Girls, WE ARE ALMOST THERE!!! In fact, if you set your sights on our celebration in January and you’ve memorized all your verses so far, you have everything you need to qualify. HOWEVER, don’t quit now! If you can memorize 20 verses, you can memorize 24!
I think Lindsee told you in the previous post that I did a video blog for you guys on Tuesday as soon as I came into work after my LPL trip and that thing took until Wednesday night to download. I had missed y’all so much and was so in the mood to spend time with you in the Scriptures. At that point, however, we felt like it should wait until Monday since we had our SSMT post coming up right away. In between, we were ecstatic to extend to you a guest post from a dear sister in the faith, Crista Merrell, who leads women at Bayou City Fellowship where Lindsee and I serve. I hope it blessed you.
I will love Crista forever because she is one of the best friends my daughter Amanda has in the entire world. Pastors’ wives desperately need girlfriends that are trustworthy. And girlfriends that are fun. Crista is both. Crista is also a mighty woman of God. A warrior. She is a servant to the bone and has one of the neatest, most colorful families I’ve ever had the privilege to know. Jesus is gorgeous on them.
OK! On to our task! I’ve not memorized out of the HCSB before but it’s the version LifeWay (my Bible study publisher) asks its authors to use in our curriculum so I spend a great deal of time in it when I’m writing a study. I really love it. I just got in the habit of memorizing out of the ESV or NET. I came upon this verse today as I was cross referencing something for Children of the Day and I adored the translation. I’ll let the pictures do the talking.
You better believe He is. In case my scribbling is too hard to read, it’s Deuteronomy 10:21 HCSB.
Ok, Sisters, I’m ready to hear yours! I love you so much. If you can carve out about 23 minutes toward the first of next week, we’ll get into the Scriptures together in the Monday post.
Tags: Scripture Memory 2013
Lori, Oil City, PA
“Your principles have been the music of my life throughout the years of my pilgrimage.” Psalm 119:54(NLT)
(Yes Mam, and Amen!)
Deuteronomy 10:21 (HCSB)
“He is your praise and He is your God who has done for you those great and awesome works your eyes have seen.”
(Thank you very much, Mrs. Beth! Praying for you. You go, girl… May the power of the Living God give ’em All Jesus through you, precious one!)
Soni in Gulfport, MS Isaiah 54:13 ESV
“All your children shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the peace of your children.”
Midland, TX
Galatians 6:15 (HCSB)
For in Christ Jesus] both circumcision and uncircumcision
mean nothing; what matters instead is a new creation.
Jane, Houston
“You know what I long for, Lord
you hear my every sigh.”
Psalm 38:9 (NLT)
Sherry
Indianapolis, IN
Psalm 42:8 (niv)
” By day the Lord directs his love,
at night his song is with me—
a prayer to the God of my life.”
Barb, Urbandale, IA
For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
Romans 8:14 NASB
Colossians 1:11-12 ESV)
“May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.”
Kara C., Aurora, Il
1 Thes 3:12 (NIV)
12 May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.
Jude:20-21 TNIV But you dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in Gods love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.
Terri from Winchester, VA.
“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.”
Philippians 4:8 NIV
Woodstock, Ga.
Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up you mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way.
Hebrews 14:13
Betsy from Westerville, Ohio
Romans 12:12. NIV
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. (John 14:26 NIV)
Kathryn, Waldorf, MD: “At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said ‘I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and have revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure.” Luke 10:21 NIV
Dawn in Monett, MO
Isaiah 41:13 NIV 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.
Kristi Rogersville, TN NIV
Colossians 3:13
Bear with each other and forgive one another
if any of you has a grievance against someone.
Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
Deborah, Hartsville, SC; “The LORD of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our stronghold.” Psalm 46:11 NASB
Jane from Calgary, Alberta
“And through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.”
Colossians 1:20 (NASB)
Tracy
Lake St. Louis, Missouri
Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom; You are exalted as head over all.
1 Chronicles 29:11
Betsy, Lincoln Park
“Because he loves me,” says the LORD, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. Psalm 91:14 NIV
If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. 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. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.
James 1: 5-8 (NIV)
Erica, Chicago, IL
“If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth.”
1 John 1:6 (NIV)
Janice Topeka, KS
Ezekiel 36:26 NIV
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Dayla, Springfield, MO
Then he said to them all: “If anyone would come after me he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world and yet lose or forfeit his very self?” Luke 9: 23-25 NIV
Linda Jewell
Sedona, AZ
Lamenations 3:19-24 NIV
I remember my affliction and my wandering,
the bitterness and the gall.
I well remember them,
and my soul is downcast within me.
Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:
Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,
for His compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
great is Your faithfulness.
I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion;
therefore I will wait for Him.”
James 1:26 If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless.
And in human form he obediently humbled himself even further by dying a criminal’s death on a cross. Because of this, God raised him up to the heights of heaven and gave him a name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2: 8-11
Lindsey Buchanan, St. Augustine, FL
“As far as the east is from the west so far has he removed our transgressions from us.” Psalm 103:12
“He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.”
Deuteronomy 8:3 NIV
Pat, Hot Springs, AR
In everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. I Thessalonians 5:18 KJV
Linda, Dora, Al
The tongue has power over life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Proverbs 18:21. NIV
God blesses those whose hearts are pure, for they will see God. (Matthew 5:8 NLT)
Tracy, Sidney, Ohio
And now dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. 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 4:8 NLT
Holbrook, NY
God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 5:21 NIV
Missy, Andersonville, TN Deuteronomy 31:8 NIV The Lord Himself goes before you and will be with you: He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.
Margaret Ann, Pacific Junction, IA:
Thus says the Lord:
“Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool;
what is the house that you would build for me,
and what is the place of my rest?
All these things my hand has made,
and so all these things came to be,
declares the Lord.
But this is the one to whom I will look:
he who is humble and contrite in spirit
and trembles at my word.” Isaiah 66:1-2 ESV
Emily Mechanicsville VA
Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
John 7:38 NIV
PS- Im so excited to make it this far! I haven’t made it this far yet!
Ellen, Moneta VA
For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin. Romans 6:6 (NIV 1984)
Michelle Weihing, Frisco, TX NLT – Psalm 121:8 – The Lord keeps watch over you as you come and go, both now and forever.
Angie
Albertville, AL
“He who hates Me hates My Father also.” John 15:23 NASB
Margo, Burlington ON
For by the grace given me I say to everyone of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgement , in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you. Romans 12: 3 NIV
Danita, Lake in the Hills, IL
Philippians 4:7
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
ESV
Karen, Florence
Let us walk in the light of the Lord.
IS 2:5 NIV
Proverbs 10:30
The good shall never losse God’s blessing.
Quita from Trenton, TX
KJV
1Co.15:58
Therefore, my beloved brethren,
be ye stedfast, unmovable,
always abounding in the
work of the LORD,
forasmuch as ye know
that your labor is not in vain
in the LORD.
Chrissy Hilliard, Aurora, IL
“You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.”
Matthew 5:14 (NIV)
From Scottsdale, AZ
14 May the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be pleasing to you,
O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.
Psalm 19:14 New Living Translation
Philippians 4:13
” I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
Mary, Frisco “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:7 (NIV)