If you haven’t done so already, please read the instructions from the post on January 14. It will tell you everything you need to know.
Just a quick refresher: sometime today, post the Scripture passage you have chosen by leaving a comment below. Be sure your comment includes the following details:
First name, verse, reference, and version.
Remember you don't need to be a superhero. Use a verse you already know or find a very simple, short verse. Maybe choose a verse that has a song to go with it. This helps make the challenge not feel overwhelming. Remember what Beth said in her instructions: "it's a marathon, not a sprint!" Another time you might want to have more of a challenge and memorize a multi-verse passage. It's completely up to you!
Be sure to handwrite the verse in your spiral notebook of index cards to help engrave it on your mind.
If you are the kind of person who likes to underline, highlight, or otherwise mark in your Bible, I thought it was neat last year to underline and date each verse as I memorized it. Now it's fun when I'm reading the Bible to come across verses I memorized last year. I stop and make sure I can still say them so that they stay in my long-term memory.
Be sure to handwrite the verse in your spiral notebook of index cards to help engrave it on your mind.
If you are the kind of person who likes to underline, highlight, or otherwise mark in your Bible, I thought it was neat last year to underline and date each verse as I memorized it. Now it's fun when I'm reading the Bible to come across verses I memorized last year. I stop and make sure I can still say them so that they stay in my long-term memory.
Finally, either follow this blog, add it to your RSS feed, or just mark on your calendar so that you remember to come back on the 1st and 15th of every month. (And please give me grace for when I inevitably forget to post on time.) :) Thanks for participating! I'm praying that we all know God more through His Word.
Deb: "For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart."
Hebrews 4:12, NIV
Kelly: "She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her." Proverbs 31:27-28 ESV
ReplyDeleteKara: "But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere." James 3:17 ESV
ReplyDeleteJenn: "I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called." Ephesians 4:1 ESV
ReplyDeleteSue: "God alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken." Ps 62:2 NIV
ReplyDeleteRebekah " and He will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the Lord is Zion's treasure." Isaiah 33:6
ReplyDeleteNeiva: "And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise."
ReplyDeleteDeuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV
Shelly...
ReplyDeleteBut do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. (2 Peter 3:8-9 ESV)
Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord. Acts 3:19
ReplyDeleteErin: "But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness and into his wonderful light." 1 Peter 2:9, NIV
ReplyDeleteErica: "Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those that wait for him." Isaiah 30:18, ESV
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ReplyDeleteJennie: For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7 King James
ReplyDeleteRebecca:
ReplyDeletePsalm 118:1
Oh give thanks to the Lord for he is good; his steadfast love endures forever!
Allison: For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23 ESV
ReplyDeletePosting for my friend Laura: John 3:17-18 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. ESV
ReplyDeletePosting for my friend Sharon: Prov 3:27 " Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it." ESV
ReplyDeleteJen:"A person's wisdom yields patience; it is to one's glory to overlook an offense." Proverbs 19:11 NIV
ReplyDeleteCathy: "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ." Eph. 1:3 NIV
ReplyDelete29 Then I said to you, “Do not be terrified; do not be afraid of them. 30 The Lord your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes, 31 and in the wilderness. There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.”
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ReplyDelete1 Corinthians 5:12&13 "for what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. Purge the evil person from among you" ESV
ReplyDeletePsalm 119:11
ReplyDeleteI have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
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DeleteRebecca, that is very cool that you posted that verse just ahead of me so that I would see it. Yours is the very first verse I learned years ago, as a new Christian mom in my early 30's. I loved reading it!
DeleteEphesians 1:2 (NASB)
ReplyDeletejust as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love