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
Rachel Wanzer, Owasso, OK Psalm 90:17 NKJV
“And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us,
And establish the work of our hands for us;
Yes, establish the work of our hands.”
Theresa, Cincinnati, Do not be afraid of the enemy; ernestly remember the Lord and imprint Him on your minds, great and terrible, and take from Him courage to fight for your brethern, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes. Neh 4:14b, Amp
Norka – Mississauga, Ontario
Finally, brethren,whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue, and if there is anything praiseworthy – medidate on these things.
Philippians 4:8, NKJ
Lindsay from Eugene, Oregon
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 (NIV)
From Hopedale
“So we must listen very carefully to the truth we have heard, or we may drift away from it.” Hebrews 2:1 NLT
Pensacola,Florida
Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3: 22-23 NIV
Katie, Kentucky
“Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” – Isaiah 43:18-19 NKJV
Amy
Lufkin
2 Timothy 2:24
And the Lord’s servant must not quarrel; instead he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful.
“May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.” Psalm 19:14
Amy from Lufkin
Psalm 62:8
Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.
Paulette, Ramstein
For with God nothing will be impossible. Luke 1:37 NKJV
Paulette, Ramstein
The Lord will perfect that which concerns me; your mercy, O Lord, endures forever; Do not forsake the works of your hands.
Paulette, Ramstein
The Lord will perfect that which concerns me; your mercy, O Lord, endures forever; Do not forsake the works of your hands. Ps 138:8 NKJV
Paulette, Ramstein
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. 2 Tim 1:7 NKJV
Jen from Round Rock, TX
Proverbs 3:5-6 NAS
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight.
Michelle from Philly, PA – People who cover over their sins will not prosper; but if they confess and turn from them, they will receive mercy. Proverbs 28: 13 NLT
“He will cover you with His feathers and under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.” Psalm91:4 NIV
Beth from Woodstock,Ga
“Remember this, my dear friends! Everyone must be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to become angry. Human anger does not achieve God’s righteous purpose.”
James 1:19-20 GNT
Diane from Pleasant Grove, Alabama
Have you never heard? Have you never understood? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary. No one can measure the depths of His understanding.
Isaiah 40:28, NLT
Krystina Wise
Lees Summit, MO
Proverbs 15:1,18 (NIV)
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger…A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict, but the one who is patient calms a quarrel.
Deborahann – From sun City West, AZ
Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee your presence; If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there.
Psalm 139: 7-8 NASV
Sara, Plymouth, IN
“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. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12: 9-10 TNIV
Arlette, Cheney, WA
I waited patiently for the Lord;
he turned to me and heard my cry.
He lifted me out of the slimy pit,
out of the mud and mire;
he set my feet on a rock
and gave me a firm place to stand.
He put a new song in my mouth,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear
and put their trust in the Lord.
~ Psalm 40:1-3, NIV
Cindi from Amanda, Oh
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 2:20
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
Proverbs 27:17 NLT
Aimee from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
Stacey from Cumby, TX
1 Peter 5:7 NIV
“Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.”
Tanya, Kokomo, IN
“Trust in the Lord with all you heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all thy ways, acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5,6 (NIV)
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, on your own intelligence do not rely: Proverbs 3:5 NAB
Shannon from Thompson’s Station:
Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding. In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths. (Proverbs 3:5-6 AMP)
Jennifer
Sulphur, Louisiana
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
1 John 4:4 NIV84
Amanda Keith from Platte City, MO
Ephesians 5:8 NIV
“For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light.”
from North Charleston, SC
The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.
Exodus 14:14 NIV
“Those who sow in tears will reap in joy and singing.”
Psalm 126:5
Wendy-Longmont, CO
Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; 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 43:1b-2
St. Catharines, Ontario, CANADA
2nd Corinthians 1:4 NCV
He comforts us every time we have trouble, so when others have trouble, we can comfort them with the same comfort God gives us.
Caitlin from Madison, MS
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleanness, and from your idols I will cleanse you.
Ezekiel 36:25 (ESV)
Michelle, Buda, Texas
“For nothing is impossible with God.” Luke 1:37 (NIV)
The Lord is my Shepard, I shall not be in want. Psalm 23:1 NIV
Sally from Denver says,
“In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.” Romans 8:37
Crystal | Nashville, TN
“And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:19 (NIV)
Biloxi, MS
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.
1 John 4:18 NKJV
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Phil. 4:7 NIV
Karen, Knoxville, TN
“So we fix our eyes on not what is seen, but on what is unseen; for what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”
2 Corinthians 4:18 (NIV)
Brandi, Fayetteville, NC
When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought,
“Surely The Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it.”
Genesis 28:16 (NIV)
Central, LA.
Exodus 14:14
The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.
Nkj
Julie B from Findlay, OH
Galatians 5:1 (NIV)
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm then and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
Deuteronomy 28:9. KJV
The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of The Lord thy God, and walk in his ways
Gloria, Cleveland Ohio
Dina, Ozark, Arkansas
Psalms 46:1-4 NIV
God is my refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the sea, though it’s waters roar and foam and the mount ass’s ins quake with their surging. There is a river whose streams make glade the city of God the holy place where the most high dwells.
I’m so embarrassed my spell checker on my phone is so stupid. So sorry I didn’t see the typo till it posted.
And here is mine, albeit a bit late: 1 Corinthians 13:6-7. Love does not delight in evail but rejoices with the truth.It always protects,always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.