Can you believe January 2013 is now in the past? Time goes so quickly. I hope you're all feeling positive about your memorization work... Isn't it great to be working on something we KNOW will benefit us long-term... ?!
It's been a bit of an eventful month on our house... We welcomed our little girl 4 days early on January 21st! So while I have continued to work on my chosen verse selection for the 2nd half of January, I must say my brain is a bit more like mush than usual and I didn't quite get it all down perfectly. If you're feeling like February 1st came a bit too quickly as well, you might want to do what I'm doing... instead of moving on to a new verse for the sake of typing in something new, I'm choosing to continue to work on the last half of my Jan 15th verse selection. I want to make sure it's cemented into this dense brain of mine! :) See?? We're flexible around here... ;)
My mom is here visiting for awhile (thanks to baby girl's arrival), and she's one of those non-blogger people participating in this challenge. With her here, I've had the benefit of having an in-house partner to practice my verse with every so often. There's definitely a difference in saying it OUT-LOUD than going over it in my head... I hope each of you have at least one person to partner up with in this challenge, but if not, don't forget to practice out-loud once in awhile... for me, at least, it's a true test of how ingrained the verse is!
One other thought -- since we're spread out all over the globe yet working on this challenge together, let's remember to pray for each other. We have an enemy who would like to keep us busy and our brains occupied so we neglect getting God's Word planted deep in our hearts/minds... but with God's help, we can be diligent, disciplined and faithful in memorizing and meditating on His Word -- Truth and Life to each of us.
Alright, let's answer the roll-call and sign in with our February 1st verse! Remember -- first name, city/location, verse, reference and translation. :)
17 comments:
Janna, GTA Ontario - Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there. Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit’s leading in every part of our lives. Gal 5:24-25, NLT
Stephanie, Hermosillo, Mexico. Finished (re)memorizing James 1 - yay! I'm on to chapter 2! KJV
Jeanette New Hamburg, ON
We look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:18 ESV
Alison, Denver, NC - Continuing to memorize Romans 5 on to verses 3&4. "And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also; knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope:" KJV
Hazel, Nouvelle, QC - Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in ME will never die. Do you believe this?"
John 11:25,26 NASB
Sandra, Doha, Qatar - "I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound; everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." Phil 4:11-13 KJV (I use my driving time back and forth to work to memorize and have papers with all my verses so I can continue to review the earlier verses also).
Sharon, Palmerston North New Zealand - Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me....when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me. Micah 7 v 7 and part of 8. KJV
Emily- St. Thomas, ON
2 Cor. 6:6, 7a ...by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love; by truthful speech, and the power of God.
Renette- Bicester UK- Although I haven't given birth in the last month, I am doing like Janna and am working on the second part of Jan 15th verses. I don't know where the time has gone! Heb 13: 21 "...equip you with everything good that you may do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen."
Anna - Mexico - I'm going to try to memorize 1 Cor. 13, the chapter on love, in the next few months -
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. (1 Corinthians 13:1-3 ESV)
Steffani - NS
Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Romans 8.26-27. NKJV
Keri - Kitchener
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
John 14:27 KJV
Beth R - Palapye, Botswana
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
John 15 : 7 - 9 KJV
Congratulations on your baby girl, Janna!
Beth- GTA- Ontario- "I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe." Ephesians 1:18-19a NIV
Sarah-Sarnia
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
King James Version (KJV)
Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
Maria - Marlborough, CT
Romans 12:1-2, KJV
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
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