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
Karen from Cheyenne, WY
“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)
I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits,
and in his word I put my hope.
Psalm 150:5. NIV
Katie S, Minneapolis, “You crown the year with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow with abundance.” Psalm 65:11, ESV.
Martha, Georgetown TX, Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty. Proverbs 21:5 NLT.
Courtney, Georgetown,TX
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Janet, Houston, Texas You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Chantee, Frisco, TX
“You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.” Psalm 65:11 NIV
Karla Rochester, MN
The Lord gives his people strength;
the Lord grants his people security.
Psalm 29:11 NET
Carrie Harpell
Burnsville, MN
“The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places, indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.” Psalm 16:6 ESV
Kristy from Sheridan,AR But 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 weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 NIV
Psalms 139:1-3 (NASB)
1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you understand my thought from afar
3 You scrutinize my path and my lying down, and are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
Laura Penny Brandon, Florida
But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all the things and will remind you everything I have said to you.
John 14:26 NIV84
Suzie Lind/ Los Angeles, California
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God which he set apart beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures, (Romans 1:1-2, ESV)
Chazmin from Pointe A La Hache Louisiana
I’ll call nobodies and make them somebodies; I’ll call the unloved and make them beloved.
Romans 9:25
The Message
Donna from Jonesboro, AR
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer Psalms 19:14 NIV
Beth, St.Louis, MO “For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” 2 Timothy 1:7 ESV
Denise,Jacksonville,Fl.,The lines have fallen unto me in pleasant places:yea,I have a goodly heritage.
Psalm 16:6,KJV.
As it is written: “They that have freely scattered their gifts to the poor; their righteousness endures forever.” Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.”
2 Corinthians 9:9-10 (NIV)
Ginger… Bedford
Isaiah 61 1-3 NIV
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me,
because the Lord has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners,[a]
2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor
and the day of vengeance of our God,
to comfort all who mourn,
3 and provide for those who grieve in Zion—
to bestow on them a crown of beauty
instead of ashes,
the oil of joy
instead of mourning,
and a garment of praise
instead of a spirit of despair.
They will be called oaks of righteousness,
a planting of the Lord
for the display of his splendor.
Ivana Brata
Dallas, TX
“Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus”
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (NIV)
Maria from Oxford, MS
Psalm 105:4, “Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always.” (NIV)
LaVonne from Peachtree City, GA
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
Sonia from Edmonton Alberta. Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in me, the works that I do he will also do; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. John 14:12 NKJV
Harrisonville,Mo, Matthew 6:33, But seek first of all His kingdom and His righteousness, and then all these things taken together will be given you besides. (AMP)
Ashley Helmick from Jacksonville, FL
Isaiah 41:10 (NIV):
“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.”
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 29:12
Meli in College Station, Texas
Psalm 91:1
“He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.”
ESV
Vicky, Nebraska
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.
Hebrews 10:23 (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.” Romans 15:13 NIV
Madrid, Spain
All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful toward those who keep the demands of His covenant.
Psalm 25:10 NIV
Beth Copley
Ocala, Fl
After this, the Word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision. Do not be afraid Abram, I am your Shield and grat Reward.
-Gemesis 15:1-
NIV
Carol
Athens, GA
Make.it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business…
1Thes 4:11
NIV
Psalma 25:10 NIV
ALL the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful.
Hosea 11:3-4: NIV
It was I who taught Ephraim to walk,
taking them by the arms;
but they did not realize
it was I who healed them.
I led them with cords of human kindness,
with ties of love.
To them I was like one who lifts
a little child to the cheek,
and I bent down to feed them.
Meredith from Blacksburg, VA: “You crown the year with your bounty, your wagon tracks overflow with abundance.” Psalm 65:11
Joy from Friendsville, TN – Do no conform any longer 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 perfect will.
“Do not judge, Or you too will be judged.”. For in the same way, you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure You use, it will be measured to you.
Matthew 7:1-2
NIV
Misti from Houston, TX (soon to be moving)…
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalms 65:11 NIV
May He grant your hearts desire and make all your plans succeed. NLT
May He grant your hearts desire and make all your plans succeed. Psalm 20:4 NLT
Because thou hast been my help, therefore, in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. Psalm 67 vs 7.
Because God is my help I can rest from this world of problems and troubles – when snuggling under his wings! He is my loving Father who loves me, his daughter. In the shadow of His wings I can sing my song. “Faith is like a bird’s song before dawn”. Faye jones
“Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth does not become weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable.”
– Isaiah 40:28 (NASB)
Karen Kingsport TN. “Teach me your ways O Lord, that I may live according to your truth! Grant me purity of heart so that I may honor you.” Psalms 86:11. NLT
I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me-John 10:14 NIV
Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. James 1:12 NIV
Dripping Springs, TX
I forgot to include this with my verse!
Diane, Longmont, CO
You crown the year with your bounty and your carts overflow with abundance. Ps 65:11 NIV
Melissa
Asheville, NC
For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.”
Psalm 107:9 NIV
Alisa Beets, Cheraw, South Carolina
Whoever offers praise glorifies Me;
And to him who orders his conduct aright
I will show the salvation of God.
Psalm 50:23 NKJV
Melissa
Asheville, NC
“Let them give thanks to the Lord for His unfailing love and His wonderful deeds for men.”
Psalm 107:8
Gina Webster, Houston, Texas “He will be the sure foundation for your times, a rich store of salvation, wisdom & knowledge; the fear of the Lord is key to this treasure.” Isaiah 33:6 NIV