Hey, Everybody! Welcome to Verse 3! One month down, only eleven more to go! I say that with a grin because I don’t want it to fly by. There are stressful aspects to what we’re doing here on our team because victory is labor intensive and demands focus and discipline. You can’t really cheat at your memory work. I mean, either we take the time for the constant repetition until it’s embedded underneath that skull of ours or we don’t. But, at the same time, it’s also rejuvenating, don’t you think? And fun? And, admit it, the team aspect of it is glorious.
In fact, I hope God is using this whole process to bring some of you back to life. I’m picturing all of us women like that valley of dry bones in Ezekiel 37. Scattered in that broad dell of ours are skeletons of dead-tired, depleted girls from all over the United States and in at least a half dozen other countries. Thousands of us. The breath of God’s words falling on us, rattling our bones, wrapping us with new wine skins, filling our lungs, and beginning to raise us to our feet: a mighty army brandishing Swords. (Eph. 6:17) We use these swords to battle darkness and not one another. We are not Peter who, in an impulsive fury, left poor Malchus with one less ear in John 18:10. There they were, in the most critical moment in human history thus far and Jesus had to stop what He was doing and stick the man’s ear back on the side of his head. (Luke 22:51) Enough of this! Jesus commanded. The people around us who we are called to reach and serve in Christ’s name are not drawn to weapons and shredders but they are indeed drawn to courage and valiance and gracious strength. A well-trained soldier knows who his enemy is and who his enemy is not.
I’m looking forward to your verses! I am starting some memory work out of the one-chapter book of Jude today. I find this verse fascinating because the inspired penman really meant to write his audience about one thing when God sidetracked him to another. These dimensions of divine inspiration make my mind spin. I love thinking about it. Here goes mine:
Beth, Houston. Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. Jude 1:3 (ESV)
Contend for the faith. Lord, show us, teach us, equip us, fill us, and anoint us with holy affection, sound minds and doctrine to contend for the faith. Show us how to fight for our faith without wounding and scarring the people we were called to influence in the process. This can get tricky. Show us how it’s done.
I’m honored to serve you, Sisters, and to draw swords with you in this battle against the blackest darkness. Built up in Christ by the breath of the Spirit, focused and deliberate, we can be a mighty army.
OK, let’s have it. Your names, cities, verses, references, and translations.
Live and love well out there today, you hear?
Tags: Scripture Memory 2013
Melanie – Decatur,AL
James 1:19-20, NIV 1984
19 My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
Melody, Chelsea, AL
John 15:8 NIV
This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
Sandy, Deming NM
As you therefore have recieved Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and buit up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abouding in it with thanksgiving.
Col. 2: 6,7 NKJV
Alissa, Spring, TX
“I pray that the eyes of (my) heart may be enlightened in order that (I) may know the hope to which he has called (me), the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.”
Ephesians 1:18-19a NIV
Holly, Charlotte NC
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.” Isaiah 30:21 NIV
Love the iPhone app!!!
Jane from Geneseo, Illinois
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
Colossians 3:12-14 niv
Danielle
Van Buren, AR
Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.
Ephesians 3:20, NLT
Troy, Ohio
Philippians 1:9-11 NIV
And this is my prayer:that your love may abound
more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,
so that you may be able to discern what is best
and may be pure and blameless until the day of
Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness
that comes through Jesus Christ–to the glory
and praise of God.
Stacey Gaines
Corpus Christi, TX
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:17-18 (NIV)
Kate – Houston, TX
Incline my heart to your testimonies and not to selfish gain! Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things, and give me life in your ways. – Psalm 119:36-37, ESV
Julie, Cincinnati, OH:
Luke 6:45
New International Version (NIV)
A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
Linda, Winston-Salem, NC
Psalm 68:19,20 (NIV)
Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens.
Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign Lord comes escape from death.
Sim from Frisco, TX:
“You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of the Lord Forever.”.
Psalm 23:5-6 NKJV
Tina – Cleveland, TN
But thou, O Lord , art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. (Psalms 3:3 KJV)
Alyse Tucker from Woodstock, GA
“If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless.” James 1:26 NIV
Amy Nelson from Frisco, Texas
Always be full of joy in the Lord. I say it again – rejoice!
