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
This is the day the Lord has made; let us REJOICE and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24 NIV
Saskatoon,Sk. Canada
Jamie: Brentwood, TN
“I have swept away your sins like a cloud. I have scattered your offenses like the morning mist. Oh, return to me, for I have paid the price to set you free.”-
Isaish 44:22 (NLT)
I have not departed from the commands of his lips….
Job 23:12 NIV
Angela, Carlsbad NM
Mathew 6:34 NIV
Don’t worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough oubles of it’s own.
Jan (&Brentt!) from Pekin, IL
“For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill His good purpose.”
Phil 2:13 NIV
Jennifer- Menomonee Falls, WI
Proverbs 11:2
“When pride comes, then comes disgrace,
but with humility comes wisdom.”
(NIV)
They will see his face and his name will be written on their foreheads. Rev.22:4-NIV
Nancy, Dallas
Be anxious for nothing-but in everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Phil 4:6 (Nasb95)
Cassie Ball – Dadeville, Alabama
I led them with cords 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
Hosea 11:4 NIV
And God is able to make all grace abound to you so that in all things at all times having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. 2 Corinthians 9:8
“If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless. ”
James 1:26 (ESV)
Janet from Georgetown, TX
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Romans 12:12 NIV
Emily from Atlanta: Isaiah 58:10 And if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise up in the darkness, and your night will be like the noonday. NIV
giving thanks to the father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 1:12-14 (NIV)
Sharon, Redmond, WA
By this I know you delight in me; my enemy will not shout in triumph over me. But you have upheld me because of my integrity and set me in your presence forever.
Psalm 41:11-12 ESV
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and when you pass through the rivers they will not sweep you over. When you walk through the fire you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. For I am the Lord, your God the holy one of Israel, your Savior. Isaiah 43: 2-3a NIV
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you and watch over you. Psalms 32:8 NIV
Mackenzie from Seattle, WA
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” -Philippians 4:13 (NKJV)
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:22 NIV
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. Mark 11:24 NIV
De Ann, Sacramento, CA , He is the God who made the world and everything in it. Since he is Lord of heaven and earth, he doesn’t live in man-made temples, and human hands can’t serve his needs – for he has no needs. He himself gives life and breath to everything, and he satisfies every need there is. Acts 17 24-25 NLT
Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God, may Your good spirit lead me on level ground. Psalm 143:10 (NIV)
Lorraine,Ontario,Canada,Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to GOD.Phillipians 4:6 NIV
Finally, brethren, whatsoever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, it there is any excellence, and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. Phil.4:8. NASB
Heidi – Littleton, CO
“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
Mickey, Blue Springs, MO
Psalm 65:11 NIV
You crown the year with Your bounty; and your carts overflow with abundance.
Carmen, Lake Charles, Louisiana you must let no unwholesome word come out of your mouth, but only what is beneficial for the building up of the one in need, that it may give grace to those who hear. Ephesians 4:29 NET
Barb from Carlsbad: “Commit your works to the Lord, and your thoughts will be established.” Prov. 16:3 NKJV
Eva
Tuskahoma, OK
O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
Isaiah 25:1
KJV
Phillipians 4:19
And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus -NASB
Ann from Lewistown, PA
Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand. 2 Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth. 3 For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 And when Christ, who is your[a] life, is revealed to the whole world, you will share in all his glory. Col 3: 1-4 (NLT)
Yet Melissa; Columbus, OH
I prefer to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God. Job 13:3 HCSB
Mark 11:24 NLT
I tell you, you can pray for anything, and if you believe that you’ve received it, it will be yours.
Sally Fountain
Douglasvillle, GA
Rhonda Vandergriff — Jackson MO
“Unto Thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.” Psalm 25:1 KJV
“And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:7 NIV
Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. John 14:27 (NASB)
“The Lord directs the steps of the Godly. He delights in every detail of their lives.”. Psalms 37:23 NLT
Kiley – Tuscaloosa, Alabama
For the Lord is God, and he created the heavens and earth and put everything in place. He made the world to be lived in, not to be a place of empty chaos. “I am the Lord ,” he says, “and there is no other.” (Isaiah 45:18 NLT)
Marianne from Normal, IL
“Do not fear, for I am with you. Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you. Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10 NASB
I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in Him I will trust.” Ps. 91:2 NKJV
Name; Amanda Porter
City: Lubbock, Texas
Verse: Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
Reference; Ephesians 4:29
Translation: NKJV
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge HIm and He will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3: 5-6 NIV
Lori-Riverside, CA
“For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.” 2 Timothy 1:7 NLT
Michelle, CO- NIV Rom. 12:2: Do not conform 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 and perfect will.
Kayla – MedellĂn, Colombia
And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ – to the glory and praise of God.
Philippians 1:9-11 (NIV)
Colleen -Osler, Sk Canada
1 Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth. 2 Worship the Lord with gladness; come into his presence with singing. 3 Know that the Lord is God. It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, bless his name. 5 For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
Psalm 100 (NRS version)
Jayme from Buda TX
John 15:5
I am the vine you are the branches, he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing. NASB
Ashley, Petersburg
“The Lord will fight for you, you need only to be still.” Exodus 14:14 (NIV)
Rachel from Mukilteo, WA “So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.” Phil. 2:1-2 ESV
Frances, Yonges Island, SC
Therefore since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and sin which clings so closely and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:1-2, ESV