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
Noelle, Belfast (Northern Ireland)
Hosea 6:3 (ESV)
Let us know, let us press on to know The Lord; His going out is as sure as the dawn;
He will come to us as showers, as the spring rains water the earth.”
Hayley Wiggins; Dallas, TX
“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)
April from Diboll, Texas
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139:23-24 NIV
Meredith Sloan – Greer, SC
1 Corinthians 10:13 The Message
No test or temptation that comes your way is beyond the course of what others have had to face. All you need to remember is that God will never let you down; he’ll never let you be pushed past your limit; he’ll always be there to help you come through it.
Bless Dollander Savannah, GA
John 2:5 NIV
His mother said to the servants,”Do whatever he tells you.”
Cyndi from Syracuse NY: Whatever you do, work at it with all you heart, as working for the Lord not for men Colossians 3:23 NIV
Psalms 37:7 Be still before The Lord and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.
Because we know that this extraordinary day is just ahead, we pray all the time—pray that our God will make you fit for swhat he’s called us to be, pray that he’ll fill our good ideas and acts of faith with his own energy so that it all amounts to something. 2 Thessalonians 1:11 (The MSG)
Renee from Oshkosh – “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
Mary Jane, Troy KS
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”
Galatians 6:9 NIV
Psalm 25:4-5 Show me the right path, O Lord; Point out the road for me to follow. Leave me by your truth and teach me, For you are the God who saves me. All day long I put my hope in you. NLT
Liz Taylor, Washington D.C.
Luke 11:9 HCSB
So I say to you, keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.
MaryLisa, Glenwood, MN – Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead – I Peter 1:3 (NIV)
Audrey, Ohio
We have heard it with out ears, O God;
Our ancestors have told us what You did in their days, in days long ago.
With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our ancestors;
You crushed the people’s and made our ancestors flourish.
Psalm 44:1-2 TNIV
Hadley from Goldsboro, NC
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Psalm 51:10 (NIV)
Numbers6:24-26
The Lord bless you and keep you; The Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you,
The Lord turn his face to you and give you peace.
Alice Hinckley. Dallas, TX. “Now may the God of hope fill you wih all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.: Romans 15:13 NKJV
May we all abound in hope this year. Thanks for posting.
Stacey from Boulder, Colorado:
For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Hebrews 4:12 NIV
Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
PSALMS 37: 4 KJV
Hana from Gold Coast, Australia
‘Be still, and know that I am God’
Psalm 46:10 (NIV)
Samantha–Roseau,MN
Psalm16:11″You haave made known to me the path offf life;you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand. (NIV)
That if you confess with your mouth “Jesus is Lord” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.
Romans10:9-10 NIV
Jen
Woodbury, CT
“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.” 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 NIV
Suzanne from Centreville, VA
“And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.” Eph 4:32 HCSB
Melissa from Denver,
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)
Annette from Graniteville, SC You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Brandie, Ohio. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. (Proverbs 3:5, 6 NIV)
Terri from Natchitoches, LA
Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. 2 Peter 1:2 NIV
Julie, Anna, TX, Hebrews 12:1-3 ESV
12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Let 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. Hewbrew 12:2
I will praise you with an upright heart as I learn your righteous laws.
Psalm 119:7 (NIV)
“So whether you eat or drink or what ever you do, do it all for the glory of God.” 1Corinthians 10:31
Susie
Port Republic, Virginia
Revelation 21:5 (NIV)
He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
Jeri from Lynchburg, VA. A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Proverbs 31:10. NIV
Melody, Okemos, Mi
Psalm 56:3-4 ESV
When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise. In God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
lisa danville love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength deut.6:5
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
Anne W.
Milwaukie, OR
You crown the year with your goodness, and your paths drip with abundance.
Psalm 65:11 NKJV
Angela, Covington, GA
“The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.”
“But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.”
Matthew 13:11,16-17 NIV
Ashley, Maine
“The rich man is wise in his own eyes, But the poor who has understanding searches Him out”.
Proverbs 28:11 NKJV
Katherine, Atlanta GA
The Lord is with you while you are with Him. If you seek him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
2 Chronicles 15:2 NKJV
“But the eyes of The Lord are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His unfailing love”. Psalm 33:18 NIV
Michelle, from Carthage, TX
“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.” Galatians 2:20, ESV
Elizabeth
Falls Church, VA
“As I was with Moses, so I will be with you.”
Joshua 1:5 NIV
Carol from Poplar Bluff, Missouri
Daniel 2:20 NIV
Praise be to the name of God forever and ever; wisdom and power are His.
You crown the year with Your bounty and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Susan, Decatur, IL
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
You crown the year with Your bounty and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Jill
Vandalia, MO
Geneice…Grand Forks, North Dakota
You crown the year with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow with abundance.
Psalm 65:11 ESV
Matthew 9:35-38
The Message (MSG)
35-38 Then Jesus made a circuit of all the towns and villages. He taught in their meeting places, reported kingdom news, and healed their diseased bodies, healed their bruised and hurt lives. When he looked out over the crowds, his heart broke. So confused and aimless they were, like sheep with no shepherd. “What a huge harvest!” he said to his disciples. “How few workers! On your knees and pray for harvest hands!”