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
Debbie Nicholson
Gulfport, MS
If you make the Most High your dwelling-even the Lord who is my refuge-then no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your tents. Psalm 91:9-10 NIV
Traci from Evansdale, IA
Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners – of whom I am the worst. 16 But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life.
I Timothy 1:15-16 NIV 2011
Tara, Eustis
Isaiah 26:3
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed in you because he trust in you.
Holli from Corona, Ca. “Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too am working.” John 5:17 NET
Debbie W. – Prattville, AL
Give thanks to the Lord and proclaim His greatness. Let the whole world know what He has done.
1 Chronicles 16:8
NLT
rhonda
Gilmer
Philemon 1:22
New King James Version
But, meanwhile, also prepare a guest room for me, for I trust that through your prayers I shall be granted to you.
Janet from Odessa, TX
“Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him and praise His name.”
Psalm 100:4 HCSB
James1:26 NKJV “If any one among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless.”
Sandy Bowers, Bryan, Ohio
I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the confident hope he has given to those he called—his holy people who are his rich and glorious inheritance. — Ephesians 1:18 (NLT)
“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9 NIV84
Alice, Chesapeake Va.
I Peter 5:7 NLT
Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about what happens to you.
Nicole from Iowa:
What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?
Romans 8:31
Rachel R., Lafayette IND: You faithfully answer our prayers with awesome deeds, O God our savior. You are the hope of everyone on earth, even those who sail on distant seas. – Psalm 65:5, NLT
Tomi, Des Moines. Then I heard a loud voice from the throne: Look! God’s dwelling is with humanity, and He will live with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will no longer exist; grief, crying, and pain will exist no longer, because the previous things have passed away. Revelation 21:3&4 HCSB
Megan JOY – Calgary Alberta Canada – “…despite all these things we are more than conquerors, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.” – Romans 8:37 (ESV/NLT)
Chelsey from Amarillo, TX
“The end of all things is near. Therefore, be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins,” 1 Peter 4:7-8 (NIV)
Chris
Canton, NC
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
Emily McAnear, Corona California
“Don’t pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good.”
Romans 12:9, New Living Testament
Mary, Lexington Park, MD
Pray also for me, that the message may be given to me when I open my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel. Ephesians 6:19 HCSB
W.Richland
Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.
Philippians 4:5 NIV
Cindy – Gilbertsville, KY
1 Corinthians 13:7 ERVLove never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
Jill Davis, Searcy AR
“A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed”
Proverbs 11:25 NIV
Laura Hagedorn, Wausau WI., It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. 1 Corinthians 1:30 (NIV)
danae | lafayette, in
after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, the one who called you into His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will Himself restore, empower, strengthen, & establish you. — 1 peter 5:10 [ceb]
Tangila, Pearland TX
This is how the LORD responds:
“If you return to me, I will restore you
so you can continue to serve me.
If you speak good words rather than worthless ones,
you will be my spokesman.
You must influence them;
do not let them influence you! (Jeremiah 15:19 NLT)
Kathy, Shattuck, OK
Psalm 139:20 (NIV)
They speak of you with evil intent;
your adversaries misuse your name.
Patty, Granite Bay, CA “He is your praise; he is your God, who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw with your own eyes.” Deuteronomy 10:21 NIV
Deb, Becker, MN
Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all this in the heavens and in the earth is Yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and You are exalted as head above all. 1 Chron 29:11 ESV
Melanie Toups
Bridge City, TX
Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also. As for you, let that abide in you which you have heard from the beginning. If what you heard in the beginning abides in you,you will also abide in the Son and in the Father. –1 John 2:22-23 NASB
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. Colossians 3:23-24 NIV
Midland, TX
Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. James 1:21 (NIV)
Suzanne
Tenaha, TX
Psalms 139:4 NIV
Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O Lord.
Ps 139:4
Katy – Mount Juliet, TN
“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
-Ephesians 2:10 (NIV)
Mary, Columbia, PA~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
Jody from Traverse City, MI
With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.
~Psalm 91:16 (NIV)
Jessica from Clare, MI
With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.
~Psalm 91:16 (NIV)
Judy from Gladwin, MI
With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.
~Psalm 91:16 (NIV)
Pat C South Burlington,VT
You used to walk in these ways in the life you once lived. Col. 3:7 NIV
“Therefore since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith.”
Hebrews 12:1-2 NIV
Ephesians 4:32 NIV
Be kind and campassionate to one another, forgiving each
other just as in Christ God forgave you.
Sarah, Montrose, CO:
I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth…For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building.
1 Corinthians 3:6-7;9 (ESV)
Deuteronomy 6:5
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
1 Corinthians 13:7 ERV
Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
Julia, Flower Mound, TX
Zechariah 7:9 NIV
This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Administer true justice, show mercy and compassion to one another.’
Tammy from Gravette, AR
Esv
Psalm 85:8
Let me hear what God the LORD will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; but let them not turn back to folly.
John 1:17 (NASV)
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
Kim, Amherst, OH
Rom. 12:12 ESV
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
I wait for the Lord,
my soul waits,
and in his word I hope.
Psalm 130:5 NIV
Diana—San Patricio, TX. “And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.” I John 4:14 (NIV)
Kristi, Pensacola, FL:
Is this not the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chain of injustice, and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?
Isaiah 58:6