Scripture Memory 2012: Verse 9

Hi Ladies! I hope everyone is hanging in there with this Scripture Memory Challenge!

My friend, Rebecca, who is doing this challenge is an amazing digital scrapbooker. A couple of days ago I got the following email from her:

Hey there! I just wanted to share this with you in case you want to share it with your scripture memory blog readers. I created some digital notecards that I'm using for my memory verses, which I then print out. I've packaged up the designs and made them available on my digi scrap blog, they are free for anyone who wants them. 

http://reboscraps.blogspot.com/2012/04/freebie-friday-journal-cards.html

Rebecca

If you go to her blog you will see how stinkin' cute the notecards are. And they are free! Sweet. Thank you so much, Rebecca!

Now for my verse:

Megan L. from San Marcos: "Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity." Colossians 3:12-14 NIV

I feel like this verse is the key to sanctification. If I could just get this mastered I would be all set! ;-) I also love how Paul starts with reminding us of God's love for us--that we are "dearly loved." What a beautiful phrase and the best motivation for striving toward holiness.

Scripture Memory 2012: Verse 8

I forgot today was April 15th! Yikes! At least my taxes are done! Leave your verse and I'll add mine to the comments when I figure out which verse I'm going to do.

Thanks to Katy Whitcher for the reminder! :-)

Scripture Memory 2012: Verse 7

Happy April Fool's Day!

I once saw a bumper sticker declaring April 1st as National Atheists Day. I didn't get it until I saw the verse referenced at the bottom: Psalm 14:1

"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.'"

If you are looking for a verse to memorize, that might be a fun one to learn for April Fool's Day.

Here is my verse for this time around.

Megan L. from San Marcos: "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. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart." Hebrews 12:1-3

Scripture Memory 2012: Verse 6

Ladies, I can't tell you how much I am enjoying reading all your Bible verses and comments. It is such a blessing to read what verses people choose and why they choose them.

Last year I participated in a prayer challenge online. The lady leading it shared this quote with us:

"People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated." D.A. Carson

I thought it was so powerful and such an encouragement to "work out our salvation with fear and trembling." (Philippians 2:12) I hope that this will encourage you as you work to memorize your verses this year.

Thankfully, as we "work out our salvation," it's still all grace and that's the basis of our assurance. In that vein, here's my verse:

Megan L. from San Marcos "Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water." Hebrews 10:22 NIV

Can't wait to read yours...

Scripture Memory 2012: Verse 5

I hope everyone had a great Leap Day and enjoyed having an extra day to practice your memory verses! ;-)

I'm going with this verse from Proverbs this time around:

Megan L. from San Marcos: "A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger." Proverbs 15:1 NIV

I was talking about the verse with my five year old a while ago and instructing him to speak gently when playing with his friends and sister. Then I realized, I probably need to work on that too!

Scripture Memory 2012: Verse 4

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I'll keep it short and simple this time. Here's my verse!

Megan L. from San Marcos: In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven. Matthew 5:16 NIV

Scripture Memory 2012: Verse 3

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Time for verse three! I hope you are all enjoying this challenge so far and finding the pace doable. If you need some extra encouragement, I found this blog post about setting goals to be helpful:

4 Things That Will Keep You From Goal-Setting Success

The post seemed very applicable to our challenge. The first thing she listed that will keep you from goal-setting success is biting off more than you can chew. For those of you who want to memorize a longer passage of Scripture but don't want to feel overwhelmed, it might help to break the passage into smaller chunks and memorize the passage over the course of a few months. I did that last year with Psalm 103 because I really wanted to memorize the whole psalm, and it worked really well!

Now before I share my verse for this round, I wanted to clarify a couple of things about which there was some confusion.

1. There is not an email reminder when it's time to post your verse. If you would like to "follow" this blog, you can go to "Join this blog" on the sidebar. That should set you up to receive an automatic email reminder every time I post something.

2. Some people have accidentally posted their verse on the wrong post. This is not that big of a deal because I get an email whenever anyone comments on any post so I can still check you off for that verse. However, to avoid confusion, I will close comments on the older posts. Going forward, only the most recent post will allow comments.

Now, on to my third verse:

Megan L. from San Marcos: "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:38 NIV

Praise the Lord! That verse is so powerful. I love it! Can't wait to read yours...