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
“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
Jennifer Baker, Lewisville, TX
“The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous and His ears toward their cry.”
Psalm 34:15 (ESV)
Gloria in Houston said:
Praised be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His boundless mercy we have been born again to an ever-living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
1 Peter 1:3 (The Amplified Bible)
Charman,Florence, AL
“How great is the goodness You have stored up for those who fear you. You lavish it on those who come to you for protection, blessing them before the watching world. You hide them in the shelter of Your presence, safe from those who conspire against them. You shelter them in Your presence far from accusing tongues.”
Psalm 31:19-20 (NLT)
“All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.”
2 Tim 3:16 NIV
Mandy from Hamburg, AR…For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. Mark 10:45 KJV
Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look for about you, for I am your God,. I will strengthen you , surley I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with my righteous right hand Isaiah 41:10 NAS
Ema
Normal, IL
Ezekiel 36:25 NIV I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.
Candace Stoltzfus – Bowmansville, PA
John 14:26 NIV
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.
How wonderful to be wise, to analyze and interpret things. Wisdom lights up a person’s face,softening it’s harshness.
ECCLESIATES 8:1
Karen, Lexington, KY. Anyone who believes in Christ is a new creation. The old is gone! The new has come! 2 Corinthians 5:17 NIRV
JamieB, Corbin, Ky This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters… And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. 1John 3:16, 23 NIV
Kay from Memphis, TN How blessed is he whose transgression
is forgiven, whose sin is covered! Psalm 32:1 NAS
Tiffany, from Frisco, TX:
“Put on salvation as your helmet, and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. “(Ephesians 6:17 NLT)
Paige, DeWitt, AR
“Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my trangressions to the Lord.” And You forgave the guilt of my sin.”
–Psalm 32:5 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 a hope and a future.” Jer 29:11 NIV
Emily from Tigerville, SC
“Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts.”
-Isaiah 26:8 (NIV)
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Heather Carson, Houston, TX
“This is My command: be strong and courageous. Never be afraid or discouraged because I am your God, the Eternal One, and I will remain with you wherever you go.”
Joshua 1:9 (The Voice)
Dawn Rene’ from Waxahachie, For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (KJV)
Abbey, Colorado Springs, CO
Proverbs 15:4 (ESV) – “A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.”
Ella, League City, TX
“Jesus answered him, ‘I am the way, and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through Me.'”
John 14:6 ESV
2 Corinthians 5:7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. (NRSV)
Kelly, Charleston, WV
Psalm 150:6 NIV
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord.
Wilmington, DE
“Ascribe to the Lord the glory due His name; worship The Lord in the splendor of his holiness.”
Psalm 29:2. NIV
Sharon Stiglic, Boca Raton FL
“I will Bless the Lord who guides me, even at night my Heart instructs me, I will Not be shaken, for He is right beside me.”
Psalm 16:7-8 (NLT)
Sydney, Raleigh NC. “I thank my God every time I remember you.” Phil. 1:3 NIV
Jen Jackson, Columbus OH
But now, this is what the Lord says— he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.. (Isaiah 43:1-3 NIV)
Laura Potopa from Chisago City, MN
“Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes”
Isaiah 54:2
NIV
Angela, Frisco, Texas
“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 NLT
1. Jodie B.
2. Fort Worth, TX
3. I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
4. John 15:1 & 2
5. New King James Version 🙂
Kristi Hensley, Charleston, WV
Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; (Psalms 1:1 NKJV)
Kristine from Edmond; “You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you! Trust in the Lord always for the Lord God is the eternal rock.” Is. 26:3-4 NLT
Erica Hall, Huntington, Indiana
“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 15:13 (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 NIV1984
Sharon from Gadsden, AL
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13 NKJV
Melissa Stewart, Lexington, KY
“Behold, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs forth; do you not perceive it and know it and will you not give heed to it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”
Isaiah 43:19 (NIV)
Christie, Guelph, Ontario
“For this reason, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles…”
Ephesians 3:1
(I’m going to try to memorize all of Ephesians 3)
Karen from Nampa,ID,
It is good for me to draw near to God
Psalm 73:28 NKJV
Bonnie Vollmering. Victoria, Texas
” The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him. ”
Psalms 28:7 NIV
Michaela Gordon
San Ramon,CA
The Lord replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” Then Moses said to him, “If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here. How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?”
Exodus 33:14-16 NIV
Peggy Blazek, Indianapolis
Psalm 65:11 NET
“You crown the year with your blessings, and You leave
abundance in your wake.”
Shannon Wilkinson, Blacksburg VA
Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen
Ephesians 3:20-21 (NIV)
Keri, Marietta GA
So is my word that goes out from my mouth: it will not return to me empty, but accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. Isaiah 55:11 (NIV)
Jane Steen, Portstewart, Northern Ireland
Ezekiel 37.5 Amp
Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath and spirit to enter you, and you shall live;
Sue Nutter, Standish, ME
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.”
James 1:17 (NIV)
LaGlace, Alberta, Canada
“You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in You.” Isaiah 26:3 (NIV)
Ruth Price, Brunswick ME
I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that man will revere him. Ecclesiastes 3:14 NIV
Misty from Louisville, KY
Jeremiah33:3 Call to me and I will show you great and unsearchable thIngs you do not know. NIV
Janice Whiting, Waco, Tx
“You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance.” Psalm 65:11 NIV