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
Leanne Anderson, Cloquet,MN, Romans 12:15,Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. NIV
Melissa, Houston, Texas
“This mystery has been kept in the dark for a long time, but now it’s out in the open. God wanted everyone, not just Jews, to know this rich and glorious secret inside and out, regardless of their background, regardless of their religious standing. The mystery in a nutshell is just this: Christ is in you, so therefore you can look forward to sharing in God’s glory. It’s that simple. That is the substance of our Message. We preach Christ, warning people not to add to the Message. We teach in a spirit of profound common sense so that we can bring each person to maturity. To be mature is to be basic. Christ! No more, no less. That’s what I’m working so hard at day after day, year after year, doing my best with the energy God so generously gives me.” – (Colossians 1:26 – 29,The Message)
Alexis
Huntsville, AL
“I sought the Lord, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears.”
Psalm 34:4 NIV
Sharon Allen, Redmond, WA
2Timothy2:21
Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work.
Shannon Bjornseth; Decatur, AL
Proverbs 19:21 (NLT)
21You can make many plans, but the Lord’s purpose will prevail.
“For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12 NASB
Kristin from Frisco, TX –
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
Romans 12:12 NIV
Amanda – Plano, TX
Psalm 73:25-26
Whom have I in heaven but you? I desire you more than anything on earth. My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart; He is mine forever.
But thise who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary,they will walk and not be faint. isaiah 40:31
Tanya Huntington Beach, California
Isaiah 40:31
But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint
Mary Soisson; Barboursville, VA
“His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.”
II Peter 2:3, TNIV
you crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
The Lord is the One who goes ahead of you; He will be with you. He will not fail you. Deut 31:8 NASB
Andrea from Spring Branch, Texas
Psalm 119:1-2
Blessed are those whose way is blameless,
who walk in the law of the Lord!
Blessed are those who keep his testimonies,
who seek him with their whole heart.
BTW~ That is from the ESV
Thank you my beautiful cousin! I am so excited to be on this journey with you!! Love, Donna XOXOXO
Ava from Wichita Falls.
“Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud.
NLT
Rosa from Amherst, VA
Jeremiah’s prayer: “I know, Lord, that our livers are not our own. We are not able to plan our own course (Jeremiah 10:23 New Living Translation).”
James 1:2-4 NIV 2.Consider it pure joy,my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3.because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. 4.Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
Kathleen/ Saint Joseph, MI Colossians 3:10
Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him. NLT
Trinna Durbin, Covington, LA
“Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.”
1 Corinthians 15:58 NIV84
Cindy Johnson; Greenville, KY
Psalm 91:4
“He will cover you with His feathers, and under his wings
you will find refuge.”
during the time this verse became important to me, God kept allowing me to find white feathers.
Miriam Fisk – Granby, CT
Psalm 130:5 (NLT)
“I am counting on the Lord; yes, I am counting on him. I have put my hope in his word.”
Psalm 105:4
NAS Version
Look to the Lord and His strength: seek his face always.
Michelle; Long Beach, CA
“You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance.”
-Psalm 65:11 NIV
Stephanie from Fairmont, West Virginia
Proverbs 22:6 NIV
Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.
Whitney- Greenville, SC: “But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, for he has been good to me.” Psalm 13: 5-6 NIV
Lisa from Conshohocken,Pennsylvania:
Psalm 51:10 (NLV)
“Create in me a clean heart, O God.
Renew a right spirit within me.”
DeAnne, from Bothell, Washington
Don’t be conformed to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you can figure out what God’s will is-what is good and pleasing and mature. Romans 12:2 Common English Bible
Janice from Mountain View, Arkansas
For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. Colossians 1:9 NIV
Molly from Camas. So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. 2 Corinthians 5:17-18.
Molly from Camas….
So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 5:17-18. NRSV
Sandi in Wichita Falls, TX
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
You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.
Psalm 65:11, NIV
His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 2 Peter 1:3 NIV
Isaiah 43: 1 – 4, 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.
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you.
When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.
For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your stead.
Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give people in exchange for you, nations in exchange for your life.
Lisa from Tomah, WI. In his heart a man plans his course but The Lord determines his steps. Proverbs 16:9 NIV
“This is the confidence we have in approaching God; that if we ask anything according to His will He hears us. And if we know that He hears us – whatever we ask_ we know that we have what we asked.” 1 John 5:14-15 NIV
Jule from Bowmsnsville. “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth be removed, and the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.” Psalm 46:1-2 NKJ
Nichole McCormick from Santa Rosa Beach, Florida
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1 KJV
Kortney from Des Plaines, IL
Do not fret because of evil men or be envious of those who do wrong. Psalm 37:1
Lisa from Jay, Oklahoma
But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Colossians 3:8-10 NIV
Sandy, Gardendale,AL Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Psalm 32:1. NIV
Jeremiah 29:11. NIV
“For I know the plans I have for you”, declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
NIV-
SET A GUARD OVER MY MOUTH, O LORD; KEEP WATCH OVER THE DOOR OF MY LIPS
Joey Lynn, Las Vegas, NV
Psalm 118:5
New International Version 1984 (NIV1984)
5 In my anguish I cried to the Lord,
and he answered by setting me free.
Rhonda; Bartlesville, OK;
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” 2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV
Leigh Ann, Pike Road, AL
Psalm 121:1-2 NIV
“I lift up my eyes to the mountains, where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.”
Watauga, TX
Do not conform any longer to the pattern on 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
Victoria from Bryant, Arkansas
“Consider it a great joy, my brothers whenever you experience various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.” -James 1:2-3 (HCSB)
Johannah, Alexandria
“Never be lazy, but work hard and serve the Lord enthusiastically.”
Romans 12:11 NLT
Kirsten H from Schaumburg IL
“The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?” Psalm 27:1 NIV
Donna from Cypress, TX – “Forget about what’s happened;
don’t keep going over old history.
Be alert, be present. I’m about to do something brand-new.
It’s bursting out! Don’t you see it?
There it is! I’m making a road through the desert,
rivers in the badlands.” Isaiah 43:18,19 (The Message)
Elisabeth (@Zumbalyzious)
Modesto, CA
“Forget the things of the past. I am doing a new thing! Now it springs forth; do you not perceive & know it & will you not give heed to it? I will even make a way in the wilderness & rivers in the desert.” Isaiah 43:19
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