This graphic is part of our verse for the week.
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Our Verse for the Week: “Satisfy [me] in the morning with your unfailing love, that [I] may sing for joy and be glad all [my] days…for I have put my trust in you.” Psalm 90:14, 143:8b, NIV
Our Word for the Week: SATISFIED (Download in a PDF or download in MSWord). Please print it and post it everywhere so you can remember that God’s love can satisfy the thirst of your soul!
Our Assignment for Today:
- Start or continue reading chapter 3. Remember, take your time and highlight or underline sentences that resonate in your heart.
- Let’s commit to memorize this week’s verse together!
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My friend Heather is a Word girl!! When she was in college she performed in over 14 plays and memorized hundreds of lines, so I’ve asked her to share some tips to help us hide God’s Word in our hearts this week. Here are a few she shared. I’ll post more each week.
Ideas for Memorizing Scripture
- Write the scripture on several index cards or post-it notes and place them in areas where you will see them frequently throughout the day. Examples: on the bathroom mirror, refrigerator door, in the car, at work, etc…
- Get a stack of index cards and on each one write one or two words from the verse, including the reference. Shuffle them up and see if you can put them in the correct order again. Save the cards and reuse common words found in other verses.
- Send the verse to friends and family by typing, texting, or writing it out by hand. You can look at the verse, but do not copy and paste! Try writing it at least once a day.
- Study with a friend, your spouse, or teach it to your kids! Quiz each other and keep each other on track. What a great way for families to spend time in the Word together!
- Change the wall paper on your computer to an image that has your Bible verse.
Connecting in Community: Wanna commit to memorize this week’s verse together?! If you are in, leave a comment by clicking on “share your thoughts” and tell us how you plan to memorize it. Also, if you have any other creative ways to memorize scripture please share that, too. I’ll be back Weds with a video message that I’m so excited to share with you!! {If you’re reading this via email, click here to return to my website to commit and connect.}
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I wrote a bunch of songs quite a few years ago to memorize scripture and get God’s truths into my mind.
Last weeks key word was KNOW. One of my songs is called
He Knows Everything.
It is about the fact that God knows our whole life story and understands us.
I tried to post it but I don’t think it worked.
He Knows Everything
https://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?v=2172384425606
Then this week is SATISFY. Another one of my songs has this weeks scripture as the bridge. So I guess I should share it. The recordings are not very good…
Nothing Satisfies Like You
https://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?v=2172388145699
Thank you so much for sharing these links. Great idea to tie in the words with a song each week to. :0)
I will memorize this verse and try to feel it. Currently, it is very difficult for me, as I am dealing with a mid life crisis that has been looking back and trying to move forward. Quickly, I have 3 children….my first was born with a birth defect where his esphogus was not connected and he had 3 major surgeries. He has to have endoscopies every few years as he will always be at risk for esphogeal cancer. He also has severe anxiety and aspergers. My second son, born 2 years later was born with a rare birth defect where his head was prematurely fused called craniosynostosis. He has had 5 major head operations…where he was cut from ear to ear. He also had a stroke–but only lost left perpherial vision in both eyes and ADHD. The boys are now in early 20’s and doing well. But my 3 child, a 16 year old girl, who is brilliant is suffering from severe depression and wants to die. She dropped out of school, and it has been very difficult for me to face this last trial. I thought I made it through all the other ones, only to find out I have been stuffing my feelings and am now trying to reclaim my voice, emotions and lots of other lessons……I have walked with the Lord through it all and tried to stay faithful….although I need to be more disciplined in reading and trusting. SO having a heavy sadness in my heart as I try to work through all this….and I know I have to give it all to the Lord. This verse reminded me of that. Thanks for this study, I feel surrounded by all of you, knowing you are all out there…all with different stories, but all of us sisters in Christ and i can not explain how that has been a blessing to me. I pray we all have minds of little ones who memorize so quickly…and soak up God’s words like sunshine!
it IS such a blessing, leslie, knowing that others are “right there” with us…meditating on the same scriptures, having the holy spirit working within each of us. y’know, it must be like ‘…with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love, being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. there is one Body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. but to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift’ (ephesians 4.2-7).
i, along with others, am praying for your children especially your sweetheart daughter. and for you, leslie, that the Lord will help you to cast ALL of your cares upon Him because, as you know, He cares deeply and unconditionally and faithfully for you. may God bless you&keep you. g’night.
