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
He said “Be still and know that I am God. I will be
exalted among the nations. I will be exalted on the
earth. Psalms 46:10. NIV
Kris Jansen, Germantown, WI
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
Matthew 7:7-8 (NIV)
Crystal Lord, Brandon, MS
“How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked nor stand in the way of sinners nor sit in the seat of scoffers, but his delight is in the law of the Lord and on His law he meditates day and night. He will be like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither, and in whatever he does, he prospers.”
Psalm 1:1-3
NASB
Right behind you a voice will say “This is the way you should go”. Isaiah 30:21 NLT
Michelle from Louisville Kentucky, “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of respect, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if something is excellent or praiseworthy, think about these things.” Phillipians 4:8 NET
Vicki Hall, Paducah, KY
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him. Ps 103:11 NIV
Jeannie from Atlanta, IN, Matthew 5:1-5 “Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying,:Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven, Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.” ESV
Rachel–Evansville, IN
“Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.” Col. 4:6 NIV
Erika — Valley Springs, South Dakota
“Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his father doing, because whatever the father does the Son also does.” John 5:19, NIV
Leise W, Waco, TX Psalms 13:5
But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. (NIV)
Cheryl N, Augusta, Ks Ps 119:114 “You are my shelter and my shield I put my hope in Your word.” Psalm 119:114 NIV
“I sought the Lord, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears.” Psalm 34:4 NIV
Kathryn from Dallas, Texas.
“But thanks be to God, who gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.” 1 Corinthians 15:57-58 (ESV)
Glenna from Jackson,OH. ‘I beseech you therefore, brethern, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Romans 12:1 KJV
Melissa Marks, Katy, TX
3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue
II Peter 1:3
Susie, from Atlanta, Georgia:
“Now faith is the assurance, the confirmation, the title deed of the things we hope for, being the proof of things we do not see and the conviction of their reality; faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses.”
Hebrews 11:1, AMP
Carrie H, San Angelo Tx
“Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans.” Proverbs 16:3 NIV
Exodus 15:2 NIV
“The Lord is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
Kirby from Parsons, KS
“Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.” James 1:22 NIV
Amy, Haskell, NJ
“I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?”
Jeremiah 32:27 NIV84
Kerri from Columbus, Georgia: “You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.” Psalm 65:11 NIV
I have chosen to memorize this one too. It has blessed me more than I thought!
Isaiah 55:8-9
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my way higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
NIV
Every time I think of you, I give thanks to my God.
–Philippians 1:3 NLT in loving memory of Carol Masters, the sweetest sister in Christ, who went home to be with Him January 13, 2013.
A merry heart does good like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones. Proverbs 17:22, NKJV
Gretchen from Dardanelle, AR
For the spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love, and self-discipline. 2 Timothy 1:7 NIV
Ellen; Fort Polk, LA
A fool gives full vent to his anger,but a wise man holds it in check. Proverbs 29:11
Lisa – Ozark, MO
2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV
…we take captive every thought and make it obedient to Christ.
Webb City, MO
We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.
2 Corinthians 10:5 NASB
Cheryse Santos, Miami , FL
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. 2 corinthians 12:9 NIV
Psalm 73: 3-4 NIV
3. things we have heard and known,
things our ancestors have told us.
4 We will not hide them from their descendants;
we will tell the next generation
the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord,
his power, and the wonders he has done.
Bethany-Hattiesburg, MS
The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.
Exodus 14:14 NIV
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 1 Corinthians 6:12 NKJV
Debbie – Warren, PA
Mark 12:28-29 TLB
One of the teachers of religion…asked, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
Jesus replied, “The one that says, ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only God.’
Debbie
Clinton, TN
Luke 10:27 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself. HCSB Apologetics Study Bible
Sarah of Pueblo West, CO-
“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 29:11
NIV
Loving this and learnig new verses without feeling overwhemed.
“Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?” Psalm 139: 7. HCSB
Pat, Greenville, Ky
Jill Bunn – Austin, TX
Philippians 4:4-7 ESV
Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say, Rejoice. Let your reasonableness be made known to everyone. The Lord is at hand. Do not be anxious about anything but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God, and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
Kendra – Dallas, TX
Matthew 21:22, NLT
“You can pray for anything, and if you have faith, you will receive it.”
Very true. I love this verse as it applied to my every day motto. Thanks
I will lift my eyes up to the hills- where does my help come from?
My help comes from The Lord,
Maker of Heaven and Earth.
Ps. 121:1. NIV
Emily- Quito, Ecuador!
Isaiah 61:1-2 (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,to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn”
Jessie – Rossville, Georgia
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in mercy. – NKJV
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he’s a new creation; old things have
passed away; behold, all things have become new. 2Corinthians 5:17 NKJV
Psalm 66:12
…we went through fire and water, but you brought us to a place of ABUNDANCE! 🙂
Allison- Jackson, MS
“Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer” Romans 12:12, ESV.
I love this one!
Jessica – Birmingham AL
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
Philippians 4:8 NIV
Kathy from Louisville.
John 10:9 (NIV)
I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. (Jehovah-raah)
Misti, McGregor, TX
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. Psalm 119: 10-11 NIV84
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. 2 Cor. 12:9 (NIV)
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John 1:1 NKJV
Amy – Custer, SD:
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)