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.
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!
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
Today’s Assignment: Start or continue reading chapter 3. Remember, take your time and highlight or underline sentences that resonate in your heart.
Personal Update: Thank you for praying for my mom. She has a small fracture under her eye but no internal bleeding. Her face looks horrible so I am praising God she didn’t have more damage. Also, thank you for your sweet and fun comments about my silly Saturday video. I love sharing real life with you and wouldn’t want it any other way. Speaking of real life, I’m getting sick and this is the week we release my first teaching segment in the series of six videos we spent months filming and editing. I’m so eager to share this message with you! I just need to finish the handout and we’ll be ready to go. Please pray I’ll feel good enough to get ‘er done Tuesday so we can launch it Weds as planned. :-). (All things are possible for she who believes!)
Connecting in Community: Let’s 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! Lord willing, I’ll be back Weds with our video that Im so excited to share with you!!
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I’m in!! Have a rolodex of scriptures I’m reading through and memorizing already. I feel God nudged me to write Psalm 90:14 this way on my note card:
“I am satisfied in the morning and throughout the day and evening with Your unfailing love, Lord!”
Feeling so eager..already made Chapter 3 messy with underlining and writing in the margins and journalled my thoughts–going to re-read today and tomorrow and process som more. So ready to let go of this dout and discouragement and pick up my ‘cross of confidence.’ Thank you for inspiring me to ‘come and see’ that things really can be different…I know it–He has done it before and it is so for what’s burdening my heart now too!
Will be praying for your health this week Renee…we’re fighting it here too–just started some antibiotics and feeling some relief.
Please also pray for my Women’s Bible Study that begins tonight. Leading a group of women through a study I wrote a couple of years ago…and just printed an eBook of it online.
http://www.amazon.com/Julie-Lane/e/B00713SOKC
To God be the glory…for He has healed me and nudged me along this journey!
I am going to place index cards and post its with the scripture all over my house and in my car. We have family meeting tonight and I am going to encourage (insist) that everyone memorize the scripture this week together. Also, love the idea of sharing the scripture via emails, etc.
So glad your mom is okay. Saying a prayer for you now 🙂
I am a home-schooling mom. So when my girls work on their memorization for the week , I will work on mine. Then when I quiz them they will get to quiz me. . . Accountability!
When I was a child I memorized a LOT of verses. I still remember them and they are encouragement to me today. However, I haven’t memorized verses in a long time— I’m back on deck. My watch has an hourly chime and when it goes off, I plan to say the verse aloud.
Another place I am keeping track of the word and verses is in the cover of my notebook I am using for this study. I am also writing out the questions with my answers in the notebook. I staple in the handouts and write underneath them, to kind of keep them together. Have a great week all! Soo many comments( good! ) but I need to stay focused on the Word..
Renee, thanks for sharing the update about your mom. I am willing to write the verse down and carry it in my pocket and read it to see if I can memorize the verse for the week. I am not real good at memorizing but maybe with lots of prayer and repeated reading I will have success.
Glad to hear that your mother is doing well….. God Is good! Im gonna commit to writing it and sending it to others in emails, maybe text also. I find that its easier for me to remember if I write it out over and over again….. Have a Blessed Day!!!!
Renee: I too am so blessed by your book. Your story, although different in details, is all too familiar in your feelings of insecurity and doubt as it relates to your father. My father left my mom when I was 12 and I only saw him one more time before he died…when I was 19. He was a drinker and abusive to my mom. I can remember being so scared when he would rant and rave. I doubted my salvation for many years. It wasn’t until a christian counselor shared that we get our image of our heavenly Father from our earthly father. But God will never leave us, nor forsake us..He is faithful, loving and true. Thank you for your minstry in my life and so many others…blessings to you. I hope you start feeling better!
Renee,
So glad that your mom is doing okay. I feel like I always get sick on the weeks that I don’t need to be sick. Try to get some rest! (easier said than done, right?) 🙂
I love how this week’s word is Satisfied. I am going to try and commit it to memory by tweeting it and writing it on a notecard.
Thanks for sharing!
Memorizing the verse. So glad He gives us a song in the midst and makes us glad in affliction. (Ps. 90:15) Just read Psalm 63:1 last night to my boys. “O God, thou art my God: early will I seek thee; my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is.”