Philippians 4:4 NLT
Ashley, Cary, NC. “if we are faithless, he remains faithul – for he cannot deny himself.” 2 Tim. 2:13 (ESV)
Sharon Carter (Louisville, KY)
Isaiah 30:15 (The Message) God, the Master, The Holy of Israel, has this solemn counsel:
“Your salvation requires you to turn back to me and stop your silly efforts to save yourselves. Your strength will come from settling down in complete dependence on me—
The very thing you’ve been unwilling to do.”
Cari: Alexandria, LA. And I prophesied as he had commanded me: and as I prophesied there was a noise, and behold a commotion: and the bones came together, each one to its joint. Ezekiel 37: 7 (DRA)
Sydney (Houston, TX) – “You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.” Colossians 3:7 NIV
Ebony, Philadelphia
“Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless.”
James 1:26 NIV
Sandy E. from Kansas City, MO: May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had. Romans 15:5 NIV
Gretchen, Thousand Oaks, CA
Galatians 6:7-9 ESV
Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Stacey from Omaha, NE
“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds” Hebrews 10:24 NIV
Emily (age 12)
“But when I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.”
Psalm 56:3 NLT
Ally (age 10)
“A friend is always loyal, and a sister is born to help in a time of need.” Proverbs 17:17 NLT
Joy,Sutherland
This I recall to my mind, therefore I have HOPE.
Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.
They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.
“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,”therefore I hope in Him!”
The Lord is good to those who WAIT for Him, to the soul
who seeks Him.
It is good that one should hope and wait quietly for the
salvation of the Lord. Lamentations 3:21-26 NKJV
“Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.” Acts 4:13 ESV
Becky
Murfreesboro, TN
Ephesians 3:14 – NIV85
“The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.”
Zephaniah 3:17 (English Standard Version)
Lori Waxhaw, NC
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to 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
Diana from Rogers, AR “All your children will be taught by the Lord , and great will be their peace.” (Isaiah 54:13 NIV)
Billie from Scottsdale: Â
“…guard and keep the deposit entrusted to you! Turn away from the irreverent babble and godless chatter, with the vain and empty and worldly phrases, and the subtleties and the contradictions in what is falsely called knowledge and spiritual illumination.”
1 Timothy 6:20 (AMP)
Valerie ~ Oklahoma
“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.” John 15:12 NIV
Melissa, Katy,Tx, And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. (Romans 8:38 NLT)
Yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation
Habakkuk 3:18 ESV
Ephesians 3:14-15 – NIV 85
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name
Lorene, Lafayette, LA. 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
Barbara, Tomball. TX
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Phil 4:13 NKJV
Kim from Dimmitt, Texas
1 Corinthians 13:7-8 CSB
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.
Diane Hotchkiss from Houston
Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever and his faithfulness to all generations. Psalm 100:3-5 (ESV)
Kristi, Fayetteville, AR “Delight yourself in The Lord an He will give you the desires of your heart.” Psalm 37:4 (ESV)
Bridgette- Rockwall, TX
Open my eyes to see the miracles in your teachings.
Psalm 119:18 New Century Version
Bernadette, Huntsville, AL
“When I am afraid, I will trust in you.” Psalm 56:3 NIV
Laura, Chisago City MN
“The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul. The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy, making wise the simple.” Psalm 19:7 NIV
Julie, Granbury, TX
Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to Him, for God is our refuge. Selah Psalms 62:8 (NIV84)
Amy, Tyler, TX
God said, “I promise I’ll bless you with everything I have-bless and bless and bless!” Abraham stuck it out and got everything that had been promised to him.
Hebrews 6:14-15 (The Message)
You say, “I am allowed to do anything”- but not everything is good for you. And even though “I am allowed to do anything,” I must not become a slave to anything.
I Corinthians 6:12 NLT
I’ve memorized,not posted.#1 isa 25:1,isa 40:28;#3 isa 26:3&4 ncv version
Mary Ann, Woodbury, MN
Psalm 81:10 NIV
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of
Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.
1 Tim 5:16 NIV
Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.
Kim-Senatobia, MS
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. Colossians 3:12 ESV