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
Barbara in Tampa. Stop being angry! Turn from your rage! Do not lose your temper – it only leafs to harm. Psalm 37:8 NLT
Amy, Tyler, TX
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance.
Psalm 65:11 NIV
“Do everything in love”
1 Corinthians 16:14
In fighting for my prodigal teenage daughter:
Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Ephesians 6:11-12 NIV
Judy from Hurley, MS When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up—one on one side, one on the other—so that his hands remained steady till sunset.” Exodus 17:12 (NIV)
Lisa from Charleston, SC
“Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.” (Psalm 46:10, NIV)
Elizabeth Cape Cod MA
Therefore since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witenesses, let us throw off the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perserverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus-
Hebrews 12:1 NIV
Kristin from Indiana
“But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”
Joshua 24:15 NIV
Jennifer Pepper from Daphne, AL
“Forget what happened long ago! Don’t think about the past. I am creating something new.” Isaiah 43:18-19a (CEV)
Kay
Puyallup, Washihington
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life,neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39 NIV
Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues is worthless . James 1:26 NIV
Carol R from Milwaukee, Wis… “For you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.” James 1:3 ESV
Shelley; Springfield, MO
Psalm 31:24. (NIV)
“Be strong and take heart all you who hope in the LORD.”
Linda – LPM -Houston
Psalms 25:4-5 (NIV)
Make Your ways known to me, Lord; teach me Your paths. Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; I wait for You all day long.
Lorraine,Ontario,Canada,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.”
Jer 29:11,NIV
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
Mother and Daughter, Atlanta
“Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” NIV
Julie DeVisser, Holland, MI, USA
Isaiah 43:7 TNIV
“…everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”
Alisha from West Virginia
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Matthew 5:14 KJV
The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.” Zephaniah 3:17 NIV
Jane, Houston, TX
Proverbs 3:5-6
New International Version (NIV)
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.
Kristen from Van Alstyne, TX. “I sought the Lord, and He answered me, And delivered me from all my fears. Psalm 34:4 NASB
Robbie, Royal Oak, MI
“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father also forgives you.”
Mat 6:14 NKJV
Those who know your name will put their trust in You. For You, O Lord, habe never left alone those who look for you. Psalm 9:10
Ann Marie Gilliam; Lexington, TN
So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1 NLT
“How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.” 1 John 3:1
Kayla from Houston, TX
“We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.”
Hebrews 6:19 NIV
Paige from Decatur, AL- “To Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before His glorious presence without fault and with great joy”.- Jude 24 TNIV
Laura Abbott, Georgetown, TX
Eph 4:29 (NASB)
“Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the needs of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear.”
Beth, Northern Italy
Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Phil 3: 13-14 (ESV)
Diane Conner, Vinton, La
Malachi 3:16 (NIV)
16 Then those who feared the Lord talked with each other, and the Lord listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored his name.
Melissa
Asheville, NC
“He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.” Psalms 107:9 NIV
Kitty – Humble, TX
Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you”, declares the Lord,”plans to proper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (NIV)
Jackie. Newton, IA
“Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be”
Luke 12:34 (NLT)
Alisha – St Augustine, FL
1 Peter 4:12-13, NASB
“Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you; but to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing, so that also at the revelation of His glory you may rejoice with exultation.”
Beverly in Des Moines
In the morning You hear my voice O Lord. In the morning I prepare a prayer for You and watch and wait. Ps 5:3 AMP
Sherry Snedden: Rocky Mount, VA
Jer 29:11 NIV
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.
Vicki
Houston
The Lord will guide you always; He will satisfy your needs in a sun scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
Isaiah 58:11
NIV
Jennifer Kirkes, Denham Springs, LA
Deuteronomy 6:4 (NKJV)
“Hear O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one!”
Also memorizing it in Hebrew–so rich!
Joel 2:25
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. (KJV)
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 lift up my soul. Ps 143:8 NIV
Paducah, KY
Psalm 51:10 “Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.” (NIV)
Tracy Reece; High Springs,FL
Proverbs 31:31 (KJV)
“Give her the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.”
Helen Lake Forest, Ca.
2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come.
Troy, Ohio
Ephesians 3:14-19 NIV 1984
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name.
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen
your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being
rooted and established in love, may have power, together
with all the saints, 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.
Brenda-Lee’s Summit, MO-Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.Psalm 90:14 NIV84
Rhonda; Foley, Alabama; “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9 (NIV)
Rhonda Watkins Gwyn, Mount Airy, NC “Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full grown, gives birth to death. Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers.” James 1:12-16 NIV
Hebrews 13:5 NIV Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”
Heb 10:35-36 NASB
“So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.”