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
Cheryl, Fairhope “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.” Romans 8:1-2 (NET)
Tonette Paternoster Pensacola,Fl.
Galatians 5;1
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
Proverbs 31:25 NIV
She is clothed with strength and dignity;
She can laugh at the days to come.
Kathy, Birmingham, Alabama
“For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.” II Timothy 1:7 NIV
debbie jo, greenwood, For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10, NIV
Judy of Centerville, Ohio
“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous.
Do not be terrified; Do not be discouraged,
For the Lord, Your God will be with you wherever you go.”
Joshua 1:9 NIV
Laura E – Tampa, FL – Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her! Luke 1:45 (NIV)
Cindy, Belleville, IL
“If you can?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for one who believes.” Mark 9:23 NIV
Melissa, Walla Walla WA Colossians 2:6-7 NASB
“Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude.”
Melody, Cheyenne,Wy. Colossians 2: 5 NIV
 For though I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit and delight to see how disciplined you are and how firm your faith in Christ is.
Suzanne Morton, Decatur, Texas
“Do not let your heart be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.” John 14:1 NIV 84
Matthew 7:15 He touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she got up and waited on Him.–NASB
Matthew 8:15 He touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she got up and waited on Him. NASB
Debbie, Katy, TX
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5 NIV
Candace, Houston, TX
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5 NIV
Nancy from Evansville, IN
“Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.” Jeremiah 33:3 NIV
Nicole, Marietta
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. (Joshua 1:9 NASB)
Glenda, Newcastle, Australia,
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith,we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 5.1 NIV
Pauline Richardson,Eau Claire, “If I say, “My foot slips,”
Your mercy, O Lord, will hold me up . In the multitude
of my anxieties within me, Your comforts delight my soul”
Psalm 94:18-19, NKJV
Barb from Carlsbad, NM
“No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgement you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from Me, says the Lord. Is. 54:17 NKJV
Brianna from Huntsville, AL
Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; (Philippians 2:14-15 KJV)
Kaitlin from Houston, TX
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love. By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
1 John 4:7-9 (world English bible)
Misty
Edmond, OK
If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 10:9 NIV
Villa Rica, GA
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go. Joshua 1:9 NIV
Melisa From Katy, Tx
The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it.
1 Thessalonian 5:24, NIV
Darcy, Clermont, FL.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 2 Corinthians 3:17 NIV84
Donna,
Norwood, MA
Romans 8:28
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
28Â And we know that [a]God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
Feb 1
Sarah B from gainesville, ga
“Either way, Christ’s love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. He died for everyone so that those who recieve his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them.” 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 NLT
Jill, Midland. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Romans 12:12 (NIV)
Jeri, Creston, Iowa
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you saying “This the way; walk in it.”
Isaiah 30:21 NIV
Gayle, Atkins, AR
I will consider all your works and medicate on all your mighty deeds. Psalm 77:12 NIV
Emma from Olathe, KS
“Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves”
-Philippians 2:3 ESV
Angie Heaton, Hot Springs, AR
“He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.” Psalms 91:1 NIV
Katie, College Station. This poor man called, and the Lord heard him; he saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and he delivers them. Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.
-Psalm 34:6-7 (NIV)
Terri, houston , Tx.
I will love thee, O Lord , my strength.
Psalm 18:1 NIV
Cher Goeder, Toledo, Ohio – When I called, You answered me; You made me bold and stouthearted.”
Psalm 138:3 NIV 1984
Milton, GA
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. (Matthew 5:8)
Marilyn, Harvey,Iowa
“Love the Lord you God with all you heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” Matthew 22:37 NIV
See to it that no one captivate you with an empty, seductive philosophy according to human tradition, according to the elemental powers of the world and not according to Christ.
Colossians 2:8
Psalm 62:5 New Living Translation
Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in Him.
Ann from Indiana
Lynda, Monterey
“For the Lord God is our sun and our shield. He gives us grace and glory. The Lord will withhold no good thing from those who do what is right.”
Psalm 84:11 (NLT)
Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgement you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. Matthew 7:1-2
Jennifer, Leesburg, GA
“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.”
Philippians 4:6 NASB95
Cast me not off at the time of old age, forsake me not when my strength is spent and my powers fail.
Psalm 71:9
Amplified
Holley Richardson, Atlanta, GA.
“For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.”
Romans 8:5-6 ESV
Gina, Bolivar, MO
“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”
Joshua 1:9 (NIV)
Kristen from San Jose, Costa Rica: “Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet, but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead.” Philippians 3:13, NASB
Amy from Greensboro, NC
7 The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him.
Psalm 28:7 (NIV)
Kaitlyn (11), Hannah (9), Mom(Angela), Chattanooga
They are like trees planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in season, whose leaves do not wither. In all that he does he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff the wind blows away. Psalm 1:3-4 (ESV)