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
Tracy from Freeland, PA
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:1-2
Anna
Campbellsville, KY
Ephesians 3:20-21 NIV
Now to him who is able to be immeasurably more than all we can ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within is, to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever! Amen.
“When I am filled with cares, Your comfort brings me joy.” ~Psalm 94:19 HCSB
Candace, Colorado Springs, CO
“For I am about to do a brand new thing. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it?”
IS 43:19a NLT
Jennifer Waddle, Aberdeen SD “When I am filled with cares, Your comfort brings me joy.” ~Psalm 94:19 HCSBR
Jen from Houston, Texas.
“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.” – Colossians 2:6-7
Elyse; Springfield, MO
Isaiah 61:3
“to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.” NIV
Jennifer- Birmingham, AL
“LORD, You establish peach for us; all that we have accomplished you have done for us.” Isaiah 26:12 (NIV)
Christine from Silverhill, AL
24 “The Lord bless you
and keep you;
25 the Lord make his face shine upon you
and be gracious to you;
26 the Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace.”’
Numbers 6:24-26
NIV
Deb Palka- Caledonia, IL
1 Peter 5:7 (NIV)
Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.
Romans 8:24 For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what is seen? (NSV)
Jennifer from Springfield, MO “But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him.” — Jeremiah 17:7 NIV
Esther from Lincoln, NE
Psalm 145:15-16
“The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food at the proper time. You open your hand
    and satisfy the desires of every living thing.” (NIV)
Sarah from Tyler, TX.
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
Romans 12:12
NIV
Jessica, St.Catharines
“Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless world.”
James 1:27 (The Message)
Shannon from Nashville “Do not remember the past events, pay no attention to things of old. Look, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Isaiah 43:18-19 HCSB
Julie, amarillo texas
Psalm 103:4, HCSB
He redeems your life from the pit; He crowns you with faithful love and compassion.
Allison from Albuquerque, NM
“For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;”
Colossians 1:9-10 (NAS)
Stacy Jo, Spokane, WA
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26 NIV
“Taste and see that The Lord is good. Oh the joys of those who trust in Him.
Let the Lord’s people show him reverence. For those who honor Him will have all they need. Even strong young lions sometimes go hungry, but those who trust in The Lord will never lack any good thing.”
Psalm 34:8-10 NLT
Susi heath; Manteca, CA Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make straight your path. Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV
Bothell, Washington
I was young and now I am old,yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.
Psalm 37:25 NIV(1984)
Kingdom City, MO
“But forget all that— it is nothing compared to what I am going to do. For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.
(Isaiah 43:18 – 19 NLT)
Karen, San Antonio, “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever.” Psalm 106:1 NLT
Jeri from Loveland, Colorado.
“I call on the Lord in my distress,and he answers me. Save me, O Lord, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.”
Psalm 120, 1-2
NIV
Charlotte from Mims, FL
“You are the God who works wonders; You have made known Your strength among the peoples.” Psalm 77:14 NASB
Sheila, from Sugar Land: “You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. ” Psalm 65:11 NIV
Shelley from San Angelo
You crown the year with your bounty,
and your carts overflow with abundance.
Psalm 65:11
Brittany Kay from Gainesville, FL: From james, a slave of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. Greetings! -James 1:1, ESV
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off anything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and run with perseverance the race marked out for us.”
Hebrews 12:1 NIV
Tracy Drake
Fort Mill, SC
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Amy Gentry/Marietta, OH
Now then, stand still and see this great thing the Lord is about to do before your eyes!
1 Samuel 12:16/NIV
Cam, from Albuquerque, NM
“Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:7 NIV
Monique Dozer, Elizabethtown, KY
Proverbs 31:27 (NKJV)
“She watches over the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.”
Annie from Arlington, TN
“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of 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
Cindy
Moncks Corner, SC
“Create in me a pure heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”
Psalm 51:10
NIV
Johnna, Bulverde, TX
Psalm 28:7 NIV 1984 “The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song.”
Kathleen; Tallahassee, FL:
” Who has ascended into heaven, or descended?
Who has gathered the wind in His fists?
Who has bound the waters in a garment?
Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is His name, and what is His Son’s name,
If you know?”
Proverbs 30:4 (NKJV)
Midland, TX
Isaiah 41:10 – Amplified
Fear not, for I am with you. Do not look around you in terror, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you. I will hold you up with My victorious right hand.
Tricia: Ada, Oklahoma: “He held seven stars in his right hand, and a sharp double-edged sword came out of his mouth. He looked like the sun shining at its brightest time.” (Revelation 1:16 NCV)
Bonnie from Dacusville, SC
“You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among your peoples.” NIV84
Gay, Fenwick Island, Delaware
Romans 15:13(NIV)
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 12:2 NIV
Do not conform to the pattern of 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.
Terry East Peoria,IL
I look up to the mountains-does my help come from there? Pslam 121:1 (NLT)
Kathryn From Newport Kentucky
“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
Romans 12:2
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of 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.
John 14:6-7
Jesus said to him,”I am the way and the truth and the life.No one comes to the Father except through me.If you know me,then you will also know my Father.From now on you do know him and have seen him.” NAB
To fear the Lord is to hate evil: I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.
Proverbs 8:13 NIV
John 14:6-7 from Desiree Madden Williamsburg,Va.
Terry : brandon, Ms
For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says The Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome. Jeremiah 29: 11