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!Ā 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 moderatedĀ (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,Ā 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.Ā 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.Ā 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
Melissa from Dallas, TX
Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time. 1 Peter 5:6, NKJV
Jennifer from Nixa, MO
He must become greater; I must become less.
~John 3:30 NIV
Jessica Harrison from Marietta, SC
You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. Jeremiah 28:13 HCSB
James 1:17
Every good and perfect gift comes from above and comes down from the Father of Lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.(NKJ)
Kim G.; Greenville, SC
Hebrews 11:1(NKJ)
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.”
Margaret
Rogers,AR
The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.Ā
This came from The Lord;it is wonderful in our eyes.
This is the day The Lord has made; Let us rejoice and be GLAD in it!
Psalm 118:22-24 HCSB
Kristin, Archbold, OH
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Jennifer Barboursville,WV
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.”
Romans 8:28 NIV
Lisa Patti; Boerne, Tx
1 Chronicles 29:11 (ESV)
“Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all.”
Sandy Schmid, Simi Valley, CA – James 4:7-8 – So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come close to God and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world.
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. Psalm 91:1 NIV
I’m new at this. Did I get skipped?
Leanne Anderson, Cloquet, MN
“Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.”
Romans 12:15 NIV
Larissa from Asheville, NC
The Lord God is my Strength, my personal bravery, and my invincible army; He makes my feet like hindsā feet and will make me to walk [not to stand still in terror, but to walk] and make [spiritual] progress upon my high places [of trouble, suffering, or responsibility]! Hab 3:19 AMP
Sebrett Graham; Lithia, FL
Matthew 6:9-13 (NIV)
“This, then, is how you should pray:
Our Father in heaven, hollowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we also forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.”
Laura from Prairieville, Louisiana. For drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags. Proverbs 23:21 NIV
LATE!
Seantea from Los Angeles, Ca
“I will meditate on Your precepts and fix my eyes on Your ways. I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your Word.” -Psalm 119:15-16 ESV
Karla from Sheboygan, WI
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. – Romans 15:13 (ESV)
Dee; Visalia,CA
Isaiah 30: 20 (ESV)
And though The Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher. (21) And your ears will hear a word behind you saying “This is the way, walk in it” When you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.
Dothan, AL
“And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.”
Jeremiah 29:13, NASB
Charlene Neuman; Waterloo, ON, Canada
They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
Acts 2:42, NIV
Kathy – Clinton, MO Hebrews 13:5-6 ESV
5 Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, āI will never leave you nor forsake you.ā 6 So we can confidently say,
āThe Lord is my helper;
I will not fear;
what can man do to me?ā
McKenzie from Amarillo, Tx
Psalm 37:23-24 (NLT)
23The LORD directs the steps of the godly.
He delights in every detail of their lives.
24Though they stumble, they will never fall,
for the LORD holds them by the hand.
Stacey, Columbus, MS, “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 isāhis good, pleasing and perfect will. ” (Romans 12:2 NIV)
Michele from Quarryville, Pennsylvania~ The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing. Zephaniah 3:17 ESV
Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him, and he will help you. Psalm 37:5
āNow the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedomā. 2 Cor. 3:17 NIV
Miquela H., Knoxville, TN
āFor where your treasure is, there your heart will also beā
Luke 12:34 NKJV
Julie, McKinney, TX
But Thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory and the lifter up of mine head. (Psalm 3:3) Amplified Bible
Not sure if this got through – I sent on the 1st. “Don’t be weary in prayer. Keep at it; watch for God’s answers and remember to be thankful when they come.” Colossians 4:2 NLT
Landry, Georgetown TX
Love is patient,love is kind. It does not boast, it is not proud.
Landry, Georgetown TX
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not boast, it is not proud.
1 Corinthians 13:4
Dana from Cimarron, KS
Isaiah 43:19
New International Version (NIV)
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
Toni from Argyle, TX
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance.ā Psalm 65:11 (NIV)
Patty
Boca Raton, FL
“Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers”. Ephesians 4:29 NKJV
Winchester, Virginia
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. Romans15:13 NIV
Casey fayetteville,Georgia
Col. 1:10 English Standard Version (ESV)
10 so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.
Donna Huneycutt, Mt. Pleasant NC
Psalms 65:11 HCSB
You crown the year with Your goodness; Your ways overflow with plenty.
“When the Lord restores his exiles to Jerusalem, it was like a dream!” Psalms 126:1 NLT
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly John 10:10 ESV
jenny
white hall, ar
“also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.”
jeremiah 29:7 niv
Peggy Zimmerman- Jacksonville, Texas
I John 3:18
“Let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.” The Bible
āO Lord God, you have begun to show your servant your greatness and your strong hand; for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as yours? Deuteronomy 3:24 NAS
Barby Schwarz; Tulare, CA
Psalm 143:8 (NIV)
“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 entrust my life.”
Janell, San Francisco-Ca
1 Timothy 6:11
“But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness”
What a great reminder as we start 2013- flee from evil and sin and pursue Jesus to gain righteousness, godliness, faith love endurance and gentleness.
Baton Rouge, LA
Words kill, words give life; they are either poison or fruit – you choose.
Proverbs 18:21, The Message
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
Lynn – Kingsport, Tennessee
Jeremiah 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.”
The work of the Lord is alive and active. Sharper than any two-edged sword,it penetrates dividing both soul and spirit, bone and marrow. It judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart-Hebrews 4:12 KJV
Michele Tidwell; Montgomery,AL…1 Cor 15:58 Therefore, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work, knowing that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
January 2, 2013 at 2:27 pm
For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
Colosians 1:19-29 NIV
Jessy from Houston, Texas
“You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit – fruit that will last.”
John 15:16 NIV