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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Journaling the answers to the questions in this study and other study’s is truly where we can begin to apply God’s word. I am guilty of “just reading” and not totally digesting the material for personal application. But God is doing a new work in my heart and my life through online studies such as this. So grateful to be apart of this study.
I wrote out this verse on a post-it note and put it by an empty cup on my desk. I’m going to let that be a reminder every time I see it that the LORD alone can fill my cup of need for satisfaction to the fullest!
I have put all our verses on my bathroom mirror and it is the first thing I look at when I wake up each morning. It certainly helps my day go better by starting out with scriptures that give me hope and encouragement! I am praying for all the women of this study and know God is going to do a work in everyone of our lives. Renee, I am so glad your Mother is doing better. Praise God for his protection.
Praise be to God for this amazing study and the willingness of women to share! Thank you, Renee, for using your gifts in such a real way for His glory. This morning I woke up feeling very sad and unmotivated before my feet had even hit the floor. But I asked God in a simple prayer to be my strength. Nothing long, elaborate, or fancy (which is what we perfectionists get caught up in). I asked Him to help me make it through the day and to bring me joy. What a blessed day I have had! Not perfect, but completely dependent upon Him, and oh so blessed! I plan to hide His word in my heart that it might be my joy and strength. We serve a God who will provide if we will just ask. Praying that He will continue to satisfy me with His unfailing love and that I will not run to other things, people, accolades, or accomplishments. Praying that I will be satisfied with being in His will and serving Him with my whole life….and praying that for women everywhere. Let us rise up, and be strong, bold, and confident in Him, for we are Blessed, we are Known, and we are Satisfied (complete) in Him!
Thank you for sharing Casey ~ You spoke to my heart.
….simply too wonderful…is this study.
I have told…shared with pretty much ‘everyone’ I know…as I just posted it on my facebook!!..real fun.
Thank you Renee for ‘moving us all forward’.
Blessings to you, your family…and especially..’mom’.
I am so glad that your mom is doing well. She will remain in my prayers for speedy healing. I will be praying for your health and ministry projects as well. Each week meets another need that I had not even considered. I love how you gave “Sam” her name. It makes the story so much more real. I can’t tell you how many times I have read this story, but never applied it to me. God’s word brings new joy to my life every day. I will learn this week’s verse by using index cards and working on it with my daughter.
This study touches my heart and is a great encouragement to me. Thank you for allowing Jesus to work through you. There are times when I feel overwhelmed by trials that all seem to come at once. This is one of those times, yet Christ is using this time to call to me, to have me focus on Him and what He wants to provide for me. Encouragement, trust, rest. Because He is here, because of His love for me, I don’t have to worry about anything. My struggle is focusing on Him, but He is holding me in His arms.
One thing God really spoke to my heart about entering into this new year is needing to be more intentional with memorizing Scripture. I am so bad about loving a verse, KINDA knowing it, and being okay with that. Will. Not. Do! I need it in my heart!!!! I need it to do battle with. To redirect me. To LOVE ON ME when my heart is hurting. 🙂
So what I actually did was step out of my comfort zone and put myself into a place where I have to be accountable. I created a Facebook page called The Scripture Spot where I post my verse twice a month. I tried doing that along with Beth Moore last year, but honestly, stopped pretty quickly. But I felt the Lord nudging my heart to create the page…a place I can be held accountable and be encouraged, and a place where hopefully my friend’s will join in hiding His Word. And then I am also writing it down and saying the verses to myself lots.
Tomorrow is the 1st of the month, so it’s the perfect time for this to be my new verse. 🙂
Hugs,
K
(Praying for your mom and praying for you and praying for your worksheet!) 🙂
Renee, I love this verse. As a single mom of three teenagers I struggle with finding satisfaction in my life. Trusting in God to supply all my needs is something I have worked on very hard these past few years.
