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
Trust in The Lord with all your heart, do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do and he will show you which path to take. Proverbs 3:5-6. NLT
Joy
~Suzie, from Fort Mill, SC
I love the Lord because He hears my voice and my prayer for mercy. Because He bends down to listen, I will pray as long as I have breath! (Psalm 116:1-2 NLT)
Ashley, Columbia, MO
James 1:22 NLT
But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves.
Jennifer; Mobile
Hebrews 12:1-2 NKJV
1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God
Tammy; Siloam NC : I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you. (NIV)
Yes, Lord , walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts. (Isaiah 26:8 NIV)
Beth from Hayden, Al 2Cor 5:17. Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. NAS
Pam in San Diego : “He who fears The Lord has a secure fortress, and for his children it will be a refuge.” Prov. 14:26 NIV
Emma, Shawnee, KS
What the Messiah has freed us for is freedom! Therefore, stand firm, and don’t let yourselves be tied up again to a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1, CJB
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.
II Timothy 1:7 NIV
Leanne Herrmann; Smithfield, NC
Nehemiah 9:5 (NIV) “Stand up and praise th Lord your God, who is from everlasting to everlasting. Blessed be Your glorious name and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise.”
Paula from Brownwood, Texas
He will cover you with His feathers.
He will shelter you with His wings.
His faithful promises are your armor and protection.
Psalm 91:4. NLT
Megan P. From Algonquin, IL –
“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
Brenda, Denton, TX: “And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it in the name of the LORD Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.” Col. 3:17 NIV
Dawn~ Chambersburg, PA
Psalm 105:4 (NIV)
“Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always”.
Joy
West Monroe, LA
“So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”
Isaiah 41:10
NIV
“For The Lord God is a sun and shield; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.”
Psalm 84:11 NIV
Susan From Post Falls, Idaho
1 Cor 8:6 NIV
“Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.”
Myra H, Saint Louis, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Phillipians 4:13, NKJV
Chester,
“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.”
Isaiah 12:2 English Standard Version
Ruthe from Greenville, Wisconsin. “I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him.” 1 Samuel 1:27 NIV
Deborah-Vinton, La.
-But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them.- 1 John 2:5 NIV
Sherri in Senoia
“Trust in him at all times, O people, pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.” Ps 62:8 NIV
Isaiah 26:3 (NIV)
You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.
Julie from Madison, AL
“The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7b NLT
Bonnie O’Shields Dacusville, SC You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among your peoples. Psalm 77:14 NIV84
Rachel; Florence, AL
Psalm 113:4-5 (NIV84)
“The Lord is exalted over all the nations, his glory above the heavens.
Who is like the Lord our God, the One who sits enthroned on high,…”
Amy Jo
Marshall
Philippians 4:8
NKJV: Red Letter Edition
Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy- meditate on these things.
Oh Lord you have searched me and know me.
bible is Nov version
psalm 139 verse 1
Columbia, Mo
Teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. Psalm 90:12 ESV
Laura Smith; Denver, CO
“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)
For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. Titus 2:11 NIV
Vera from Thousand Oaks, CA
“I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.”
Isaiah 44:22
NIV 1984
Misti from Rockwall, Texas: But Christ has shown me that what I once thought was valuable is worthless. Nothing is as wonderful as knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Philippians 3:7-8a CEV
Terri from Mechanicsville, VA
2 Timothy 1:7 (NIV)
“For God did not give us a Spirit of timidity, but a Spirit of power, of love, and of self-discipline.”
Amanda; Daphne, AL
Romans 12:2 NIV
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is- His good, pleasing, perfect will.
Shelley Harris from Bolivar, MO
Joshua 1:9 (ESV)
“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.”
Christy Shelby
Savannah,TN
Rev 21:4
And He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death, there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.
NASB
my verse is John 1:1 to celebrate my commitment to a 52 week study of the Bible
Deanne Johnson – Laguna Hills, CA
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” Deuteronomy 6:5 NIV
Samantha, Novi, MI. 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 NIV84
Hannah | Oklahoma City, OK
Luke 1:78 & 79, NLT
Because of God’s tender mercy, the morning light from heaven is about to break upon us, to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, and to guide us to the path of peace.
Blair from Harrisburg, NC
“I have set the Lord always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.” – Psalm 16:8 NIV
Erin, Evant, Tx
Do not worry, learn to pray about everything. Give thanks to God as you ask Him for what you need. Philippians 4:6 NLV
Lisa A, Frisco, TX
Philippians 4:6, NIV
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.”
Allison from Nashville, TN
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
John 16:33 NIV
Vicki
Murfreesboro, TN
James 3:17 (HCSB)
“But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without favoritism and hypocrisy.”
Natalie from Leesburg, GA “You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.” Psalm 65:11; NIV
Judy M, Lancaster, PA
But joyful are those who have the God of Israel as their helper, whose hope is in the Lord their God.
Ps 146.6 NLT