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
Ellen K, Findlay, OH
Both riches and honor come from You and You rule over all
and in Your hand is power and might and it lies in your hand to make great and to strengthen everyone.
1 Chronicles 29:12 NASB
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake. (Psalms 23:1-3 NKJV)
Cathy, Gig Harbor
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5 NIV
Cathy, Gig Harbor, WA
But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God’s unfailing love for ever and ever.
Psalm 52:8 NIV
Awilda R. Acuff, College Station, TX
Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Colossians 3:1 (NIV 1984)
Awilda R. Acuff, College Station, TX
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. Colossians 3:2 (NIV 1984)
Awilda R. Acuff, College Station, TX
For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. Colossians 3:3 (NIV 1984)
Awilda R. Acuff, College Station, TX
When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. Colossians 3:4 (NIV 1984)
Angi Jones from Bremen, GA
“Even so on your part, when you have done everything that was assigned & commanded you,say,’We are unworthy servants (possessing no merit for we have not gone beyond our obligation) we have (merely) done what was our duty to do.'”
Luke 17:10 AMP
Ann W.from Walker,LA says:
And Jesus said to him,’If you can,all things are possible
to him who believrs.’
March 1,20132@3:44 A,M, (NAS)
Kim M. from Lake Orion, MI. James 4:1-3
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
Teach me your way, O LORD, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name. Ps 86:11 ESV
Tammy Willner, Caddo Mills, TX
But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
James 1:4 NKJV
Wendie from Lagrange, KY
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
Psalm 51:10-12 (KJV)
Melody-La Grange, KY
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
Romans 8:15. ESV
He reached down from on high and took hold of me, He drew me out of deep waters. He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me. They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the Lord was my support. He brought me out into a spacious place, He rescued me because He delighted in me.
Debbie from Lisle, Illinois
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:4-6 (NIV)
Stacey Walsh in Greenville, TX
Isaiah 40:31 NIV
But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Merriman — Atlanta,Ga
Isaiah 41:13 NIV
For I am The Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, DO NOT FEAR; I WILL HELP YOU!
Vicki, Ann Arbor MI
Your throne was established long ago;
you are from all eternity.
Ps 93:2 NIV
Amie Martin, Seymour, TN
“Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other.” Romans 12:10 (NLT)
Diane Wadsworth, Pleasant Grove, AL
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
James 1:6 NIV
and when he asks he must believe and not doubt because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea blown and tossed by the wind.
DaWanna Landry
Orange,Texas
Let me hear of your unfailing love each morning, for I am
trusting you. Show me where to walk, for I give myself to you.
Psalm 143:8 NLT
Marla, Bolivar, MO
The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
Psalm 17:7 NASV
Jane Northfield, MN. Deut. 6:18 NIV Do what is right and good in the Lord’s sight, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take over the good land that the Lord promised on oath to your forefathers.
Linda, Allen TX
With what shall I come before the Lord and bow down before the exalted God? And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:6,8 NIV
Jan & Brentt, from Pekin, IL
One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek Him in His temple.
Ps 27:4 NIV
Jeremiah 29: 11 NLT
“For I know the plans I have for you”, declares the Lord. “Plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
James 1:12-15 ESV Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial for when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life which God has promised to those who love Him. Let no one say when he is tempted, ‘I am being tempted by God’ for God cannot be tempted with evil, and He himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived brings forth sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us,
so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures
and the encouragement they provide we might
have hope. Romans 15:4 NIV
Tamara from Marietta, GA
Tamara from Marietta, GA
I 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.
Quitman, GA
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who cones to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him ” Hebrews 11:6, NIV 88
Kimberly – Carlsbad, CA
Those who look to Him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame. Psalm 34:5 NIV
In honor of my 10th Wedding Anniv The Lord has blessed me!!
Kristin – Forney TX
Romans 12:10 Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other (NLT)
God Bless 🙂
Donna, Abilene
Do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourself to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. Romans 6:13 NASB
Lisa from Leesburg, FL
“This hope will not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.” – Romans 5:5 HCSB
Pam Greene, Mazie KY
I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer ; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust ; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
Psalm 18:1-2 KJV
Do not judge, and you will not be judged: and do not condemn, and you will not be condemned: pardon and you will be pardoned.
Luke 6:37
NASB
Kelly from Denver…
Kelly from Denver..
Do not judge and you will not be judged and do not condemn and you will not be condemned, pardon and you will be pardoned.
Luke 6:37
NASB
Linda Jewell, Sedona, AZ
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 40:3 NIV
“But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. I will sing unto the Lord, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.”
Psalm 13:5-6
Kelsey Jones
Houston, Texas
“Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave nor forsake you.”
Deuteronomy 31:6, NIV
“Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves.”
Romans 12:10, NIV
Trish
Paintsville KY
“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.”
Psalm 119:105
Karen S, Garnet Valley, PA, “Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of The Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.” Psalms 1:1-2, NIV.
Sue from Norwood, MA
“Be strong and courageous, do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9 NRSV
March 1 verse: John 15:15 KJV “Henceforth, I call you not servants, for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known to you.”
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.
Psalm 119:105
NIV
Joy from Lubbock, Texas:
“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.” 2 Cor. 12:9 NIV
Pat, Vicksburg
“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28 NKJ