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
Psalms 37:5 NLT Commit everything you do to the Lord, trust Him and He will help you
Roxanne, New York, NY
Psalm 27:9 NLT
“My heart has heard you say, ‘Come talk with me.’ And my heart has responded, ‘Lord I am coming.'”
Jackie, Minford, Ohio
“It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22&23 KJV
Kelley from Spokane, Wa So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. -Matt 10:31 NIV
Gail Tabor, Weil im Schönbuch, Germany
Proverbs 14:26 NIV
“He who fears the Lord has a secure fortress, and for his children it will be a refuge.”
Stann, Frisco, TX
Gal. 5:22-23 (NAS)
But the fruit of the spirit is is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, against such things there is no law
Mary Rantala, Duluth, MN
You crown the year with your bounty,
And your carts overflow with abundance.
Psalm 65:11 NIV
Cathy, Shreveport, LA
“He heals the wholehearted and binds up their wounds”
Psalm 147:3 NIV
Cathy, Shreveport, LA
autocorrect error – LOL!
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. Psalm 147:3 NIV
When I am afraid I put my trust in you.
Psalm 56:3
NIV
Angie, Markham, Ontario
From James, a slave of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. Greetings!
My brothers and sisters, consider it nothing but joy when you fall into all sorts of trials, because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you will be perfect and complete, not deficient in anything.
James 1: 1-4 NET
Psalm 93:4 (KJV)
The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
Linda, Greene, NY
Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you. And the LORD said I will wait until you return. NIV Judges 6:18
Katie. Jonesboro, AR
“the Lord will fight for you and you only have to be silent.” Exodus 14:14 ESV
Dawn from Plainview, Texas~John 14:26~But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and will cause you to remember everything I have said to you. (New English Translation)
Sheila E, Dallas Texas
Ps 119:162
“I rejoice in your word as one who has found great treasure”. (NKJV)
Becca Frischhertz from Pearl River, LA
Psalm 62:7 (NIV)
“My salvation and my honor depend on God; He is my mighty rock, my refuge.
Debra P. Kingwood, Texas “Look to the Lord and his strength;seek his face always.” Psalms 105:4
Richelle from Midland, Texas
“But He said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” 2 Cor. 12:9. ESV
Alison, Clay Center, Kansas
“You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance.”
Psalm 65:11 NIV
But Lord, Gideon asked, “how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.” The Lord answered, “I will be with you.” Judges 6:15-16a NIV
The world’s sin is that it refuses to believe in me. Righteousness is available because I go to the Father, and you will see me no more. Judgment will come because the ruler of this world has already been judged. John 16:9-11 NLT
I John 2:15-17
15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
KJV
Jen, Exton, PA
Romans 8:27-28 Ampl
27 And He Who searches the hearts of men knows what is in the mind of the Holy Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes and pleads in behalf of the saints according to and in harmony with God’s will.
28 We are assured and know that all things work together and are (fitting into a plan )for good to and for those who love God and are called according to His design and purpose.
A gentle answer deflects anger,
but harsh words make tempers flare.
Proverbs 15:1
NLT
Donna
Ponder,TX
Oh that we might know the Lord! Let us press on to know him. He will respond to us as surely as the dawn or the coming of the rains in early spring.
Hosea 6:3 NLT
Tai from Kensington, MD
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
Erin from Mobile, AL
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
Annie: St. Louis,MO
For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
(Romans 8:22-25 ESV)
Penny from Cincinnati, OH: 1. 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, I strain to reach the end of the race and receive the prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us up to heaven. Philippians 3:13-14 (NLT)
Michelle ~ Joppa, MD
“Oh, that we may know the Lord! Let us press on to know Him. He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn or the coming of rains in early spring.” ~Hosea 6:3(NLT)~
CINDYLU ELLISVILLE, MS
THE LORD IS MY PORTION; I HAVE PROMISED TO KEEP THY WORDS.
PSALM 119:57 NASB
Sarah from Portales, NM
Proverbs 1:33 ESV
“but whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of disaster”
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Matthew 11:28-30
Erin; Alabaster, AL
Deuteronomy 6:6-7 (ESV)
“And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”
Berea, OH NIV Micah 6:8
He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
Kellie from Odenville, AL:
Matthew 11:28-30 (NIV)
“Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Robin Fairfax, VA
Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.
Matthew 5:11 NKJV
Michelle Thoma, Northwood, NH
“The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.”
Exodus 14:14 NIV
Psaml 105: 4 New Century Version
“Depend on the Lord and his strength; always go to him for help.”
Aimee, Greer, SC
Deuteronomy 31:6, The Message
“Be strong. Take courage. Don’t be intimidated. Don’t give them a second thought because God, your God, is striding ahead of you. He’s right there with you. He won’t let you down; he won’t leave you.”
We have the same name, and chose the same verse. Have a blessed day Siesta!
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13 KJV
Lynda from Hot Springs Village, AR. “Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified, do not be discouraged for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9b. NIV
Amanda Benson, Eagle Butte, SD
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5, 7-8, NIV
It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; 4 that each of you should learn to control his own body[a] in a way that is holy and honorable, 5 not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God… 7 For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. 8 Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.
Brenda
Wheaton, IL
“Do not pay attention to every word people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you-for you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.”
Ecclesiastes 7:21-22 NIV
Deborah from British Columbia “So be content with who you are, and don’t put on airs. God’s strong hand is on you; he’ll promote you at the right time. Live carefree before God; he is most careful with you.” I Peter 5:6-7
(My verse is from The Message translation).
Kristi, Seagrove Beach, Florida
“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
Cara
Oklahoma City, OK
Lamentations 3:22-24
(NIV)
22 Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.
23 They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
24 I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion;
therefore I will wait for him.”
Julie Underdown; Union Missouri
Isaiah 43:18-19 NIV
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.
This is my third attempt. Sorry if multiple are showing.
Deborah, Burlington, NC
“Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.”
Hebrews 12:1 NASB
Michelle ~ Watkinsville, GA
But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Matthew 6:33 (NIV)