And…. drum roll…. VERSE 24!

Hello dear memorizing friends,

You have made it! You are here -- completing a full year's challenge! Congratulations!!!


While I didn't finish as strong as I would have liked, I'm so thankful for the help God gave me to memorize His Word this year… it truly has been a blessing and I know, without a doubt, that the effort you have put into hiding God's Word in your heart... writing it on your mind... implanting it in your thoughts... has not been wasted… nor has it gone unnoticed by our Lord. He has asked us to do this, and will continue to use what we have memorized to mould us, change us, comfort us, strengthen us and teach us.

Thank you for finishing out this year with me. I'm so thankful to have had your company!

What verse have you chosen to close out 2013?

God bless each of you…. and enjoy the Christmas season. Merry Christmas!

December 1 - Verse 23!

Happy December, friends! :)

As the busy month of December hits the ground running, let's take a moment to focus in on what truly matters this month. December is filled with lots of fun family activities, busy shopping days (ugh), filled schedules, and… lots of food. In our busyness, it's easy to lose sight that CHRISTMAS is a celebration of the coming of our Saviour. He is our Hope, our Peace, our Joy. The angels rejoiced so vibrantly at His birth… not because they were going to benefit from this spectacular event, but because God's rebellious creation was getting a Redeemer! Christ was bringing life and light… and HOPE. And we praise Him for His coming…! Let's remember the Gift He has offered us, and reach out and give back in His name to those around us.

So friends, as we close out 2013 with our last two verses…. what have you chosen for your second last one? You've done so well at sticking with this challenge… thank you. I pray you have been blessed by this practice in discipline. :)

Verse 22 - Scripture Memory Challenge

Good afternoon,

I'm staring at this blank screen, wishing I had something to offer you to make it worth your while opening this post... But…. nothing. ;)

I think I need more of this:

I can't even ad lib this afternoon, so I'm just going to ask you to post your verse for Nov 15! Only THREE more to go in 2013… the finish line is in sight!

I will continue to plug away at Psalm 100 :)

Verse 21 - Scripture Memory Challenge

Can you believe we only have 4 verses to go before our year's challenge is up?? 20 verses locked in our minds ladies (and a few gentlemen and kids out there!)! We can make that 24 verses!

I just want to give you a huge hug for doing the hard work that is promised to enrich our thought life and flow out into our relationships;  focusing us on our God and His Truths and working it out in our every day life. We can't lose doing this. It IS for our good. 

So… don't give up. Keep training your memory and recall muscle. Strengthen it by daily repetition and meditation. Lets let God's Word do His work in us. 

I just want to give a shout-out to Beth in Palapye… she teaches a class of FIFTY (!!) girls age 10-12 years old… that alone deserves a prayer request. :) In her comment on the last post, she said 17 girls said their verses from John 1 (I think 23 verses, but I might have misunderstood)  almost word perfect. I was encouraged reading that and it also motivated me to work on my memorization for the last half of October! Thanks for sharing Beth. God bless you with your class!

So let's hear it - what's your verse to kick of November?

Scripture Memory - Verse 20 :)

Here in Canada we have enjoyed a beautiful long Thanksgiving weekend. The weather has been amazing - warm and sunny most of the time! Our little family of four have had a mini-vacation away from the city... it's been so nice to relax together doing fall-like activities -- a hike through a conservation area (love that crisp dead-leaf fall scent!), a visit to a farm with a horse-drawn wagon ride and a corn maze, eating turkey, playing in leaves... and a bit of summer thrown in with time at the beach playing in the sand and listening to the waves. No swimming this time! :) 

Down time like this and getting out into nature is good for the soul. It causes me to pause and to count my blessings... a true time of Thanksgiving to the Giver of all good gifts.

It's only fitting that my verse for October 15th is:

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever. Ps 118:29

What have you been enjoying lately? What verse will be your theme to focus on the last half of October?

Scripture Memory - Verse 19

Good morning friends!

Such a beautiful morning today - the sun always shines brighter after a grey drizzly day, don't you find?

A sunny fall day makes me feel all optimistic - like maybe I will actually be disciplined this October and memorize my verse properly?! ;)

I can't remember if I've confessed this here before or not... but I'm a blog-reading addict. I spend too much time reading all sorts of wonderfully encouraging blogs that urge me to walk closer to God... many tips and suggestions are given to live more disciplined and to faithfully serve Him. I am wowed and encouraged by the faith-walk of so many others and long for such faith in my own life.

Now, reading these isn't a bad thing. We ARE to encourage each other and to build each other up, and I believe that's what a lot of these blog posts I read are meant to do. 

But if one doesn't take the message/truth and apply it in our own lives, than it's useless. 

So that leads me to my verse for October 1st.

James 1:22 - Do not merely listen to the Word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 

Praying THIS becomes more than words to me, but the Truth that it is.

How about you friends? What are you choosing to focus on for the first half of October?

Verse 18

Good evening friends,

It's that time of month again, and my brain is a bit foggy tonight. I would love to come with a little something to encourage you but I'm hardly stringing to words together, let alone THOUGHTS! :)

I'm writing from Prince Edward Island, where I travelled with the two kids this week for my grandmother's funeral. It's been exhausting, but I'm so thankful I was able to get "home" to be with everyone at this time. My grandmother has left such a testimony, and I love hearing everyone's memories of her. Her faith-filled life and reputation as a prayer warrior is a fresh reminder that the only life to live, is a life that counts for God.  And the only way to get there, is that deeply personal relationship with Him. I can truly say my grandmother knew and loved her Saviour... her life showed it!

A hymn that she often sang was quoted at the funeral and the words were new to me... thought you might like them too!

There is singing up in Heaven such as we have never known,

Where the angels sing the praises of the Lamb upon the throne.....

Holy, holy, is what the angels sing,

And I expect to help them make the courts of heaven ring;

But when I sing redemption’s story, they will fold their wings,

For angels never felt the joys that our salvation brings.

So, although I’m not an angel, yet I know that over there

I will join a blessèd chorus that the angels cannot share;

I will sing about my Savior, who upon dark Calvary

Freely pardoned my transgressions, died to set a sinner free.

So...

Back to verses. :) Let's hear your 18th verse!

Enjoy the last half of your September. :)