Here we are!!!!!! I just know that verse 1 is memorized in your heart and you are ready to use it in the coming year for good!! You'll be ready to roll those words off your tongue for yourself and your friends and family by the power of the Holy Spirit at the most needed moment!
How did you do with your first verse? What was helpful to you to keep memorizing it? Did you like Beth Moore's RENEW? I just like HER! :) As we were memorizing verse 1, I've also been working on putting together a Bible study called "How to Read the Bible." I've created these daily homework sheets on how to work through reading a Scripture. It's a 5 week class that I've put together and have even made each person a three ring binder with all the stuff in it. I thought I needed to make a "sample" lesson already done for them to show them how to work through the daily reading charts. And so I used my verse from this week to do a little exegesis on. I just thought I had found a "neat little verse" about serving God. But oh my!!!!! When I read the whole chapter that my verse is in....it had a whole new meaning to me! This was my verse (from memory) :)
"It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep His commands and obey; serve Him and hold fast to Him!" Deuteronomy 13:4
But the whole context of this verse is about not listening to false prophets and not worshiping other gods. The end of the chapter even states that they (the believers) are to STONE TO DEATH those who do choose to follow false prophets and worship false gods. Little did I know what I got myself into when I choose that verse. But I'll remember it now....for fear of being stoned to death! ha!
So....chime in....how did you do? What did your first verse teach you? What did you learn about God's Word in memorizing your verse? Post your Scripture (by memory?!!) in a comment below and then tell us what your new verse is!!!!!!!
This is mine: "Those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds on what the Spirit desires." Romans 8:5. I chose this in hopes that it will be a sense of helping me be centered in teaching the Bible study in the coming weeks. (gulp!)
Your turn!! Come on you MVP's!!! You are great! Don't you just love toting around your spiral cards with Scripture on them and glancing at them at a stop light? waiting in line to pick up kids? before you get out of the car at Walmart? I hope they are worn slick and well used by the end of the year!!!!
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline. Proverbs 1:7 (by memory)
ReplyDeleteNew Verse: (NIV) Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name. Psalm 86:11
Terri Fielder - Enid, OK
"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with God's people who are in need. Practice hospitality." Romans 12:12-13 (memory)
ReplyDeleteMy new verse is this:
"Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves."
(I'm changing that last word to yourself. Just for my own benefit.)
Oops. It is Phillipians 2:3
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ReplyDeleteI'm also a fan of Beth Moore Bible studies. Your site looks wonderful!
I've memorized Scripture because of her. Here's one of my favorites: "Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in him for he shields him all day long and the one the Lord loves rests between his shoulders." Deuteronomy 33:12.
I've referred to Beth Moore in various faith-based columns that I've written for the Fremont Tribune newspaper in Nebraska.
Please check out my Web site at realspiritualspinach.com
I'm new to blogging. Thanks for all your work for the Lord!
May God bless you richly in the days ahead.
Tammy
Hi...thanks for the email. I'm posting my verses on another blog but thought I'd join in here too. One thing that helps me is writing the verse often so the more times I write it the better I'll remember (hopefully!) My resolutions for 2010 center on wisdom and kindness so I'm trying to memorize verses this year relating to those two topics.
ReplyDeleteHere is my Jan. 15-
'If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God who gives generously to all without reporach and it will be given him.'
James 1:5 (ESV)
Shannan, thanks for contacting me. I notice you're from Oklahoma so we're not that far away from each other (I'm in KS).
ReplyDeleteMy verse: "for the Mighty One has done great things for me -- holy is his name." Luke 1:49 NIV
I'd love for you to visit my blog when you get the chance. I'm all about "Refreshing Spirits, Nourishing Souls".
Blessings to you!
My new memory verse for the rest of this month:
ReplyDelete“You, the God of all grace, who called me to Your eternal glory in Christ, after I have suffered a little while, will Yourself restore me and make me strong, firm and steadfast”. I Peter 5:10
Posted my thoughts on my website. www.jamiebrandonmft.com
Jamie