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
Cynthia from Charlotte, NC
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. Deuteronomy 6:4-5 NIV
Psalm 73:26 (NIV) – “My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”
Dianne from Kennesaw, GA.
Psalm 9:1-2 (NIV)- “I will praise You, O Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of Your wonders. I will be glad and rejoice in You. I will sing praise to Your Name, O Most High.
Sharon, Henderson, TX
Psalm 25:4,5 NASB
Make me know your ways, O Lord; Teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth and teach me. For you are the God of my salvation; For you I wait all the day.
Julie from Victorville, CA
“Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.” Psalm 143:8 NIV 84
Ashley T, Charlotte, NC “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.” Eph 2:10 NASB
Scarlett from Social Circle, Ga., “He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us.” 2 Corinthians 1:10, NIV 84
Kelly in Independence,MO “I ask–ask the God of our Master, Jesus Christ, the God of glory–to make you intelligent and discerning in knowing him personally, your eyes focused and clear, so that you can see exactly what it is he is calling you to do, grasp the immensity of this glorious way of life he has for his followers, oh, the utter extravagance of his work in us who trust him–endless energy, boundless strength!” Ephesians 1:18-19 MSG
Dallas from Charleston,SC
Psalm 143:8 (NIV)
“Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love,
for I have put my trust in You.
Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.
Sarah from Conroe, TX
Psalm 121:1-4 (NIV)
“I lift up my eyes to the mountains – where does my help come from? My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth. He will not let your foot slip – he who watches over you will not slumber; indeed he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.”
Debbi M. ~ Littleton, CO
We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation.
Romans 5:3-4 NLT
Tammy,from West Point, NE
I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart.
Ezekiel 37:2 (NLT)
Julie Sorce Pace, Florida
” I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.” Ezekiel 36: 26 NIV
Erin
Chippewa Falls
“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 43:19 NIV
Tracey from Columbia, MO
“The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed 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. TNIV
Danette- Grand Rapids, MI
Jeremiah 29:11
New International Version (NIV)11Ā For I know the plansĀ I have for you,ā declares theĀ Lord, āplans to prosperĀ you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Amber Moon, Lincolnton, NC – For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so that we can do the good things He planned for us long ago. Ephesians 2:10, NLT
Luain from Amarillo, TX
“Be beautiful inside, in your hearts, with the lasting charm of a gentle and quiet spirit which is so precious to God.” I Peter 3:4, TLB
Allison from Parker, CO. John 14:27 I am leaving you with a gift – peace of mind and heart! And the peace I give isn’t fragile like the peace the world gives. So don’t be troubled or afraid. (NLT)
Jan from Marion Iowa
1 Corinthians 1:9 NASB
God is faithful through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Shannon Davis, Mt. Olive – Al
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Psalm 51:10 NIV
Heather – Tustin, CA
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another. – Galatians 5:13-15 (ESV)
Ashley from Memphis, TN
“I am the vine;you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:5 NIV
Amanda; Murfreesboro, Tn
“You should clothe yourselves instead with the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God.”
1 Peter 3:4 NLT
Tammy; Maryville,MO
“But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not be faint.
Isaiah 4:31
Yahoo, Maryville, Mo is my home town. Great to see you memorizing God’s word!
Liz, Bloomfield: “Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God’s dominion over the earth?” Job 38:33, NIV84
Natalie from Grand Prairie, Tx
Yes, my soul, find rest in God;
my hope comes from him.
Psalm 62:5 NIV
Carolyn
Oceanside,Ca
You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance. Ps 65:11 NIV
Lee Ann Simpson; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
For I know the plans I have for you,ā declares the Lord, āplans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
It is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose. Phil 2:13
Erika Lowry; Lima, OH
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 and perfect will.”
First timer! So excited! š
cori, west palm beach, fl
Isaiah 43:2 When you pass through the waters,I will be with you;and when you pass through the rivers,they will not sweep over you.When you walk through the fire,you will not be burned;the flames will not set you ablaze. NIV
Cindy
Flemingsburg, KY
Psalm 73:28 NET
But as for me, God’s presence is all I need. I have made the sovereign Lord my shelter, as I declare all the things you have done.
Ginger Chestnut, Camden, SC
“If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to Him.” James 1:5, NIV
Kathy from Jay,Oklahoma
If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God,who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
James 1:5 NIV84
Mandy Russell
Raymond,MS
“We’re ready to study God, eager for God-knowledge. As sure as dawn breaks, so sure is his daily arrival. He comes as rain comes, as spring rain refreshing the ground. ”
Hosea 6:3 (MSG)
Olivia, West Sussex, UK. āI have set the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shakenā. Psalm 16v8. NIV
Donna,Richmond,VA
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Rachel – Bellingham, WA
“Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.”
Nehemiah 4:14b NIV
Megan from Potlatch, ID: You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Brenda from Taylors,SC My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart, he is mine forever. Psalm 73:26 NLT
Jaclyn from Round Rock ,TX
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 NIV
Psalm 138:8 NLT
“The Lord will work out his plans for my life – for your faithful love, O Lord, endures forever. Don’t abandon me, for you made me.”
Lisa Auten; Rogers, AR: “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness” Lam 3:22-23 ESV
Emily from Plano, TX A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. Proverbs 17:22 ESV
Linzie from Brownwood, TX
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Jennifer, Sisters, OR
Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire!
Heb 12:28-29 ESV
Kim B from Center, TX
“But the wisdom from above is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy and good deeds. It shows now favoritism and is always sincere. And those who are peacemakers will plant seeds of peace and reap a harvest of righteousness.” James 3:17-18 (NLT)
Shannon from Charlotte, NC: “Ah , Sovereign LORD, You have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you. Jeremiah 32:17 NIV
Linda Zionsville, PA
Psalm 143:8 NIV
Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love,
for in you I trust
Make me know the way I should go
for to you I lift up my soul