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
Romans 8:32 NKJV
“He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things.”
Myrvin from Donalsonville,GA
Cast your cares on the Lord and He will sustain you. He will never let the righteous fall. Psalm 55:22 NIV
You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast because He trusts in you. Isaiah 26:3 NIV Kim D. Osler, Saskatchewan
Susan, Elk Grove Village, IL
“This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalm 118:24 NIV (1984)
Kaitlyn from Laurel, MS
“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Joshua 1:9 (ESV)
Kelly – St. Paul, MN
Deuteronomy 6:4-5 (MSG)
Attention, Israel!
God, our God! God the one and only!
Love God, your God, with your whole heart: love him with all that’s in you, love him with all you’ve got!
Krystal – Fredericksburg, VA
“Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.” Proverbs 12:25 ESV
Cindy in Pitsburg, Ohio
8-9 Summing it all up, friends, I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse. Put into practice what you learned from me, what you heard and saw and realized. Do that, and God, who makes everything work together, will work you into his most excellent harmonies.
Philippians 4:8-9 (MSG)
Ashley Pointer from Spring, Texas
You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone.
James 2:24 NIV
Rowena, Gulfport, Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. Proverbs 16:3 NIV
Rhonda – Houston
I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord,who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. Psalm 121:1-4 esv
“God is not unjust; He will not forget your work and the love you have shown Him as you have helped His people and continue to help them.” Hebrews 6:10 NIV
“I’ll convert weeping into LAUGHTER, lavishing COMFORT, invading grief with JOY!” Jeremiah 31:13 (The Message)
“I’ll convert your weeping into LAUGHTER, lavishing COMFORT, invading grief with JOY!” Jeremiah 31:13 (message)
Ashley – Nacogdoches, TX
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
– Galatians 5:1, NIV
Marceil from Cedar Rapids, IA: Establish Your word to Your servant as that which produces reverence for You. Ps. 119:38 NAS
Pamela – Olathe, KS
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” – James 4:7-8 ESV
Toni Reno – Jay, OK
Psalms 65:11 (NIV)
You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.
Gina, Wilson, NC
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. Proverbs 1:7 NIV
Just trying to find out how i get signed up:)
You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Lee Ann Wahpeton, North Dakota
“Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight, everything is uncovered and laid bre before the eyes of him to when we must give account.”
Hebrews 4:13 NIV
Jan 11, 2013
Blair | Arlington, TX
“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”
Psalm 73:26 NIV
jaimee, madisonville
“Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do, forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13-14, NIV
Lesley – Rockhampton Queensland
“Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise Him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.” KJV
Rhonda B, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1 Cor 10:23 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive. (NIV)
And my God will supply your every need according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
–New English Translation
“Verily, Verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” – John 3:3 ESV
Rochester Hills, MI
“Verily, Verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” – John 3:3 ESV
Laura E. Duluth, GA
Deuteronomy 6:5-7 (NASB)
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.
Sue from Thompsons Station, TN
In the morning You hear my voice, O Lord; in the morning I prepare a prayer, a sacrifice for You and watch and wait for You to speak to my heart. Psalm 5:3 – Amplified Bible
Dallas, TX “The Lord your God in your midst, the Mighty One will save, He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet your heart with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing” Zeph 3:17NKJV
Melanie, Chattanooga, Tn
Psalms 65:11 NIV
You crown the year with your bounty, your carts overflow with abundance.
So whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.
2 Corinthians 5:17 NAB
Wendy from Little Rock Arkansas, Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. Hebrews 11:1 NIV
Psalm 46:10 “Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth”. NIV
You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance. Ps. 65:11, NIV
Bren, Atlanta, GA
“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)
Sonya – Vancouver, BC
“Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he’s the one who will keep you on track.” (Proverbs 3:6, MSG)
Lillian, Nampa, Idaho, Mark 11:24 “Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. (NIV)
Claire
Boise, ID
The Lord your God is with you,
He is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
He will quiet you with his love,
He will rejoice over you with singing.
Zephaniah 3:17 NIV
Megan, Prattville, AL
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; (Isaiah 40:29, 30 NIV)
Melissa, Colorado Springs, CO
Heaven and earth will disappear but my words will never disappear. Mark 13:31 NLT
Maryann, Norwood, MA, “Love must be sincere, Hate what is evil, cling to what is good.”
Romans 12:9 NIV
Melissa, Houston, “Therefore if any man is in Christ he is a new creation the old things have passed away; behold all things are made new” 2 Corinthians 5:17
Ann from Columbus, Georgia: Enoch walked with God; then he was gone because God took him. Genesis 5: 24, God’s Word Translation.
Lisa from Kokomo,In “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. John 14:27 NKJV
Katie from Columbus, TX: “All a person’s ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the Lord.” Proverbs 16:2 NIV
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Tiffany A., Chattanooga, TN, Psalm 46:10 “Be still, and know that I AM God!” (NRSV)