Hi Leslie, I’m so thankful you are part of this amazing community of hearts and sisters in Christ — supporting, praying for and encouraging one another. What a gift we have in HIM and in each other during this journey we are taking together!!
I am praying comfort, courage, peace and healing hope for you and your daughter Leslie. I want to encourage you to show her chapter 12 with the chart of 31 promises – one for each day – to replace her doubts and defeat. You have been through more than anyone should have to endure. Thank you for not giving up, for loving your children sacrificially and for making the courageous decision to read this book. God is right there with you – wanting to love on and affirm you each minute of each day.
Psalm 46:1, ” God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble “
Thank you for the ideas on how to memorize scripture—I will commit to memorizing this weeks verse and post it in my bathroom!
I am already enrolled in other Bible classes online which are free. I have obtained from them a software called SwordScript which is free and helps with Scripture memory. FAST ministries is dedicated to teaching & hiding God’s Word in an individual’s heart. You can get this software through their site: http://www.fast.st
On the bottom of their welcome page is a gray area with a bunch of links. Just click on the link “other tools” on the bottom of the 3rd column from the left. You might even want to check out their classes! I have found them very helpful in my life.
God bless!
Amy,
Thanks for the link. I may check it out
thanks, amy…looks like a wonderful tool! we all sure need ’em!
Amy, thank you for sharing this link to help with hiding the Lord’s words in our hearts.
My plan for memorizing this passage is to incorporate it into my breakfast devotion time with my children. They will keep me on track and will love to “quiz” me on it each day!!…AND (bonus!!).. They will learn it too!
This is a verse I have underlined in my Bible and have been reading almost daily for the past year-
I am over……50……. so I have to totally surround and saturate myself with the verse to memorize it. But I have noticed that when I enter into a prayerful, committed bible study God tends to surround me with the key verses and messages. They just seem to have a presence in my life during the time that I am pursuing them. Has anyone else noticed that? Sometimes I am reminded of my children, starting to learn their ABC’s, and writing a whole page of just one letter, struggling to master the flow of our language, the mechanics of our alphabet. I often feel like God has me in kindergarten, and I am struggling to master the flow of HIS language for me. Not just memorizing a verse because I need the mechanics of scripture, which I do need, but understanding that this verse is part of HIS story for my life, realizing that all of these things connected spell out – CHRIST died for me……..
I love this verse and am working to memorize it. For me saying it out loud and writing it are the quickest way for me to memorize something.
Hi Renee, this is my morning verse I say before I eat breakfast~~~~~I love it!!!
To start my day fresh every morning by telling God my trust is in Him all day long and His love is unfailing is to me like starting over every day. Yesterday is gone and we are on to a new day and God is the same He was yesterday and today and tomorrow and HIs love for us is unfailing~~~~gives me the “umph” to start my day on the right foot.
Thanks~~~Sue
Amen! 🙂
I’m in! I wish we could just sleep with our head on our bible and it would just get sucked into our brains! I have managed to memorize quite a few verses but my heart is always thirsting for more!
I feel the same way!
That would be amazing wouldn’t it??!
I plan to memorize this verse by posting it on my desk at my work. So every morning I will see it before the day begins to remind me to trust in his unfailing love! It’s very encouraging to know that God loves us all the time, no matter what our feelings may be. He’s so amazing.
I will memorize and meditate on this verse. I need to cling to both this one and Psalm 143:8. We are in the middle of a big transition and I am both lonely and uncertain of what the future will bring. I am grieving the loss of many relationships and many other which, though they are not lost have significantly changed. Both myself and my husband are looking for work and we have four children to provide for. SHOW ME THE WAY TO GO, OH LORD, for to YOU I lift up my soul.
Thanks
I will put it here at my computer at work. I will also write it out.
Count me in. I utilize index cards and carry them with me for the week. This way when I need the Word I pull them out and recite them aloud. It also allows me to memorize the scripture. I love the word of the week. It exemplifies how I have felt these past few weeks of this study. Satisfied and Full.
I for also I wanted to say, some of you said you will sing the verse to help you memorize. I love to sing! great idea! I’m going to try that! I love we all share great ideas with each other! thanks Renee! for this great study! I’ve never done anything like this before! God is really challenging me to spend time with him! Thank you!
I love this verse. Ever since starting this study I have been listening to a song over and over.. one line is..”Let me be most satisfied in You” It is the song “Choose” by Christy Nockels, so since that song is one I listen to, it will remind me of the verse. I like to find songs with the verses.
