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
I’m not sure if I’m doing this correctly but here’s my memory verse thought it’s not the 1st or the 15th. He’s my only hope.
But now, O Lord, upon what am I relying? You are my only hope! Psalmm 39:7 NET
Carleen
Longmont
Here is another way to put it: You’re here to be light, bringing out the God colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We’re going public with this, as public as a city on a hill.
Matthew 5:14 MSG
Karon in Canton, NC
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.
Proverbs 3:5-6 NKJV
Shawn Mayer, AZ
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, workers 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. II Corinthians 4:16-18
Dawn from Pottsville, Arkansas
Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Psalm 90:12, NIV
Teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. And you can be sure that I am always with you, to the very end.”
Mathew 28:20 (NIRV)
Sarah from Clermont, Georgia. “Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being likeminded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.” Phillipians 2:1-2
Darcy – Edwardsville, IL
“Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.” -Psalm 43:3 (NIV)
Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
I Thessalonians 5:18 (NIV)
Ellen
Acworth, Ga
“Be cheerful no matter what; pray all the time; thank God no matter what happens. This is the way God wants you who belong to Christ Jesus to live.”
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18… The Message
Tanya from Killen, Alabama
James 3:1 ESV
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
I Thessalonians 5:18(NIV)
Be strong in The Lord and in His mighty power. Eph 6:10 NIV
AmandaB. – Windsor, CO – I am the True Vine and my Father is the Gardner. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. This is to my Father’s glory that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. John 15:1,4,8 NIV
Stephanie Warren
Chesapeake, VA
“He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, took him to an inn and took care of him.”
Luke 10:34 (NIV)
Amanda from Tucson, AZ.
My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry
James 1:19, NIV
“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow.”
Romans 15:13 NIV
from Baytown, Texas
“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow.”
Romans 15:13 NIV
Nikki, Wichita, KS.
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,
Because the Lord has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
Isaiah 61:1 New King James
Nikki from McGregor, Texas. “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.” Ephesians 4:29, NIV.
Elizabeth Swanson
Round Rock, TX
James 1:5
5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.
Mary Beth
Blairsville, GA
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. James 1:19-20 NIV
from Medford, OR
May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the steadfastness of Christ. 2 Thessalonians 3:5 NASB95
Becky, Highland Village, Tx, For you answer our prayers, and to you all people will come. Psalm 65:2 New Living Translation
Kristina from OKC, Oklahoma “…those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.” Isaiah 40:31 NIV
Stacey Stanley from Kountze Tx says:
January 6, 2013 10:46 pm
“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom”. 2 Cor. 3:17 NIV
Dina from D/FW, TX
“For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.”
2 Timothy 1:7 NLT
Hannah, Branch, AR
“if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.”
2 Timothy 2:13 HCSB
Melanie, Houston, TX
Romans 12:1 “And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.” NLT
Sarah Moore, Sparks NV
Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it give you assurance about things we cannot see
Hebrews 11:1 (NLT)
Sarah, Wilmington,DE
But when I am afraid, I will put my trust in you. I praise God for what he has promised. I trust in God, so why should I be afraid? What can mere mortals do to me?
Psalms 56:3-4
NLT
Kaylee, Greenville SC
And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is.
Ephesians 3:18 NLT
Sarah, Truman MN
“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)
Valerie from Omaha, Everything is possible with God. Mark 10:27 NLT
Sarah, Athens, GA
“Let us strive to know the Lord. His appearance is as sure as the dawn.
He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the land.”
Hosea 6:3 (HCSB)
Kathy Skinner from Elk Grove, CA. says, “In the fear of the LORD there is a strong confidence, and his children have refuge.
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, that one may avoid the snares of death.” Proverbs 14:26-27 (NASB)
Jenny, Covington, WA
Jude 1,2 NIV
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James,
To those who have been called, who are loved in God the Father and kept for[a] Jesus Christ:
2 Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.
Heather from Parker, CO
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:1 (NIV)
Deuteronomy 7:9 “Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.” (ESV)
Carrie H., Houston
“It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for.” Ephesians 1:13 The Message
Heidi
Midland, TX
Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13, 14 ESV)
Jan, Pearl City, HI
“Simon Peter answered him, ‘Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.'”
John 6:68-69 (NIV)
Rhysa, Pearl City, HI
“For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”
John 3:17 (NIV)
Rhynne, Pearl City, HI
“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
Romans 3:23 (NIV)
Bec from Bendigo, Australia
“Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.”
Matthew 6:34 (The Message)
St. Petersburg, Fl.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
(ESV)
Donna from Deer Park, Texas.
The LORD will guide you ALWAYS; he will satisfy your needs in a sun scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. Isaiah 58:11 (NIV)
Barb from Southlake-John 16:33 “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”
Felicia from Denton,TX:
2 corinthians 12:9 (NIV)
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 about my weakness, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
Leah Del Signore, Houston.
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God— the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scripture
Romans 1:1-2 (NIV84)