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
Melissa,Tupelo, MS, So he answered and said “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” Luke 10:27NIV
Christa, Ambler PA
Fear not for I have redeemed you. I have called you by name and you are mine. 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 the fire you will not be burned, the flames will not set you ablaze. Isaiah 3: 1b&2 (NIV)
Becky from Richmond, Va–Trust in the Lord and do what is good; dwell in the land and live securely. Psalm 37:3 HCSB
And, I love you. All of you.
I have learned to be content in whatever circumstance I am. Philippians 4:11 (HCSB)
Julie Hayes- Muskogee OK- I have learned to be content in whatever circumstance I am. Philippians 4:11 (HCSB)
Tammy Massirer, Crawford, TX. “I have called to You, O God, for you will answer me. Listen to me and hear my words.” Psalm 17:6 NLV
Sally, Muskogee, OK. “Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always.” Psalm 105:4 (NIV)
Jennifer from Portland, OR
2 Timothy 3:16-17 NIV
All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Sherry from Virginia Beach, VA
1 Thessalonians 5:15-17
Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
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Sherry from Virginia Beach, VA
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 NIV
Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
Centreville, VA
Philippians 1:6 NASB
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
Savananh from Raleigh, NC. “She is clothed with strength
and dignity and she laughs without fear of the future.”
Proverbs 31:25 (NLT)
Pat, Vicksburg, Ms
Jeremiah 29:11 NKJ
For I know the thoughts I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Britney, Huntertown Indiana, “The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged” Deut. 31:8, NIV
For I know the plans I have for you declares The Lord. Plans to prosper you & not to harm you, plans to give you hope & a future. Jeremiah 29:11, NIV
Tara from Hot Springs, AR – “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)
Kim from Euless, Tx
Isaiah 60:2 GNB
Other nations will be covered by darkness, but on you the light of the Lord will shine. The brightness of his presence will be with you.
Candie from Gulfport, ms
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV
Coppell, TX
Psalm 86:15 NIV
You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.
Caroline, Dallas, TX
Psalm 86:7 NIV
In the day of my trouble I will call to you, for you will answer me.
“Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you.
Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.”. Psalm 143:8
Hope Ekholm, Redding, CA, “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God” Ephesians 2:8, ESV
Nikki, Lewisville, “for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come” ~1 Timothy 4:8
Mark 9:35 NIV
Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be last and servant of all.”
Julie Luttrull, Muskogee, Oklahoma, And the God of all grace, who called you, to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm, and steadfast.
1 Peter 5 :10 NIV
Lorraine,Ontario,Canada
Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for the people.Colossians 3:23.
Carmen
Lake Charles LA
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. Ephesians 4:32 NIV84
Cindy B, Yakima
“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.”
Acts 17:24, NIV
From North Las Vegas, You keep him in perfect peace
whose mind is stayed on you,because he trusts in you.
Isaiah 26:3 ESV
Frances, Yonges Island, SC. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness, come into His presence with singing. Know ye, that the Lord He is God: it is He that hath made us and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise: for the Lord is good, his mercy is everlasting and his truth endureth to all generations. Psalm 100:1-5,KJV
” …fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” – 2 Cor 4:18 NIV
Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. Proverbs 4:23 TNIV
Cindy from Clute, TX: “Then he said to them all: Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.” – Luke 9:23 NIV
Sandra from Lidgerwood, ND “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” – 2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
Meredith, Wilmington,NC Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.” John3:5-6 NIV84
Phil. 3:10-11 (NIV84)
I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death, and so somehow to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Narelle, Lima, Peru. The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him”. Lamentations 3:22-24 ESV
Ginger from Omaha,NE
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance.? Psalm 65:11 NIV
Nare – London, UK – And now to him who can do immeasurably more than we can ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us. (Ephesians 3:20 NIV)
For whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. 1John3:20 ESV
Jess
Hummelstown, Pa
“No one lights a lamp and hides it in a jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, he puts it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light.” Luke 8:16
Kimberly
Hummelstown, Pa
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”
Joshua 1:9 NIV 1984
DeeDee from Madison, Al
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
Nobody should seek his own good but the good of others. I Corinthians 10:24 NIV
A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones. Proverbs 14:30 NIV
Linda Montague
Navarre, Florida
Philippians 4:13 NKJV
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me..
Jeannie – Virginia
We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps.
Proverbs 16:9 NLT
Lisa Holeman, Marion, KY. 2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Sandy from New Market, AL …”May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to you, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.” Psalm 19:14…NASB
Iuka, MS He has told you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord really wants from you: He wants you to promote justice, to be faithful, and to live obediently before your God. -Micah 6:8 NET
Abby Hughes – Rogersville , TN- ” She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she can laugh at the days to come.” Proverbs 31:25 , NIV