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
faith, dallas
but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. galatians 5.22-23 esv
Janette from Grand Junction, Co
The words “it was credited to him” were written not for him alone, but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness —for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our LORD from the dead.
Romans 4: 23-24
Jenna- Omaha, NE
âAbove all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.â âProverbs 4:23 (NIV84)
M.J. in Lovington, NM
Give thanks to the Lord, call on His Name; make known among the nations what He has done.
Ps. 105:1 NIV
Boerne, TX
Don’t be afraid for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you, I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.
Isaiah 41:10 NLT
Cassidy, Houston,
“Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.” 1 Peter 1:13 NIV
Lauralee Courtney, Austin TX
Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness and faithfulness; gentleness, self control; against such things there is no law.
Lindsey, Scenery Hill, Pa
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love. Ephesians 4:1-2 (ESV)
(thankful to be memorizing this WITH one of my best friends…Mary from Annapolis!)
Jennifer in Cincinnati, OH
I’m leaving off the last sentence, because I am saying ‘yes’ to these instructions.
Jeremiah 6:16a. Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
16 Here is what Adonai says:
âStand at the crossroads and look;
ask about the ancient paths,
âWhich one is the good way?â
Take it, and you will find rest for your souls.
(But they said, âWe will not take it.â)
Mollie Atlanta soon Moscow, Lamentations 3:21-24 RSV
But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.âThe Lord is my portion,â says my soul, âtherefore I will hope in him.â
Maureen, St. Clair Shores, “Wisdom calls out in the street; she raises her voice in the public squares.” (Proverbs 1:20 HCSB)
Tanya, Pittsburgh
God is my strength and power and He makes my way perfect.
2 Samuel 22:33 (NKJV)
Laurie from Syracuse:
2 Chronicles 12:14
He did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the LORD.
Jessica, St Catharines
“Donât fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of Godâs wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. Itâs wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.”
Phil.4:6-7 MSG
Allison, Spokane, WA.
I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ. Philemon 1:6 NIV
Pam, Moss Bluff LA~
“The Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”
2 Corinthians 3:17 (NCV)
Susie, Bloomington,IN Psalm 145:1-2 I will exalt You, my God the King; I will praise Your name for ever and ever. Everyday I will praise You and extol Your name forever and ever. (NIV)
Amy; Milton, WA
“Restore to me the joy of your salvation and uphold me with a willing spirit.”
Ps. 51:12, ESV
I raise my eyes toward the mountains. Where will my help come from? My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
Psalm 121:1-2 (HCSB)
Maria Dickerson
Whitmire, SC
Meinhild Selbach, Lyons, France
Proverbs 19:21 (ESV)
Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.
Jeanette from Springfield, OH
Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed,
yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken,
nor my covenant of peace be removed,”
says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
Isaiah 54:10 NIV
Jessica, Carlsbad, CA, “The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain and the earth produced its crops.” James 5:16b-18 (NIV)
This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength.” Isaiah 30:15 NIV
Teresa Tyler, TX
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman
who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.
2 Tim 2:15 NASB
Sue Oktaha, OK
ep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking and you will find. Keep on knocking and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives. Everyone who seeks finds, and to everyone who knocks the door will be opened. Matthew 7:7-8 (NLT)
“For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of dealy poison.” James 3:7-8 ESV
Kim, Dickinson, ND
Kara, Broomfield, Colorado
Every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of Lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. James 1:17 NKJV
Alyson; Longmont, CO
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud (1 Corinthians 13:4 NLT)
Lisa
Blue Ridge, Virginia
Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord, keep watch over the door of my lips.
Psalm 141:3
Tammy Reidy
Grand Prairie, TX
Colossians 3:12-14 NIV84
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.
Wichita, KS “Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.” NIV
Mary Ann from Winter Haven, Florida
“But avoid foolish controversies and geneologies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless.
Titus 3:9, NIV
“And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in Him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession – to the praise of His glory.”. Ephesians 13-14. NIV
Anita
Amarillo,Texas
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation
of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight,
O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer.
Psalm 19:l4
New American Standard
Le Chsnay, France.
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)
Tammy,
Lusby, MD
You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trust in you.
Isaiah 26:3
NIV
Heather, Atlanta, GA
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in teh heavenly places. Therefore, take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Ephesians 6:11-13 (NKJV)
Terri, Pleasant Hope, MO
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 2 Corinthians 4:7-9 (NIV1984)
Kathy, Aiea, HI
Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth. (Ps. 46:10, NIV84)
Linda W. from Tomball, TX
Isaiah 26:3&4 (ESV) You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
Brynn in Alicante, Spain
We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. As God’s fellow workers we urge you to to receive God’s grace in vain. For he says, “In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.
2 Corinthians 5:20-6:2 NIV
Galatians 5:22 NIV
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control
Ps 121:7-8 ESV
Houston, Tx
“But You, O LORD, are always my shield from danger; You give me victory and restore my courage.” ~ Psalm 3:3 (GNT)
Donna from Atlanta, GA
“You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in You.”
Isaiah 26:3
Julie, Honolulu
Is not this the fast that I have chosen?To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go
free, and that you break every yoke?
Isaiah 58:6, NKJV
Becky
Willowick, OH
Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.
Romans 8:5-6 NIV
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 eagle’s. Psalm 103:1-5 ESV
Sherri from Senoia
Kelsey, Damariscotta ME:
“You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.”
Jeremiah 29:19 NAS
Debbie, Bolivar, MO
James 1:5 If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. NIV