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.)Â 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
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you”.
Hebrews 13:5 (NIV)
Deborah – Port St. Joe, FL
I have set the Lord always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
Psalm 16:8 NIV
Lori, Plano – “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight.” Prov 3:5-6 NIV
Heika-Texas
“Blessed is she who has believed that what The Lord has said to her will be accomplished.”
Luke 1:45 NIV
Alexis, Salem OR
I prayed to the Lord and He answered me. He freed me from all my fears.
Psalm 34:4 NLT
Kelly Gorbold, Longmont, CO He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way. All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful for those who keep the demands of his covenant. Psalm 25:9,10 NIV
Diana Anderson, Greenville, KY Zephaniah 3:17 The Lord your God is with you,he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you,he will quiet you with his love,he will rejoice over you with singing. NIV
Becky, Mansfield, Ohio
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 NKJV
Ila – Weatherford, TX
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:13 NIV
Martha Corpus Christi
But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. I will sing the Lord’s praise,for he has been good to me.
Psalms 13:5-6
“Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.” ~Ruth 1:16&17, NIV
Hawley, Minnesota
2 Peter 1:8. NIV1984
For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Cheryl
Kokomo, Indiana
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares The Lord, ” plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
Nora, Shreveport, LA
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
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in Him, rooted and built up in Him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. Colossians 2:6-7 NIV
Julie
Hamburg
“Now I know that you fear God, because you have not
from me your son, your only son.”
Genesis 22:12
NIV
Laura K, Spearfish, SD.
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. I Cor 15:58 ESV
Dee, Zeeland, MI From NIV84
1st John 3:18-20 “Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts and he knows everything.”
Lisa M, Marion IN
Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail. Lamentations 3:22 (NIV)
“And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.” 1 John 4:21 NIV
Becky
Murfreesboro, TN
Shaina B.
Columbus, OH
Hebrews 12:1-2a NIV
“Therefore since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders, and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked our for us. And let us fix our eyes on Jesus the author and perfector of our faith…”
Anita
Amarillo
You are from God, little children, and have overcome them;
because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the
world.
1 John 4:4
NASB
Psalm 34:18 KJV
The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart and saves such as have a crushed spirit!
“He must increase but i must decease.” John 3:30 nas
Psalm 121:7-8 ‘The LORD will keep you from all harm—-he will watch over your life;
the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.”
Michele ~ Kenosha, WI
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it, and He will rescue us from your hand, O king. But even if He does not, we want you to know, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.”
Daniel 3:16-18 NIV
Karoletha from Longview, TX
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. Psalm 147:3 ESV
Bonnie from Jacksonville, FL
Shake off your dust; rise up, sit enthroned, O Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains on your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Isaiah 52:2
NIV
Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him and He will do it. Psalm 37:4-5 NASB
Terri, Staunton,VA —
Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions. 1 John 3:18 NLT
Brandi ~ Windsor, Colorado ~
Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, until He comes and showers His righteousness on you. Hosea 10:12 (NIV)
Lorrie, Chattanooga
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 1 Peter 1:6-7 (NIV)
Rachel Wanzer Owasso, OK
Isaiah 41:10 The Message
“Don’t panic. I’m with you. There’s no need to fear for I’m your God. I’ll give you strength. I’ll help you. I’ll hold you steady, keep a firm grip on you.”
Delanie, Fenton, Isaiah 41:9-10 (NIV) “I took you from the ends of the earth, from its farthest corners I called you. I said “you are my servant”; I have chosen you and have not rejected you. 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.
Sara, Slidell, LA::
“Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints.”
-Ephesians 6:18 (ESV)
Ann, Lexington, TN
For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline. 2 Timothy 1:7 NLT
De Anna- Greenville SC (yippee!! I finished JAMES!!!..now to 1 Peter)
1 Peter 1:1-2 NIV
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
To God’s elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, 2 who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood:
Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
Teri, Corpus Christi- TEXAS
Hebrews 12:1 New Life Version (NLV)
All these many people who have had faith in God are around us like a cloud. Let us put every thing out of our lives that keeps us from doing what we should. Let us keep running in the race that God has planned for us.
Jeannette Z, Mission,TX
Jeremiah 31:3 (MSG)
“I’ve never quit loving you and never will.
Expect love, love, and more love!
Kimberly, Fresno, CA
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others among yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interest of others.”
Philippians 2:3-4 (NIV)
Allison from Forest, VA
“Since we have these promises, beloved, let us
cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body & spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.”
II Cor. 7:1, ESV
With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall.
—Psalm 18:29
donna, mt. pleasant, nc
Make Your ways known to me, LORD; teach me Your paths.
Psalm 25:4 HCSB
Alisha lee from Lafayette la. “your love, o Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies.” psalm 36:5. Niv
James 1:15-18 (NIV)
15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. 16 Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers. 17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. 18 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
Jen Evans Seville, Ohio Psalms 16:8 (NIV1984)
I have set the Lord always before me.
Because he is at my right hand,
I will not be shaken.
Sarah B.
Portales, NM
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (ESV)
“For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ”
Sherry Montgomery, Texas
Lamentations 3:22-23 (NAS)
“The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease,
For His compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
Great is Thy faithfulness.”
Ephesians 3:16 NIV
…that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His spirit to the inner man,
Gigi, Tyler. And you must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength. Mark 12:30 (NLT)