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
Helen, Newnan, Georgia
Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house, and went off to a solitary place where He prayed. Mark 1:35 NIV
Josie, Bedford TX
“Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” Rom 12:11-12 NIV
Lindsay from Sugar Land, Texas, “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. John 14:27 NIV
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. 2 My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. Psalm 121:1-2 KJV
Debbie, Modesto, CA
I will exalt you, my God the King;I will praise your name for ever and ever. Psalm 145:1 NIV
Sandy Jane
Long Beach
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Thessalonians 1 5:16-18 NKJV
I will make an everlasting convenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me. I will rejoice in doing them good and will assuredly plant them in this land with all my heart and soul. This is what the LORD says: As I have brought all this great calamity on this people, so I will give them all the prosperity I have promised them.
Jeremiah 32:40-42
Angie from Delaware, Ohio…”Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassion never fails. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22-23 NIV84
Francesca, Melbourne, “Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven-for she loved much. But he who has forgiven little loves little”, Luke 7:47, NIV.
Jessica Smith. Grapevine, Texas.
“You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that through His poverty you might become rich.”
2 Corinthians 8:9, NIV
It is good to praise the Lord and make music to your name, O Most High,
to proclaim your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night Psalm 92:1-2 NIV
Adamstown, MD
It is good to praise the Lord
and make music to your name,
O Most High,
To proclaim your love in the morning
and your faithfulness at night.
Psalm 92:1-2 NIV
Jenn from Beaverton, OR
“For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.”
Romans 7:18 ESV
You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 (NIV)
DaLonne from Cheyenne, WY
Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. Psalm 25:5 (NIV)
Linde, Dallas Texas
“I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.”
Psalm 119:11 NIV
Hope from San Antonio.
I call on you, my God, for you will answer me; turn your ear to me and hear my prayer. Show me the wonders of your great love, you who save by your right hand those who take refuge in you from their foes. (Psalm 17:6-7)
Letha from Lancaster, Ohio
And whenever you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
Isaiah 30:21 (HCSB)
Lauren from Dallas, TX. “You crown the year with Your bounty; Your wagon tracks overflow with abundance.” Psalm 65:11, ESV
Angie, Levelland Texas
Job 8: 6-7
6 ” If you are pure and upright,
surely then he will rouse himself for you
and restore your rightful habitation.
7 And though your beginning was small,
your latter days will be very great.
Lisa, Cartersville, GA
“Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being, and in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom” Psalm 51:6 NASB
Burnsville, MN
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.
Hebrews 10:23 (NIV)
Sarah- Gulf Shores,Alabama
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. Ephesians 3:20 TNIV
Lantana from Edmond, OK
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
June from Collinsville, IL
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
James 1:22 NIV
With lots of words comes wrongdoing, but the wise restrain their lips. Prov 10:19 CEB
Marietta, GA
“The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted and to proclaim that captives will be released and prisoners will be freed. He has sent me to tell those who mourn that the time of the Lord’s favor has come, and with it, the day of God’s anger against their enemies. To all who mourn in Israel, he will give a crown of beauty for ashes, a joyous blessing instead of mourning, festive praise instead of despair. In their righteousness, they will be like great oaks that the Lord has planted for his own glory.”
Isaiah 61:1-3
NLT
Caroline from Georgia.
The Lord replied, “My presence will go with you and I will give you rest.” Exodus 33:14 (NIV)
“The Lord has done great things for us; we are glad.”
Psalm 126:3 NAS
Weaverville, NC
“The Lord has done great things for us; we are glad.”
Psalm 126:3 NAS
Deborah, olive branch, ms.
How sweet Your word is to my taste- sweeter than honey in my mouth. Psalm 119:103 hcsb
Ask, using my name, and you will receive and your cup of joy will overflow.
John 16:24 The Living Bible
Rachel – Springfield, MO
Isaiah 61:1-2 – KJV
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
Georgine East from Austin, Texas
May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.
1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 NIV
Kristen, Mineola, TX
Romans 15:13; NIV
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.
Pensacola, Fl
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Philippians 4:13
KJV
In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple.
Isiah 6:1 NIV
Marni, Hayden ID
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5 NIV
Alaina from Tyler, 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
Debbie, Huntsville, AL
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:1 NIV
Goldfield, Iowa
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Psalm 51:50 KJV
“Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.”
Galatians 1:10
Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.
1 Peter 2:1 Beth NC
The Lord is my light and my salvation – whom shall I fear?The Lord is the stronghold of my life- of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm 27:1 NIV
“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.”
Colossians 1:15 NIV
becky
university place, WA
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
2 Corinthians 12:9
NIV
LORD, You have assigned me my portion and my cup; You have made my lot secure. Th boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance. Psalm 16:5-6 (NIV)
Lauren from Memphis, TN
I will make an everlasting convenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me. I will rejoice in doing them good and will assuredly plant them in this land with all my heart and soul. This is what the LORD says: As I have brought all this great calamity on this people, so I will give them all the prosperity I have promised them.
Jeremiah 32:40-42
Have I not commanded thee? Be of good courage, be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee withersoever thou goest.
Joshua 1:9 KJV
Cindy Criss, Candler, NC, “Everything is permissible”–but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible”–but not everything is constructive. 1 Cor 10-23 NIV
Kelsey Woods, Spotsylvania, VA
James 3:17 NIV
“But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.”