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
Darlene, San Jose, CA
Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention.
Psalms 43:8. (NET)
Audrey, Cimarron, KS: 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)
Lacie, Americus 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 NIV
Gretchen, Warsaw, IN
22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. James 1:22 NIV
Christine from Laurel, MD
Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in Him and He will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. NIV Psalm 37: 3-6
Amanda, Montgomery, AL, Psalm 86:11, NASB
Teach me Your way, O L ord ; I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name.
“And He will be the stability of your times, A wealth of salvation, wisdom and knowledge;
The fear of the Lord is his treasure.”
Isaiah 33:6 (NASB)
Michele, Minneapolis MN
Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name, you are Mine.
Isaiah 43:1 NIV
Berni, Albuquerque
“Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable,
and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable.
Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.”
Philippians 4:8b NLT
Marcia from San Clemente, CA:
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 NIV
Casey – Centerville, OH
“Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain.” (Psalm 119:36, NIV)
Valerie, Louisville, Kentucky
For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. (Ephesians 2:10 NLT)
Mary Jane Troy, KS
“For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10 NIV
For nothing will be impossible with God.
Luke 1:37. NAS
Jamye L. , Greenbrier, AR
I will bless The Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul will make its boast in the The Lord; the humble will hear it and rejoice.
Psalm 34:1-2 NASB
Denetta, Kent, WA
For the Father himself loves you dearly because you love me and believe that I came from God. John 16:27 NLT.
Jessica from Rockvale, TN
Isaiah 42:16 (NIV) “I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.”
Gwen King, Waynesboro, MS, So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace. (Romans 8:6 NLT)
Susan, Tallahassee, Fla.
24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.
Galatians 5:24-25 NIV 1984
Laura Decatur Il
Ezekiel 36:26 (NKJV) I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh.
Paige, Parker, TX
And you shall love The Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.
Mark 12: 30-31 (ESV)
Matthew 6:33 (KJV)
But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness; and all of these things shall be added unto you.
Cherry B., Conway, AR
But now, this is what the LORD says – He who created you Jacob, He who formed you, Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are Mine.
Isaiah 43:1 NIV
Starr, Panama City, FL
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. (Philippians 4:6 NIV)
Peggy
Mauriceville, Texas
Psalm 139:13-14 (NIV)
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
Margaret, Coeur D Alene, ID
For there is not a word on my tongue,
but behold, O Lord, You know it altogether.
Psalm 139:4 NKJV
Lacey Stewart, Katy, Tx
Eph 4:1&2 NIV
As a prisoner for The Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
Diane – Spring, Texas
“I am not afraid of ten thousand enemies
who surround me on every side.” Ps. 3:6 NLT
Stephanie Crawford, Riverside, MO
Then the Lord answered me and said ” Write down the special dream on stone so that one may read it in a hurry. For it is not time yet for it to come true. The time is coming in a hurry and it will come true. If you think it is slow in coming, wait for it.”
Habakkuk 2:2-3
Heidi McClain
Fayetteville, GA
Deut. 7:6 NIV
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God.
The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the people’s on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.
Debbie, Escondido CA…”The Name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous runs into it and is safe.” Proverbs 18:10 NASB
Christina, Decatur,TX
A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. Shebrings him good, not harm,all the days of her life. She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands.
Proverbs 31:10-13 NIV
Hoping to memorize thru verse 31!
Donna Jackson, Grant, AL
“For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve.” 1 Corinthians 15:3-5, NIV
Elizabeth
Northport, AL
Philippians 1:9- NISB
“And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and discernment.”
Dawn – Batavia, OH
Romans 8:38 NLT
And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.
Bethany, Katy TX
It is good to give thanks to the Lord and to sing praises to your name, O Most High; To declare your lovingkindness in the morning and your faithfulness by night.
Ps 92:1-2, NASB
Sara from Virginia
“Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. (James 1:4, NIV))
Amber Burger
Fort Worth
Colossians 1:12
“…giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.”
Jennifer
Suwanee Georgia
Psalm 119:59 I have considered my ways and have turned my steps to your statutes. NIV
Janice Topeka Ks
Joshua 1:8 NIV
Do not let the Book of the Law depart from your mouth, meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
Debbie, Spartanburg, SC
James 1:26 NLT
If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless.
Karen, Ponte Vedra, FL
For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not, I am the one who helps you.” Isaiah 41:13 (ESV)
For I know the plans I have for you, declares The Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11. NIV
Kerry
Sheridan, wy
IS:60:4 Names of God Bible
“Look up, look around,watch.
all you people assemble and come to you.
Your sons come from far away, your daughters
are carried in their arms.”
When thou passeth through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shall not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am The Lord thy God the Holy One of Israel thy Saviour:
Isaiah 43:2-3a. kJV
Stacey from Boulder, Colorado
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Matthew 5:4
Leah from Athens, Georgia
Psalm 32:1-2 (NKJV)
“Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.”
Pat S., Lago Vista, TX
However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.
Acts 20:24 NIV
Cynthia, Massanutten, VA
“Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The urgent request of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours; yet he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land. Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land produced its fruit.”
James 5: 16-18 (2 more verses and then DONE memorizing James!!!)
Cindy, Summersville, WV Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
1 Corinthians 1:31 (NIV)