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
We are afflicted in everyway,
but not crushed;
perplexed, but not despairing,
persecuted, but not forsaken,
struck down, but not destroyed.
2 Corinthians 4: 8-9
New American Standard
“Pray also for me, that whenever I speak, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should.” Ephesians 6:19-20, NIV
Ava-Tyler Tx.
Emily from Birmingham, AL … “I sought the Lord and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.” Psalm 34:4 (ESV)
Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and you will continually do good, kind things for others. All the while, you will learn to know God better and better. NLT
Paula, Houston, TX
Commit to The Lord all that you do and you will succeed.
Proverbs 16:3, NIV
Kassie Dulin from Southlake, TX
“Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of those things which were told her from the Lord!” (Luke 1:45, NKJV)
Erma, Houston.
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil and cling to what is good. Rom. 2:9 NIV
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Proverbs 15:1 (NIV)
Trish from California, MD
Brooke, French Lick, In
Surely the Lord your God has blessed you in all your undertakings, he knows you are going thru this wilderness. These 40 yrs the Lord your God has been with you;you have lacked nothing. Deut.2:7 NRSV
Jan, Littleton CO
Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, (1 Peter 3:1 NIV)
Carolyn
Kearney, Nebraska
Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, is not boastful, is not conceited.
1 Corinthians 13:4 HCBS
Debbie, Fort Thomas, KY
Spend your time and energy in training yourself for spiritual fitness. Physical exercise has some value, but spiritual exercise is much more important, for it promises a reward in both this life and the next.
1 Timothy 4:7b-8 NLT
Jennifer, Cypress, TX
Hebrews 5:13-14 NIV
“Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.”
Concetta, White Oak, TX, Psalms 4:8 NLT ” In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone,
O Lord, will keep me safe.”
Cindy, Belleville, IL
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people. Ephesians 1:18 NIV
Sarah, Colorado Springs
1 Chronicles 29:11
Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and the earth is Yours; Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and Yours it is to be exalted as Head over all.
(Amp)
Amanda
Albuquerque, NM
For God called you to do good, even if it means suffering, just as Christ suffered for you. He is your example, and you must follow in his steps. (1 Peter 2:21 NLT)
Dianne, FL
“Commit your works to the Lord, and your thoughts will be established.”
Proverbs 16:3
Vasthie Orlando, FL
Surely the arm of the Lord is not to short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins has hidden his face from you so that he will not hear. Isaiah 59:1-2 NIV
Debbie
Decatur,Al
But you shall have power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to
Me in Jerualem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria and to the end of the earth.
Acts 1:8 NKJV
“This is the one I esteem’ says the Lord, ‘he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.”
Isaiah 66:2 (ESV)
Audrey from Fayetteville, AR
“Stand firm in your faith, or you will not stand for anything.”
Isaiah 7:9b NIV
Michelle Alosa Concord, NH
James 1:19-20 NLT
“Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires.”
Kathleen , Georgetown, TX
Colossians 3:13 NIV84
Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as The Lord forgave you.
Frisco, TX
May you be strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for all endurance and patience, with joy giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the saint’s inheritance in the light. –Colossians 1:11-12, Holman
All who have ears and can hear listen to what the Spirit has to say to the churches. NIV Sally Denton Rev. 3:6
Suey, Houston,II Thes. 1:2, Grace and peace to you. NIV
Brittney, San Angelo, TX “Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom, teaching, and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.” Colossians 3:16 NASB
Nancy–Yonges Island, SC
“For as the rain and snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes out from My mouth; it shall not return to Me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.” Isaiah 55: 10-11 ESV
And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. Isaiah 30:20-21 ESV
Buffy from Frisco, TX: Blessed is she who has believed that The Lord would fulfill his promises to her. Luke 1:45 NIV
Spring, TX
Take pains with these things; be absorbed in them, so that everyone will see your progress.
1 Timothy 4:15 (NET)
Lynne Jones, Gainesville VA
As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.
2 Samuel 22:31
Sarah, Wilmington, NC
So Christ has really set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get tied up again in slavery to the law. Galatians 5:1 NLT
Renee
Huntington, West Virginia
Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. (Psalms 139:14 NLT)
Neeley from Auburn, AL
James 3:4 NIV- ” Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. “
Teri, Wayne, MI
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn in Zion. – Isaiah 61:2 NIV
Brandee from White House, TN
You direct me on the path that leads to a beautiful life. As I walk with You, the pleasures are never-ending, and I know true joy and contentment. Psalm 16:11, The Voice
Josie ~ Salem, OR
Psalms 27:4
NASB
“One thing I have asked from the Lord , that I shall seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord and to meditate in His temple.”
Sarah
Webb City, MO
“In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation.
Psalm 5:3 NIV
Ginger, Phoenix, AZ
“O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; You perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; You are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue You know it completely, O LORD.”
Psalm 139:1-4 (NIV1984)
Diera – Austin
“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus..”
Ephesians 3:20-21a NIV
Jackie UK Romans 12:1-2 The Message
So, here’s what I want you to do, God helping you:
Take your everyday, ordinary life- your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking- around life- and place it before God as an offering.
Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for Him.
Don’t become so well adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking.
Instead, fix your attention on God.
You’ll be changed from the inside out.
Readily recognise what He wants from you, and quickly respond to it.
Unlike the culture around you,always dragging you down to it’s level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in You. Isaiah 26:3 ESV
Michelle Baylerian
Waukesha, WI
Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit’s leading in every part of our lives
Galatians 5:25 NLT
Janice R, Steinbach, MB “For the king trusts in the Lord; through the unfailing love of the Most High he will not be shaken.” Ps 21:7
“Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not 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.'” (Isaiah 41:10 NASB)
Robin Freeman~Garland, Tx
The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Proverbs 18:21
Isaiah 43:1 Amplified
But now, thus says The Lord, your Creator, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel, Do not fear, for I have redeemed you, I have called you by name; you are Mine.
Tammy
Pottsboro,TX
Praise be to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spirital blessing in Christ.
Ephesians 1:3 NIV