Scripture Memory

Hello!

I had found Beth Moore's ministry blog a while back... but during Thanksgiving Break I took up reading over all the old posts as well as any they post currently. I love them! They bless my soul and the Lord really speaks to me through what they have posted about. :) So, through this blog, they have developed a big community of women who are supporting and uplifting each other in Christ's name! Which is awesome of course! :) Beth fondly calls them, "Siestas." You can read about all of this at the blog site which is on the side bar of my blog (LPM Blog). Anyways, this past year, 2009, they did a Scripture Memory challenge. All of the women would log on and post what verse they were going to memorize every 2 weeks, on every 1st and 15th of each month. They prayed for each other and supported each other. So by the end of the year (yesterday!) they memorized about 24 verses give or take! I found this time line-2 weeks at a time- and Beth's approach to memorization (RENEW) very refreshing, honest, and effective. So, I started my own 2-week-at-a-time memorization adventure on December 1, 2009. My first verse was 2 Timothy 2:7-"For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline." This verse gives me victory in Christ! On the 15th, I decided to spend the next few weeks and go over all the past memory verses/passages I had memorized in the past, a few years ago. Going through my bible and just from a brainstorm, I came up with about 22 verses that I had memorized a while back. I took on this many because in theory, I had already memorized them, at least by rote.. So going over them should just be a refreshment. Being Christmas and all, I honestly only went over them a few times and have not yet dug deep into each one, so I am going to spend this next 2 weeks on them again. It's been great to just purposefully get into memorizing His Word. "I have hidden your Word in my heart that I might not sin against you." =)

I don't know if the "Siestas" are going to be doing the memory verses again for 2010, but if they do I am going to join them!

:)