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!Ā 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 moderatedĀ (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,Ā 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.Ā 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.Ā 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
Angela. Salt Rock, WV
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, mor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord
Romans 8:38-39. NLT
Tina, Walker, LA
The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has annointed me to proclaim 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 NIV
Kim, Mansfield, TX 1 Peter 1:3-4 “All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by his great mercy that we have been born again, because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now, we live with great expectation, and we have a priceless inheritance – an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay.” NLT
Angie W. from Liberty, Missouri: It is the LORD your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him. Deuteronomy 13:4 NIV84
Melanie, Bowling Green, KY
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. (Romans 8:18 NIV)
Cheryl from South Lyon MI
Be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. Joshua 1:9 NLT
Norma
Leander, Texas
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22,23ESV
The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen-your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
Isaiah 58:11 (NIV)
Tajuana
Midland,Tx.
The Lord will guide you always; He will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
Isaiah 58:11 NIV
Saige from Shreveport, Louisiana: “Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God” 2 Corinthians 3:5 NASB
Jan McGarvin, Tulsa OK: “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.” Hebrews 10:24, NIV.
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen but what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. NIV 2 Cor. 4:18
Shannon from Jacksonville, FL, Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7, NIV
Beth from Vancouver, Canada
“…forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” Phil.3:13b and 14 NASB
Maggie from Naperville, IL “have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9 NIV
Wanda, Laurel MS
“For my hand made all these things, Thus all these things came into being,” declares the Lord.
But to this one I will look,
To him who is humble and contrite of spirit,
and who trembles at My word.
Isaiah 66:2 NASB
Katharine from Royal Oak, MI
For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 (ESV)
Lori from Knoxville, IOWA
Colossians 2:1-3, ESV
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which in Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Cathy from Mobile, Al
Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that your and would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil that I may not cause pain. I Chronicles 4:10 NKJV
Barbara from New Orleans,LA
For unto us a Child is born,
Unto us a Son is given;
And the government will be upon His shoulder.
And His name will be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isa.9:6 NKJV
Kristi from Riverside,CA
Find rest, o my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. Psalms 62:5 NIV
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess for He who promised is faithful. Hebrews 10:23 NIV
Emily W. from McKinney, TX
āTherefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!ā 2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV
Angela ~ Lizella, Ga ~ He guides the humble in the way that is right and teaches them his way. Psalms 25:9
It is NIV Translation
Mindy Seekford, Gloster, LA “Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. 1 John 4:11 KJV
Sue Magee, Hazel Green, AL:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1 NIV
He has showed you, O man, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly,
to love mercy and
To walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8
Michele in North OAks, mn
Donna from Birmingham, AL
“Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always.”
1 Chronicles 16:11 (NIV)
ann from south bend IN
Romans 8:38-39 (NLT)
And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow–not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.
Lizzie Smiley from the San Antonio, Texas Siestas:
“And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.” -2 Corinthians 9:8 NKJV
Lindsay from Greenville, SC “devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart.” Colossians 4:2 (NLT)
Bri from Visalia, CA, “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flowers of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the Word of the LORD remains forever.” 1 Peter 1:24 (ESV)
Libby J. From Littleton, CO
But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Phil. 3:13-14 ESV)
Mercedes from Seattle, WA
The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.
Exodus 14:14 (NIV)
Do everything without complaining or arguing, so you may become blameless and pure, children of God. . Philippians 2, 14-15
Jodi from Perth, Australia
My soul, wait only upon God and silently submit to Him; for my hope and expectation are from Him.
Psalm 62:5 AMP
For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
Isaiah 50:7. KJV
Samantha Rodriquez, Ft. Lewis, WA
“for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light” Ephesians 5:8, NASB
Emily, Abu Dhabi, UAE
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peaceļ»æ as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:13 NIV
Gerri Des Moines, WA
But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure, then peace loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.
James 3:17 NIV
Cara from Oswego, Illinois, “You crown the year with bountiful harvest – even the hard pathways overflow with abundance.” Psalm 65:11 NLT
Rebecca from Houston, TX, You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
christina, Plano, Texas-
“For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentilesā
Surely you have heard about the administration of Godās grace that was given to me for you, that is, the mystery made known to me by revelation, as I have already written briefly” (Ephesians 3:1-3, NIV1984).
Catherine Moore, Monahans, TX: “A gossip goes around telling secrets, but those who are trustworthy can keep a confidence.” (Proverbs 11:13 NLT)
Let’s recognize Him as the Lord. Let’s keep trying to really know Him. You can be sure the sun will rise. And you can be just as sure the LORD will appear. He will come to renew us like the winter rains. He will be like the spring rains that water the earth. Hos 6:3, NIRV
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called Children of God. 1 John 3:1 NIV
Anna from Birmingham, AL
He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8
Shana from Tuscaloosa
Forget the former things;
Ā Ā Ā Ā do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing!
Ā Ā Ā Ā Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the desert
Ā Ā Ā Ā and streams in the wasteland.
Isaiah 43:18-19
NIV1984
Sue C., Middletown, IN, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness” (Galatians 5:22 NIV)
Jennifer from Mayfield, KY
“For God gave us a spirit not of fear, but of power and love and self control.
2nd Timothy 1:7 ESV