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
Michele Powell, Nampa, ID
Luke 11:13 (NIV)
If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
Joan Portage, MI
“Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.” Colossians 4:5-6 ESV
Jen (Prosper, TX)
But the LORD will redeem those who serve him.
No one who takes refuge in him will be condemned.
Psalm 34:22 (NLT)
My Bible study group will be memorizing:
For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
Ephesians 2:10
“He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.”
Isaiah 40:29 NIV
Leslie, Kansas City, MO “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?” Romans 8:31 (NASB)
Create in me a pure heart, O God and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Psalm 51:10 NIV
Elise–Newark
Kristi
Austin, TX
“And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” Micah 6:8 NIV
Carol, Belleville ON
“…and that all this assembly may know that the Lord saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the Lord’s…” 1 Sam 17:47 a&b ESV
D’Anna Nowack
Kilgore, Texas
Psalm 51:3-4
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions,
And my sin is always before me.
4 Against You, You only, have I sinned,
And done this evil in Your sight—
1st Chronicles 16:34 (NKJV) “Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy endures forever”.
Look to the Lord and His strength; seek His face always. Remember the wonders He has done, His miracles and the judgments He pronounced. Psalm 105:4,5 (NIV)
Janet,Longmont,CO
“Lord,” Martha said to Jesus,”if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.” John 11:21,22 NIV
Yes, we feel like questioning Jesus where he was last Friday night when our nephew,28, took his own life…But we know …Jesus weeps with us and He is the resurrection and the life.
Oh, Janet. I have no words, but I am so, so sorry.
Jessica from Rockvale, TN
Philippians 2:3-4 (NLT) “Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as more important than yourselves. Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.”
Esther, Lincoln, NE
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. (Hebrews 13:15 NIV)
Erin in Euless, TX
Lamentations 3:30 (MSG)
“Don’t run from trouble. Take it full-face. The “worst” is never the worst.”
Christine, Chandler, AZ
“…I believe; help me overcome my unbelief.”
Mark 9:24 ESV
Emily, Derby KS
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.
Hebrews 13:2 NAS
Lyn Steriti
Littleton NH
He is your praise and He is your God, who has done these great and awesome things for which
your eyes have seen.
Deut. 10:21 NASB
April lopez, bonneylake, wa
An anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up.
Proverbs12:25 niv
Stacy – Hinckley, England
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
Isaiah 40v28 NIV
Heather, Tallahassee Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. John14:27 NASB
Paula Stemple, Marlinton, WV
Proverbs 3:7, 8 NLT
Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear the Lord and turn away from evil. Then you will have healing for your body and strength for your bones.
Love each other with genuine affection
and take delight in honoring each other.
Romans 12:10 (NLT)
Doris, Whiteville, NC
Psalm 79:13 ESV
But we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will give thanks to you forever;
from generation to generation we will recount your praise.
Marie- Franklin TN
2 Corinthians 3:17 NIV
[17] Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Pattie Self, San Angelo, Tx
Find rest, O my soul, in God alone;
my hope comes from him. Psalm 62:5 NIV
Connie
Greene IA
I led them along with leather cords;
with ropes of love I showed them the way.
As I dealt with them, I lifted the yoke from their neck;
I bent down to give them their food.
Hosea 11:4
The Voice
Andrea, Pottstown
1 Timothy 6:17 NASB
Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy.
Devote yourselves to prayer being watchful and thankful. Col 4:2 niv
Liz from Hilliard, OH:
“Search me, 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.”
Psalms 139: 23-24 (NIV)
If you love me, you will keep my commandments. John 14:15
Pam
Kountze, Tx.
But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.
1 Cor. 8:3 NKJV
Linda from Little Rock, AR, He is your praise and He is your God who has done for you these great and awesome works your eyes have seen. Deuteronomy 10:21 HCSB
Lonnie G, Omaha NE:
Never stop praying. Be ready for anything by praying and being thankful. (Colossians 4:2 ERV)
Karen from Cheyenne, WY
Psalm 121:1 “I look up to the hills, where does my help come from?”
Psalm 103:21
Praise the Lord, all his heavenly hosts, you his servants who do his will. Psalm 103:21 NIV
Theresa from Plainfield, IN
For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.
2 Timothy 1:7 (NIV)
Crystal. Livonia. Michigan
Trust in The Lord forever: for in The Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.
Isaiah 26:4
Megan, St. Louis
“He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” Micah 6:8, ESV
Kandi – Tallahassee, Florida
An anxious heart weighs a man down but a kind word cheers him up. Proverbs 12:25 NIV
JoAnn, Columbia, Missouri
1 John 3.1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 1 John 3.1 NIV
Gay Beck, Plain City, OH
Psalm 51:10-12 (NIV)
10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
Ps 109:31
For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from those who condemn his soul to death.
Nancy Engberg from Minneapolis
He saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,
Titus 3:5
NIV
Angie. Belleville, IL
Heb. 4:12 MSG – “God means what he says. What he says goes. His Word is sharp as a surgeon’s scalpel, cutting theough everything. Whether doubt or defense, laying open to listen and obey.”
Lisa, Garland,TX. “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. (Matthew 7:12 ESV)
Michelle from Waterloo, ON, Canada
“Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.” Jeremiah 33:3 NIV
Cathy Reineke
Orofino, ID
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.
Eph. 1:7-8
Tessie. El Dorado Springs, MO
May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer. Psalms 19:14 NIV