Around January 1st of this year I posted this and quoted my life verse for this year. In an effort to “make Him greater”, I joined in with thousands of other women participating in Beth Moore’s Siesta Scripture Memory Team.
Basically what you do is this: log in to her Living Proof website on the 1st and 15th of each month and in the comment section leave your name, city and the Bible verse you are memorizing. By the end of the year, you should have 24 new verses committed to memory. In the meantime, some incredibly organized individual in her office is keeping track of how many times you log in and at the end of the year, if you’ve met the requirement, you can go to a big Siestaville Memory Party out in Houston at no cost. Free, my friend. Well, except the cost to get there, which for me includes more than just travel expenses since the price for me to fly is emotionally high. (((shiver)))
So even though I haven’t blogged about it here, I have logged in all 4 times at Beth’s site and am well on my way to learning more scripture. The first verse I was going to do was James 5:16. (I just love the book of James, don’t you? That guy doesn’t sugar coat anything!) But then I thought it might be good to memorize the 3 verses that lead up to it. I ended up breaking it down and learned one verse every other week, which lead me up to verse 16 by Feb 15th.
Wow…that sound more confusing than it actually is!
Anyways, here what I’ve memorized so far~ James 5:13-16 “Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. Is anyone sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayers offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.”
Amen to that!
