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!Ā 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 moderatedĀ (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,Ā 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.Ā 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.Ā 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
Jasmin from Hereford, AZ
The LORD [is] my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he [is] my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him. –Exodus 15:2
Amy, Fishersville, Virginia
Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths; 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: 4-5, NIV
Rebekah, from Sayre, PA
“You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.”
Psalm 65:11 NIV
donna, woodstock, ga ….
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. Romans 8:1-2 ESV
I took Beth up on her verse….sorry I was late posting…
Mandy from Columbia, SC
Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.Psalm 65:11
Melanie from Hattiesburg, MS
With my whole heart I have sought You; Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments! Psalm 119:10 NKJV
Roz Parish, Columbus, OH “Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Matthew 6:34 NIV
Jennifer from Monroe “Trust in The Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make straight your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6. ESV
Joy—Bethlehem, GA
NIV
Romans 12:12
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the words of the wise bring healing. Proverbs 12:18
Lonna, Olympia WA
I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust. Psalm 91:2 (NIV)
Colleen from Bethalto, IL
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28 ESV
Kylie – Johnson City, TN
“I call on the Lord in my distress, and he answers me.” Psalm 120:1
Michelle J. from Bridge City, TX
The Lord will work out his plans for my life – for your faithful love, O Lord, endures forever. Don’t abandon me, for you made me. Psalms 138:8 NLT
Cinnamon Dixon California
You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast because he trusts in you.
Isaiah 26:3 NIV
Reva from Royse City, TX
Be kind to one another,tenderhearted, forgiving one another,as God in Christ forgave you.
Ephesians 4:32 ESV
Jen, Fredericksburg, VA.
“For I am the Lord, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear, I will help you.” Isaiah 41:13 NIV
Nicole from Naperville,IL. There is a wide-open door for a great work here, although many oppose me. 1 Corinthians 16:9 NLT
Sarah from San Angelo, Texas:
“Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Romans 5:1
Autumn from Normal, IL
“The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.” Exodus 14:14 (NIV)
Fran, Altadena, CA
Luke 5:5 NIV
Simon answered, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so I will let down the nets.”
Sherri Moore, Pueblo West, CO Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible. Matt 19:26 NIV
Martha from Houston, Texas
until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest. Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field. And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.
(Isaiah 32:15-17) ESV
Katie from Yuxi, China.
“Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is as sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.” Hosea 6:3 ESV
Summer, Midlothian, TX, – Nehemiah 1:11 – Oh LORD, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name. Give your servant success today by granting him favor in the presence of this man.
Anne from Topsham, Maine
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1 NIV
Renee Haberland, Menominee MI
Ephesians 4:29 (ESV)Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Lynn, Pittsburgh. “The name of the Lord is a strong tower; The righteous runs into it and is safe.” Ps. 18:10 NAS
Lauren, College Station, TX
“For He has delivered us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom ofnhisnbeloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.”
Colossians 1:13-14, ESV
Marilyn from Arlington, Texas
But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop. Luke 8:15 (NIV)
Newport News, Va You crown the year with ABUNDANT harvest, even the hard pathways overflow with ABUNDANCE Psa 65:11 NLT
Allison from Nashville, TN: Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. Proverbs 31:30 ESV
Tanya Moore, Somerville, TN
“Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters.” Romans 14:1 NIV
Rosa, Houston Texas:
Blessed are the undefiled in the way who walk in the law of the LORD.
Psalm 119:1
KJV
Rae from Greenwood,AR
“May the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you rule the peoples justly and guide the nations of the earth.” Psalm 67:4 NIV
Katherine from Sugar Hill, Georgia
“For I know what I have planned for you,’ says The Lord. ‘I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you a future filled with hope.” Jeremiah 29:11 (NET)
Jenn
Frederick, MD
Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free. The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?
Psalm 118:5-6
ESV
Angie
Montgomery, IL
“His children will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.”
Psalm 112:2 (New International Version)
Jane from Kennesaw, GA
To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified. Isaiah 61:3 NKJV
Lisa, Granbury, Texas
You crown the year with a bountiful harvest; even the hard pathways overflow with abundance.
Psalms 65:11 NLT
Anna, from Huntington, IN: Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.
āColossians 4:2 NLV
Anna from Sulphur, LA
Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of The Lord revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out if a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness, and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with fried, and we hid as it were our faces from him, he was despised and we esteemed him not.
Isaiah 53:1-3 KJV
Pam Houston Buena Park, CA
“Oh LORD, You have searched me and known me.”
Psalms 139:1 NASB
Cynthia, Russellville, Arkansas
Psalm 119:114 ESV
“You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in your word.”
“Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.”
-Psalm 143:8
Proverbs 24:10
If you do nothing in a difficult time, your strength is limited.
Michelle E., Elida
Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart. Colossians 4:2, NLT
Blanche from Pearland, TX
“When my heart is overwhelmed, lead me to the rock that is higher than I.” Psalm 61:2
Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Galatians 1:3-5 KJV
Cheri
Louisville, KY
Cheryl
Dallas
Genesis 12:1-3
Now the Lord said to Abram,
“Go forth from your country,
And from your relatives
And from your fatherās house,
To the land which I will show you;
And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so you shall be a blessing;
And I will bless those who bless you,
And the one who [c]curses you I will [d]curse.
And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.ā
NASB