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
Cheryl, Augusta Ks., 2 Peter 1:5-8 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness, and to goodness knowledge and to knowledge, self control and to self control perseverance, and to perseverance godliness, and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness love. 2 Peter 1:5-8 NIV
Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, so we may sing for joy to the end of our lives.
Psalm 90:14 NLT
Psalms 126:4 & 5
Restore our fortunes, Lord, as streams renew the desert. Those who plant in tears will harvest with shouts of joy.
Jennifer Hand from Liberty, NC
We understand what love is when we realize that Christ gave his life for us. That means we must give our lives for other believers. 1 John 3:16 GWT
Isaiah 59:21
“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord. “My Spirit, who is on you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of their descendants from this time on and forever.” says the Lord.
Kristin from Trinidad, CO:
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. John 15:5 KJV
Carol; Pierre, SD
James 1:12-15 NKJV
Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.
For the Lord God gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. Proverbs 2:6 NIV
I lift up my eyes to the hills – where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. Psalm 121:1-2 NIV
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Proverbs 31:30 NIV
Christin Carroll from Olive Branch, MS
Whom have I in heaven but You? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You. My flesh and my heart fail; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Psalm 73:25-26 NKJV
Michelle from Ashburn, VA
The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.
1John 2:17 NIV
Jeanette, Fraser, CO, “giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,” Eph. 5:20, ESV
The world and it’s desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever. 1 John 2:17
“Ask,and it will be given to you;seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you. For everyone who ask receives and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.”
Matthew 7:7-8 NKJ
Robyn
Plano, TX
“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. ” Col 3:12 (NIV84)
Sharon, North Plainfield, NJ
Ephesians 1:17 NKJ I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.
Rowena Gulfport, MS
For God has not given us a spirit of fearfulness, but one of power love and sound judgement.
2 Timothy 1:7 HCSB
Jen from Round Rock, TX
1 Cor. 1:3
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort…
Our fathers disciplined us for a little while
as they thought best; but God disciplines us
for our good, that we may share in his holiness.
Hebrews 12:10 NIV
I can do all things through Christ because He gives me strength.
Philipians 4:13 (NIV)
“Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.”
Hebrews 13:20-21 ESV
Jessica Bull, Middletown, DE
Psalms 27:1
Of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation–whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life–of whom shall I be afraid?
Rebecca Wolfe, Houston, “Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.”,Colossians 3:15, NIV
Let Heaven fill your thoughts. Do not think only about things down here on earth.
Colossians 3:2 NLT
Adrienne from Lubbock, TX
James 1:19 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.
Misty, North Charleston
You are my hiding place; You will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance.
Psalm 32:8 NIV
Kristi Donahoe from Chesapeake, Ohio
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. 2 Corinthians 2:5 KJV
Amanda from Platte City
Psalms 13:5 NLT
But I trust in your unfailing love. I will rejoice because you rescued me.
Chris from Des Moines, Iowa
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall on me,”
Even the the night shall be light about me;
Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You,
But the night shines as the day;
The darkness and the light are both alike to You.
Psalm 139: 11 – 12 NKJV
Tammy from Maryville, Mo
I cried out, “I am slipping!” but your unfailing love, O L ord , supported me. (Psalms 94:18 NLT)
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 iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies. Psalm 103:1-4 NKJV
Emily from Coralville, IA The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom & discipline. Proverbs 1:7 NIV
For the Lord is good;His mercy is everlasting, and His truth endures to all generations.
New Testament Psalms and Proverbs
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all theses things will be added to you.
The Holy Bible ESV
Matthew 6;33
Kristi Riverside,CA
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. Philippians 4:6 NIV
1 Peter 2:9 (NIV)
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession,(D) that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
Stacy Carmel, IN And without faith it is impossible to please God for whoever would draw near to God must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him. Heb 11:6 ESV
Lee M from IN – Proverbs 12:15 ‘The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice”
Julene, Cowiche, WA 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
Laura from Waco, TX
“Honor the Lord for the glory of his name. Worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness.”-
Psalm 29:2 NLT
Shawn Winston Salem, NC
for it is by Grace you have been saved, through faith – and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works so that no one can boast
Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV
Joyce Binkley from Highland Village, TX
“Search me O God and know my heart; and test me and know my anxious thoughts.” “See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.” NIV
Michelle, Auburn
Sow for yourselves righteousness.Reap in Mercy.Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the Lord until He comes to rain righteousness on you. Hosea 10:12 KJV 2000
This is what the LORD Almighty says:”Give careful thought to your ways. Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored,” says the LORD. Haggai 1:7-8 NIV
Katy from cleveland, ms
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Santa Maria, CA
NASB 2 Corinthians 3:15-16
“But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart; but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.”
Jeanette ~ Central SC
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. John 14:27 NIV
Cathy Lee, Gig Harbor, WA
Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord, is Rock eternal.
Isaiah 26:4 NIV
Jody from Locust Grove, GA “I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abide to in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
John 15:5 kjv