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
Jenny Smith~Adairsville, GA
By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. 2 Peter 1:4 ESV
Laurin, Harrisburg, NC “Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others”. 1 Corinthians 10:24 NIV
Hi, Becky Venhaus, McKinney, TX
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139:23-24
(NIV)
Amy Lee, Mt Pleasant, SC
But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others th goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.
1 Peter 2:9, NLT
Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand. You guide me with your counsel and afterwards you will take me into glory. (Psalm 73:23-24 NIV)
Lorie, Centreville, Va.
And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. 2 Corinthians 12:9
1Corinthians 4:20 NKJV For the kingdom of God is not in word but in power.
Ami L Pruett, Waynesville NC
Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, but whoever gossips about it separates friends. Proverbs 17:9 (HCSB)
Beverly, Prosper, TX, Deut 30:11, 14
11.Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.
14. No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.
NIV
Sherilyn R., Warsaw, IN
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 3:20 NIV
We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, sure and steadfast, which reaches inside behind the curtain
Hebrews 6:19 NET
Dublin, Oh. “The sovereign Lord has given me a well-instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.
Isaiah 50:4 NIV
Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord;
Keep watch over the door of my lips.
Psalm 141:30 NIV
All you nations, praise the Lord.
All you people, praise Him
because the Lord loves us very much,
and, His truth is everlasting.
Psalm 117
Deb V – Ohio
Psalm 118:24 (ESV)
“This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.”
Sharon – San Antonio, TX
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Psalm 51:10. NIV
Above all love each other deeply, because a love covers a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 2:8
Karen watts Columbia KY: in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. (Proverbs 3:6 NIV)
Sarah, Dry Ridge, Kentucky, Galatians 5:22-23 (NIV) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Claudia,
Raeford, NC “In repentance and rest you will be saved, In quietness and trust is your strength.” Isaiah 30:15 NASB
Kristi Lowe, Lubbock, TX 1 Thessalonians 5:16-22 (HCSB)
“Rejoice always! Pray constantly. Give thanks in everything, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. Don’t stifle the Spirit. Don’t despise prophesies, but test all things. Hold on to what is good. Stay away from every kind of evil.”
Jen Sherman, Plano Texas, James 5:16. The prayers of a righteous man are powerful and effective.
But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure, then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.
James 3:17 NIV
Brenda Adams, Hilton Head, SC
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” Phil. 4:6 NIV
Deana – Texas
For You, Lord, will bless the righteous, as with a shield You will surround him with pleasure and favor. Ps 5:12 Amp
Barb N., Philadelphia – Lamentations 3:19-24 (NIV)
19 I remember my affliction and my wandering,
the bitterness and the gall.
20 I well remember them,
and my soul is downcast within me.
21 Yet this I call to mind
and therefore I have hope:
22 Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.
23 They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
24 I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion;
therefore I will wait for him.”
“The LORD will perfect that which concerns me;
Your mercy, O LORD, endures forever;
Do not forsake the works of Your hands.”
Psalm 138:8 NKJV
Amanda-Kentucy
When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, ” I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John 8:12 NIV
Melissa in Greer, SC:
For God has not given us a spirit of fear,
but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
2 Timothy 1:7 NKJV
Danielle, Sevierville, TN:
“You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:13 ESV
Amy from Johns Creek, GA
When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” John 8:12
Galatians 6:9
“Let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.”
Now to him who is able to do immeasurablyore than all we could ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us. Ephesians 3:20 NIV
Marietta from Raleigh, NC
He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.
Psalm 62:2 NIV
Marsha from Lufkin
“The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it, for he founded it on the seas and established it on the waters” Psalm 24:1-2 NIV
Patty Pierce
Searcy AR
Isaiah 26:3NIV
You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you. (Isaiah 26:3 NIV84)
Georganne; Piedmont, Oklahoma Psalm 27:14 NIV
Wait for the LOTD; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.
Nancy Lakewood, CO
“…But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” Phil 3: 13,14 NIV
Michele, Liverpool, NY
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
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Rom 15:13 NAS
Kit (Kathy) Frankenfield, Spring Hill, KS.
He tends His flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. Isaiah 40:11 NIV
Audrey, Ohio
Continuing to work on my previous section:
Psalm 44:5-8 TNIV
Through you we push back our enemies; through your name we trample our foes. I put no trust in my bow, my sword does not bring me victory; but you give us victory over our enemies, you put our adversaries to shame. In God we make our boast all day long, and we will praise your name forever. (Psalm 44:5-8 TNIV)
her children arise and call her blessed and her husband also , and he praise her. Proverbs 31:26 niv
Murfreesboro, TN
Hebrews 6:18-19 NLT
We who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us. This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God’s inner sanctuary.
2 Timothy 1:7
New King James Version (NKJV)
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
Courtney, Houma, LA
Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification.
Romans 14:19, TNIV
Linzie Brownwood, TX
“If we live in the Spirit, let us walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.” Galatians 5:25-26 NKJV
Jamie from Ossian, IN
“Rejoice in our confident hope. Be patient in trouble, and keep on praying”
Romans 12:12 NLT
Jane, Houston
Luke 1:37 (HCSB)
“For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Chrystal Foster, Lexington, KY
John 15:8 NIV
This is to my father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.