Hey, Everybody!
I just loved Lindsee’s previous post! Didn’t you? (Oops, I know better than to ask a question on SSMT day that might tempt you to answer with more than your verse. So scratch that. But at least know that I’ve been heavily into writing lately and am almost desperate for Siesta interaction. We’re going to need a livestream soon and for my sake much more than yours.) I love some occasional randomness here on the blog. Well, I actually love it more often than occasionally. But I appreciate it most of all when random and awkward meet in the hall and hold hands like seventh graders who think they’re in love. Now we’re talking. Random doesn’t get better than that. And we got some mighty fine random awkwardness out of those lists.
But, alas, today is not random. Today is for taking the next big step in our life-thriving, heart-guarding, mind-saving journey of memorizing 24 Scriptures in 2013. Wooooohoooooo!
I am a little tickled over the verse I’m about to share with you because I really like to offer one up that many of you could consider as a selection in case you’re drawing a blank. I give that process thought every single time I write an SSMT post and have for each year we’ve practiced it. It’s the least I can do as your resident Siestaville rally girl. This time I just couldn’t make it happen, however, because I’m memorizing out of the Book of Jude and I need to proceed to the next verse. So, with seriousness and focused intention plus a side order of mild amusement, I offer you my official 2013 SSMT Verse 4:
Beth, Houston. But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.” Jude 1:9 ESV
What??!? That’s not the exact verse you’ve been longing to memorize? It’s not like I read your mail?? Finding out what happened to the body of Moses has not been your latest Scripture obsession?? This may be the first time – lo these many SSMT years – when no one opts to jump with me into my selection. You’ve got to admit it’s gloriously intriguing though. I’m totally taken with it and have been reading through a commentary as I’ve proceeded in the memorization. Jude is short on words and wild as a bucking bronco in a cramped corral on themes. Don’t dream of suggesting that the verse has little relevance for us. When the enemy is harassing you, just try occasionally saying out loud with lungs full of faith, “The Lord rebuke you” and see what happens. And I’m going to see what happens, too, because I’ve never diligently gone for that approach either. I don’t have many conversations with the enemy and I hope you don’t have an overabundance of them either. Our dialogues need to be directly with God who triumphs over every principality and empowers us with His Spirit and shields us with His hand. But I do indeed at times voice rebukes and occasional directives for him to get out of my yard and away from my family. In Jesus’ Name.
Over the last decade or so, I’ve switched from saying “Get behind me, Satan” when I feel like he’s hard at work around me and messing with my loved ones to “Get behind JESUS, Satan.” Jesus is the one who coined the command in Matthew 16:23 and I’m not at all sure it’s the same ballgame with the same outcome when we repeat the words like we have the exact level of authority. Anyway, I don’t especially want Satan working behind my back. Do you? I want him behind Christ’s. With Jesus in between the two of us, we find safety.
OK, Sisters! Let’s hear your verses! Name, City, Verse, Reference and Translations please! I love you so much. I’m honored to journey with you on this adventure Home.
Tags: Scripture Memory 2013
Debbie, St. Charles, MO
“Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.” Ephesians 4:3 (NIV)
Bethany, Riley, IN
Philippians 4:6,7
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Whatever you ask for in prayer in faith, your will receive.
Matthew 21:22 (NRSV)
But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
Heb. 11:6 NKJV
Camille of Bothell, WA
“But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.” ~ Jeremiah 17:7-8 (NIV 1984)
Donna, Plano, James 1:17 “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” NIV
Laurie, Naperville, Illinois
Philippians 4:6-7
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
Indiana
“The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”
Deuteronomy 31:8 NIV
Kelly Brooks, Long Beach, MS
Jeremiah 23:22 ESV
“But if they had stood in my council, then they would have proclaimed my words to my people, and they would have turned from their evil way, and from the evil of their deeds.”
Natalie Olympia, WA
Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart.
1 Peter 1: 22
Andrea Dublin, OH
Proverbs 19:11 A man’s wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offense. NIV84
Sheila, Splendora, TX
“Shout for joy to God, all the earth; sing the glory of His name; give to Him glorious praise.” Psalm 66:1-2
Donna, Springfield, MO
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
Rebecca, Greenville, SC
Those who guard their mouths and their tongues keep themselves from calamity.
