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.)Ā 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.Ā 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,Ā 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
Diane from Runnells, Iowa 2 Timothy 1:7 “For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.” (NASB)
Cindy, Uvalde, Texas “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.” I Corinthians 2:12 KJV
Andrea – Grant,NE
Luke 1:45 (NIV)
“Blessed is she who believed the Lord would fulfill his promises to her”
Wynell, Athens Georgia
But let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious. 1Peter 3:4. ESV
Katherine from Virginia
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
I John 1:9 NIV
Paulette
Nogalus Prairie, Texas
“Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. You delivered me from the Pit of oblivion. For you removed all my sins from your sight.”
Isaiah 38:17 The NET Bible
Patti from Tampa, Fl, So let’s do it ā full of belief, confident that we’re presentable inside and out. Let’s keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps His Word. Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching.
Hebrews 10:22-25 (MSG)
Jennifer, Dry Ridge, Ky
” Now all glory to God, who is able, through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.”
Ephesians 3:20. NLT
Hallie, Edmond.
“Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door. As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the Name of The Lord. Behold, we consider those blessed who remain steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of The Lord, how The Lord is compassionate and merciful. But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your yes be yes and your no be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.” James 5:9-12 ESV
Carla, Georgetown, “This is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrice for our sins.” I John 4:10 NIV
Jane Mattox from Lubbock, Texas: “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you.
“For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” Matthew 7:7-8 NKJV
Stephanie, Imperial Beach, CA
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and, Love your neighbor as yourself ~Luke 10:27 NIV
Zoe L, Oklahoma City, OK
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord called to the man, “Where are you?”
Gen. 3:8-9, NIV
Sarah Sykes, Arkadelphia, AR
“For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, becuase who hopes for what he sees?”
Romans 8:24 (NET)
“Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.” 1 Thess. 5:18 (NIV)
Lauren, Asheville, NC Luke 1:45 ESV “And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”
Karen
Tallahassee, FL
Pour out your hearts like water to the Lord.
Lift up your hands to him in prayer,
pleading for your children, Lam. 2:19 NLT
Theresa in Plainfield, IN
Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
Proverbs 24: 3-4 (NKJV)
Lindsay: Warrior, AL
“Trust in the name of the LORD our God.” Psalm 20:1 (ESV)
Jennifer. Jackson, MO
New Living Translation (Ā©2007)
“When she speaks, her words are wise, and she gives instructions with kindness.” prov 31:26
Rena, Tulsa. “Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished!” Luke 1:45 NIV (1984)
(Taken from Lindsee’s earlier blog post :))
Kim
Loganville, Georgia
“Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished!”
Luke 1:45 (NIV)
Tatia, Carlisle, PA: “With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be.” James 3:9, 10 (NIV1984)
Kat, Charlotte ~Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.
(Hebrews 10:23 NLT)
Holli
Corona
Isaiah 41:13
(NIV 84)
For I am The Lord, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear, I will help you.
Courtney – Georgetown, TX
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come.
II Corinthians 5:17 NIV
Kim,
Cincinnati, OH
So do not frear 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 hand.
Isa. 41:10 NIV
Deborah, Hartsville, SC. “Let the nations be glad and sing for joy; For Thou wilt judge the peoples with uprightness, And guide the nations on the earth.” Psalm 67:4 NASB
Cindy, Wisconsin.
2 Timothy 1:7, NLT
For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.
Phoebe, Tucson. Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you. Psalm 9.10 NIV
Hebrews12:2
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus the author and perfector of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne if God.
Fairborn, OH
Aubree, San Antonio, TX
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV
Thank you Beth I will choose
the powerful one you did.
Praise God!
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, āThe Lord rebuke you.ā Jude 1:9 ESV
Jacqueline. Dallas, TX
But now listen, O Jacob, my servant,
Israel, whom I have chosen…
One will say, āI belong to the Lordā;
another will call himself by the name of Jacob;
still another will write on his hand, āThe Lordās,ā
and will take the name Israel.
-Isaiah 44:1,5
April Weatherspoon
West Palm Beach
“Let the lowly brother boast in his exultation, and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away. For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.”
James 1:9-11
ESV
Hannah Frazier
Lynchburg, Va 24502
“Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in Him.”
Jeremiah 17:7(NIV)
Vickie, Baytown, TX
1 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. 3 And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. 1 John 3:1-3 ESV
Sherri, Senoia
May the Lord continually bless you with heaven’s blessings as well as with human joys. Ps 128:5 TLB
Psalm 30:11-12 NRSV
You have turned my mourning into dancing; you have taken off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy, so that my soul may praise you and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever.
Jennifer, Rockwall
Above all things have intense and unfailing love for one another for love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8 NIV
Ashley from Indianapolis, Indiana
“The Lord will guide you always; He will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.” -Isaiah 58:11 (NIV)
Tammy Reidy-Grand Prairie, TX
2 Corinthians 4:7-9 NIV
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this allāsurpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
By wisdom a house is built,
And by understanding it is established;
And by knowledge the rooms are filled
With all precious and pleasant riches
Proverbs 24:3-4 (NASB)
Dawn Ozark-MO
Don’t love money; be satisfied with what you have.For God has said, “I will never fail you. I will never abandon you.” So we can say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper, so I will have no fear. What can mere people do to me?”
(Hebrews 13:5-6 NLT)
Marilyn, Fort Pierce, FL, 1Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. 2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. 4 Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. 5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you. 7 Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lordās coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. 8 You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lordās coming is near. 9 Donāt grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door! James 5:1-9
Julie Payne, Muskogee, OK. 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)
Holly Smith
Monument, CO
Ecclesiastes 3:7-8 ESV
a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
Linda, Spring, Texas Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. Mark 11:24 NIV
Tulare, CA Give thanks to the Lord because he is good, because his mercy endures forever. Psalm 107:1 GWT
Sondra, Lincoln, California
There is a way that seems right to a man,
But its end is the way of death.
Proverbs 14:12 (NAS)