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
Tiffany from Georgetown, Tx–
“But the wisdom that comes from Heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.” James 3:17-NIV
Kimberly, Lawrenceburg, KY. “So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.” James 2:12-13 (ESV)
Tasha
Malvern,AR
Job 42:2
2 “I know that you can do all things;
no plan of yours can be thwarted. (NIV1984)
Teri Schultz, Aledo, TX
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.” Philippians 2:3 (NIV)
Lindsay, Sugar Land : ” For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.” Proverbs 23:7 (NKJ)
Cindy from Nashville, “So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contray to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.” Galatians 5:16-17 NIV
Rosa from Rahway, NJ…. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart, my portion forever! Psalm 73:26 HCSB
Jennifer
Nixa, MO
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
~Colossians 3:12 NIV
Wendy, Amarillo, TX “I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end He will stand on the earth”. Job 19:25 (NIV)
Jeannie
Nashville, Tn.
“Who among the gods is like You,O LORD?
Who is like You–
majestic in holiness,
awesome in glory,
working wonders?” Exodus 15:11 NIV
Vicki- Ann Arbor, Michigan
Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty. Everything in the heavens and on earth is yours, O Lord, and this is your kingdom. We adore you as the one who is over all things.
I Chronicles 29:11
Karen, Livermore, CA
Are any among you suffering? They should pray. Are any cheerful? They should sing songs of praise. James 5:13 NRSV
Connie Picayune,MS
But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you. Matt 6:33 KJV
Call to Me and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know. Jeremiah 33:3 NKJV
Deb, Becker, MN
May the Lord lead your hearts into a full understanding and expression of the love of God and the patient endurance that comes from Christ. 2 Thess 3:15 NLT
“Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.” – James 5:16 | NLT
Barb from Richardson, TX
Yahweh your God is among you, a warrior, who saves. He will rejoice over you with gladness. He will bring (you) quietness with his love. He will delight in you with shouts of joy.
Forgot>>>>Zephaniah 3:17, HCSB
Julie from Queen Creek, AZ – “I run in the path of your commands, for you have set my heart free.” Psalm 119:32 (NIV,1984)
Alicia, New Market, AL. “One thing God has spoken, two things have I heard: that you, O God, are strong, and that you, O Lord, are loving. Surely you will reward each person according to what he has done.” Psalm 62:11-12 (NIV)
Psalm 34:19 NIV The righteous person may have many troubles but the Lord delivers him from them all.
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. Col. 3:15 (NIV)
Maryann, Cold Lake, Alberta
Remembering whom I serve!
Eph.6:6-8 NKJV
6 not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, 7 with goodwill doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men, 8 knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.
Alicia, Mesa, AZ
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1 NIV
Lara Taeuber, Frisco Texas, Revelation 5:9-10 and they sang a new song, saying worthy are YOU to take the book and to break the seals, for you were slain, purchased for God with YOUR blood from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. You have made them to be kingdom and priests to our God, and they will reign upon the earth. Rev. 5:9-10 NASB
“Do not withhold your mercy from me, O Lord; may your love and faithfulness always protect me.” Psalm 40:11 NIV84
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. (Galatians 6:9 NIV)
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (NLT)
For everything there is a season,
a time for every activity under heaven.
A time to be born and a time to die.
A time to plant and a time to harvest.
A time to kill and a time to heal.
A time to tear down and a time to build up.
A time to cry and a time to laugh.
A time to grieve and a time to dance.
A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones.
A time to embrace and a time to turn away.
A time to search and a time to quit searching.
A time to keep and a time to throw away.
A time to tear and a time to mend.
A time to be quiet and a time to speak.
A time to love and a time to hate.
A time for war and a time for peace.
Nicole, Lancaster, Ca: “For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.” (Romans 12:3 ESV)
Ryann, New Market, AL “For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking it all.” James 2:10 (NIV)
Jeannie, Charlotte
Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth!
Psalm 100:1 (ESV)
Hannah from Winter Haven, FL
“They also do no iniquity; they walk in His ways.”
Psalm 119:3 (NKJV)
Michelle from Norman,OK. “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart as if working for The Lord, not for people” NIV/NCV
Kassie Dulin from Southlake, TX
“For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.” (Romans 13:3-4, NKJV)
Evelyn M.
Watertown, MA
“I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me.” (John 10:14; NIV)
Gena Gilbert, Rowlett, Texas
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Oh Lord my Rock and my Redeemer.
Psalm 19:14 NIV
Kelly P from Concord, NC
“Since, then, we do not have the excuse of ignorance, everything—and I do mean everything—connected with that old way of life has to go. It’s rotten through and through. Get rid of it!”
Ephesians 4:23, The Message
Misti, Houston (now not moving to Baytown)
“Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
NIV
Pam Bryant
Kountze, Tx.
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Gal. 5:25 NKJV
Shanalea, Riverside, CA
Let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.
Hebrews 4:16 NLT
Kelley, Oak Ridge, NC
For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
Beverly, Pearland,TX
So do not fear, for I am with you, do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41:10 TNIV
Collierville Tn
I have fought the good fight,I have finished the race, I have kept the faith..
2 Timothy 4:7
Carin, Greenville, KY The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end;they are new every morning;great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23 (ESV)
Heather: McDonough, GA – Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those that hear. Ephesians 4:29, ESV
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.”
Psalm 19:1-2 NIV
Shelly Story
Wausa, Nebraska
Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken. My salvation and my honor depend on God; he is my mighty rock, my refuge. Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.
Psalm 62:5-8 NIV
Jennifer, Houston, TX; The Lord is merciful and gracious; he is slow to get angry and full of unfailing love. Psalm 103:8 NLT
Tiffany, Frisco, TX “May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you, O Lord , my Rock and my Redeemer.” (Psalms 19:14 NLT)
LaShae – Arlington, TX
But the Lord answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and bothered about so many things; but only one thing is necessary, for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.” Luke 10:41-42 NASB
Laura ~ Plainfield, IN
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
James 4:10 NIV