Hey, Darling Things! I was so happy to catch up with many of you yesterday! I was seriously thirsty for some time with you. If you didn’t tune in to the livestream but want to catch up, check the previous post. The video will stay up for a little while. It’s not at all too late to watch it and leave a comment with your 5-song playlist (on that post, not this one please!). That post is about trading in a spirit of despair for a garment of praise! If you’re game for that, jump back to the previous entry after you’ve left your memory verse here.
Man, oh, man, I was tested all day long yesterday on whether or not I’d permit Jesus to cover me with a garment of praise. Anybody else? The day wasn’t complete until I had car trouble. Oh, and I almost forgot to throw in here that Star and Geli were bound and determined to have my raccoon for supper. I screamed to high heaven and Keith ran out in the sticks barefooted in his maroon Texas A&M pajama pants and called them off. Why the police didn’t drive up to see if there had been domestic violence, I’ll never know. Laughing. Oh, mercy, ladies. We live real lives, don’t we? The kind where you unload a dishwater that was crammed full of dishes only to realize late into the massive unloading that they were still dirty. Blast it.
I’m praising our glorious God this morning while it is still dark outside, anticipating that over the next half hour the sun will rise on a brand new day and it will be a great one. A great one, indeed, Lord Jesus. Bring it. And show Your beautiful self to us in its course.
SO, SISTERS, IT’S TIME FOR OUR 5TH VERSE! You are jotted in my prayer journal this morning where I asked God to keep you steadfastly at the process and to give you joy and victory in it and to keep your soul alive and healthy in His Word. Do not grow weary in your well doing! Always keep in mind that we’re wearing our obsessive minds out on SOMETHING. It may as well be the Word of God with the power to build it back up! Your God did not give you a spirit of fear, Sweet Thing, but of…
POWER.
LOVE.
SELF CONTROL.
I thought maybe some of you could use some fresh ideas this round so I’m going to put a few extras in here today. Two of these are from the Psalm I read to you at the conclusion of the livestream yesterday. The beauty of the first selection is that it would count for both your Scriptures this month since it’s two verses. Now, mind you, you’d still have to document the second half of it on March 15th but that’s easy to do. Right? I felt like God put a word on my heart yesterday that some of us who are really struggling with the memorization process might be making it a bit harder than it has to be in some of our selections. Try to avoid over-complicating it when possible. Only choose a really complex portion when you feel like your life and sanity depend on it and, in that case, go for it with all your might and ask God to empower you to absorb it. OK, here goes:
(1) It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; (v.2) to declare Your steadfast love in the morning, and Your faithfulness by night. Psalm 92:1-4 ESV (See how easy those two would be, Sisters? And it would knock out your whole month of March!)
I’ll go ahead and choose the second one (out of the same Psalm) for my selection this March 1st. I’m choosing The NET Bible for my translation on this one because it makes me happy to use the word happy in a Bible verse. Thank you, Miss Shameless Sanguine.
Beth, Houston. “For You, O Lord, have made me HAPPY by Your work. I will sing for joy because of what You have done.” Psalm 92:4 The NET Bible
I’ll throw in one more because I jotted it down on an index card several months ago and set it on my desk at home where I can see it everyday while I’m having my quiet time. It hasn’t finished its work in me yet so, while it’s still on my mind, I’ll offer it up as one more possibility for some of you. I love, love, love this verse in The Message.
GOD, the Master, The Holy of Israel,
has this solemn counsel:
“Your salvation requires you to turn back to me
and stop your silly efforts to save yourselves.
Your strength will come from settling down
in complete dependence on me.” Isaiah 30:15 The Message
Well, amen to that.
I love you guys so much! That sun is just beginning to peak through the trees. It’s going to be a great day.
Tags: Scripture Memory 2013
My sister sent this verse on a day I really needed it.
Psalm 25:16-17 (NIV)
“Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. Relieve the troubles of my heart and free me from my anguish.”
2 Corinthians 3:18 (Amplified) And all of us, with unveiled face (because we)continued to behold [in the Word of God] as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are contantly being transfigured into His very own image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another (for this comes)from the Lord who is the Spirit.
Becky
Willowick, OH
1John 3:17 NIV
If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?
Erin
Charlottesville, VA
Those who plant in tears will harvest with shouts of joy. They weep as they go to plant their seed, but they sing as they return with the harvest. Psalm 126:5-6 (NLT)
Aaronia
Atlanta, Tx
“Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord my strength and My Redeemer”
Psalm 19:14 (KJV)
Sara, Garden City, KS Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. (Colossians 3:12 NIV)
Nicole, Polkton, NC
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31 NIV)
Matthew 25:40 NIV
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
Gerrie, Roeland Park, Ks
And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
Phillipians 4:19, NIV
Billie Payne Batesville, MS
Psalm 34:9 (NIV)
The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
Lisa, Mauldin, SC
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 will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41:10 (NIV)
Jenn, Mansfield, TX
Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)
“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.”
