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
Lori Mitchell, Cedar Park, TX – You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Courtney C. From Kountze, Texas
Isaiah 43:1 NIV
“But now, this is what the LORD says-
he who created you, Jacob,
he who formed you, Israel,
“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have summoned you by name; you are mine.”
1 Peter 3:15 (NIV)
But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.
Melissa in Lancaster, PA
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own undrstanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and he shall direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6 New King James
Kate, Charlottesville. “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” – John 14:27 NIV
Happy are those who hear the joyful call to worship, for they will walk in the light of your presence Lord.
Psalm 89:15 (NLT)
Kristy from Cedar Park, Texas: You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Monica Henry, Jacksonville, FL
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.
Hebrews 10:24 NIV
Barbara, Norphlet, AR-“Trust in The Lord with all your heart; and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and he shall direct your paths.” ESV
Michelle from Ashburn, VA
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5 NIV
Lauren, Malvern, PA
I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. Job 19:25 (NIV)
Barb,Cincinnati, “Be still, and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10, NIV
Stacey from Houston,TX
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
Galatians 5:6
New International Version (NIV)
Stephanie from Fort Worth, Texas- 1 John 5:4 NASB; “For whatever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that has overcome the world- our faith.”
Nan Greenville, SC This is what the Lord says– your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you what is best for you, and directs you in the way you should go.” Isaiah 48:17 NIV
Melissa of Gardendale
Make Your face shine upon Your servant and teach me Your decrees. Psalm 119:135 ( NIV)
Lauren from Birmingham, AL
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” Hebrews 13:8 ESV
Tracey from Canton. “Now if we are children, then we are heirsāheirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.” Romans 8:17, NIV
Shari Baldwin from College Station, TX:
“Let my words and my thoughts be pleasing to you, LORD, because you are my mighty Rock and my Protector.”
Psalm 19:14 (Contemporary English Version)
Carol Herdic from Collegeville, PA. You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Rebecca in St. James, MO I guide you in the way of wisdom and lead you along straight paths. Proverbs 4:11 (NIV84)
Melissa from Flemington, NJ. “Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.” Psalm 42:5.
Happy is he that hath the GOD of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his GOD. Psalms 146:5 kjv
Nancy from Winchester,KY
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5 NKJV
Kay in Sierra Vista, AZ
Isaiah 50:4 (NASB)
The Sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being taught.
Praise the Lord!
Colleen, Littleton, CO
Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Psalm 27:14 NIV
Ex. 33:18-19 ESV
Moses said, “Please show me Your glory.” And He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you My name ‘The LORD’. And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”
Janifer from Glen Burnie, MD
Ecclesiastes 2:10 NIV
I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor.
For if you forgive men their trepasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Mat6:14 NKJV
Sara Jondahl from Russellville, Arkansas
“That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power” Eph 1:17-19, NKJV
Joanna; Elsmere, KY —
Therefore, prepare your mind for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. 1Peter 1:13, NIV
“Let all the people of the earth acknowledge the Lord and turn to Him! Let all the nations worship you! For the Lord is king and rules over the nations.” psalm 22:27-28
Jessica from Keota, Ok
Sheilah from Albuquerque. 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 earnestly seek Him. Hebrews 11:6 (NIV).
Kathy Howe
Lexington, Kentucky
“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” Romans 12:2 NKJV
Robin in Tulsa OK: Oh, that you would burst from the heavens and come down! How the mountains would quake in your presence! As fire causes wood to burn and water to boil, your coming would make the nations tremble. Then your enemies would elarn the reason for your fame. Isaiah 64:1-2 NLT
Jeanine (and family), Athens, NY
Psalm 90:17 (NIV, 1984)
“May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us– yes, establish the work of our hands.”
Sherri from Huntington Beach, CA
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Phil. 2:3, ESV
Chrissy from Russellville, AR “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of the 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
Emily, Bumpus Mills, TN
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Katie Sims; LaGrange, GA
~Jeremiah 17:14 (ESV)~
“Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for You are my praise.”
Denise Wilkin
The Woodlands, Texas
Luke 4:18
The Spirit of The Lord is upon me because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.
NKJV
Psalm 55:22 NKJV
Cast your burden on the Lord,
And He shall sustain you;
He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.
Melody,Plant City,Florida
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Psalm 46:10 KJV
Jenny; Hastings, FL
Isaiah 40:8 NLT
The grass withers and the flowers fade, but the Word of our God stands forever.
Tammy; Woodstock, GA
Ps. 65:11 NKJV
“You crown the year with Your goodness, and your paths drip with abundance.”
Bev Flynn from Barberton, Ohio
And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of [buildings that have laid waste for] many generations; and you shall be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Streets to Dwell in.
Isaiah 58:12 AMP
Candace, Lexington Park, MD
“If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.”
James 1:5 NIV
Kim from Arlington
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
John 14:6 NKJV
Michelle, Warner Robins Ga… 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. Romans 12:2 (NIV)