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
Kathy – Carrollton TX
1 Cor 15:57. NIV
But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Joshua 1:8. NLT
Read the book of instruction, meditate on it
day and night, and obey everything that is written
in it. Only then will you succeed in all you do
Loris SC
Romans 3:23 KJV
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.
Michelle De Leon from San Antonio, TX
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8 ESV)
from the end of the earth I call to you when my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I, (Psalms 61:2 ESV)
Evin From Fort Worth, Texas
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 NIV
Proverbs 12:25 (NIV)
An anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up.
Kim- Rushville, Ohio
“My message and preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.” 1 Corn 2:4 NIV
Roxy- Peoria, Illinois
Galatians 5:22-23 NLT
But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things.
Keep your servant also from wilful sins may they not rule over me
Then I will be blameless innocent of great transgression psalms 19.13 niv
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart.Do not rely on your own insight” Proverbs 3:5
Paulette, Ramstein
For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. Rom 11:29 NKJV
Jen from Round Rock, TX
Matthew 10:8b, NIV
Freely you have received; freely give.
Jaika in Panama City, FL: “When I am afraid, I will trust in You.” Psalm 56:3, Celebrate Recovery Bible, NIV 2007.
Glenda – Royse City, Texas
Ephesians 4:2 NIV
Be completelly humble and gentle; be patient bearing with one another in love.
Heather, Auburn, Al
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus The Lord, so walk ye in him:
Colossians 2:6
Let the words of Christ, in all their richness, live in your hearts and make you
wise. Use his words to teach and counsel each other. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual
songs to God with thankful hearts. And whatever you do or say, let it be as a representative
of the Lord Jesus.”
~Colossians 3:16-17~ NLT
Debbie – Royse City, TX- Acts 16:31 NIV Believe in the LORD JESUS, and you will be saved – you and your houssehold.
Soozi, Lexington, KY. Proverbs 27:4 (NLT) Anger is cruel, and wrath is like a flood, but jealousy is even more dangerous.
Debbie
Clinton, TN
Proverbs 14:7 HCSB
Stay away from a foolish man, you will gain no knowledge from his speech.
Heather D., Round Lake, IL
“and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.”
Romans 5:5 NASB
He will not let your foot slip- he who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
Psalm 121:3&4 NIV
Robin Crawford, Alta Loma, CA
Job 22:21 (NLT) Submit to God and you will have peace; then things will go well for you.
V ashburn, va Mat 28:18-20 niv
Then Jesus came to them a n d said “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy spirit, and teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely i am with you always, to the very end of the age.
Pierre, SD. James 2:8-10 NKJV
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well; but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors. For who ever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.
Ii Samuel 22:31 NASV
This God, His way is perfect. The word of the Lord proves true.
He is a shield for all those who take refuge in Him.
Ephesians 2:10 NLT For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago.
Psalm 62:5 NIV Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from Him.
“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.” Deuteronomy 29:29 (NIV)
Amie Martin (Seymour, TN)
“Since God chose you to be the holy people He loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.” Colossians 3:12 NLT
Sally from Baton Rouge
Psalm 19:1 (NIV)
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Sara, Grand Junction: “This is to my Father’s glory that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.” John 15:8 NIV
Susan, Innisfil, ON Canada
“….and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish and no-one will snatch them out of my hand.”
John 10:28 NASB
Jan from Pekin, IL
Is 30:18 NLT
“So the Lord must wait for you to come to Him so He can show you His love and compassion. For the Lord is a faithful God. Blessed are those who wait for His help.”
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds;) 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; II Corinthians 10:4-5, KJV
Linda
Allen, TX
Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
I Thessalonians 5:16-18 NIV
Humility and the fear of the Lord
bring wealth and honor and life.
Proverbs 22:4 NIV
He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me. Psalm 18:17 NIV
Rend your hearts and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity. Joel 2:13 NIV
How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth. Psalm 119:103 NIV
Ryan
Moore, OK
John 14:18 – ESV
“No, I will not abandon you as orphans; I will come to you soon.”
Pensacola, Florida
Proverbs 15:29
The Lord is far from the wicked but He hears the prayer of the righteous.
NIV
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will recognize them by their fruits. (Matthew 7:19, 20 ESV)
Dana from Waterford, Ohio
(Philippians 4:13)
I can do everything through Him who gives me strength.
Sharryn, Sydney Australia
The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his hand. (Psalm 37:23, 24 NIV)
Sadly, I got too far behind on my postings and don’t remember where I left off – so I am just going to start posting them over.
Hilary, Buffalo, NY
My (daughter), do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart, for they will prolong your life many years and bring you peace and prosperity.
Proverbs 3:1-2 NIV
The Lord says, “I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you. Psalms 32:8 (NLT)
But the Lord is faithful, He will strengthen you & guard you from the evil one. 2 Thessalonians 3:3 NLT
The LORD, He is the One who goes before you. He will be with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you; do not fear nor be dismayed. Deuteronomy 31:8 NKJV
Wendie (who is really late for this post) from Lagrange KY:
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you.
Psalm 32:8
Phillipians 4:19 The Message
You can be sure that God will take care of everything you need, His generosity exceeding even yours in the glory that pours from Jesus.