I was most upset today, driving home by something my husband had said, and I went to the bank drive through to do a deposit for my son. A salvation pamphlet was in there and it was a lovely rose on front and all about how precious we are to GOD. It was like God put it right there today to remind me of his love.
Looking very forward to chapter 3.
I will make myself a mini-poster with it on there.
Hi, Renee thank you for this study! I love all your friend’s ideas of memorizing bible verses. I have been very lazy about memorizing bible verses. I just read all the comments. It’s so good we all share and have the same things in common, evenm though we all have our different situations in life. Writing things down helps me. i will commit to memorizing this week’s bible verse. I have a good friend here in my apartment building that I can work with. i’ve writeen here before in earlier sections. I am blind. I have an amazing computer with speech software program that reads me evertying. I have to know the right key stroke commands to do. It reads me everything on the screen. There are a couple of limitations. When there are a lot of graphics on web sites, or in e-mails, the speech program doesn’t read the text. also, it only reads word files. Now. my computer teacher gave me special instructions for it to read p.d.f. files. I know confident heart is a p.d.f. file. I’m praying for another opportunity to get the book for free, then, I will try downloading it agin. I can still really participate in this study. I get the e-mails. I hear the videos. I read the comments, and i am able to put my own comments. I have the braille bible old king James version. I’m with bible gate way. they have on the web site someone that narrates the bible, in an every day english easy to understand translation. the old king James version has some strange words. I’m going to memorize this week’s bible verse. It’s going to really help me. I’m trying to wait on god now for something. i’m trying to do online classes with Liberty university. I want to take their two year program with the bible institute. they have me on file. i need to find a place where i can get my g.e.d. I didn’t finish my credits. I’m 48 I live in Canada, i called the university for help. the closest place they gave me was a test center in toronot. I live an hour and a half from there. i have no one to take me there. I hear this has to be done in person. I’ve been trying to find out if I can do it online. I jusut got a great idea. If I can e-mail the Toronto center, and ask them to e-mail me the test. I’m so frustrated here. People need to understand, what if sometimes, people can’t get places. Sorry, I didn’t mean for this to be so long. I meant just to write in here about how I plan to memorize the verse, it’s just that as I have been reading everyone’s comments every week, I feel like I’m really getting to know people. I wanted to share this dilema i had here with you all, to see if anyone had any suggestions. I’m so frustrated, I really want to do this. I keep hearing from Liberty, and the fact that I keep hearing from the, to me is a sign that God is saying I will do Liberty, but maybe, he wants me to work on finishing this study first, and not get stressed out about how I’m going to do this with Liberty! I just really want this! I really believe I’m ready! I’m getting impatient hearing from god. this week’s memory verse will really help me when I’m medidating! Thank you renee!
Thank you Phyllis for sharing your story. You are an inspiration! How wonderful that technology allows you to access this bible study as well as the bible and other sources of information, yet I’m sure it can be frustrating for you as well given your circumstances. I will pray that God provides a way for you to complete the Liberty program. May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans suceed. Psalm 20:4
I am going to write our verse this week on index cards and place all over the house. I have already posted it as my status on FB 🙂 I plan to choose a couple of friends or family members to text the verse to each day.
When involving the kids in learning/memorizing words, phrases and sentences, a fun way for them to have a kinesthetic way of learning is to make plastic baggies filled with a gel of some sort that they can press down and make the letters of the word. if you put just enough gel in, they will be able to see the word when they are finished. Shaving cream is fun, but messy and smelly. cookie sheets with rice or colored sand is also a fun way too learn/memorize words, phrases and sentences.
This is my second time through this bible study. Just before the last one, my work decided to send me to class for a new certification, and I gave up. Not this time! I have some major issues coming into play in my personal life, but I need the hope and message in this study desparately. It is so timely, and I need confidence and God in every second of life right now. I will stick this out. So please day a quick prayer for me, and let me rejoice in God’s word, and the companionship I can find here.
Yes I will memorize the verse. Usually repetion, and re-writing helps me. I am going to try writing it on several index cards, kept in the daily areas of my life.
Thank you Renee, all you ladies, and foremost God for giving me a glimmer of hope today.
I’ve printed several copies of our word for the week and I am posting it everywhere. I am at my desk at work, if I look to the right it is posted on my bulletin board; to the left it is on my copy holder; straight ahead it is on my computer screen. Thanks for the challenge!