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
Amber from Fort Wainwright, Alaska
“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.” Romans 5:1-2, KJV
Tiffany from Bonnieville KY.
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance.? Psalm 65:11 NIV
Peoria, AZ
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners…Isaiah 61:1. NIL
but God has surely listened and has heard my prayer.
Praise be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld his love from me! (Psalm 66:19, 20 NIV)
Lee Anne Brannon
Waco, TX
Hilda from Imperial, Ca.
Jesus looked at them intently and said, “Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But with God everything is possible.” (Matthew 19:26 NLT)
Erica from Madisonville, KY. For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. 2 Timothy 1:7 ESV
Dee Dee from Louisville, “For he loves us with unfailing love; the LORD’s faithfulness endures forever. Praise the LORD!” (NLT) ( Psalm 117:2 )
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. Cheryl Fortville, IN
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee Isaiah 26:3
One of my favorite verses of all time. Great choice!
We encourage you, and urge you to live your lives in a way God would consider worthy. For He called you into His Kingdom to share His glory.
1 Thessalonians 2:12 NLT
Pensacola, Florida
A man’s wisdom gives him patiece; it is to his glory to overlook an offense.
Proverbs 19:11 NIV
And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.” Luke 9:23 NASB
Richmond, KY
Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: ” I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through a desert, through a land not sown.” Jeremiah 2:2 NIV
Lewiston, Idaho “For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes—the Jew first and also the Gentile. This Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight. This is accomplished from start to finish by faith. As the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.” Romans 1:16-17, NLT
Whitney Harrington from Dowagiac, MI. “For God saved us and called us to live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserve it, but because that was His plan from before the beginning of time-to show us His grace through Jesus Christ” 2 Timothy 1:9 NLT
Marie from Richmond,VA “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 NIV
Wendy, Long Island, NY
And what God wants is for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time.
Hebrews 10:10 NLT
Jeremiah 29:14(NIV)
“[I] will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.”
Denise, Cincinnati
Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity. (1 John 2:15-17 MSG)
Julie from Lincoln, Ca
Ex. 15:11
Who among the gods is like you, O Lord? Who is like you- majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders?
NIV
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.”
~John 10:27 NIV~
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.”
~John 10:27 NIV ~
Tory from ConcordNC
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; (Isaiah 61:1 KJV)
Rebecca from Moline, IL
However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me – the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.
Acts 20:24 NIV
Lauren; Orlando, Fl
Sing to the Lord! Give praise to the Lord! He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of the wicked.
Jeremiah 20:13
Heard about this through my bible study group, and have been participating, but didn’t realize I need to log in! 🙂
My first verse was:
In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, Lord, make me dwell in safety. Psalm 4:8 NIV
Christin Carroll from Olive Branch, MS
When you walk, your steps will not be hindered,
And when you run, you will not stumble. ~ Proverbs 4:12 NKJV
But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; and God chose the weak things of the world to shame the mighty.
1Corinthians 1:27 NKJ
Angie Marlow
Orlando, FL
Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. Lam. 3:21,22 (NIV)
Donna Tyra From Martinez Georgia
Romans 8:6
New International Version (NIV)
The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.
Linda Jewell
Sedona, AZ
Philippians 2:3-5 NIV
3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.
4 Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus . . .
Melinda M (Wichita, KS)
I failed to memorize the last verse I chose so I’ll be doing it again
“I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13 NLT
And will be adding:
I love you, O Lord, my strength.
The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;
My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge.
He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Psalm 18:1,2
Janet from Richmond, IN
“Do you have any business crossing people off the guest list or interfering with God’s welcome? If there are corrections to be made or manners to be learned, God can handle that without your help.”
Romans 14:4 (The Message)
Fraser, CO, “Thanks be to Godfor His inexpressible gift!” 11 Cor. 9:15, ESV
Pensacola, Florida
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
NIV
Loveland, CO
Jeremiah 31:3 “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness” NIV
Such a beautiful verse . Thank you for reminding me. I will put this one on my mirror for this week.
James 1:9 NIV
The brother in humble circumstances ought to take pride in his position
Charlett, Oklahoma City, OK
Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.
Col. 4:2 NIV
Brenda from Gainesville Fl.
And the peace of God, which supasses all comprehension, shall guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:7 NAS
Fools give full vent to their rage, but the wise bring calm in the end.
Proverbs 29:11 NIV
Leanne Anderson from Cloquet, MN
“In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. ” Prov.3:6 NIV
Psalm 91:9
” Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge,
even the most High, thy habitation;”
KJV
Ann says:
April 1,2013 at 12:05 P.M.
He is not here,for He has risen,just as He said.
Come,see the place where He was lying. Matthew 28:6 NAS
Ephesians 5:10 NIV
” Carefully determine what pleases The Lord.”
Karen from Indianapolis
John 6:63 NIV
The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing
The words I have spoken to you are Spirit
And they are life.
And I give into them eternal life; and they shall never parish,
Neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
John 10:28 KJV
Psalm 118:6 KJV
The Lord is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?
Daniel 2:22 NIV
He changes times and seasons; he sets up kings and deposed them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.
James 1: 22-26 ESV “But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself, goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, he shall be blessed in his doing.
If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives himself, that person’s religion is worthless. Religion that is pure and undefiled before the Father is this, to visit orphans and widows in their afflictions and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
Emily
Maryville, MO
“He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised, He was also able to perform.”
Romans 4:20-21
NKJV