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
Allison from Jersey Village
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Mark 16:15 ESV
Evin from Fort Worth, Texas
You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.
Isaiah 26:3 NIV
I am counting on The Lord; yes, I am counting on him. I have put my hope in his word. (Psalms 130:5 NLT)
Arlette, Cheney,
“You are My witnesses,” says the Lord, “and My servant whom I have chosen, that you may know Me, believe Me and remain steadfast to Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after Me.”
~ Isaiah 42:10, AMP
Kansas City
Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
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.
And the presence of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Leslie Tatum, Post, Texas
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging symbol.”
1 Corinthians 13:1 NIV
Sally from Denver says,
” For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”. Rom. 8:38,39
Amy Williams
Alma, AR
Isaiah 30:18 ESV
“Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.”
Sue from Norwood
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Phil 4:7 NRSV
(sorry for hitting send too soon in my first post and leaving off my town and my citation!)
Rebecca from Moline, IL
Be still and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.
Psalm 46:10 (NIV)
Kirby from Parsons, KS “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” John 13:34 NIV
Michelle Killebrew, Edmond ok. Jeremiah 29:11 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 peace and a future. (NLT)
Misty Sanders, North Charleston
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
Romans 12:12 NIV
Isaiah 49:15 NLT
“Never! Can a mother forget her nursing child? Can she feel no love for the child she has borne? But even if that were possible, I would not forget you!
Janice from Platte City , MO
“As long as the earth endures,
seed-time and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night
will never cease.”
Genesis 8:22
1st Peter 2:16-17: Live as free men but do not use your freedom as a cover up for evil; live as servants of God. Show proper respect to everyone: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the King”.NIV
Jennifer Shuler – White, GA
“You crown the year with a bountiful harvest; even the hard pathways overflow with abundance!” Psalm 65:11 NLT
(I posted my verse Jan 2nd, but when I checked it, it still said comment awaiting moderation… So I’m reposting.)
Catherine from Granada Hills, CA Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works within us. Ephesians 3:20 NASB
Krystina Wise
Lees Summit, MO
Proverbs 20:9; 28:13,14 (NIV)
Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am clean and without sin”? He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy. Blessed is the man who always fears the LORD, but he who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
Amy from Atlanta:
He will cover you with His feathers; you will take refuge under His wings. His faithfulness will be a protective shield.
Psalm 91:4 (HCSB)
“Everything is permissible for me”—but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me”—but I will not be mastered by anything. I Cor. 6:12 NIV
I Peter 1:6″In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith–of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by the fire–may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.”
Chris from Des Moines
If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
Even there Your hand shall lead me,
And Your right hand shall hold me.
Psalm 139: 9 – 10 NKJV
Wendy-Longmont CO
“Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us.”
Psalm 62:8 NKJV
Sandra Borgen, Lidgerwood, ND “Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.” Hebrews 12:11 KJV
Melinda M. from Wichita, KS
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Gal 6:9 NIV
Amy from Minneapolis, MN
“I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”
Psalm 139:14 NIV
My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that GOd desires. James 1:19-20 NIV
He has shown you , oh man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To walk justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8 NIV
Deja from knoxville tn. “but i said ” i have labored to no purpose; i have spent my strength in vain and for nothing. yet what is due me is in the lord’s hand, and my reward is with my God.” Isaiah 49:4 NIV.
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
Debra in WDM IA You crown the yr
with your bounty, & your carts overflow with
abundance. Psalm 65:11. NIV
“When I am afraid, I will trust in you , O Lord.”
Psalm 56:3 NIV
Marla From Missouri
Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account.
Romans 4:8 NASB
Andrea from Vivian, LA
“Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil, cling to what is good.” Romans 12:9 NET
Eph 4:1-2 NIV
As a prisoner for The Lord then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
“The LORD your God is with you,
he is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
he will quiet you with his love,
he will rejoice over you with singing.”
ZEPHANIAH 3 : 17 NIV
So sorry this is late yall! Please accept this verse! Thamk you and have a blessed week!
And when He had removed him, He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, “I have found David, son of Jesse, a man after my own heart who will do all my will.”
Acts13:22 NKJV
Isa 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace,whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. kjv
Chrissie from Minden, LA She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future. (Proverbs 31:25 NLT)
Lori from Elgin, TX
“She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.””
Genesis 16:13
NIV
February 18,2013 Hamburg, AR
NRSV Jeremiah 29:11
For surely I know the plans I have for you,says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give a future with hope.
Karen K. in Houston, TX – Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands; Rev 1:12 NASB
Andi from Plano, TX
Galatians 5:22-23
NIV
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Patti, Ft. Worth, TX
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom.
2 Corinthians 3:17 (NIV)
Jeremiah 23:29 NASB
“Is not My word like fire?” declares the L ord , “and like a hammer which shatters a rock?
Alexandra (Sacramento):
Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. Matthew 7:7 (NLT)
“For the LORD’s portion is His people.” Deuteronomy 32:9a “You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him Who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” 1Peter 2:9 NASB
Therefore, if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any commo sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, the. Make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and having one mind. Philippians 2:1-2 NIV