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
“Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God Himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift of helping? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then everything you do will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ. All glory and power to Him forever and ever! Amen. 1 Peter 4:11 NLT
Joyce, from Suwanee, Georgia
“in the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Matthew 5:16 NIV
Delanie, Fenton, MO Psalms 1:1 NIV “Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers”
Fay from Jamestown, ND, ESV “I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
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 3:16-21
Cynda,
Newnan, GA
The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23
Ann; Charlotte, NC
“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
Monica- Hutto, TX Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner that is glorifying to the gospel if Jesus Christ. Phil 1:27 NLT
Jen – Lititz, PA
“And the child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.” – Luke 2:40 (NIV)
Jonesboro, AR, Create in me a pure hear, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Psalm 51:10 NIV
Cookie
Anderson, SC
Isaiah 30:15 (ESV) – “For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, ‘In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.'”
Ronnie from Ostrander, Ohio “Whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies – in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To Him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. 1Peter 4:11 ESV
Terrie,Pensacola, ” May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him,
so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the holy spirit” Romans 15:13 niv
Lynn from Boynton Beach
Col 3:14
“And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.” (ESV)
Sabrina from Moxee, WA:
“Blessed is she who has believed that The Lord would fulfill His promises to her!” Luke 1:45 NIV
Delaney, Plano TX, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” 2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV
Lori Gelezinsky; Fair Bluff, North Carolina
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Lisa, South Bend, IN
Psalm 66:1 {ESV}
“Shout for joy to God, all the earth;sing the glory of his name;give to him glorious praise!”
Sandy from Washington IL.
But the Counsler, 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. NIV84
Jane Schoen, Dallas, TX
Blessed are those strength is in you, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage. Psalm 84:5 (NIV84)
Carolyn George Cape Coral Fl.
New English Translation
Joshua 1:8 This law scroll must not leave your lips! You must memorize it day and night so you can carefully obey all that is written in it. Then you will prosper and be successful.
Beth Aldrich, Cary, NC
One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.
Psalm 27:4 NIV
Cindy from Valdosta, Georgia.
give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. (1 Thessalonians 5:18 NIV)
Belinda Blacklick,OH
Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world,but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. English Standard Version(ESV)
Nikki from Chandler, AZ. Trust in the Lord and do good. Dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:3-4 NIV
Angie, Hampton, TN Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. 2 Corinthians 3.5 NIV
Mary Beth from Narvon, PA
Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
Proverbs 19:21 ESV
Courtney from Houma, LA (posting from Passion!)
Now to him who is able to do 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, forever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21, TNIV
Faye, Ocala,Fl. “Don’t be afraid for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand” NLT
Karen Smith, Brighton, MI
Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
KJV
Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old. Behold I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:18-19 NKJ
Kari Flom, Amery
Truly he is my rock and my salvation: he is my fortress, I will never be shaken. Psalm 62:2 NIV
Kaye from Savannah, GA, “Make your own attitude that of Christ Jesus”, Philippians 2:5, HCSB
Valerie, SC
Praise the Lord, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise His holy name.
~ Psalms 103:1, NIV
Steph from Ontario, Canada
Psalm 44:4
“You are my King and my God.
You command victories for Israel.”
New Living Translation
Ellen James, Del City, OK. “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10 NIV
Wayne, PA “Sin is crouching at the door, eager to control you. But you must subdue it and BE ITS MASTER.Gen 4:7 NLT
“This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” NIV
Julie from Tennessee “For I know the plans I have for you, ” declares teh Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
Melissa from West Chester, OH: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6-7, NIV
York, SC The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent. Exodus 14:14 ESV
Sara; Middleburg,Fl
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
James1:8 KJV
Rene – York, PA
“O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord.” – Psalm 139:1-4 (NIV1984)
Amber B. from Vicksburg, MI. 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
Tammy, Gravette, AR. Can plunder be taken from the warriors, or captives from the fierce? But this is what The Lord says: Yes captives will be taken from the warriors and plunder retrieved from the fierce; I will contend with those who contend with you, and your children I will save.
Isa 49:24-25 NIV. Oops
Andrea Massop, Okotoks, AB
“You have searched me, LORD, and you know me” Psalm 139:1 NIV
Beth from Woodstock, Ga
” And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.”
Hebrews 10:24
(NIV84)
Lindsay, Austin, TX
“Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are my God and Savior…” Psalm 25: 4-5, NIV
Deby from Athens, GA
Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 NLT
Jenn
Orlando, FL
Psalm 103:15-18 NET
A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes, but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew. But the Lord continually shows loyal love to his faithful followers and is faithful to their descendants, to those who keep his covenant, who are careful to obey his commands.
Susan from Greensburg PA (NIV)
Isaiah 28:23, 26
“Listen and hear my voice; pay attention and hear what I say. [My] God instructs him and teaches him the right way.”