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
Janet,Longmont,CO (internet issues 🙂
“So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,
May have power, together with all the saints,
to grasp how wide, and how long, and high, and deep
is the love of Christ.” Ephesians 3:17-18 NIV
Nicole from Gilbert
I seek You with all my heart; [please] do not let me stray from Your commands.
Psalm 119:10 NIV
(I added the please cause I felt better asking God that way 🙂 )
Kristen Keeling from Covington, Ga
“How lovely is the place where you live, O LORD who rules over all! I desperately want to be in the courts of the LORD’s temple. My heart and my entire being shout for joy to the living God. Even the birds find a home there, and the swallow builds a nest, where she can protect her young near your altars, O LORD who rules over all, my king and my God.” Psalm 84:1-3 (NET)
Wendy, Austin
Psalm 65:11
You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11
Sabrina – Pikesville, Maryland
Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!
Romans 11:33 [NIV]
“I have set the Lord continually before me; Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.” Psalm 16:8 (NAS)
Toni Reno
Jay, Ok
Humbly yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand so He may lift you up in due time.
1Peter 5:6 (NIV)
Nancy, North Little Rock, AR
Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul. Rescue me from my enemies, O LORD, for I hide myself in you. Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good spirit lead me on level ground.
Psalm 143:8-10 NIV84
Allison from Nashville, TN:
“I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in Me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.”
John 15:5
Jonda from Shakopee, MN
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is true worship.
Romans 12:1 TNIV
Donna, Glendale
He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning
Daniel2:21 NIV
Sheila Gibe
Jay, Ok
Humbly yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand so He may lift you up in due time.
1Peter 5:6 (NIV)
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 NIV
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 in me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Carrie, San Luis PotosĂ, Mexico
and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. (Ephesians 5:2 NIV)
Lindsey, Dubach, LA, “Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.” -Isaiah 41:10 (NLT)
Nicole
Keller,Tx
“..He has done everything well…”
Mark7:37
Jennifer M., Grandville, MI
Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.
1 Peter 1:21 (NIV)
That your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God!
1 Corinthians 2:5
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 NIV84)
Salisbury, MD
2 Peter 1:2 MSG “Grace and peace to you many times over as you deepen in your experience with God and Jesus, our Master.”
Dana Hutto, Huffman, TX. “Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure – pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return.” Luke 6:38 NAS
Rita Ledbetter, Cottonwood, AZ
Jeremiah 31:35
he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea, so that it’s waves roar – the Lord Almighty is his name.
Selina
Barbourville, KY.
The fear of the Lord prolongeth days; but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
Proverbs 10:27 KJV
Cheryl: Tarpon Springs, FL
Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! Romans 11:33 NIV
The Eungards: Brad, Gwen, Adam, Eleanor, Amelia, and Owen
Schweinfurt, Germany
1 Corinthians 13:7, 8a NIV:
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres. Love never fails.
Laura from Cartersville, GA
“As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
– 1 Peter 1:14-16 (NIV)
Erin from Murfreesboro, TN
Love The Lord your God will all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Deuteronomy 6:5 NIV
Marsha, Jefferson, ME
So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want.
Galatians 5:16-17 NIV
Melody
Myrtle Beach, SC
“We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” 2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV
Ohio
I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With Him at my right hand I will not be shaken.
Psalm 16:8 Niv
Menomonee Falls, WI
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.
Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)
Judith, Orillia, Canada
“You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand! ” (Psalms 139:5, 6 NLT)
Tiffany from Georgetown, Tx–“This is what the LORD says, he who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it–the LORD is his name: Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.” -Jeremiah 33:2,3 NIV
“My heart says of you, “Seek his face!” Your face Lord, I will seek.” Psalm 27:8 NIV
Rhonda Hill Norman, How good it is to sing praises to our God. How pleasant and fitting to praise Him. Psalm 147:1
Lindsey, Cullman, “The commandments of The Lord are right, bringing joy to the heart. The commands of The Lord are clear, giving insight for living.” Psalm 19:8 NLT
Patti, Houston,
Ephesians 3:16,
that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man; NAS
Kristi from Lee’s Summit, MO
In peace I will both lie down and sleep, for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.
Psalm 4:8 ESV
Toni, Argyle, TX
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
Romans 8:18. NASB
As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Isaiah 55:10-11
Jana, Brenham, TX
2 Corinthians 10:5, ESV
“We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God and take every thought captive to obey Christ.”
Jill, Lewisville. “Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full!” John 16:24. ESV
Beth, Ypsilanti
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:34 (NIV)
Betty Clark, Ann Arbor, MI “Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Fathers house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” John 14:1-3 KJV
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 12:21 NIV
Connie, Shipshewana, Carry each other’s burdens, and and in this way you fulfill the law of Christ. Galations 6:2 NIV
I pray that the eyes of you 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. And His incomparable great power for us who believe. Ephesians 1:18-19a. NIV. Susan
Decatur, IL
Jennifer W. from San Antonio
“But if you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free, and if you do what it says and don’t forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it.”
James 1:25 (NLT)
Sherri in Galena, OH:
Come to me all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
Matthew 11:28-30, NIV
Sandy, Dodge City, KS
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
Proverbs 16:24 NIV