Scripture Memory 2012: Verse 15

If you're anything like me, you've been spending way too much time watching the Olympics and neglecting real life. Yikes! It's ironic that watching amazingly disciplined world-class athletes makes me want to sit on my couch and watch them on TV all day and then stay up too late at night. Lord, help me have some self-control!

Megan L. from San Marcos "He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he." Deuteronomy 32:4 NIV

Scripture Memory 2012: Verse 14

Summer time is a hard time to stay focused and disciplined (at least for me!). Here is some encouragement for us all to keep striving:

"It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer. The truth is that in order to enjoy the Word, we ought to continue to read it, and the way to obtain a spirit of prayer is to continue praying. Then less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray." George Mueller

Here's my verse:

Megan L. from San Marcos: "Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me." John 14:21 NIV

Scripture Memory 2012: Verse 13

Summer time sure is a crazy, busy, fun time for us! To give myself a little break, I'm going to review a verse I memorized last year. It's one that I really need to meditate on more. It's so easy for me to get caught up in this temporary world and I so easily lose an eternal perspective on things.
 

Megan L. from San Marcos: "Since then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things." Colossians 3:1-2 NIV

And to go with this verse, one of my favorite quotes:

"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were precisely those who thought the most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this." C.S. Lewis

Oh Lord, that I will remember where my true home is and how fleeting life here on earth is!

Scripture Memory 2012: Verse 12

This was from Beth Moore's post exactly one year ago when she was doing the Scripture memory challenge on her blog:

 Hear bells and whistles and lots of music, maybe even a few beginning bars of the Hallelujah chorus: YOU MADE IT EXACTLY HALFWAY!!!! You are officially over the hump after you get this entry behind you.

Way to go, Sisters. Way to go! It’s a pretty good feeling, isn’t it? Don’t think for a second that the enemy didn’t try to steal away your focus and commitment. If you made it this far, you fought with him and won. This is a big victory. Celebrate it with your very faithful God.

Isn't Beth a great cheerleader!

I had no idea what to expect when I started this Scripture memory blog in January, but it's exciting to see that we are halfway done and there are more people commenting than just me and my mom. :-) Thanks, ladies! It's been a fun adventure so far!

So, here's my verse:

Megan L. from San Marcos: "Train yourself to be godly. For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come." I Timothy 4:7b-8 NIV

Scripture Memory 2012: Verse 11

I just finished the book Knowing God by J.I. Packer. It is a fantastic book that I really should read every year. The funny thing is my husband bought the book for me for my 21st birthday (while we were dating), and it took me almost 11 years to finish it. Yikes! As soon as I finished it, I started reading it again from the beginning. My goal is that it won't take me 11 years this time! Knowing God and the Bible study I just finished on Paul was the inspiration for my next memory verse.
                                 

Megan L. from San Marcos: "But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead." Philippians 3:7-11

Scripture Memory 2012: Verse 10

During the day when I am working in the kitchen or cleaning the bathrooms (when that actually happens!), I like to listen to Beth Moore online. This website has a ton of lessons archived from radio broadcasts:

http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/living-proof-with-beth-moore/listen/ 

I was listening the other day to her series called, "Measureless Love" (a six part series starting on March 26, 2012). The series was all about God's measureless love for us. She reminded us how amazing that concept is coming from a God who is so meticulous about measurement (like all the measurements for the temple and in Job 38:5 when God talks about marking off the dimensions of the earth's foundations, etc.). It was a really powerful series, and this was the main passage she used and my memory verse from this time around:

Megan L. from San Marcos: "I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God." Ephesians 3:16-19 NIV

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.