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
Bless The Lord, o my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless The Lord, o my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like eagles.
Psalm 103:1-5 ESV
Rebecca from Auburn, AL
Heidy from Noblesville, Indiana.
Philippians 4:19 (TNIV)
“And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.”
Amy, Quincy, IL
Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.
2 Corinthians 7:1, NIV
Jenny Gentry
Tulsa, OK
Hebrews 12:1-3, NIV84
1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. 2Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
Kim from Bloomington, IL
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance.
Psalm 65:11 NIV
I raise my eyes toward the mountains, Where will my help come from? Psalm 121:8 (HCSB)
Valerie, Nashville, Jeremiah 17:14 (NASB)
“Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; Save me and I will be saved, For You are my praise.”
Cottage Grove, MN
Psalm 65:11 HCSB
You crown the year with Your goodness;
Your ways overflow with plenty.
Andrea from Jonesboro, AR
Trust in The Lord with all thine heart and lean not to thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thu path.
Proverbs 3:5,6 KJV
Stacey Walsh; Cumby, TX.
Psalms 130:5, (NKJV)
I wait for the LORD my soul waits, and in His word, I do hope.
Amy, Bear Creek, NC “. . .but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15b KJV
Sheila from Florida
Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
JOSHUA 1:8, NIV
Shelli, Glen Allen, VA
“And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.”
(2Corinthians 9:8) NIV
Marla Kula from Highlands Ranch, CO
Ephesians 3:20-21
(NASB)
“Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.”
” 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” Romans 12:2 (NIV)
Jordan Watkins Raleigh North Carolina James 1:1-2 ESV “james, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes scattered among the nations: Greetings.
2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds
Monica, Nampa Idaho. Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever. Psalm 136:1, NLT
Mallory from Rockingham, NC
For the Lord you God is living among you, He is a mighty Savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With His love, He will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs. Zephaniah 3:17 NLT
Laura from Pittsburgh is believing,
But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Matthew 19: 26 King James Version
Anne Samuelson, Glastonbury, CT
“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
Terri
Raceland, KY
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
Psalm 1:1 ESV
Gretchen from Burns, TN: Because of the LORD’s faithful love we do not perish, for His mercies never end. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness! (Lamentations 3:22-23, HCSB).
Katelyn P; Arlington, TX
“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.”
1 John 5:14 (NIV)
Melody from Kenosha, Wisconsin
“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
Lynn – Orlando, FL
“Whom have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”
~ Psalm 73:25&26 (NIV 1984)
Andrea, Charlottesville VA, “You have said, ‘Seek my face.’
My heart says to you, ‘Your face, Lord, do I seek.’” Psalm 27:8, ESV
Holly, Monroe, Michigan
Ephesians 4:29 NIV
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
Carrie – Prior Lake, MN
Philippians 2:13 (NLT)
For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.
Linda, Dora, Al
He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities, the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. Isa. 53:5 NIV
Dawn Whiteford from Batavia, Ohio
Jude 24-25 NIV
To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy — to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore. Amen.
Anne
Lady lake, fl
“Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”
Anne
Lady Lake, Fl
10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Ps 51:10 NIV
Cris Goode of Mooresville, IN
Colossians 4:6 (ESV)
“Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.”
Brandy Reed; Raceland, LA
“And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s Glory, are being transformed into His likeness with ever increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”
2 Cor. 3:18 NIV
Alison from McKinney, TX.
” May the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing his will and may he work in us what is pleasing to him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. ”
Hebrews 13: 20-21
Ps. 139:1 (NIV)
You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.
Pauline,Eau Claire Wi,” He found him in a dessert land. And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness: He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.”Duet.32:10 NKJV
Amy; Blacklick, OH
Psalm 118:24 NIV
This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Melissa, East Bend, NC
Hosea 6:3 NLT
Oh, that we mighty know the Lord! He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn or the coming of rains in early spring.
Indianapolis, IN “Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him;
God is a refuge for us.” Psalm 62:8, ESV
Mikki from Garden City, MO
“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
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. Is. 9:6
Vicky, Gray, Tn: “I sought the Lord, and He answered me, He delivered me from all my fears. Psalms 34:4 NIV
Megan from St. Louis; “You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore” Psalm 16:11, ESV
Jeanette, Fraser, CO, “Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus The Lord, so walk in Him,” Col. 2:6, ESV
Melanie, Amherst, MA
My heart exults in the Lord;
My horn is exalted in the Lord,
My mouth speaks boldly against my enemies,
Because I rejoice in Your salvation.
I Samuel 2:1 NASB
Amanda G from Monrovia, Indiana
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world — the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does — comes not from the Father but from the world.
1 John 2:15-16, NIV
Cynthia from Aynor,SC The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. Psalm 16:6 HCSB
Amber Barrows; Roanoke, Texas
James 1:17
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
ESV
Ephesians 4:29 KJV
29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good for the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Marsha Bauldry, Knoxville, TN
In the beginning was the Word,and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.