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
Leslie
Wisner, La.
“Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be pleasing to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.”
Psalm 19:14 NLT
Collierville TN
For we walk by Faith, not by sight…
2 Corinthians 5:7
Jennifer, Dallas,”And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.”Romans 8:28 NASB
Molly Arnold, Rochester, NY
“You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.”
Isaiah 26:3, NKJV
Kelly, Brentwood CA
For He commands His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. Psalm 91:11 ESV
(But I also like the NET translation:
For He will order his angels to protect you in all you do.)
Waco, Texas
“You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.” Hebrews 10:36 NIV
Joretta, Waxahachie, TX
“All your sons will be taught of the Lord; And the well-being of your sons will be great.”
Isaiah 54:13, NASB
Angel in MS
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled. Neither let them be afraid .
John 14:27 ESV
Jackie, Mobile, AL.
“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.”
John 15:7 NKJV
Count it all joy my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
James 1:2-4 ESV
Mariposa Sivage, Albuquerque New Mexico
No temptation has siezed you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear but when you are tempted he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.
1 Cor 10:13 NIV
RaeLeen in Greenwood – In my anguish I cried to the Lord, and He answered by setting me free.
Psalm 118:5 (NIV)
Brea B. Gardendale, AL
Let the Word of Christ-The Message-have the run of the house. Give it plenty of room in your lives. Instruct and direct one another using good common sense. And sing, sing, your heart out to God! Let every detail of your lives-words, actions, whatever-be done in the name of the Master, Jesus, thanking God the Father every step of the way.
Colossians 3:16-17 (The Message)
Cory, Las Vegas
Do not be concerned about the outward beauty of fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry or beautiful clothes. You should clothe yourself instead with the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God.
1 Peter 3:3-4, NLT
Stephanie, Lititz, PA
“We’re depending on God; He’s everything we need. What’s more, our hearts brimg iwth joy since taken for our own His holy name. Love us, God, with all you’ve got – that’s what we’re depending on.”
Psalm 33:20-22 MSG
Grace, age 5
“Treat others the same way you want them to treat you.”
Luke 6:31 NASB
Stacy, Birmingham. he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will -Ephesians 1:5 (ESV)
Suzanne Loveland CO. And He said to her,”Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in Peace. Your suffering is over. Mark 5:34 NLT
Sarah, from Orlando
“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.”
2 Corinthians 5:20-21 (NIV)
Kristen S
Indianapolis, IN
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
~ Psalm 119:105 KJV
Lindsay, Greenville, SC “Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know. But the man who loves God is known by God.” (NIV) 1 Corinthians 8:1-3
Chris, Seattle, WA
2 Timothy 2:15 NIV
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.
Kathleen, Phoenix, AZ
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
Hebrews 11:1 (NIV)
Delores, Columbia,TH
Psalm 32:8 NKJV
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go
I will guide you with My eye.
Phyllis Twilley -Salisbury, MD
“Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.” Ephesians 4:2-3 NIV
Kathy Cupit
Hazlehurst, MS
Psalm 23:2 (KJV)
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
Isaiah 40:28 “Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.” KJV Teresa, Akron,
It is the blessing of The Lord that makes rich, And he adds no sorrow to it.
Proverbs 10:22 NASB
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. James 1:17 (NIV)
Teresa, Edmond OK
“Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth”. 1 John 3:18 NASB
He fills my life with good things.
My youth is renewed like the eagle’s!Psalm 103:5 NLT
Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.
I Thessalonians 5:18 NLT
Sylvia Georgetown TX
Open your mouth and taste, open your eyes and see–how good God is. Blessed are you who run to him.
Ps 34:8 The Message
Emily, Elk Grove, CA
The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray.
1 Peter 4:7 NIV
“I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righetousness leading to holiness.” –Romans 6:19, NIV
Madeline from Flagstaff, Arizona
Christy, Whiteland, In
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.”
Proverbs 3:5-6 NKJV
Erin
Littleton, CO
“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.”
Galatians 5:1 NIV
Susan, Overland Park, KS
“I also pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you…” Eph. 1:18 (NIV 84)
Cindy Gandy
Hazlehurst, MS
Matthew 5:5 NIV
Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth.
Mandi in Oklahoma
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates. And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which He sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildest not, And houses full of all good things, which thou fillest not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full; Then beware lest thou forget the Lord, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. Deut. 6:8-12KJV
Sherri Smith, Bellevue Nebraska
Arise! For this matter is your responsibility, but we will be with you; be courageous and act.
Ezra 10:4, NASB
Kim
Guntersville, AL
I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.”
John 16:33 NLT
Stephanie – Auburn, AL
“The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in Him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with His hand.” (Psalm 37:23-24, NIV)
concerning His Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by HIS resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, Romans 1:3,4 ESV
Suzann Benson
Kingwood, WV
Pat, Joshua TX
Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing and perfect will of God”.
Romans 12:2 HCSB
Dee Dee, Smyrna, GA – “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10 (NIV)
Shannon Olson, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, CA
Psalm 119:58 (NIV)
I have sought your face with all my heart; be gracious to me according to your promise.
Gail, Phoenix, AZ
Don’t use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them. Ephesians 4:29 NLT
janelle c. from ocala, fl
Moses answered the people “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverence the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.” exodus 14:13-14 NIV
Judith, Manhattan, KS
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 1 Corinthians 13:4-5 NIV
“The Lord preserveth the faithful…Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.” Psalms 31: 23-24 KJV
(don’t have my Bible handy right now so I’m using a different version shown right on my coffee mug)