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
Bonnie – Marietta, GA
The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day nor the moon by night.
Ps. 121: 5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5 (NIV)
Cincinnati, Ohio
Philippians 2:8 NIV “Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus”
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Eph. 2:10 NAS
Beth R
Liberty Lake, WA
NIV
James1:6
But 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.
Emily Butts
Thibodaux, LA
Teach me Your way oh Lord that I may rely on Your faithfulness. Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.
Psalm 86:11 (NIV)
Connie
Pine Level, NC
For great is His love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures Forever. Praise the Lord.
Psalm 117:2 NIV
Rosharon, TX
73 You made me; You created me.
Now give me the sense to
follow your commands.
Psalm 119:73 (NLT)
Jackson, Ga.
Exodus 14:14 NIV
The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.
Elizaville, ny
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.
Psalm 119:76 esv
Wendie from Lagrange, KY
Jesus answered “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 (NIV)
Dana , Kannapolis NC
John 10:10, NIV
The thief comes to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.
Rebecca Nelsen from Racine, WI
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Psalm 119:105 ESV
Cheryl Augusta Ks Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all of your heart. Jeremiah 29:13
NIV
Linda
Allen, TX
Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strengath. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary,they will walk and not be faint.
Isaiah 40:31 NIV
Psalm 139:3
You discern my going out and my lying down, you are familiar with all my ways.
When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. John 15:10 NLT
Sally from Baton Rouge
1 John 4:16 (NIV)
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Ephesians 6:13
Through Him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is the fruit of lips that acknowledge His name. Hebrews 13:15, ESV
Debbie-Royse City – James 1:4 NIV
Let perservance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
The name of the Lord is a strong tower;
the righteous run to it and are safe. Proverbs 18:10 NIV
Vicky
Lewisville, TX
Trust in the Lord with all your heart. And lean not on your own understanding.
NIV
Proverbs 3:5
Glenda – Royse City- 1 Chorinthians 6:20 NIV
Your were bought at a price. Therefore, honor God with your body.
Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor; the Kingdom of heaven belongs to them. Matt 5:3 GNV
03/18/2013
Hamburg,AR
2 Corinthians 10:4 The Message
The tools of our trade aren’t for marketing or manipulation, but they are for demolishing that entire massively corrupt culture.
Mark 11;25
And whnever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.
The Holy Bible ESV
Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you. 2 Thessalonians 3:16
“Every good and perfect gift is from above” James 1:17 NIV
“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. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior;
I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your stead. ” Isaiah 43:2-3 NIV
I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself.
Jeremiah 31:3 NLT
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
Psalm 139:14 (NIV)
Michelle, Buda, TX “Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will
become more and more ungodly.” 2 Timothy 2:16 (NIV)
Michelle from San Antonio, TX
The Lord is my strength and my shield. I trust Him with all my heart. He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy.
PSALM 28:7 (NLT)
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Ephesians 4:32 (NIV)
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.”
Mark 12:30 NIV
Carrie in Highlands Ranch, CO Be joyful always, pray contiually, give thanks in all circumstances for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 NIV
Pam Jones from Dallas TX
Do not be afraid. Stand firm and see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. The Lord will fight for you, you need only be still.”. Exodus 14:13-14 (NIV)
Christi Muhle, Spring, TX
Ephesians 1:3-4 NLT
All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.
Psalm 119;105 (ESV)
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
And on a cold night, two under the same blanket can gain warmth from each other.But how can one be warm alone? Ecclesiastes 4:11. NLT
Consider it pure joy,my brothers and sisters whenever you face trials of many kinds,because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. James 1:2-3
Krystina Wise
Lees Summit MO
Proverbs 21:23 (NIV)
He who guards his mouth and his tongue keeps himself from calamity.
Michole
Beaumont, Texas
Don’t fear because you won’t be ashamed; don’t be dismayed because you won’t be disgraced. You will forget the shame of your youth; you’ll no longer remember the disgrace of your widowhood.
Isaiah 54:4
CEB-Common English Bible
Nashville,TN
“Abba,Father,” he said “everything’s possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not thy will but what you will.” Mark 14:36 NIV
Kim, Clinton, MO
But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; it’s leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit. Jeremiah 17:7-8 NIV
Hannah
Knoxville, TN
It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; to declare Your steadfast love in the morning, and Your faithfulness by night. Psalm 92:1-2
Julie B from Findlay, OH
2 Peter 1:3-4 NIV
His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness. Through these He has given us His very great and precious promises so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
Ephesians 4:2-3 NIV
Be completely humble and gentle be patient bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
Beth Beckerman Mt. Carmel, IL
Deut 31:8 “The Lord himself will go before you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.” NIV 84
Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my savior, and my hope is in your all day long.
Psalms 25:5 NIV