Renee…I am so glad your mom is okay. You and your family are in my prayers. I love this weeks verse. I am going to try to memorize it. I am still working on memorizing week one’s scripture because that one spoke to me as well. I also appreciate the ideas of how to memorize a verse. I use to have a wonderful memory then I had kids and since then my memory is not that good. So, we will see. I am looking forward to starting to reread Chapter 3. I just did not get a chance yesterday. I hope everyone has a wonderful day!
Many Blessing,
Jenny 🙂
In homeschooling my children, I have come to realize that memorizing can easily be done just by repeating whatever you’re trying to memorize several times each day. I have been amazed over the years at what my boys have been able to memorize. And some of those years they couldn’t read a thing! I also write out what I’m trying to memorize and that also helps. For this study, I’ve been printing out the word/verse for the week and taping it to my bathroom mirror. Seeing it everyday also helps me to remember it. I am BLESSED, KNOWN, and SATISFIED : )
Great words and verses for us all to remember! I’m in for trying to memorize them all! So far, with all the verses, I have printed out the pdf file with the word and verse of the week and highlighted it then hanging it on my refrigerator. So not only do I see, read and memorize, but it’s also got my husband doing the same thing. And even though he’s doing a different study right now, it gives me that competitive edge to memorizng before him…LOL. Also, I write it down on the Monday of each week on my desk calender, so while I’m working I can look down and read it through out the day. I love the idea of changing my wall paper and screen saver to the verse of the week. I’m going to start that today! And sometimes, I can be a little goofy, ok….well according to my husband and friends, I am always goofy, but with that goofiness I turn the verse into a song, just singing it, whatever the genre may be, it just comes out…LOL We all know sometimes life just sucks, but it’s awesome to know with his word and promises that it will get better and we will be stronger. Just be real! 🙂
PS. Can someone tell me how to put my picture on my comments?
So glad to hear the good report on your mom.
This scripture brought a smile to my face because I have been asking God each morning to let me feel His Unfailing Love.
A week ago on a Friday on my way home and to drop a co-worker off I ask God to let me feel His Unfailing Love in my financial situation. I had a desire to go to the movie but I did not have any money for a movie. I felt so strong to speak my request out loud to God.
Lord, I need to feel Your Unfailing Love today. I desire to go to the movie today and You know my financial issues at this point. Touch someone heart that You have blessed through me in the past and allow them to be a blessing to me today.
Before I could get the prayer out my cell phone rung and it was someone that God had allowed me to be a financial blessing to in the past. She desire to go to the movie but did not want to go along. She offers to pay my way if I would go. To God Be the Glory for allowing me to feel His Unfailing Love. God love me so that even the smallest things in my life He is concern.
I went home after the movie feeling like a millionare!
Renee, I’m so glad to hear that your mom is okay and that it wasn’t worse! I will continue to pray for healing for her and for you! Good luck today and tomorrow! Excited about this verse!
Have it on my desktop! Great ideas….I have a difficult time memorizing unless it’s set to music…but I will try some of these…I want have more of His Word accessible…in time of need. I also recall that He promised to send us the Holy Spirit to remind us of the things that He has taught us (in His Word)….I will depend on that promise!
I am in! When I was in high school, participating in a state spoken word/dramatic speaking competition, I used to write out my piece and take it EVERYWHERE. Once I took it in the dorm shower and stuck it to the wall so I could practice while I showered! Writing it over and over really helps me.
Ladies,
I love reading all of the comments. There seems to be an overall positive spirit among everyone and a joy that comes from experiencing God. He truly does satisfy our longing souls with a love that is unfailing. Praise His Holy Name! You can count me in to memorize scriptures. I memorize scriptures by posting them around my house, carrying them around with me in my purse, and also I use first letter aids. I will write the first letter of each word of the memory verse on an index card on one side and the actual verse on the other side. I use the first letter aids to help jog my memory. If I get stuck, I can always turn to the other side to see the verse.
Have a blessed day ladies!
Karen C
I love these verses. We memorized them years ago, but oh what a sweet reminder this morning! It is like visiting a long lost friend! I needed to be satisfied with HIM this morning! One way I memorize it to repeat the verse over and over starting with one word, then adding a word each time until you get the whole verse. Satisfy..Satisfy me…Satisfy me in…Satisfy me in the…Satisfy me in the morning… and so on. Thanks for this study Renee. Praying you will be feeling much better today!
I’m in for memorizing this verse. Index card style. This is truly a verse that I know in need to get in a very deep place in my heart.