Amy, Albemarle, NC
The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
-Romans 8:6-7, NIV
Nora
Shreveport, LA
You will keep in perfect peace
him whose mind is steadfast
because he trusts in you.
Trust in the Lord forever,
for the Lord, the Lord, is the Rock
eternal.
Isaiah 26:3-4 NIV
Jill in Palm Coast, FL
But I am trusting you, O Lord, saying, “You are my God”.
Psalm 31:14 NLT
Lori from St. Catharines, ON
GOD, the Master, The Holy of Israel, has this solemn counsel:
“Your salvation requires you to turn back to me and stop your silly efforts to save yourselves. Your strength will come from settling down in complete dependence on me.”
Isaiah 30:15 The Message
Pam;Campbellsburg,In.
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord
Praise the Lord.
Pslams 150:6 NSFL NKJ
Danna M., Atlanta,Tx.
She is a tree of life to those who embrace her; those who lay hold of her will be blessed. Proverbs 3:18
“For I am the LORD your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.” Isaiah 41:13 (NIV)
Shirleen, Greenville, SC
Romans 3:24 (NKJV) being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Susan from Beverly, MA
Psalm 115:15 (HCSB) Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory because of your faithful love, because of your truth.
Mindy, Rowley IA
James 4:5 NKJV
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”?
Laurie, Oklahoma City “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water,that sends out its roots by the stream,
and does not fear when heat comes,for its leaves remain green,and is not anxious in the year of drought,for it does not cease to bear fruit.” Jeremiah 17:7-8 ESV
Angela from Wilmington, DE, Ps. 36:2 NIV In their own eyes they flatter themselves too much to detect or hate their sin.
Linda, Sanbornville, NH If you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that youconfess and are saved. Romans 10: 9-10 NIV
Pat S., Lago Vista, TX
It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; to declare Your steadfast love in the morning, and Your faithfulness by night.
Psalm 92:1-2 ESV
Connie, Pickerington, OH ” If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophesy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, if profits me nothing.” I Corinthians 13:1-3 NAS
Stephanie Solomon, Morgantown, WV
Psalm 118:5-6 (ESV)
Out of my distress I called on the Lord: the Lord answered me and set me free. The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?
Kelli T
Southeastern Colorado
6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
8 Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.
James 1:6-8 NIV
Ty. C
Euless, TX
By his divine power God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one called us to himself my the means of his marvelous glory and excellence. 2 Peter 1:3 NLT
Krista of Midlothian, VA
But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed.
Isaiah 53:5 New Living Translation
Polly, Houston, “Many women are capable, but you surpass them all.” HCSV
Anna Bryant
Birmingham, AL
Psalm 111:10
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
NIV
Susan – Maynard, MA
Psalm 92:1 – ESV
It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to Your name, O Most High;
Gena, Texarkana,AR.
For he chose us in Him, before the creation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight.
Ephesians 1:4
Whitney from Mt. Vernon, TX…And God is able to make ALL grace abound to you, so that ALWAYS having ALL sufficiency in EVERYTHING, you may have an ABUNDANCE for EVERY good deed….2 Corinthians 9:8 (NASB)
Becky, The Woodlands, TX It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; to declare Your steadfast love in the morning and Your faithfulness by night. Psalm 92:1-2 ESV
Kristi, Lenoir City, TN
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.
Isaiah 40:29 NIV
Bethany
Petaluma, Ca
“let your roots grow down into Him, and let your lives be built on Him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught and you will overflow with thankfulness.”
Col 2:7 NIV
Pam Houston, Buena Park, CA
“You have enclosed me behind and before, and laid Your hand upon me.” Psalms 139:5 NASB
Sylva, NC
Psalm 139:4 NIV
Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.
Jennifer from Sealy, TX
These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. (Deuteronomy 6:6-9 NIV)
Rita Ledbetter Cottonwood, AZ
(1) It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; (v.2) to declare Your steadfast love in the morning, and Your faithfulness by night. Psalm 92:1 -2 EVS
“not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me” Philippians 3:12 Niv
Richelle, Kingston, TN
Be strong & courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Deuteronomy 31:6 NIV
Judy M, Lancaster, PA
“In my anguish I cried to the LORD and He answered by setting me free. The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? The LORD is with me; He is my helper. I will look on triumph on my enemies.” Ps 118.5-7
Anne
Atlanta, Georgia
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and petition with thanksgiving present your requests to God.
Philippians 4:6 NIV
Anita, Big River, Saskatchewan, Canada
His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godlineas through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
2Peter 1: 3 NIV 1984
Troy, OH
Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court. Do it while you are still with him on the way, or he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison. Matthew 5:25 NIV
Michelle, Bossier City
2 Corinthians 12:9
9 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.(NIV)