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
Libby
Dallas, TX
God, who called you to become His child, will do all this for you, just as He has promised.
1 Thessalonians 5:24
LB
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.
Proverbs 22:6 NIV
Dana
Boerne, TX
Joni, Port Neches. The LORD your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you. He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing. Zephaniah 3:17 NIV84
Cory Anna, Atlanta
“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)
Ruth – Goose Creek, SC
And God will exalt you in due time, if you humble yourselves under his mighty hand by casting all your cares on him because he cares for you.
Ruth – Goose Creek, SC
And God will exalt you in due time, if you humble yourselves under his mighty hand by casting all your cares on him because he cares for you.
1 Peter 5:6-7 (NET)
Misti, Brookshire, tx
It is for freedom that Christ set you free. Stand firm then and do not be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. Gal. 5:1 NIV
Lisa S, Plano TX
11.01.2013
James 1:19-20 NKJV
So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.isa S, Plano TX
Kami, Dallas,Tx: “Our great desire is that you keep on loving others as long as life lasts, in order to make certain that what you hope for will come true.” Heb. 6:11, NLT
Melanie Miller, Nampa, ID
Psalm 25:21 NLT
May integrity and honest protect me, for I put my hope in you.
And this is love, that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that we walk in love.
2 John 1:6
Lisa in Moyock, NC
Mary Jane, Troy KS
“No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.”
1 Cor 10:13
Kerre, Chattanooga, TN. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Matthew 5:5 NIV
Deb, Pelzer, SC
1 Peter 5: 6 (NIV) “Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand that He may lift you up in due time.”
Jenny S, Fishers, IN
Oh, Give thanks to the Lord for he is good. Psalm 118:1 (NIV)
Lynette, Nashville, TN
“Behold, God is my salvation;
I will trust, and will not be afraid;
for the Lord God is my strength and my song,
and he has become my salvation.”
Isaiah 12:2
Jennie F. from Long Creek, Oregon. “That power is like the working of His mighty strength which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age, but also in the one to come.” Ephesians 1:19b-21 NIV
Lisa, Wichita, KS
“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)
Jen Evans Seville Ohio Phillippians 4:19 NIV 19 And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.
Barb Wisconsin
Affliction will slay the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
Ps 34:21
Sara, Garden City KS
Praise the Lord and pray in his name! Tell everyone what he has done. (1 Chronicles 16:8 CEVUS06)
Melissa, Nicholasville, KY
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the Heavenly Lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” James 1:17 (NIV).
Pattie Self, San Angelo, TX
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from
God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7 NIV
Psalm 94:19 ESV “When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.”
Beth C, Huntsville, AL
Colossians 3:15(NIV)
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
Esther, Jonesborough, TN.
Colossians 3:20-21 (ESV). Children obey your parents in all things for this pleases the Lord. Fathers do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
Sara, Plymouth, IN
He has shown you, O man, what is good;and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8 (NKJV)
The LORD is close to the brokenhearted, and He saves those whose spirits have been crushed. Psalm 34:18 NCV
Isaiah 30:21 ESV
“And your ears shall hear a word behind you saying,
“This is the way, walk in it.” when you turn to the left
or when you turn to the right.”
Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions.
1 John 3:18 (NLT)
Melissa
Waco, TX
“So you see, faith by itself isn’t enough. Unless it produces good deeds, it is dead and useless.”
James 2:17 (NLT)
Caroline
Waco, TX
I’m sooo late—-terribly sorry—-!!
Darla, Pittsburgh
“You know with all your heart and soul that not one of the all the good promises the Lord your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed.”
Joshua 23:14
Darla, Pittsburgh
“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
Kathryn, Oceanside, “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
Stephanie
Waynesboro, MS
“and whatever you do in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him” col 3:17 HCSB
“For The LORD God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.” Psalm 84:11 (NIV)
Poorna Diaz
Reston, Va.
Penny, Cincinnati. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 2 Cor. 10:5 NIV
Amy, Buda, TX
“Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always.”
1 Chronicles 16:11
BECKY PEURIFOY – LONGVIEW TX – JOHN 3:17 NIV “FOR GOD DID NOT SEND HIS SON INTO THE WORLD TO CONDEMN THE WORLD, BUT TO SAVE THE WORLD THROUGH HIM.
Anna, Little Elm, TX
When I said, “My foot is slipping,” Your love, O Lord, supported me.
Psalm 94:18 (NIV84)
Kelei Liggett. Iowa Park, Tx. Hebrews 13:5 “Keep your lives free from the love of money and be contempt with what you have, because God said,”Never will I leave you; Never will I forsake you.”
Lisa, Mauldin, SC
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. Psalm 42:1 (NIV)
Nancy, Grand Haven, MI
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:28 (KJV)
Psalm 103:8 (NIV) (sorry this is so late)
The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger, abounding in love.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Colossians 3:16
Cheri
Louisville, KY
Yes, I hate them with total hatred, for your enemies are my enemies. Psalm 139:22 or 24 NIV
Be still and know that I am with you
Psalm 46:10
Diane Wadsworth, Pleasant Grove, Alabama
Isaiah 61:10, NLT – “I am overwhelmed with joy in the LORD my God!
For he has dressed me with the clothing of salvation
and draped me in a robe of righteousness.
I am like a bridegroom in his wedding suit
or a bride with her jewels.”
If you really keep the royal law found in scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right.
James 2:8
Terri from Plano
“Give thanks to the Lord for He is good”
Psalm 118:1 NIV