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
Amanda from North Augusta, SC- “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in Me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from Me you can do nothing.” John 15:5 NIV
Nancy from Rhinelander,Wi Great peace have they who love Your law; nothing shall offend them or make them stumble. Psalm 119:165 Amp.
Jenn from Eugene, Oregon “For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat its produce from the field.” –Leviticus 25:12, NKJV
Mary–Lexington Park, MD
“so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.” Isaiah 55:11 ESV
Evanston, IL; Acts 4:29 (NIV)
Now, Lord, consider their threats
and enable your servants to speak your word great
BOLDNESS.
Carolyn from Orofino, Idaho. “Thou crownest the year with Thy goodness.” Psalms 65:11 KJV. Read it in Voice and NIV, too!
Ruth Rrown, Coeur d Alene ID
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Pam from Barstow, CA. “But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy works.” Psalm 73:28 KJV
Danika from Tulare California
Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts. Proverbs 4:23 GNT
Hey there friend! Love your verse. I am asking if you want to hold me accountable to this you can. Luvs.
Bethany from Sighisoara, Romania.
He who did not spare even His own son, but gave Him up on behalf of us all – is it possible that, having given us His Son, He would not give us everything else too?
Romans 8:32
Complete Jewish Bible
Jo, Columbia, Mo
Acknowledge and take to heart this day that The Lord is God of heaven above and the earth below. There is no other. Deuteronomy 4:39 NIV
Michelle from Frisco, Texas
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.- Romans 12:2 (NIV)
Lisa from Grand Prairie, Texas
For nothing is impossible with God.
Luke 1:37 NIV
Gayle from Dodgeville, Wisconsin: “Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished.” Luke 1:45 NIV
Christy from LaGrange,GA: ” Serve one another humbly in love.” Galations 5:13 NIV
Carmela D, Forney TX: Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: (Philippians 2:5 KJV)
Mary from Remlap, Alabama
“Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.”
Romans 8:37 NKJV
Melissa Durham from Johnson City, TN
“Let love and faithfulness never leave you;
bind them around your neck,
write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Then you will win favor and a good name
in the sight of God and man.”
Proverbs 3:3-4 NIV
Janet from Odessa, TX
“For I know the plans I have for you” ~ this is the Lord’s declaration ~ “plans for your welfare, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”
Jeremiah 29:11 HCSB
Maureen from Logan, UT.
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV
Jeri from Missouri City, TX
1 Corinthians 15:58 (NIV)
Therefore my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of The Lord, because you know your labor is not in vain.
Peg, Naperville, IL
“And Mary said, My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.”
Luke1:46,47 ESV
Celeste from Laguna Niguel, CA
The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to and end;
they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness
Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV
Melinda from Burgin,KY
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Isaiah 40:31 KJV
Miranda from Lynchburg, Virginia — “You crown the year with a bountiful harvest; even the hard pathways overflow with abundance.” Psalm 65:11 NLT
Cindy Fiala
“Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort form his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.”
Philippians 2:1-2
NIV
Jo Ann, Philadelphia, Psalm 27:1, NASB
“The LORD is my light and my salvation;
Whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the defense of my life;
Whom shall I dread?
Cindy Fiala, Frisco, TX
“Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort form his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.”
Philippians 2:1-2
NIV
Katie from Houston TX:
Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.
Galatians 6:4-5 The Message
Fran, Gulf Shores, AL
I have a new granddaughter and plan to make her a Bible Verse ABC Book. My verses for 2013 will reflect this idea, as I want to be sure to have them committed to memory before I share them with her.
“Ask and it will be given to you.” Matthew 7:7a NIV
What a fantastic idea!!
Rita – Alva, Florida
“Come to me all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:28 – NLT
“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 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 the wasteland.” Isaiah 43:18-19, NIV
Ann from Murrells Inlet, SC
Let us come before Him with thanksgiving and extol Him with music and song.
Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker; for He is our God and we are the people of His pasture, the flock under His care.
Psalm 95: 2; 6-7 NIV
Holli, Corona, Calif.
“Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.” Isaiah 40:28 NIV84
Brenda Miller, Sodus, NY – When a man’s ways please the LORD, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. Proverbs 16:7 NKJV
Christy: Ada, Oklahoma: To speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all humility to all men. Titus 3:2 NKJV
Before I write my scripture I just want to thank you mama Beth for doing this, you don’t know how much this blesses me!
Angie from Belleville, IL
You crown the year with Your bounty,
and Your carts overflow with abundance.
Psalm 65:11 NIV
Beth, Minneapolis, MN
“To be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.”
Ephesians 4:23-24 (NIV)
Terri from Tulsa. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. Psalm 139:14 NIV
Deb, Marion, IA, “The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; Great is Thy faithfulness. ‘The Lord is my portion,’ says my soul, ‘Therefore I have hope in Him.'” (Lam.3:22-24 NASB)
Jaclyn from Palestine, TX For the word of the Lord stands forever. 1 Peter 1:25
Elizabeth Meagher Mechanicsville, VA
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
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Romans 12:12 NIV
Laura from Myrtle Beach, SC
Philippians 4:8, NIV
“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.”
Jen from Frisco,Tx: “There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the LORD.” POroverbs 21:30 NIV
Linda from billings, MT “but the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in my place, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. John 14:26
Julie, Glenwood, IA
But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. – Philippians 3:13-14 (NIV)
Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers. 1 Timothy 4:16 NIV84
Bev
Mt.Gilead Ohio
For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand and say to you:Do ot fear I will help you. HCSB
Rachel Abel Wellington, FL
But you, O LORD, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head. Psalm 3:3 3 NASB