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
Psalm 25:1 To you O Lord, I lift up my soul. NIV
Christy; Nappanee, IN; “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28; NIV
Mat 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Source: New World Translation
DeWitt, MI
“Praise The Lord my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name”. Psalm 103:1 NIV
Lea Ann McFarland from McKinney, TX
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.” Jeremiah 17:7-8 NIV
Lori from Fredericksburg, 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 a hope and a future!” Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
Life App. Bible NIV The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever. Isaiah 40:8
Lacey in Morgantown, WV
“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.”
-Colossians 3:1-2 (ESV)
Kelly, Starr,SC
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
-Romans 8:37-39 (NIV)
Susanna, Greenville, TX
Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand.
Psalm 149:6 KJV
Terri from Georgia
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here.”
2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV)
Prov 16:9 NLT
“We can make our plans but the Lord detemines out steps.”
Bless the Lord, O my soul and forget not all His benefits.
Who forgives all your iniquities,
Who heals all your diseases. Psalms 103:3-4 New King James
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Michayila- tx
Nkjv
Amy, Snellville GA
Eph 4:2 “Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.” NIV
Suzanne Kuchynka, Spokane, Wa ~ “So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory. Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.” Psalms 63:2-3 ESV
Mindy, Franklin
For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
2 Corinthians 2:15-16 ESV
Rebecca Anderson, Phoenix, AZ:
“Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.”
– 1 Corinthians 10:14 (NKJV)
See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in wasteland.
Isaiah 43:19 NIV
I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord. They are plans for peace and not disaster, plans to give you a future filled with Hope.
Jeremiah 29:11 God’s Word Translation
Candis
Portland Texas
Letha from Mountain Home, Arkansas.
I have been put to death with Christ on his cross, so that it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. This life that I live now, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave his life for me. Galatians 2:19b-20 GNT
Kim – Holly Springs NC – Ephesians 3:20-21
“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 forever and ever! Amen”
NIV
Almut from London, UK: Then you shall see and be radiant; your heart shall thrill and exult. Isaiah 60, 5a ESV
Ashley from Bean Station,Tn: “He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.” Colossians 1:17 NASB
Charlene from Thomasville NC ” And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” John 1:14 ESV
Jeni. Vevay,In
1 Corinthians 15:58 (NIV)
Therefore, my brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of The Lord because you know that your labor in The Lord is not in vain.
You crown the year with your goodness; your footsteps drop prosperity behind them. Psalm 65:11 ISV
From Kingsport, Tn
Allison from Cypress TX “And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.” 2 John 1:6 NIV
Crystal, Phoenix:
“I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.”
Phil. 4:12 NIV
Judy, Virginia. “Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.” Colossians 3:2 (NIV)
Brandi
Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things. Philippians 4:8 NASB
” ‘My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command.’ ” John 15:12-14, NIV84
Kathy
St. Louis, MO
Kerry, Apple Creek, Ohio
Romans 11:36 (NLT)
For everything comes from him and exists by his power and is intended for his glory. All glory to him forever! Amen.
Ashley Dill, Austin 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)
Susan, Norfolk Va
He is your constant source of stability; He abundently provides safty and great wisdom, He gives all this to those who fear Him Isaiah 33:6 NET
Peggy, Overland Park, KS Phil 3:14 NAS
“I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus”
Melody; Cheyenne, Wy. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10 NIV
Amanda Z from Houston TX
Cause me to understand the way of your precepts, that I may meditate on your wonderful deeds.
Psalm 119:27 NIV84
Anna from Mobile, AL
When the Lord brought back the captives to Zion, we were like men who dreamed. Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”
Psalm 126:1-2 NIV84
Julia Fort Worth, TX
Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of Heaven. Matthew 5:3 NKHV
1 Chronicles 29:11 HCSB
Yours, LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in the heavens and on the earth belongs to You. Yours, LORD is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.
Cyndy, Columbia, SD
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. Colossians 3:12-14 NIV
Carrollton, TX
Worship the LORD your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you
Exodus 23:25 NIV
Jodi from Redmond, WA
You crown the year with your goodness; your footsteps drop prosperity behind them. Psalm 65:11 ISV
Pam from Oregon. “The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
1 Samuel 16:7b
NIV
Teresa from Shreveport,La
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Beth, Madison WI. “And this is my prayer- that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ- to the glory and praise of God.” Philippians 1:9-11 NIV
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” Romans 7:28 NIV
Jazmin Horne
Tempe, Arizona.
Kelsey, Wichita, KS “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” 1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV