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
Michelle from Chester, New Jersey. Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my anxious thoughts, and see if there be any hurtful way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way. Psalm 139: 23-24, NASB
Dana from Muskogee, OK
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. (Proverbs 17:22 NIV)
You crown the year with your bounty and your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11, NIV
Lisa, Toledo, OH
“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.”
Isaiah 41:13 NIV
Melissa from Cabot, Pa
“For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.”
Philippians 2:13 NIV
John 14:26 (NIV)
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.
Vanessa; Tampa, FL
“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen”
Ephesians 3:20-21, NIV
In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly. NIV
Teresa: Ann Arbor, MI
2 Thes. 3:3(NLT) ” But the LORD is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.”
Jenny from Noblesville, IN “His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse, nor His delight in the legs of a man. The LORD delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love.” Psalm 147:10-11 NIV
Jennifer Taylor
Waco, TX
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance.
Psalm 65:11 NIV
Rosemary from Melbourne, Victoria:
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land of flowing streams and pools of water, with springs that gush forth in the valleys and hills.
Deuteronomy 8:7 N.L.T.
Psalm 91:2 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.NIV
Renee, Camden
Remember not the former things,nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness
and rivers in the desert.
Isaiah 43:18-19 (ESV)
Betty Clark from Ann Arbor, MI “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
…and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith.
Philippians 3:9 NKJV
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 perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfector 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.
Heb 12:1-2 RSV
Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always.
—Psalm 105:4 (NIV)
Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6 NKJV
Sheila Bragg; Guyton, GA
“yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.”
I Cor 8:6 NASB
Audra from Alma, MI. For nothing is impossible with God.
Luke 1:37 NLT
Nancy, Asheville, NC. Colossians 3:12. The Message. So, chosen by God for this new life of love, dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you: compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline.
Jesus replied: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment.” Matthew 22:37-38. NIV
Pamela Harris, Nashville, TN
Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 14:6 NKJV
Philippians 2:13 NIV
“…for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.”
You crown the year with Your goodness, And Your paths drip with abundance. Psalm 65:11 Nkjv
Queen City, TX
Then the LORD answered me and said:
“Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it.” Habakkuk 2:2 NKJV
Anne, Minneapolis,
Deuteronomy 6:5 (NIV)
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
“The sovereign LORD is my strength, He enables me to go on to new heights.” (Habakkuk 3:19 KJV)
Christine, Laurel, Emily Seminole Fl, (received e-mail this morning)
An angry man stirs up dissension and a hot- tempered on commits many sins Proverbs 29:22 also gave description of dissension.
Sheila, Laurel, MS.
Ps. 96: 1 (ESV)
“Oh sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord all the earth!”
Colossians 3:15 (NIV-UK)
“Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.”
Blessings to all throughout 2013!
Stacy in Carmel,IN …because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. Romans 10:9-10 ESV
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Miriam T. from Columbia, SC
“But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us!” Romans 5:8 HCSB
Sherrie; Newport News, VA
“We know that in all things God works for good with those who love him, those whom he has called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28 (GNT)
Gwen from Coweta, Oklahoma
You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance. Psalms 65:11 NIV84
Dawn from Jasper, Indiana
“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.” Ephesians 4:29 NIV
Sabine, Surrey, United Kingdom
Psalm 37:4 (KJV)
Delight yourself also in the LORD; and he shall give you the desires of your heart.
Kolene, Enola, Pennsylvania-
“Remember not the former things,
nor consider the things of old.
Behold, I am doing a new thing;
now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
and rivers in the desert.
Isaiah 43:18-19
Alicia, Oklahoma City
But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:22-23
Kandace from Spiro, Oklahoma, and my verse is Romans 8:28 ESV…And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. 🙂
Psalm 116 (NIV)
“I love the Lord, for he heard my voice;
he heard my cry for mercy.”
Lauren; Dedham, MA “The LORD is my light and my salvation–whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life–of whom shall I be afraid?” Psalm 27:1 (NIV)
Leslie Echerd; Central Asia
Psalm 90:1, ESV
“Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.”
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
Renee
Alpharetta, Georgia
Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” — Matthew 22:35-40 NKJV
Juli Yarmouth, Maine
I am praying to you because I know you will answer, O God. Bend down and listen as I pray.
Psalm 17:6 NLT
Briana, Payson Il.,
For The Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. Prov. 2:6 NIV 84
Pam Altice, DeLeon Springs, Florida
Psalm 23:5 (KJV)
“Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.”