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
Valerie, Fultondale, AL
“I cry aloud to the Lord; I lift up my voice to the Lord for mercy.” Psalm 142:1 NIV
Cyndi from KY
“He led me to a place of safety;He rescued me because He delights in me.”Psalm 18:19 NLT
Lindsay Garlington-Bend, Oregon
“What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them?”
James 2:14
Lindsay Garlington-Bend, Oregon
“What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them?”
James 2:14 (NIV)
Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. Psalm 34:8 NIV
Phl 4:19 And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Debbie
Clinton, Tn
Proverbs 6:6 HCSB
Go to the ant; you slacker! Observe its ways and become wise.
Ann in Walker,LA says:
May 13,2013 at10:59 A.M.
1 Peter 1:9 {NAS}
“obtaining as the outcome of your faith
the salvation of your souls.”
Laura R., Gonzales, LA
“I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being” Eph. 3:16 NIV
Psalm 34:4
“I sought the Lord and He heard me and delivered me from all my fears.”
King James Version
Sharon, North Plainfield, NJ
I am the vine you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit, apart from me you can do nothing. John 15:5 NIV
“..to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before time and now and forever. Amen.” Jude, verse 25, ESV
Carol from Pierre
James 2:1-4 NKJV
My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality. For if there should come into your assembly a man with gold rings, in fine apparel, and there should also come in a poor man in filthy clothes, and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, “You sit here in a good place” and say to the poor man, “You stand there” or “Sit here at my footstool,” have you not shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.” Hebrews 11:6
Whoops NIV
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.” Hebrews 11:6 (NIV)
Jenna, Liberty NC
“Your attitude must be like My own, for I did not come to be served, but to serve” (Matthew 20:28 LB)
Jennifer Hand of Liberty, NC
You see that a person receives God’s approval because of what he does, not only because of what he believes.
James 2:24
GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow
will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble
of its own
Matt. 6:34
NIV
James 2:6,7 ESV “But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court? Are they not the ones who blaspheme the honorable name by which you were called?”
Jan from Pekin, IL
Eph 6:10-11 NIV
“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.”
Colossians 3:15
English Standard Version (ESV)
15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 1 John 4:11 KJV
Proverbs 10:19 NIV
When words are many, sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise.
Heather circleville, ohio
Colossians 3:18. NIV
Wife’s submit yourselves to your husbands as is fitting to The Lord.
Anita
Amarillo, Tx
Amarillo, Tx.
God is my refuge and strength, an ever present help in
trouble.
Psalm 46:1
NIV
Evin from Fort Worth, Texas
give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 NIV
Teach me, and I will be quiet; show me where I have been wrong. Job 6:24 NIV
Lori, Shelbyville KY
Psalm 34:4
“I sought the Lord and He heard me and delivered me from all my fears.”
King James Version
Jen from Round Rock, TX
Philippians 2:4 NIV
Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Janet from Richmond, IN
“Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall.” Proverbs 16:18
“Then he said to them all,’if anyone would come
after me, he must deny himself and take up
his cross daily and follow me.” Luke 9:23
I can do everything through him who gives me strength.
Philippians 4:13 NIV
Karen S, Garnet Valley,PA, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” Galatians 5:22-23, NIV
Linda
Allen, TX
I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ.
Ephesians 3:16-17 NIV
Conroe
“Show me Your ways, O Lord; Teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; On You I wait all the day.”
Psalm 25:4-5
NKJV
I Peter 1:12
“It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.”
Sally from Baton Rouge
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (NIV)
Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols?
It is I who answer and look after you.
I am like an evergreen cypress;
from me comes your fruit.
Hosea 14:8
Rebecca Wolfe, Houston, TX, “Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.”, Proverbs 3:3, NIV
Apart from me you can do nothing. John 15:5
Amie Martin from (Seymour, TN)
“And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.”
Philippians 1:6 NLT
Fraser, CO, “All Your works shall give thanks to You, O Lord, and all Your saints shall bless You!” Psalm145:10 ESV
Susan from Innisfil, ON
“For Your lovingkindness toward me is great
And You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.”
NASB Psalm 86:13
Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is God’s purpose that prevails.
Proverbs 19:21, NIV
Wendie in Lagarange KY:
The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.
1 Samuel 16:7b (NIV)
We urge you, brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone.
I Thessalonians 5:14
(NASB)
Barbara from Tomball, TX
“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 NIV
This is late b/c I couldn’t get my phone app to work…
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.
Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you
or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in one spirit, contending as one man for the faith of the gospel. Philippians 1:27 NIV