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
Megan from San Diego
“Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.” Romans 5:3-5 NIV
Lisa, Frisco TX, He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress where I will not be shaken. Psalms 62.6 NLT
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect” (Romans 12:2, ESV)
Angie, Lexington
Proverbs 3:5-6 New International Version (NIV)
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.[
Debra from San Antonio,TX.
With your help I can advance against a troop;
With my God I can scale a wall.
Psalm 18:29 NIV
Jean from Princeton Maine
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead
1 Peter 1:3 (ESV)
April Lopez, Bonneylake,Wa
Desperate,I throw myself on you: you are my God!
Psalm 31:14 MSG
Emmilianna Ferreria, BonneyLake,Wa
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.. Love your neighbor as yourself. Matthew 22:37,39 NIV
All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness. NIV
We are afflicted in every way,
But not crushed;
Perplexed but not driven to despair;
Persecuted but not forsaken;
Struck down but not festroyed.
ESV 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
Cristi, Florida
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Deuteronomy 6:5 NIV
Alice, Marietta, GA
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. John 10:27 (NLT)
Vicki – Surprise, AZ
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:28 NIV
Patty, Marysville, OH
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. 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. 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 NIV
Deb, kokomo,IN, NIV Romans 8:6 ” The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.”
Barb, Wetumpka, AL
28 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Matthew 20:28
NLT
forgot to add the reference to a just-posted verse – 2 Timothy 3:16
Stormy, Lynchburg, VA
Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hears and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:5-7 NIV
Kat M Round Rock, TX
Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle. NIV
Suzie
~Fort Mill, SC
He brought me out into a spacious place;
He rescued me because…He delights in me!! Ps. 18:19 (NIV)
Amanda Werneburg Blanchard, OK
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 of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 2 Corinthians 12:9 (ESV)
Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails. -Proverbs 19:21 NIV
Rebecca Jo
Greenville, IN
Cathy, Osage Beach, MO
“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”
Joshua 1:9 NKJV
Shannon, Johnstown
“What, what would have become of me had I not believed that I would see the Lord’s goodness in the land of the living!
Wait and hope for and expect the Lord; be brave and of good courage and let your heart be stout and enduring. Yes, wait for and hope for and expect the Lord!”
Psalm 27:13&14 AMP
Carin Stewart, Greenville, KY :
Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress where I will not be shaken. Ps 62:5-6 NLT
Judy Woodward, Lake Charles LA
“Delight yourself in the Lord,
and He will give you the
desires of your heart.”
Psalm 37:4 (NIV)
Jenn, Washington, DC. “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
Sim from Frisco, TX:
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because
anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists
and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”
Hebrews 11:6 NIV
Laura, Nebraska.
Isaiah 30:18 NKJV
Therefore the Lord will wait, that He may be gracious to you; And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the Lord is a God of justice; Blessed are all those who wait for Him.
Xan Moody
I John 1:7
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we will have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
(NKJV)
Sandra, Torrance Ca
I sought the  Lord ’s help  and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears. (Psalms 34:4 NET)
Kathi, Kingwood
“Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” -1 John 4:8 (NIV)
Gretchen, Gahanna, OH- All your children will be taught by the Lord and great will be their peace.
Isaiah 54:13 (NIV)
Vicki, Lubbock, TX. A righteous man may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all.–
Psalm 34:19 NIV
Jennifer Doucet
Sulphur, Louisiana
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I wil uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41:10 NIV84
Julie
Holland, Michigan
Many are the plans in a human heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.
Proverbs 19:21 TNIV
Jessie
Grayson, Ky.
2 Samuel 22:3
The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
KJV
Ashley from Spring, TX
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, ” plans to prosper you and not to harm you; to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11-13
Tracy, Richlands,NC
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. Isaiah 43:13
Joani, Jacksonville, FL “Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own. Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he’s the one who will keep you on track.” Proverbs 3:5-6 (MSG)
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. Romans 8:2
Amy, Snellville GA
I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. Ezekial 11:19 (NIV)
Cindy
Wausau, WI
Jude 23
Go after those who take the wrong way. Be tender with sinners, but not soft on sin. The sin itself stinks to high heaven. (MSG)
Gail Dorn from San Antonio, TX
Says:
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
Phil. 4:6-7. (NIV)
Amy Dean, Jacksonville, FL: Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Philippians 4:6 (NLT)
Janet, Tulsa
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect” (Romans 12:2, ESV)
Lauren, Frisco
The Sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. Isaiah 50:4 NIV
Donna, Tyler, TX
Phil 4:6 NIV
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with Thanksgiving, present your requests to God”.
Angie, Lexington
Philippians 4:19 New International Version (NIV)
19 And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.
Karen, Colchester, VT
Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful and endures through every circumstance.
1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT)
Psalm 112:7-8 NIV
He will have no fear of bad news; his heart is steadfast, trusting in The Lord. (This one was my third).
8: His heart is secure, he will have no fear; in the end he will look in triumph on his foes. (4th)