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
“Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms & weak knees. Make level paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.”
Hebrews 12:12-13(NIV)
Tami, Aurora, CO
“May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.”
Psalms 19:14 NIV
Delanie from Spring Hill, TN. 2 Corinthians 2:16 NLT “To those who are perishing, we are a dreadful smell of death and doom. But to those who are being saved, we are a life giving perfume. And who is adequate for a such a task as this?”
Brandy Goggans, Austin, TX
Jeremiah 17:14 (NIV)
“Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed; Save me and I will be saved, For Thou art my praise.”
Mary Burton from Forney, Texas:
“Don’t worry about anything; instead pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank Him for all He has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.”
Phil 4:6-7 NLT
Alexis from Anderson, SC
“But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.” Romans 8:25 NKJV
“I will rejoice greatly in the Lord, my soul will exult in my God;
For He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.”
Isaiah 61:10 (NISB)
Beth, Liberty Lake,Wa
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Jamas 1:1 James a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, To the 12 tribes scattered among the nation’s: Greetings.
Lisa, Cartersville, GA
Psalm 103:1-5 (NIV)
1. Praise the LORD, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise His holy name.
2. Praise the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits –
3. Who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases,
4. Who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion,
5. Who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
Eleanor
Memphis, TN
Matthew 22: 37-39 ESV
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Erin from Kansas City, Missouri
Isaiah 33:6 NIV
He will be the sure foundation for your times,
a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the Lord is the key to this treasure.
Beth from Kettering, OH
Then He said to them all: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.” Luke 9:23
NIV
Julie, Lexington, KY, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1, NIV
Lindsay from West Point, NE
The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing. Zephaniah 3:17 NIV
Susan, Greensburg, IN
Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23 NIV
Lucinda Cook, Buda, TX
Psalm 1 1-3 (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. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.”
Charlotte Ashley from Lexington, SC
I LOVE the suggestion for the start of a new year; thanks!
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Susan, Platte City
“He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless.”
Isaiah 40:29 NLT
Sheila from Hallsville, TX
“Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.” Psalm 51:12 NIV
Luke 2:30-31 For my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the sight of all people
Ida, Glenwood, IL
:The LORD will perfect that which concerns me:Your mercy, O LORD, endures forever. Do not forsake the works of Your hands.
Psalms 138:8 (NKJV)
Christina, Dallas, TX
“When he [Christ] has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.” ESV
OOPs – it’s John 10:4
Debbie
Millen, Georgia
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Psalm 32:8 ESV
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
Jessica in Manhattan, New York
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me,
because the Lord has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners.
Isaiah 61:1 (NIV)
Jennifer Shuler – White, GA
“You crown the year with Your goodness (& bounty), and Your paths drip with abundance” Psalm 65:11 NKJV
Jennifer Shuler – White, GA
“You crown the year with Your goodness (& bounty), and Your paths drip with abundance” Psalm 65:11 NKJV
Colene; Antioch, CA
Deuteronomy 6:6 (NIV)
“These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.”
Excellent one to have when the going gets tough!!
NIV Psalm 105:4
Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always.
Julie from Friendswood, Texas: “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5,6 NIV
Jenni from Gillette, WY
“I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances.” Philippians 4:11 NIV
Amy from Bentonville, AR
Do not conform any longer to the pattern on this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is-His good, pleasing and perfect will.
Romans 12:2 NIV
Theresa Donlon Hockley, Texas
Philippians 1:12-14
Praying Gods Word by Beth Moore
Lord after this suffering, let it be said that what has happened to me has really served to advance the Gospel.
As a result make my Savior clear to all those around me, because of my willing perseverance cause others to speak the word of God more courageously and fearlessly.
Praying this after the loss of my 19 year old daughter Anne.
Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and all that is within me,
bless his holy name!
Psalm 103:1 — ESV
Shayla from Ontario, CA
“Thou hast crowned the year with Thy bounty, And Thy paths drip with fatness.” Psalm 65:11 NASB
Beverly, Foley
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11NIV
Angel, Tracy, CA
“You crown the ear with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance.” ~ Psalm 65:11 NIV
Sadie; Colcord, OK
Jeremiah 29:11-14
“”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. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back from captivity.”
NIV 1984
2 Timothy 1:9 (NLT)
For God saved us and called us to live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserved it, but because that was his plan from before the beginning of time—to show us his grace through Christ Jesus.
Tara Jackson – Birmingham, AL
Habakkuk 2:2-3
“‘Then the Lord answered me and said: Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so that a runner may read it. For there is still a vision for the appointed time; it speaks of the end, and does not lie. If it seems to tarry, wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay.'”
Beth from Marietta, Oklahoma
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” ~ Deuteronomy 6:5 NIV
Pearlie, Ellisville, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Ephesians 4:13, KJV
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, andlean not on your understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.
Proverbs 3:5,6
Patty Rose; Springfield, Ohio
Psalm 34:8 (ESV)
“Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!”
Vanessa, Rogersville, MO
But, as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it. 2 Timothy 3:14 (NIV)
Debbie from Alice, Texas.
Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. Colossians 4:5-6 NIV
Mary from Annapolis, MD
“By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.” Hebrews 11:8 NIV
Cary, NC– But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:31. NIV
Arlette, Cheney, WA
Only be careful,and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.
~ Deuteronomy 4:9, NIV
april Kentucky
Colossians 3:12 NIV
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility,gentleness and patience.
Emily; Birmingham, Alabama
“Then God said, ‘You’ve been going around in circles in these hills long enough; go north.” Deuteronomy 2:3 (The Message)
Sandy from Katy Texas, But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22 NIV84