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
Nitsa, Eugene, Or. “From the end of the earth will I cry onto Thee, when my heart is overwhelmed; lead me to the rock that is higher than I.” Psalm 61:2 KJV
Cathy, Virginia Beach – Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. (Deuteronomy 30:11, NIV)
Bonnie Port Orchard, WA
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
Romans 12:12 (NIV)
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!
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 27:14, Amplified
Donna B. Harrison Ar. “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God.” Phill. 4:6 NKJV
Tracy, Edgewood, Kentucky
Yet I still dare to hopewhen I remember this: The faithful love of the Lord never ends!His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness;his mercies begin afresh each morning. I say to myself, “The Lord is my inheritance;therefore, I will hope in him!” The Lord is good to those who depend on him,to those who search for him. ~Lamentations 3:21-25 (NLT)
Lisa S.
Kinston,NC
Hosea 6:3 NASB
“So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord.
His going forth is as certain as the dawn;
And He will come to us like the rain,
Like the spring rain watering the earth.”
Brenda Granbury,TX. Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning. Lamentations 3:23 NLT
Johnnie, Wake Forest, NC
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2:15 ESV
Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. (Psalms 73:25 NIV84)
Cindy Moses
Henrietta, TX
Rachel, Sacramento – 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 entrust my life. Psalm 143:8 NIV
Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. Colossians 3:16 (NIV)
Tish, Renville, MN “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
Cathy, Motpelier Ohio
Already you are clean because of the Word I have spoken to you.
John 15:3 ESV
Mysti Pace- Dallas TX
Give generously to him and do so without a grudging heart; then because of this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you put your hand to. Deut. 15:10
Joy
Bethlehem
1 Corinthians 13:4 (NIV)
Love is patient, love is kind. It does no envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
Joy, Bethlehem
1 Corinthians 13:4 (NIV)
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
Jane, Cuba, Missouri
Romans 3:3
What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfullness? Not at all!
Sherri, Spotsylvania, Virginia
“Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you in due time”-1Peter 5:6 NRSV
Commit your works to the Lord, and your plans will be established. Psalm 16:3 NASB
Cheryl, Houston
II Corinthians 4:17 NIV
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
Kristie, Normal IL
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, (Ephesians 3:18-20, ESV)
Christie Gadsden al Philippians 4:8 NIV Finally brothers whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy think about such things.
Rachel Cleveland, Jackson, TN: “Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, (2) to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,” (Isaiah 10:1-2 NIV)
Hosea 14:9(NIV)
Whoever is wise,let him understand these things. Whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the Lord are right and the righteous will walk in them, but transgressors will stumble in them.
Anita
Justin, TX
Michaela Gadsden al Philippians 4:8 NIV Finally brothers whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy think about such things.
Jenn Hamm, Cypress, TX
“For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.”
1 Thess. 5:5 ESV
Megan, Houston, Tx
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. 2 Corinthians 7:10 NIV
Ephesians 1:3 (NIV)
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
Psalm 73:23. Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand.
Pam – Chiangmai, Thailand
But those who wish to boast
should boast in this alone:
that they truly know me and understand that I am the Lord
who demonstrates unfailing love
and who brings justice and righteousness to the earth,
and that I delight in these things.
I, the Lord, have spoken! Jer. 9:24 NLT
Kathy, Bear Creek, NC
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 (KJV)
I canNOT remember if I posted my verses on the 15th or not. They are in my Siesta book. My brain is old. Just in case, here are my February verses: “10 He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. 11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; 12 as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.” Psalm 103:10-12 ESV
Christi Hudson, Newnan GA
Philippians 1:19,20 ESV
for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance, as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.
Carrie, Tuscaloosa, AL
“Be joyful in hope. Patient in afflictions and faithful in prayer.”
Romans 12:12
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
6YO: Love is not jealous, it does not brag, and it is not proud. 1 Corinthians 13:4b ERV
3YO: Love is patient and kind. 1 Corinthians 13:4a ERV
Michelle, St. Louis, MO
I have been crucified with Christ an I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the Body I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.
Gal 2;20 niv
Jolene, Suwanee, GA
You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. (Jeremiah 19:13) NIV
Brenda Cousino, Frisco, TX
And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. (Isaiah 30:21 ESV)
Deanna, Murfreesboro TN
John 1:12-13 ” For as many as received Him, He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name; who are born, not of blood, nor the will of the flesh, nor the will of man, but of God”. (NIV)
Jan, Athens, Ga.
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self discipline. 2 Timothy 1:7, NIV
Carol – Burlington, MI
For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
KJV- I Corinthians 4:20
Rhonda, Westport, KY
Do not let any unwholesome talk come outof your mouth but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs that it may benefit those who listen.
Ephesians 4:29 (NIV)
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. (Romans 8:7, 8 NKJV)
Brandy from Raceland,La: The Lord is my Shepard I shall not want. Psalm 23:1 NIV
Was at a weekend retreat so a little late!
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. Eph. 4:32
Lisa C. – Zimmerman, MN
James 2:3 NLT
If you give special attention and a good seat to the rich person, but you say to the poor one, “You can stand over there, or else sit on the floor”—well,
(This verse ends funny.)
Miriam from SC
“Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for his name’s sake. And you also are among those Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.” Romans 1:5-6 (NIV)
Carolina – Buford, GA
“Now this is what the Lord says—
the One who created you, Jacob,
and the One who formed you, Israel—
“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by your name; you are Mine.” Isaiah 43:1