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
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 5:13 New American Standard Bible
May God be gracious to us and bless us and makes His face shine on us. Psalms 67:1 NIV
Acts 1:8(NIV 2000)
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
( I know this is the wrong place I posted with my church groups registration is the part I am missing.)
ā7He rules forever by his power,
his eyes watch the nationsāā let not the rebellious rise up against Him. Psm 66:7
Caroline from Houston, Texas, Looking at them, Jesus said, “With people it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.” Mark 10:27 NASB
mitzi from Brandon, MS
Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for You; Your Name and Renown are
the desire of our hearts. My soul yearns for You in the night, in the morning my spirit longs for You.
Isaiah 26:8-9 NIV
Victoria, Rome,GA. “No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.” 1 Corinthians 10:13 (ESV)
Sallie
Tallahassee, FL
“Grace and peace be multipled to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by His glory and excellence.” 2 Peter 1:2-3 NAS
Jenny, St. Charles, IL
Psalms 65;11 NIV
You crown the year with your bounty and Your cart overflows with abundance.
Retha P; Arlington, TX
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vein conceit but in humility consider others better than yourselves.”
Philippians 2:3 (NIV)
Nicole, Valrico, FL
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, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21 (NIV)
Acts 1:8(NIV 2000)
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.”
Philippians 2:3, NIV
Kathy, Houston, TX
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, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21 NIV1984
Elisa from Hertford, NC.
“So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or “What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run afer all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
Matthew 6:31-34, NIV
Karen from Southport, NC
Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.
1John3:18 NAS
Angie W., Federal Way, WA
Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving and perform ypur vows to the Most High, and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you and you shall glorify me. Psalms 50:14, 15 ESV
Ronda, Marion, IN
Therefore, 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 perserverance the race marked out for us. Let 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. Hebrews 12:1-2 NIV
Suzy – Atlanta (wish I could see you while you are here, Beth!)
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:1-2 ESV
Jill
Detroit Michigan
Above all else, guard your heart,for everything you do flows from it. Proverbs 4:23 NIV
Midland, TX
2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, James 1:2 (NIV)
“The Lord will greatly bless his people. Wherever they plant seed bountiful crops will spring up. ”
Isaiah 32:20
Heather, Edmond, OK
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with God’s people who are in need. Practice Hospitality.”
Romans 12:12-13, NIV
Aly from Arlington, TX
“And this is love, that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love. ” 2 John 1:6 NIV
Angela White, Moreland, GA, “Behold, I will do something new, Now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.”Isaiah 43:19 NASB
Trae from Crawford, Texas: “And He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in and give us the land that He swore to our fathers.” Deuteronomy 6:23 ESV
Christie from Alabama,You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Tracy from Wichita Falls, “Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud.”. 1 Corinthians 13:4, NLT.
Sharon, Cypress TX
I will meditate on Your precepts,
And contemplate Your ways.
I will delight myself in Your statutes;
I will not forget Your Word.
Psalm 119:15-16 (NKJV)
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:28, NIV).
tish from Minnesota: 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.
Maddie, Houston, TX
Whoever disregards discipline comes to poverty and shame,
but whoever heeds correction is honored. Proverbs 13:18
Kara from Aurora, Il
Philippians 3:13-14:
But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead. I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. (NIV)
Theresa from Oakland Township, MI
“God is not a man, so he does not lie.
He is not human, so he does not change his mind.
He has ever spoken and failed to act?
Has he ever promised and not carried it through?”
Numbers 23:19 (NLT)
Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4
Rose
Michaela from Alabama,You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
Ashley from Huddleston, VA – “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:5 NIV
Rayleigh Sun Edmond, OK
“Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture,. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desire of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun” Psalm 37: 3-6 (NIV84)
Laurie Tomascik
Richmond, Maine
“You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance.”
Psalm 65:11 (NIV)
Marcia Bouchie
Windermere, FL
“But the love of the Lord remains forever with those who fear him. His salvation extends to the children’s children of those who are faithful to his covenant, of those who obey his commandments.”
Psalm 103:17-18
NLT
Marsha Bauldry, Knoxville, TN
In the beginning was the Word,and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:1 (NIV)
Opps niv translation
Clinton,Ky.
“Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.”
Colossians 3:15 NIV
Kandyce Lamon, Edmond, Oklahoma
The faithful love of the LORD never ends! His mercies never cease. Lamentations 3:22 NLT
Donna Sava
Franklin, TN
People can make all kinds of plans, but only the Lordās plan will succeed.
Proverbs 19:21 EXB
I borrowed this from a fellow siesta! PERFECT for me at this season of my life!
Allison A. Johnson City, TN; “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13 NET
Sarah Doll. Chattanooga, TN “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might. He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding; he reveals deep and hidden things, he knows what is in the darkness and the light dwells with him. To you, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, for you have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we asked of you, for you have made known to us the king’s matter.” Daniel 2:20-23 ESV
Jennifer, Cleveland
“Your body will glow with health, your very bones will vibrate with life!” Proverbs 3:8 Message
Maria
Lithia, FL
Proverbs 23:18 (NIV)
There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.
Sally from Sour Lake, Texas
“Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light on my path”
Psalm 119:105 HCSB