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
Erin from Dallas, TX
“Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to God’s holy people in Colossae, the faithful brothers and sisters in Christ: grace and peace to you from God our Father.”
~Col. 1:1-2 (following along with Ann Voskamp to memorize all of Colossians in a year)
Melany, Garrison, Mo
My counsel for you is simple and straightforward: Just go ahead with what you’ve been given. You received Christ Jesus, the Master; now LIVE HIM. You’re deeply rooted in him. You’re well constructed upon him. You know your way around the faith. Now do what you’ve been taught. School’s out; quit studying the subject and start living it! And let your living spill over into thanksgiving. Colossians 2:6-7 MSG.
Hilary from Rochester, 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
Laura, Butler, PA
“But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. 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
Kellie from Nashville,TN
Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.
Colossians 3:23 NLT
Christina from Salem, OR
“Do all things without grumbling or disputing so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights of world,”
Phillippians 2:14-15 NASB
MacKenzie St Louis MO
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 NKJV (I know that’s technically 3, but they are short!)
Ally, 14, Searcy, Arkansas
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord,”plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
You go sweetheart!!!
Tangila, Pearland TX
Teach me your ways, O Lord, that I may live according to your truth! Grant me purity of heart, so that I may honor you. Psalm 86:11 NLT
Kim from Yorktown,VA
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable– if anything is excellent or praiseworthy– think about such things.
Philippians 4:8 NIV
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:18 NIV
Bakersfield
“My child, never forget the things I have taught you. Store My commands in your heart. If you do this, you will live many years, and your life will be satisfying.”
— Proverbs 3:1-2
Amanda Moffitt, Columbus ” Our soul waits for the Lord, He is our help and our shield. For our heart is glad in Him because we trust in His holy name.” Psalm 33:200-21 ESV
Alison Hunt from St. Augustine, Florida, “Into your hands I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God”, Psalm 31:5 ESV
Paula from Kountze Tx. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer. Psalm19:14 NKJ
Amy from Grand Prairie, TX
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares The Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
Hannah from Damascus, MD
Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope: because of the Lord’s faithful love we do not perish, for His mercies never end. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!
Lamentations 3:21-23 HCSB
Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight.
I am trusting in the Lord in 2013!
Jennifer, Roanoke, Va
“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” Philippians 4:8, NIV
Erika Opperman from Kansas City Missouri
“We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.”
Hebrews 6:19 NIV
Lawana from Oxford, AL : “I am the Lord ; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations, to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness. (Isaiah 42:6, 7 ESV)
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 1 Cor 13:4 NIV
Jennifer from Elk Grove,CA
“Be kind and compassionate to one another,forgiving each other,just as in Christ God forgave you.”
Ephesians 4:32, NIV
Deidre, Hickory, NC
“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”
John 14:26 KJV
Kelly from Cape Girardeau, MO
Look, I am about to do something new;
even now it is coming. Do you not see it?
Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness,
rivers in the desert.
Isaiah 43:19 HCSB
Marilyn-Amarillo, TX- “You keep in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trust in you”. Isa. 26:3 ESV
Gayle from Atkins, Arkansas
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Ps 65:11 NIV
Tam ,Chesapeake ,Va. I told you my plans,and you answered.Now teach me your principles. Psalms 119:26 NLT
April Lopez, BonneyLake,WA
The fear of human opinion disables, trusting in God protects you from that.
Proverbs 29:25 MSG
Granddaughter
Emmilianna Ferreria, BonneyLake,WA
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:6 NIV
Laura from Houston, TX. “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies bas a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:1-2 ESV
Tatia, Carlisle, PA: “As the body without the Spirit is dead, so faith without deeds in dead.” James 2:26 (NIV84)
Jenny from McKinney, TX…
“Jesus said, ‘I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one. I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.'” John 17:22-23 (NIV)
Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door I will come in and eat with you and you will eat with me.
Revelation 3:20 NCV
Jacquie from Lenoir City, TN
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14, NIV
Bakersfield
Sorry …. my Proverbs 3:1-2 was NLT
From Fayetteville, NC
“You crown the year with Your goodness, And Your paths drip with abundance.” Psalm 65:11 NKJV
Sarah, Montrose,CO
Now therefore stand still and see this great thing that the Lord will do before your eyes.
1 Samuel 12:16
Donna Zangara , East Amherst NY
You crown the year with bounty ad your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Christene from London, Canada – Hebrews 12:1-2 NIV
1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. 2 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God
Kathy from Birmingham, Alabama
“In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation.” Psalm 5:3 NIV
This is my first time doing the SSMT, I really do not know if I am doing this right as I am not all that familiar with your site. Should there not b a separate spot ot link to post the scripture. I am very discouraged.
Caprice
Kokomo
“My child, listen to what I say, and treasure my commands.” – Proverbs 2:1
Kristin A. in Renton, WA
Seek the Lord and His strength; seek His presence continually! -Psalm 105:4 (ESV)
Sherry, Naperville, IL ~ But Jesus ignored their comments and said to Jairus, “Don’t be afraid. Just trust me”.
Mark 5:36 NLT
For I died and my life is now hidden with Christ in God. Colossians 3:3 NIV
Ashley, Cincinnati, Ohio Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9 NIV
Dawn G., Kansas City, MO
You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary. Revelation 2:3 NIV
“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us” Eph. 3:20 NIV
Carrie from Tuscaloosa, Al
Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises so that through them you may participate in the divine nature having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
2 Peter 1:4 NIV
Kim, Louisville, KY
Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.
Philippians 3:12, ESV