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
Andrea, Gardendale
Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail
They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23 NIV
Meg, Columbus, OH:
âBecause your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.â Psalm 63:3 NIV
Erin, Maysville, KY
John 16:33
33 These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will!have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.â
NKJV
Staci, Holland, MI
“I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.” Romans 8:18, NIV
Melany, Garrison, Mo: Romans 12:1 NIV84
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to Godâthis is your spiritual act of worship.
Rebecca Gosnell, Arkadelphia, AR
“And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.”
1 Thessalonians 5:14
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. KJV …Cincinnati Oh
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. KJV …Cincinnati Oh
Sheila
Laurel, MS
(ESV)
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will anxious
for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Kelly Haigler, Wingate, NC
Having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe. Ephesians 1:18,19a ESV
Leslie, Central Asia
The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
Deut. 32:4
Carol Bruntlett
Albuquerque NM
Psalm 32:8 NIV
8- I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go I will counsel you and watch over you.
Kathy, Jay, Oklahoma
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
2 Corinthians 12:9 NIV84
Joan, Carter Lake
I waited patiently for the Lord ; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. (Psalms 40:1, 2 NIV84)
Shannon, Jacksonville, FL. “Have I not commanded you, be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for The Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9, NIV84
Wendy Gerard from Anderson IN
Psalm 37: 3-4, NLT
“Trust in the LORD and do good. Then you will live safely in the land and prosper. Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you your heart’s desires.”
Stann, Frisco, TX
Proverbs 10:12 NAS
“Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all transgressions.”
Romans 8:28
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been caled according to his purpose.
NIV
Amber Bowers; Houston, TX; Proverbs 25:28 NIV; “Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self control.”
Mischia, Morganton, NC
Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires. James 1:20 (NLT)
Emily Linhardt, Olathe, KS âTherefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe youâyou of little faith? So do not worry, saying, âWhat shall we eat?â or âWhat shall we drink?â or âWhat shall we wear?â For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Matthew 6:25-34, NIV
Rebecca
Carrollton, TX
When the men who lives there ask Isaac about his wife, Rebekah, he said “She is my sister.” He was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “They will kill me to get her, because she is so beautiful.”
Genesis 26:7 NLT
Beth Love, Warminster, PA
Proverbs 2:6-8 (ESV)
“For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints.”
Samantha
Sylva, NC
Psalm 139:3 NIV
You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
Hannah, Chesterland, OH
And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. “Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today, Beware lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.” (Deuteronomy 8:10, 11, 17 ESV)
Lois, Schriever, LA
Matthew 11:29-30 “Walk with me and work with meâwatch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I wonât lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and youâll learn to live freely and lightly.â (MSG)
Kathy
Columbus, Ga
James 1:5-8 “If any of you lacks wisdom,you should ask God who gives generously to all without finding fault,and it will be given to you.But when you ask,you must believe and not doubt,because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea,blown and tossed by the wind.That person should not expect to receive anything from The Lord. Such a person is double minded and unstable in all they do.”
Ambur, Fulton MO “Then Jesus said, ‘Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God.'” John 11:40 NIV
Marcia A. – Huntsville, AL
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
Philippians 4:6
NIV
I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
My soul makes its boasts in The Lord; let the humble hear and be glad.
Psalm 34:1-2 ESV
“He changes time and seasons, he sets up kings and deposes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. He reveals deep and hidden things, he knows what lies in darkness, light dwells with him.”
Daniel 2:21-22
NIV
Pauline Richardson, Eau Claire,
O Lord, You have searched me and known me,
You know my sitting down and my rising up;
You understand my thought afar off.Psalm 139:1-2
NKJV
Laurie,
Chester
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities,nor things present, nor things to come,nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39
NAS
I take joy in doing your will, my God, for your instructions are written on my heart Psalm 40:8 (NIV)
Kathy Strader, Houston, Tx
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
James 1:2-3, NIV
Kristi, Fayetteville, AR “Commit your way to the Lord ; trust in him, and he will act. (Psalms 37:5 ESV)
Brooke, Ladson, SC – Isaiah 26:3 NLT
You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!
Bailey. Knoxville, TN.
1 corinthians 13:1-3 ESV
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.
Lisa holmes from Indiana
Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.
Forgot to put verse and translation! Very sorry!:-(
Proverbs 19:21 NIV
Gail, Jacksonville, FL “For through wisdom your days will be many, and years will be added to your life.” Proverbs 9:11, NIV84
Kaitlyn, Tampa
“The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult.”
Proverbs 12:16, ESV
Ashley from Milledgeville, GA
“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” – Romans 15:13 (NASB)
Nicole T, Blue Springs, MO
Joshua 1:9 (NIV)
“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.”
For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Jeremiah 29:11
Matthew 6:27
Can anyone one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
NIV
Sheila
Laurel, MS
Matt. 6:34. (ESV)
Therefore do not be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself.
Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
I cry to you, O Lord; I say, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need; rescue me from those who pursue me, for they are too strong for me. Set me free from my prison, that I may praise your name.
Psalm 142: 5-7 NIV
Jeanelle
Houston
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. Romans 15:13 KJV
Paola
Pinellas Park, Fl
I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
Philippians 1:20-21 NIV84
Lynn in Brandon, MS – And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:7 NET)
Michele Jones Meridian Idaho
Psalms 25 verse 17 The troubles of my heart have enlarged; Bring me out of my distress