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
Danielle
Birmingham, AL
“I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on Earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, beacuse I have overcame the world.” John 16:33 (NLT)
Philippians 4:6-7 (NIV)
6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Kim Safina
Los Osos, California
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
Genesis 1:3 NIV
Nehemiah 8:10B ( NIV )
….do not grieve for the joy of the Lord is your strength.
Emily from Coralville Iowa, O Lord, you will keep us safe and protect us from such people forever. Psalm 12:7 NIV 84
Audrey from Lombard, IL.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new.
2 Corinthians 5:17 NLT
Linda, Anderson, Indiana.
Isaiah 55:12 NIV
You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
Amy Brown, New Palestine, IN, 1Thessalonians 5:18 NIV
18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
Tami
Platte, South Dakota
“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free, therefore keep standing firm that you may not be subject to a yoke of slavery.”
Galatians 5:1 NIV
Kim Feighner, Oklahoma City
Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain. Psalm 119: 36 NIV
Mary; Marshfield WI
“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
Jayne Patton, St. Louis Missouri
“Cause me to HEAR your lovingkindness in the morning, For in YOU do I TRUST! Cause me to KNOW the way in which I should walk; for I lift up my soul to YOU!” – Psalm 143:8 NKJV
Mary from Chandler, OK
Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23 NIV84
Sherry Shanklin, McDonough Ga,
Jesus told him,”I am the way, the truth and the life. No one can come to the Father except through Me.” John 14:6 NLT
Kristin from Webb City, MO
“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.” Romans 12:2 NIV
Tess from Tokyo, Japan.
“How you made me is amazing and wonderful. I praise you for that. What you have done is wonderful. I know that very well.” Psalm 139:14. NIRV
“Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil; for you are with me. Your rod and your staff,they comfort me.” Psalms 23:4
Dawn, Dubuque, IA
“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
Debby~Glencairn, Houston Tx.
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,
Deuteronomy 30:19. ESV
I’m excited about this!
Monica from Abbotsford, BC:
Ps 63:1 NIV
O God, You are my God, earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You, my body longs for You, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Betina Brandon, Jackson, MS,” Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. May your gracious Spirit lead me forward on a firm footing. (Psalms 143:10 NLT)”
Debbie C from Memphis Tn
Isaiah 9:6 (NIV)
For to us a child is born,
To us a son is given,
And the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Paddy, Plattsburgh NY
Casting the whole of your care
[all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns,
once and for all] on Him,
for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you
watchfully. 1Peter 5:7 AMP
Laura Bertholf from Overland Park, Kansas “Give thanks to The Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever.” Psalm 118:29 NIV
Jennifer
Lexington, KY
Proverbs 31:10 KJV
“Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.”
Karina Allen
Baton Rouge,La.
“But as for me, I will watch expectantly for the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.” Micah 7:7 NASB
Karen Edwards – Godfrey, IL
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5,6 NIV
Leslie Jones; El Paso Tx
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good, and acceptable, and perfect.”
Rm 12:2 ESV
Breanna Henderson
Russellville, Ar
Psalm 40:3
He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord.
NIV
Shelley from Pisgah Forest, NC
James 3:17 ESV
” But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. “
Krishana from Charlestown, Indiana: Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep His promise. (Hebrews 10:23, NLT)
Kaitlyn from Fort Walton Beach, FL:
“My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.”
Proverbs 2:1-5 ESV
“So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days.” Ephesians 5:15,16
(NLT 2004)
Earlene from McKinney, Tx.
Psalms 40:2
He drew me up from the pit of destruction,out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock,making my steps secure. ESV.
Heather ~ Paden, OK
“Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Cssting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:” 1 Peter 5:6-8
KJV
King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God
Ruth 1:16
Kellie. San Pedro Sula, Honduras. “”Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here I am. Send me!'” Isaiah 6:8, NIV
Sheila from Charlotte, NC “For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope” ~ Romans 15:4 NASB
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have because God has said, ” Never will I leave you; never will i forsake you.” Hebrew 13:5 NIV
Tara-Houston, Texas
“The steadfast love of The Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV
The Lord will fight for you. You need only to be still.
Exodus 14:14 NIV
Kari
Benton AR
Gina, Rosamond Ca
“Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds”
James 1:2
NIV
wait and listen everyone who is thirsty!come to the waters, and he who has no money come buy and eat! yes buy (priceless,spiritual)wine and milk without money and without price(simply for the self-surrender that accepts the blessing. Isaiah 55:1 amplified everyday life version
Stephanie from Amarillo,TX – Psalm 65:11(NIV) You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.
Cheryl from Kemah,TX
If my people who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:21
Emily from Cypress, Texas
I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. Psalm 119:11 ESV
Rachel from Watseka IL
for the Holy Spirit shall teach you at that very moment what you must say. Luke 12:12
Weymouth New Testament
Lacey – Cypress, Tx
“The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God remains forever.” Isaiah 40:8, NJB
Judy from Odessa TX
Psalm 33:20-22 NIV
We wait in hope for the Lord; He is our help and our shield. In Him our hearts rejoince for we trust in His holy name. May Your unfailing love rest upon us, O Lord, even as we put our hope in You.