 1984 (NIV1984)
Brandy-Jonesboro, AR
But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love. (1 Corinthians 13:13 MSG)