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
Kristen Vick from Evans, Georgia
“being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” – Philippians 1:6 (NIV)
Lindsay Allen from Warrior, AL
“Offer right sacrifices, and put your trust in the LORD.” Psalm 4:5 (ESV)
Boise, Idaho
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” Psalm 91:1,2 NIV
Julie from Easley, South Carolina
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
I’m posting late because I’ve been spending an AMAZING week at Passion 2013 seeing God move in people’s lives!
Rachel, Blairsville, GA. “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work in us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations for ever and ever! Ephesians 3:20-21, NIV.
Courtney from North Aurora, IL.
Psalm 28:7 New Living Translation
The Lord is my strength and shield. I trust him with all my heart.
He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy. I burst out in songs of thanksgiving.
Monica Lockhart, Riverview Florida
Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.
Philippians 3:12 (ESV)
Katherine, Atlanta GA
The Lord is with you while you are with Him. If you seek him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
2 Chronicles 15:2 NKJV
Andrea, Blytheville, AR, Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. Proverbs 31:10-12 KJV
Sarah Carroll, Alpharetta, Georgia
“I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.” Psalm 119:11 NIV
Krista Wall, Cypress, Tx
Romans 4:20 NIV
“Yet he did not waiver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God”
Psalm 111:4
Sarah from Siloam Springs, AR, “You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.” Psalm139:1 NIV
Stacie from Merced, CA
“Blessed is she who has believed that what The Lord has said to her will be accomplished.”
Luke 1:45 NIV
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. (Psalm 139:7-10 NIV)
Jane, Bakersfield California
“As far as the east is from the west, so far does He remove our transgressions from us.”
Psalm 103:12 (ESV)
Carrie W., Burnt Hills, NY
Since ancient times no one has heard,
no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any god besides you,
who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.
Isaiah 64:4
NIV
Kerryn from Sydney Australia
Nehemiah 8:10 ….This is a scared day before The Lord. Don’t be dejected and sad, for the joy of The Lord is your strength.”
New living translation
Summing it all up friends, Id say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious-the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse. Philippians 4:8 MSG
Mollie, Fairhope, AL.
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. 5 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 ESV
Julie Long
Bonaire, GA
“For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passsions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.”
Titus 2:11-13 ESV
Kelly Z
Chicago, IL
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
Becky Wang, Ohio
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Katie, from SC
“For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.”
2 Tim 1:7 (NIV)
Imelda [Pearl City, HI]
“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”
Philippians 4:8
New International Version (NIV)
Amy 7634, SF Bay Area
“…the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.”
Deuteronomy 1:31b (ESV)
Lindsey from Cullman, Alabama.
“Be earnest and unwearied and steadfast in your prayer [life], being [both] alert and intent in [your praying] with thanksgiving.”
Colossians 4:2 (Amplified)
Jeremiah 15:16 ESV
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16Your words were found, and I ate them,and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart,for I am called by your name,O Lord, God of hosts.
City: Valley Springs, SD 57068
Denise, Stillwater, OK John 16:33 I have told you all this so you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many sorrows. But take heart, I have overcome the world.
The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those that dwell therein — Psalm 24:1 ESV
Cara K from Tampa, FL
You do not have to fight this battle. Position yourselves, stand still, and see the
salvation of the LORD. He is with you, Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid
or discouraged. Tomorrow, go out to face them, for Yahweh is with you.’”
– 2 Chronicles 20:17 (HCSB)
Sarah Donis
Hamilton, MA
“Like a servant’s eyes on his master’s hand,
like a servant girl’s eyes on her mistress’s hand,
so our eyes are on the LORD our God
until He shows us His favor.”
Psalm 123:2 (HCSB)
Gena From Conway, AR
You have crowned the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Loren of Spring, TX
“If you cling to your life, you will lose it, and if you let your life go, you will save it.”
Luke 17:33
NLT
Lisa Mobley, San Antonio, TX
Don’t copy the behaviors and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
Romans 12:2 (NLT)
Shirley from Keystone Heights, Florida
Rejoice in The Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Philippians 4:4-5 (NIV)
Psalm 60:19 NIV
Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Janet Wallace, Kingwood,Texas, Search me, Oh God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. NIV
“Abide in Me.” John 15:4 KJV
Honolulu
Jeanne, Conway, AR
v.1
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
Janeen, Westerville, OH
“So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”
Isaiah 41:10 (NIV)
Kelly Bullock from Clarksville, TN And the Lord said, My Presence shall go with you and I will give you rest.” Ex 33:14 NIV
4 days late, thanks for newborn grace! 🙂
Jill from DeLand, FL
“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
Mary from Indian Head, MD
Let everyone be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.
James 1:19-20 NASB
Christina, Kariya, Japan. Psalm 141:1-2 NASB
“O Lord, I call upon You; hasten to me! Give ear to my voice when I call to You! May my prayer be counted as incense before You; The lifting up of my hands as the evening offering.”
Jennifer from Liberty, NC
People may be right in their own eyes, but the Lord examines their heart.
Proverbs 21:2 NLT
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. And I will put My Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep My laws. Ezekiel 36:26, 27 (NIV)
Johnnie, Wake Forest, NC
So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. James 2:17, ESV
in preparation of James study in two weeks!
Psalm 56:3-4 (NIV): “When I am afraid, I will trust in You, in God whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me?”
jenny from Wylie, Tx.
The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.
The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves such as have a contrite spirit.
Psalm 34: 17-18
NKJV