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
Lori Yamada from Mililani, Hawaii
“Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.”
Proverbs 22:6 (NIV)
“So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”I Corinthians 10:31 NIV
Terri, PNG. “Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.” Psalm 143:10, NIV.
Damita from Houston, TX
Psalm 27:14 KJV
Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
Beth, White House, TN…1 Corinthians 10:31 Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. ESV
Mary
Woodway, TX
“For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.” Philippians 4:13 (NLT)
Psalm 119:9-11 NIV
How can a young person stay on the path of purity?
By living according to your word. 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.
Bridget, Portland, TX
“Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith”
Hebrews 12: 1b and 2a
Bridget Portland, TX
Verse for 15th…
“(Love) bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
1 Corinthians 13:7
NKJV
Hebrews 12:11 NIV No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
Michelle from Lakeland, Fl:
James 1:27 (NIV)
27 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.
I pray that from His glorious, unlimited resources He will empower you with inner strength through His Spirit. Ephesians 3:16 NLT
Autumn, Wetumpka. “Store tour treasures in heaven, where Smith and rust cannot destroy and theives do not break in and steal. Wherever your treasure is, there the desires if your heart will also be.” Matthew 6:20-21 NLT
Even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve,and give his life as a ransom for many.
Matthew 20:28
ESV
Stacey P., Houston, TX
“Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.”
PSALMS 103:1-5 ESV
Rebekah from Gardendale, AL
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments. Deuteronomy 7:9 NIV
Allison – Houston, Texas
Jeremiah 10:10-12 KJV
“But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under heavens. He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.”
Psalm 46:1-2a (NKJV)
God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore we will not fear,
Lindsay from Columbus, Tx
If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. James 1:5 NIV
Aubrey, Tuscaloosa, AL
“For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword. It penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the attitudes of the heart.”
Hebrews 4:12 (NIV)
Susan, Kiln, MS. 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 Chris, when we pray for you, because we have heard of the love you have for all God’s people- Colossians 1:1-4 NIV
Priscilla, Longview, “Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. Hebrews 10:23 NIV
Karen from Wildwood, MO
“Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth..”
Psalm 86:11 NIV
James 4 Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
NIV
Margaret from Champaign, IL
But I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love: for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.
O my Strength, I sing praise to you; You O God, are my fortress, my loving God.
Psalm 59:16,17 (NIV)
Hebrews 11:6 (NIV)
Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exist and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
James 3:17
But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure, then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.
Dawn from Allen, TX
…regarding his Son, who as to his human nature was a descendant of David, and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 1:3-4. NIV
Adina, Newnan GA
The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. Numbers 6:24-26
Kaiva, Chicago
Take control of what I say, O Lord, and guard my lips.
Don’t let me drift toward evil or take part in acts of wickedness.
Don’t let me share in the delicacies of those who do wrong.
Psalm 141:3,4 NLT
Carmen, Lake Charles, LA “I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.” Psalm 91:2
Joshua 1; 9
Jude 1; 20,21
April, Fort Worth, The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. For the director of music. On my stringed instruments., Habakkuk 3:19, NIV
Psalm 128:1-2. “Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in his ways. You will eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.” NIV
Kristin from Memphis, TN
“For the revelation awaits and appointed tim; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and not delay.” NIV
You crown the year with a bountiful harvest
Even the hard pathways overflow with abundance.
Psalm 65:11 NLT
Emilie Eaton, IN
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Romans 3:23-24 NIV
And the peace of God, which transcends all
understanding, will guard your hearts and
your minds in Christ Jesus.
Phil. 4:7 NIV
Jamie from Houston Texas. “The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.” Exodus 14:14 ESV
Marsha Gray
Jefferson, ME
“My sould melts from heaviness; strengthen me according to your word.”
Psalm 119:28 KJV
Amy from Horsham, PA:
“All praise to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is the source of every mercy and the God who comforts us. He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When others are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us.” 2 Corinthians 1:3&4 NLT
Kristen, Largo, FL: NAS “Calamity will surely overtake the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be punished.”
opps! That was Ps. 34:21
Lynchburg, VA
Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails. Proverbs 19:21 NIV
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it.” Isaiah 30:21
Jenny from Pearland TX
Isaiah 43:19 NLT
“For I am about to do something new. See I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in a dry wasteland.”
Proverbs 14:27 NAS “The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life that one may avoid the snares of death.”
From Chesterfield, VA
A wife of noble character, who can find? She is worth more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life.
– Proverbs 31:10-12 (NIV)
typed from memory!
Omaha, NE
“With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be.” (James 3: 9-10, NIV)
All your children shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the peace of your children. Isaiah 54:13 English Standard Version