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
Christine Krueger, SLC
John 15:9
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.
ESV
Melissa, Nashville, TN “Look to the Lord and His strength; seek His face always” Psalms 105:4 (NIV)
Jen from Ames, Iowa, “For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’ The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,” Romans 8:15-16, ESV
Becca from Keller, Texas.
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.
Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV
Elizabeth from Midland, Michigan
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened against the yoke of slavery.
Galatians 5:1 NIV
Maria from Duvall, WA
Keep Your servant from willful sins; do not let them rule over me. Then I will be innocent, and cleansed from blatant rebellion.
Psalm 19:13 HCSB
Renee from Rural Hall NC. “It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect.” Psalm 18:32 NIV
Angie from Hot Springs, Arkansas: “The name of the Lord is a strong tower; The righteous run to it & are safe.” Proverbs 18:10 NKJV
Emma
Flowood, Mississippi
“The faithful love of the LORD never ends!
His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness;
his mercies begin afresh each morning.”
Lamentations 3:22-23 (NLT)
Mary from Livonia, Michigan (NIV)
Linda from Litle Rock, AR. Yet, even now, declares the Lord, Return to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, weeping and mourning; Joel2:12 NASBU
Patti from Monument,Colorado “No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it,but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead,I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.” Philippians 3:13,14 NLT
Nancy from Vancouver, Washington
“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, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations for ever and ever! Amen” Ephesians 3:20-21 (NIV)
Lisa, Mineville,NS
Psalm 27:14 NIRV
Wait for the Lord.
Be strong and donāt lose hope.
Wait for the Lord.
Beth from Overland Park, Kansas:
“For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. 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 Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”
– Ephesians 3:14-19 (NIV)
Sarah, Wichita Falls, TX
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Psalm 23:1-3 NIV(Student Version, 2002)
Amanda, South Surrey BC, Canada “How can a young person live a clean life? By carefully reading the map of your Word. I’m single-minded in pursuit of you; don’t let me miss the road signs you’ve posted.” Psalm 119:9-10 The Message
Whitney from Clinton, MS-For God has not given us a spirit of fearfulness, but one of power, love, and sound judgement. 2 Timothy 1:7, HCSB
Denise, Longmont, CO, James 2:1 My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism.
Catherine Morningstar, Collierville, TN Philipians 1:6 NLT And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is fiinally fnished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.
Christy from Cowpens, SC
Be joyful always, pray continuously, give thanks in all circumstances for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. I Thess. 5:16-18 NIV
Angela from Augusta Georgia
“For I know the plans I have for you” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11 NLT
Carrie from West Palm Beach, FL:
For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.
Is 43:19 NLT
Ellen Miller
Montgomery, IL
Eph 2:15-16 ESV “by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, (16) and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.”
Meredith, Trabuco Canyon, CA
Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that’s where life starts. Don’t talk out of both sides of your mouth; avoid careless banter, white lies, and gossip. Proverbs 4:23-24 Message
Debbie – Gardendale, AL – “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9 ESV
Woodstock, GA
“Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders you have done. The things you planned for us no one can recount to you; were I to speak and tell of them, they would be too many to declare.” Psalm 40:5 NIV
Trish Price
Paintsville, KY
I know that thou canst do everything, and that no thought
can be withholden from thee. JOB 42:2 KJV
Andrea from Prospect Park, PA. Do not be conformed to this world, but continuously be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may be able to determine what God’s will is–what is proper, pleasing, and perfect. Romans 12:2, International Standard Version
Grand Forks, ND
Therefore, as Godās chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Colossians 3:12 (NIV)
Donella from Bakersfield,Ca
See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him. 1 John 3:1 NLT
Mary Beth Lewis from Memphis, TN. āSpeak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. (Proverbs 31:8). NIV
Ann Marie, Bethlehem PA
“And He who is seated on the throne said See! I make all things new!
Rev. 21:5 AMP
Sue, Clemmons, NC
The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. Deuteronomy 33:27a, KJV
Sandi from Drayden, MD
“Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.” I Peter3:1-2 NIV
Marie from Post Falls, Idaho:
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” – Ephesians 2:10, NKJV
“Salvation is found in noone else. For there is no other name under heaven given to
mankind by which we must be saved.”
Acts 4:12
NIV
Judy (Ding Dong Mama)
Dumas, AR
Cindy from El Paso, Tx
“Let all that I am praise the Lord; may I never forget the good things He does for me.”
Psalm 103:2 NLT
Mindy Maddox from Andalusia, AL
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here.
2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV)
Toni from Walpole, Maine : “Let your character or moral disposition be free from love of money [including greed, avarice, lust, and craving for earthly posessions] and be satified with your present [circumstances and with what you have]; for He [God] Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. [I will] not [I will] not, [I will]not nor in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let [you] down (relax My hold on you)! [Assuredly not!] Hebrews 13:5 Amplified Bible (also reference Josh. 1:5)
Los Alamos, NM; John 8:31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.” NIV
From the Lord comes deliverance. May your blessings be on your people.
Psalm 3:8
NIV
Michelle Weihing
Frisco, Texas
But he knows where I am going. And when he tests me, I will come out as pure as gold.
(Job 23:10 NLT)
Houston
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD. Ps.31:24 KJV
Amy Hart, Milton, WA
“One thing I ask the Lord, this is what I seek; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and seek him in his temple.”
Ps. 27:4, NIV
Melissa G. from Concord, CA
Isaiah 55:10-11 NIV
As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Proverbs 8:1 NIV
Does not wisdom call out? Does not understanding raise her voice?”
Allyson, League City, TX
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him and without Him was not anything made that was made. John 1:1-3 ESV
Monica – Cheyenne WY
guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.
Psalm 25:5 NIV
Melissa Denham Springs, LA “Pray in the spirit at all times and on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere.” Ephesians 6:18 NLT