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
Debbie, Kokomo, IN. “When you pass through the waters I will be with you, and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through fire, you will not be burned.” Isaiah 43:2 NKJV
Rebecca, Louisa, VA
But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever,
the purposes of His heart through all generations.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people He chose for His inheritance. ~ Psalm 33:11-12, NIV
Waukesha, WI
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 2Cor 5:17
Oops,version is NIV
Yes, NIV version. I
It is my 9-11 verse.
Psalm 91:1
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
Jennifer, Houston, TX
“Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To God’s Holy people in Colossae, the faithful brothers and sisters in Christ: Grace and peace to you from God our Father.
We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God’s people”
Colossians 1:1-4 (NIV)
(taking the challenge of memorizing the book of Colossians via Ann Voskamp at aholyexperience.com)
Sarah Gibbs Bowling Green, KY
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. Colossians 3:12-13 ESV
“For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun. Do you not see it? I will make a pathway in the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.”
Isaiah 43:19 NLT
Andi, Lincoln NE
Fay–Ozark, MO
Know also that wisdom is sweet to your soul; if you find it, there is a future hope for you and your hope will not be cut off.
Proverbs 24:14 NIV
Kellie from Castroville Texas, For The Lord your God is living among you. He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With his love, he will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs. Zephaniah 3:17 NLT
Stephanie from Cedar Rapids, Iowa
1-2 So hereās what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary lifeāyour sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around lifeāand place it before God as an offering.
Romans 12:1 The Message
Vicki from Peoria, IL
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
James 1:27 NIV
Piper
Hickory, NC
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. Romans 15:13 kjv
So excited!!!
Rene’ Pingel from Cape Girardeau, MO: Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men. Colossians 3:23 NIV
Lori from Athens,Ga.
“An angry person stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered person commits many sins.
Pride brings a person low, but the lowly in spirit gain honor.”
Proverbs 29:22-23 NIV
Stephanie from Lebanon, TN
Speak to the entire Israelite community and tell them: Be holy because I, Yahweh your God, am holy.
Leviticus 19:2 HCSB
Kathy
Danvers, MA
Psalms 84:7 NIV
They go from strength to strength,
till each appears before God in Zion.
Tracy, Carthage, TN The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever. Isaiah 40:8 NASB
Jocelyn Stainback – Fort Dix, NJ (but currently in Atlanta for PASSION!)
“You call me ‘teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and you are right, for so I am. If I than, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash on another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.” ~ John 13:13-15 ESV
Phyllis, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
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 NIV
Kathy, Greer.
You who serve God, praise God!
Just to speak his name is praise.
Ps 113:1
Lynne from Richmond, Virginia
“The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace”.
Romans 8:6 NIV
Amanda from Lexington, KY
Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him. James 1:12 NIV
Cheryl, Naperville, IL
However, it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him” 1 Corinthians 2:9 NIV
Kim from Tuscaloosa, AL
My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. John 10:27-28 (NASB)
Jen Evans from Seville, OH -Correction to verse location- Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful. Colossians 3:15 NASB
Marcia, San Clemente, CA
And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. Jer 29:13. NKJV
Sarah from Melbourne, Fl
āBut blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.ā
Jer 17:7-8 NIV
Terri,Pleasant Hope, MO
Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts. Isaiah 26:8 NIV84
‘You in Your mercy and lovingkindness have led forth the people whom You have redeemed; You have guided them in Your strength to Your holy habitation.”
Exodus 15:13
Dawn Welch, Canton, GA
No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
1 Corinthians 10:13 NIV
Stacey from Sicklerville, NJ
Revelation 1:3 “God blesses the one who reads the words of this prophecy to the church, and he blesses all who listen to its message and obey what it says, for the time is near. NLT
Dana, Ozark, MO
You’re blessed when you stay on course, walking steadily on the road revealed by God. Psalm 119:1 The Message
Memphis,TN
my son, perserve sound judgement and discernment, do not let them out of your sight; they will be life for you, an ornament to grace your neck. Then you will go on your way in safety, and your foot will not stumble.
Joyce Davidson from Big River, Saskatchewan, Canada
“I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life.
Deuteronomy 30:20 NIV
The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; he devout are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death. Isaiah 57:1-2. NIV
Jill, McDonough, Ga. “You crown the year with Your goodness, and Your paths drip with abundance.” Psalm 65:11
Annette, Stouffville ON Canada
Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue
Keeps his soul from troubles.
Prov. 21:23 NKJV
Teena
Cypress, TX
“I will give You thanks with all my heart; I will sing Your praise before the heavenly beings.” ~ Psalm 138:1 HCSB
Barb from Richardson, TX
I will meditate on Your precepts and think about Your ways. I will delight in Your statutes
I will not forget Your word. Psalm 119:15-16 HCSB
Traci from Evansdale, IA “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
Oops….. NIV!
Donna from Springfield, MO, “Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.” Micah 7:8 NIV
Dawn, from Clinton, PA
Do all things without grumbling or disputing that you may be blameless and innocent children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation among whom you shine as lights in the world.
Phil. 2:14-15 ESV
Debbie … Marion, Indiana
“O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.” Psalm 139:1 (NIV)
who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, who do you worry about the rest? Luke 12:25-26 NIV
O Lord Almighty, blessed is the man who trusts in you.
Psalm 84:12 NIV
Christy from Holland, Michigan
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
Because of the Lordās faithful love we do not perish, for His mercies never end.
Lamentations 3:22 HCSB
Marie from Albuquerque, NM “Blessed is she who has believed what The Lord has said to her will be accomplished.” NIV
Kristine from Cincinnati, ohio
Praise be to the Lord God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds. Praise be to His glorious Name forever; may the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen and Amen.
Psalm 72:18-19
Lauren from Chicago, IL — “Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God.” Psalm 31:5, ESV