Proverbs 21:23. NIV
Amanda Barnes – Windsor, CO
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a loyal spirit within me. Do not banish me from your presence and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the Joy of your salvation and make me willing to obey you. Then I will teach your ways to rebels and they will return to you. Psalm 51:10-13 NLT
Brittney Thomas, Lexington, KY
“My salvation and my honor depend on God alone;
he is my mighty rock, my refuge.”
Psalm 62:7 (niv + brittney version)
Sheila, Fort Smith, Arkansas
I will bless The Lord who has counseled me; Indeed, my mind instructs me in the night. I have set The Lord continually before me; Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will dwell securely.
Psalms 16:7-9 (NASB)
Elizabeth, Castle Rock, CO
Hebrews 12:2-3, ESV
“Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.”
Stephanie, Kansas City, Missouri
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. (Hebrews 4:16 ESV)
Lindsay, Wenatchee
‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty. (Zechariah 4:6 NIV)
Debra Hamson – Dahlgren, IL
Micah 6:8 NIV
He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
“Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends”
JOHN 15:13
Melissa, Scarborough, ME: “I run in the path of your commands, for You have set my heart free.” Psalm 119:32 NIV
22 Cor. 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: the old has gone, the new has come! NIV
Mindy Hooks
Platte City, Mo
Colossians 2:13 ESV
And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses.
Danielle from Pratt, KS
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
Proverbs 3:5 (NIV)
Romans 10:9-10
If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart a person believes resulting in righteouness, and with the mouth confesses resulting in salvation. NIV
Debbie, Cypress,Texas
Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an
everlasting rock.
Jessica Fort Collins, Co
Psalm 19:14
New International Version (NIV)
14 May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart
be pleasing in your sight,
Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.
Ellen, Houston. ‘In this you greatly rejoice though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.’ 1 Peter 1:6 NIV
Terra from Owasso, OK
For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Romans 3:23 NLT
Feb 15 2013 NIV 2Cor 5:17
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has gone, the new has com.
Feb 1, 2013 NIV Proverbs 3: 5&6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your won understanding:in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.
Heather Smith
Visalia, CA
Psalm 63: 3-4 NIV
Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you, I will praise you as long as I live and in your name I will lift up my hands.
Saying so long to breast cancer!!!
John 13:34-35 (NLT)
So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. [35] Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”
Psalm 119:165
Great peace have they who love your law and nothing can make them stumble.
Nancy from Northridge, CA
Psalm 145:13b-114
“The Lord is trustworthy in all He promises
and faithful in all He does.
The Lord upholds all who fall
and lifts up all who are bowed down”
Kelsey Chute, Damariscotta, ME:
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us” (Hebrews 12:1, ESV)
Heather – Cypress, Texas
“You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.”
Isaiah 26:3(NIV)
Do not fear for I wam with you.
Do you anxiously look about you, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you.
Surely I will help you.
Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.
IS 41:10
Becky Jo
Chesterfield MI
Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. 15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
James 3:13-18 ESV
(yes. it is the same passage as last time … still working on it.)
Lori, Springfield, Mo. Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. Jn 4:34 (ESV)
Lyndsey, Pennsburg, PA: “And He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in and give us the land that He swore to give to our fathers.” DEUTERONOMY 6:23 ESV
Kim from Knoxville, Tenn.
Teach me your ways O Lord,
that I might walk in your truth.
Give me an undivided heart,
that I might fear your name.
Psalm 86:11 (NIV)
Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and grant me a willing spirit to sustain me.
Psalm 51:12 NIV
Lindsay from Ellsworth, Maine
Zephaniah 3:17 (NLT)
”For the Lord your God is living among you. He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness.
With his love, he will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs.”
Delight yourself in The Lord; and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalms 37:4
NASB
Linda, Westport
There was the true light which,coming into the world, enlightens every man.
John 1:9 NAS
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears The Lord is to be praised.
Proverbs 31:30
NIV
Anna Elkhart IN
Ephesians 4:29 (NASB)
Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth
but only such a word as is good for edification
according to the need of the moment, so that It will give
grace to those who hear.