When I want to memorize a verse, I write the verse on a whiteboard that hangs on the door going into my garage. Everytime I leave the house I see the verse and say it aloud. It has really helped me memorize scripture.
I printed the verse out and am taking it wherever I go so I can lay it out and look at it over and over until I get it….
Renee,
so glad to hear your mom is feeling better…
I’m in. And I just write out the verse and post it next to my sink. I mean, really, where do I spend the most time?! Doing dishes, of course. Maybe that won’t work for you gals that have dishwashers, but at my house, I’m the dishwasher. 🙂
I’ve always felt that actively memorizing Scripture is something for children. I don’t know why, but I guess it reminds me of being in AWANA as a kid! But the past couple of weeks I’ve put a card with these Scripture verses on the bathroom mirror and I LOVE seeing that there every time I’m in the bathroom (which is a lot since I’m potty training my son). Last week’s verse especially spoke to me since I’m also reading “Safe in the Arms of God,” about the unborn and what happens when they pass away. Jer 1:5 is an important verse in that book as well. Thank you for encouraging me to do this!!
I am in for memorizing this verse! I like to write it out once and carry it with me… Then I say it over and over again, memorizing a small bit at a time, then putting it all together until I have it! I like to say it out loud on my drive to work each morning, repeating it again and again, until it sticks.
Renee, I’m glad to hear your Mom is doing well! I’ll be praying that you feel better too so that all can go as planned. God bless you and all the ladies in this study!
Renee, I am so glad your Mom is doing well!~ The same thing happened to my Nana before Christmas. She still has a bruise under her eye. Happy healing!
I am in and plan to memorize this verse! I have such a hard time memorizing verses, but I plan on using the tips and working hard to do so!
I find that I can memorize best by putting the verse to music or make up a ditty with the words. I have a terrible time memorizing and retaining information so this helps.
I love to write bible verses out on 3 by 5 index cards. I have many now and started to store them in a recipe box. Having read some of the posts; I think I will place our verse on the refrigerator door. I have adult boys living with me that are non believers. This way we can all see the verse. Glad your mom is doing better Renee.
I’m in, Renee! I actually started with Chapter One memorizing the Scripture for the week and word for the week. I had an injury to my right wrist this summer and it is easier for me to type, so I am keeping my private online journal for A Confident Heart. Each day the first thing I do after dating the entry is type the word for the week, then the praying God’s promises and then the verse for the week. Repetition is what gets it for me. Hope you are feeling better soon. Praying for you, friend. Dianna
Renee,
Memorizing God’s Word….love it, so empowering. Love, love this week verse: “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 90:4, 143:8b NIV). Finding satisfaction in God’s Word and trusting in HIm is my biggest struggle this week, but applying this scripture will fill me and fulfil my joy.
P.S. I loved chapter 3 reading…
Blessings and praying you will feel better to complete Wednesday’s task…”Being confident of this very thing, He who begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.” (Phil 1:6)
I must say that I am LOVING this study! I have already recommended this book twice to other ladies in my church…and they have bought it! When I gave my testimony last week, God opened doors like crazy! 🙂 Now as I read and study through this book I am not only praying for all of you ladies but for individual ladies at my church that have come to me with the same struggles!
Ways I plan on memorizing this weeks memory verse: typing it or writing it to friends and family throughout the week and also writing it on my mirror…Question though…what did ya’ll say to write with on my mirror? Just a dry erase marker?
Also, I seen on another memory verse challenge (She Sparkles) where one family had wrote the verse in the snow with colorful food coloring and then took a picture!!!!!! It was way cool!!! (now too bad we don’t have any snow to write in) 😉
Dry erase markers work well on bathroom mirrors. I also use sticky notes – though when the humidity it high, they tend to curl up on the unsticky side…then you just use tape.
I’m also in with memorizing this week’s verse. I say it over and over til I see that I know it by heart.
I’m so thankful that your Mom is doing all right. I will keep her and you in my prayers.