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
Annette; Springfield, OH “Then will I purify the lips of the peoples, that all of them may call on the name of the Lord and serve him shoulder to shoulder.” Zephaniah 3:9 NIV
Psalm 51:10-12 (NIV)
“Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.”
Amber, Hattiesburg, MS:
“Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.” (James 1:2-3, ESV)
Diane from Spring, TX
Psalm 3:3 (NLT)
“But you, O LORD, are a shield around me,
my glory, and the one who
lifts my head high.”
Mary Beth, Charlotte, NC “Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.” James 1:2-3 ESV
Amanda Keith from Platte City, MO
2 Corinthians 19-20 (NIV)
“And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.”
Rosemary,Forney,Texas In the beginning was the Word,and the Word was with God,and the Word was God.John 1:1 KJV.
Donna Key, Montgomery, Alabama
Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:8 NLT
Suni Heflin, Virginia
“And let the beauty and delightfulness and favor of the Lord our God be upon us; confirm and establish the work of our handsāyes, the work of our hands, confirm and establish it.”
Psalm 90:17 AMP version
Pamela from Mechanicsville, VA.
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
Charmaine from Miami, Florida – “Nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:39 NKJV
Linda, Ft. Collins, CO
“Shout with joy to God, all the earth!
Sing the glory of His name;
make His praise glorious!”
Psalm 66:1-2 NIV 84
Erica Barron from Birmingham, AL.
You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.
Psalm 65:11 NIV
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who honestly seek him. Hebrew 11:6 NIV
Kris – Westbrook, Maine
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
Cynthia; Brooklyn Park, MN
Sonya Dickerson from Chesterfield, VA
“But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.” Job 23:10 NIV
Tiffany, Chester, VA:
“[For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly], and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection [[b]which it exerts over believers], and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] to His death, [in the hope]” Philippians 3:10, AMP
Michal Lee from San Antonio, Texas: “Suppose one of you had a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Would he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, āCome along now and sit down to eatā? Would he not rather say, āPrepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drinkā? Would he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do? So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, āWe are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.āā Luke 17:7-10 NIV1984
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.”
John 1:1-5 NIV
Pam, Woodbridge, UK
Proverbs 16v3 NIV
Commit to the Lord everything you do, and your plans will succeed.
Mary Ann, Augusta, Ga.: Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Romans 12:12 NIV
Christine watts
January 1,2013
Christine watts Branchland West Va.
Humble your selfs in the sight of theLord, and he shall lift you up. James 4:10
Natalie from Aurora,IL
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
And all of your children shall be taught by the Lord and great shall be the peace of your children- Isaiah 54:13
Kathrin, Coeur d’Alene, ID “Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.” James 1:2,3 ESV
Marni from Tampa, FL. January 1, 2013
Peace I leave with you, My own peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled.
John 14:27 Amplified Bible
Collyn from Broken Arrow, OK
Each time he said,”My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me.
2 Corinthians 12:9 NLT
Michelle from Highlands Ranch, CO
Create in me a clean heart; O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Psalms 51:10
Leigh Ann from Perry, FL “In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.” ~ Proverbs 16:9 NIV
Kim, Deer Park
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, Ephesians 3:20 NIV
Diana from Rogers, AR: “Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in oneās youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court”. (Psalm 127:3-5 NIV)
Elisabeth from Cedarburg, WI
“Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you.” Acts 18:9-10 NIV
Sara; Pratt, KS
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 NIV
Carol from Littlestown, PA Philippiams 1:6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you, will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. ESV
Danielle, from Pratt, Kansas
“Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!”. Luke 1:45. (NIV)
Janet ~ Enid, OK
When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you. Psalm 56:3 NASB
But you, Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high. Psalms 3:3 NIV
Jenn Grimm
Dickinson, ND
Romans 12:2
Do not conform 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 Godās will isāhis good, pleasing and perfect will.
NIV
Lindsey Turley; Bowling Green, KY
Colossians 1:9-10
And so, from the day we heard we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. (ESV)
Emily Barton
Indianapolis
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit
Psalm 34:18
NIV
Jennifer, Huntington, WV
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all- how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things
Romans 8:32 NIV
M’LISA from Mtn Home, AR.
I can do all things thru Him who gives me strength. Phil 4:13 NIV
Lauren…from Springfield, MO
“For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” I Timothy 2:5
Dee Ann, Longview
The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one
who seeks him
Lamentations 3:25 NIV
Susan from Clinton, MS
“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
Wendy from Amarillo, Texas
“It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.”
Lamentations 3:22-23 KJV
Amber from Manor, Texas: You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Tera Ferguson, Gardendale, For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:16-17 NIV
Tawni from Sweet Home, OR
Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not see. Heb.11:1 HCSB