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
Emily Wells- Rockport, TX (5 years old)
Let the king be enthralled by your beauty…
Psalm 45:11
Cynthia; Greenwood, AR
These instructions are not empty words-they are your life! By obeying them you will enjoy a long life in the land you will occupy when you cross the Jordan River.
Deut. 32:47 (NLT)
Stephanie Oxner
Pawleys Island, SC
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance.
Psalm 65:11
NIV
Sherry, Scottville, MI;
John 14:26 “But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have said to you.” NIV 84
Margy, Las Vegas, NV
Ephesians 6: 10-11 (NIV) Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.
Julie from Cordova, Tennessee
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV84
Le Chesnay, France
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
Emily from Mount Hope, West Virginia
The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD sits enthroned as king forever. Psalm 29:10 ESV
Joshua 1:9 NIV
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord our God will be with you wherever you go.
Jennifer Ward, Avon, IN
Colossians 2: 6-7 (NIV)
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught and overflowing with thankfulness.
Kristin Cho; Northville, Michigan
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (NIV/2011)
“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 receive from God.”
Amen!
Amy, North Yarmouth, ME
You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 29:13 NIV
Livia
Wick/Scotland
“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 2011
Felicia
Allen, TX
I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.]
John 16:33 (AMP)
Carly from Fulton, NY
Luke 1:37 NLT
“For nothing is impossible with God.”
Lauren from Starkville, MS
“The grass withers and the flowers fade, but the word of our God stands forever.”
Isaiah 40:8 (NLT)
May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. Galatians 6:14 (NIV)
Julia – Springfield
If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it. Genesis 4:7, NIV
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.
Ephesians 2:8(ESV)
Lanny, from Inverness,
Galations 6:9 kjv
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we will reap; if we faint not.
Beth in Paducah,KY
1 John 3:20 ESV
“for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.”
Brooke Topalof, Minneapolis, MN
“Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have.” Heb 13:5 NIV
Linda S
McCalla, Alabama
Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”
Matthew 5:1-5 ESV
Tamela Ward, Piedmont, SC, As I go forward step by step, the way will be opened unto me. Proverbs 4:13
Judy from Maple Valley, WA. 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 water never fails. Isaiah 58:11 NIV
Dianna, Missoula, MT
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
“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.” Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)
Ange
Winnipeg Canada
I prayed to the Lord and he answered me freeing me from all my fears
Psalm 34:4 NLT
Audrey lenz
Dickinson Nd
1 John 4:18 NIV
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
Karessa, Peoria, IL
You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV84
Emma DaShiell ~ Springfield, MO
Isaiah 43:1-2; KJV
“But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: When thou walkest through the fire, that shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.”
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know HIM better. Eph 1:17 NIV
Suzann Benson
Kingwood WV
Psalm 119:165 (NLT)
Those who love your instructions have great peace
and do not stumble.
Lindsey from Edenton, North Carolina:
Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.
John 15:5 NLT
Angela, McKinney, 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
Alexis from Fredericksburg, TX
Oh that we might know the Lord! Let us press on to know him! Then he will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn or the coming of rains in early spring.
Hosea 6:3 NLT
(I’m borrowing Kellie’s–thanks Kellie!)
Tammy;Nashville,TN
Romans 12:2 (HCSB)
“Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing and perfect will of God”
Amy – Lexington, KY
Let us acknowledge the Lord;
let us press on to acknowledge Him.
As surely as the sun rises,
He will appear;
He will come to us like the winter rains,
like the spring rains that water the earth.
Hosea 6:3 NIV
Karen from Sparks, NV
“The fear of the Lord teaches a man wisdom, and humility comes before honor. Proverbs 15:33 NIV
Joelle – Agawam
No, dear brothers and sisters, I am still not all I should be, but I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead. Philippians 3:13 (NLT)
West Monroe, LA:
John 15:1 NIV
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.”
Set a watch, O Lord before my mouth; Keep the door of my lips. Psalm 141:3 KJV
Tiffany from Greensboro, North Carolina
James 1:2 NIV
“Consider it pure joy my brothers whenever you face trials of many kinds.”
anna cordes, kansas city, mo
Psalm 16:6 NKJV
“The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; Yes I have a good inheritance”
Susie from Houston, TX – Joshua 24:15 (NET) – If you have no desire to worship the LORD, choose today whom you will worship, whether it be the gods whom your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But I and my family will worship the LORD!
Becky, The Woodlands, TX – “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)
But He knows the way I will take, when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold. Job 23:10 NIV
Amber, Clayton, 2Corinthians 4:18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. NIV84
Esther,Skaneateles,N.Y.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that who ever believes in Him will not die but have ever lasting life. (NIV)
Sandy, Rock Hill, SC
Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done….Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always.
Psalm 105:1,4