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
Lynn, Forney, TX:
“What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.” Psalm 56:3 (KJV).
Julie L., Foxboro MA
“Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer, and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be known to God.”
Phil. 4:5-6, NKJV
Rita Ledbetter Cottonwood, AZ
Micah 6:8 NIV Study Bible
And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God
Theresa – Pensacola, Florida
Micah 6:8 (NIV)
“And what does the Lord require of you. Act justly (do what is right) , love mercy (love kindness) and walk humbly with your God.”
Jenny Smith, Adairsville, GA
“His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellance.”
2 Peter 1:2 ESV
Laurie, Valencia Pa
The Lord is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. The Lord is good to everyone. He showers compassion on all His creation. Psalm 145:8-9 NLT
“More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” Romans 5:3-5 NIV
Martha-Margaret Cotten, Greensboro, NC “You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance.” Psalm 65:11 (NIV)
Janet from Austin, Texas
“They(His Mercies)are new every morning;
Great is Your Faithfulness.”
Lamentations 3:23
NIV
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways,acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.” Proverbs 3:5&6 KJV
Cassie Parsons Jackson, TN
“How great is your goodness, which You have stored up for those who fear you, which You have wrought for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men! You hide them in the secret place of your presence from the conspiracies of man; You keep them secretly in a shelter from strife of tongues.” Psalm 31:19-20 NASB
Kelly, Colorado Springs, CO
“You crown the year with your bounty and your carts overflow with abundance.” Psalm 65:11 NIV
Amy from Washington, OK
” The joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Nehemiah 8:10 (TLB)
Melissa from Winter Garden, Florida, “May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us – yes, establish the work of our hands.” Psalm 90:17, NIV.
Sandy,Pensacola Beach,FL.
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God,not by works so that no one can boast.”
Ephesians 2:8,9 (NIV)
darlene, Cape Town,SA
Psalm 63:1
You God are my God, earnestly I seek you, I thirst for you, my whole being lons for you in a dry and parched land where there is no water.
Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
2 Timothy 2:15
psalm65:11
You crown the year with your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance.
Brenda from Frisco, Texas
Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. (Joshua 1:8 NIV)
Cathy, Lebanon
James 1:1 NIV James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations:
Greetings.
Bobbie Gustafson, Story City IA
But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about Moses, did not himself dare to condemn him for slander but said “The Lord rebuke you!”
Jude 1:9 (NIV)
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Tara, Norris City IL
Finally brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is good, whatever is of good repute; if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things. Phillipians 4:8 nasb
Tricia, Fredericktown, MO.
John 14:26 ESV
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
“You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near”
James 5:8 (NIV)
“Keep my commands in your heart, for they will prolong your life many years and bring you peace and prosperity” Proverbs 3:1-2NIV
Sheila from Eads, TN
“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness.”
2 Timothy 3:16 (NIV)
Nora Greer, Shreveport, LA
Oh Lord, be gracious to us. We long for you.
Be our strength every morning, our salvation in times of distress.
Isaiah 33:2 (NIV)
“I sought the LORD, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears.” Psalm 34:4
Mel from Springdale, AR
Psalm 65:11
You crown the year with your bounty and your carts overflow with abundance.
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 4:7-8 (NIV)
Cindy/Midland
Cathy Carder, Abbotsford, British Columbia,
Have the roots of your being firmly and deeply planted in Him, fixed and founded in Him, being continually built up in Him, becoming increasingly more confirmed and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and abounding and overflowing in it, with thanksgiving!!
Colossians 2:7 Amplified Bible
Carol, Pierre SD
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance.
Psalm 65:11 NIV
Kristin R., Springfield, MO
“And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
Phillippians 4:7 (NIV)
from Orlando, FL. “One thing I asked of the Lord, that I will seek after: to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble, he will conceal me under the corner of his tent; he will set me high on a rock.” Psalm 27:4,5 NRSV
Jennifer Yawn, Sycamore, GA
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Hebrews 12:11(ESV)
Gayla from Kingwood, TX
“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
Jennifer, Liberty Hill, TX
“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.
Romans 12:2 NIV
“Don’t sin by letting anger gain control over you. Think about it overnight and remain silent.”
Psalm 4:4 (NLT)
Mansfield, Ohio
“In all circumstances give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Jesus Christ.”
1 Thessalonians 5:18 (NAB)
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
Sharon Carter, Louisville, KY
“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)
Vonnie P. Abilene. TX
” I will praise you as long as I live and in your name I will lift up my hands.” Psalms 63:4.
Destiny, Fort lauderdale Fl
“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.”
Philippians 4:6 (NKJV)
I look up to the mountains-does my help come from there?
Psalm 121:1 NLT
Betty, Houston TX
“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life.”
John 8:12 (ESV)
Shana Garner, Tifton, GA, Joshua 1:9 NIV84
“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous . Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for The Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”
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
Kelly Brooks, Long Beach, MS
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 NIV 84
Robin from Ardmore, OK
“Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”
Psalm 51:10