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
Shelby Kasten, Ft Myers Fl
NIV John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the word was God He was with God in the beginning.
Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished. Luke 1:45 NLT
Amarillo, TX
For unto us a child is born, to us a child is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Kristine, from Frisco, Lord you are our Father. We are the clay and you are the potter. We are all formed by your hand. Isaiah 64:8 NLT
Chrystal, Lexington, KY
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
Romans 12:12
NIV
Cheryl in Glennville, GA
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:21 NKJV
Jody, Colfax, NC
Hebrews 11:1,2 NIV84
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, and certain of what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for.
This hope we have as an anchor of the soul; both sure and steadfast, and which enters the presence behind the veil.
Hebrews 6:19 NKJ
Kim from Brandon, MS
Search me oh God and know my heart, test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way of the everlasting. Psalm 139:23-24 NIV
How do you know if your verse ever made it? It was in moderation for a long time and I’m not sure if it was approved or taken out of that status. Thanks. Wanda Draus
Yankton, SD.
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. I Peter 4:8 NIV
Trust God from the bottom of your heart;
don’t try to figure out everything on your own. Proverbs 3:5
The Message Bible
“For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” 2 Timothy 1:7 ESV
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39
Middlebury
“Oh, that we might know the Lord! Let us press on to know Him! Then He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn or the coming of rains in early spring.”
Hosea 6:3 NLT
You crown the year with Your bounty and Your carts overflow with abundance.
Ps 65:11 NIV
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you.
John 15:7 NIV
JoElle~Glenville, NY
Psalm 34:18 NIV
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
Geni L, West Palm Beach, FL Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding NKJ
Jamie in Zanesville, Indiana
“Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn others, or it will all come back against you. Forgive others, and you will be forgiven.
Luke 6:37 NLT
Kelley, Atlanta GA, “Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; He will never permit the righteous to be moved.” Psalm 55:22, ESV
Amelia
Atlanta, GA
“Cast your burden on the Lord, and He will sustain you; He will never permit the righteous to be moved.” Ps. 55:22 (ESV)
Ali – Milwaukee, WI
Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23 NIV
Karlyn Hillman
Almyra,AR
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
Tifton, Ga.
“May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer” Psalm 19:14, NIV
You thrill to God’s Word, you chew on scripture day and night. Psalm 1:2 CEV
“James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations: Greetings. Consider it pure joy by brothers whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.” James 1:1-3 NIV
Bobbie Sumter, SC
For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.
2 Timothy 1:7 NLT
Candice Porter
Huntington
Ezekiel 26, 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.
Judy from Connersville, Indiana –John 1:16 –From the fullness of His grace we have all received one blessing after another.
Barbara – Albuquerque, NM
Be still and know that I am God. I am exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. ESV
5 Therefore, since we have been made righteous through his faithfulness[a] combined with our faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 We have access by faith into this grace in which we stand through him, and we boast in the hope of God’s glory. 3 But not only that! We even take pride in our problems, because we know that trouble produces endurance, 4 endurance produces character, and character produces hope. 5 This hope doesn’t put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
Romans 5:1-5
West Palm Beach
John 14 verse 27
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Translation: Jinga, stop worrying GOD provides all your needs !
Amen!!!
Avis-Lone Star, Tx.
“Ah Lord God! Behold, Thou hast made the heavens and the earth by Thy great power and by Thine outstretched arm! Nothing is too difficult for Thee.”
Jeremiah 32:17
NAS
Jeanine from Tampa, FL “Know therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments;” Deuteronomy 7:9 (NASB)
Jessica B, Chapel Hill, NC
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
Romans 12:12 NIV
One [thing] I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His temple. Psalm 27:4 NKJV
Charlie – Mississippi
Psalm 119:9-11 NIV
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands.
I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.
Peggy Muse, Thompsons Station, TN…God is our refuge andn strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1 NIV84
Mildred, Bowling Green, KY
They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you and will rescue you,” declares the Lord. (Jeremiah 1:19 NIV)
Rebecca
Winchester, KY
“He brought me into a spacious place; He rescued me because He delighted in me.”
Psalm 18:19 NIV
Judy – Anna Tx
What then shall we say in response to this? If God is for us who can be against us?
Romans 8:31 NIV
Liz – DuBois, PA
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your request to God.
Philippians 4:6 NIV
Christi- Mineola,Texas
He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
Psalm 91:4 NIV
Terri in Little Rock Arkansas
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.” Isaiah 30:21 NIV
Jennifer- Savannah,Missouri
Do nothing out of selfish ambitionor vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also but also the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus. Philippians 2: 3-5 NIV
Cory, Las Vegas, NV
Be still and know that I am God! I will be honored by every nation, I will be honored throughout the world.
Psalm 46:10 NLT
Courtney LUhmann from Tappen North Dakota! MY VERSE for Jan 1st 2013 is
Blessed is the man who finds wisdom and blessed is the one who gets understanding….Proverbs 3:13 esv
“God blesses those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” (Matthew 5:4 NLT)
Dee Pierce, Wheaton, IL – Be still and know that I am God. Psalm. 46:10a, NIV