A Taste of The Word

So back at the beginning of the year, my sis challenged me to join a group of women along with Beth Moore to memorize two scripture verses per month. It's called the "Siesta Scripture Memory Team." I accepted that challenge and have been amazed how God's word has spoken to me during these last seven months. We are supposed to post our verses at the beginning and middle of each month on Beth's blog I think partially to help keep us accountable and also to be able to see what other sisters in Christ are learning. Sometimes I find myself drawn to a specific verse that I've read in my time in the Word. Other times I literally flip through my Bible to find a verse that I sometime in the last 10 years underlined in my Bible that stands out to me. And yet other times, on my REAL lazy days, I scroll through other verses that ladies have posted and pick one of those! Haha I'm being real with ya guys right now and admitting that I haven't "prayed over" which verses God would have me to learn each time. It is incredible though how, even though I probably don't have the greatest of methods in choosing my verses, God still has blessed me through this memorization (and sometimes summarization) of God's word. Almost every single verse has been exactly what I needed to focus on for those 15 days. And as I read back through the verses, they sometimes are impactful in a new way when I read through them and recall them again. God is so good to work through our imperfect humanity to meet us exactly where we are, isn't He? So I thought I'd share the verses that I've memorized/summarized thus far! ONE is missing because I forgot to write it down, whoops!

January 1, 2011
"And may the Master pour on the love so it fills your lives and splashes over on everyone around you." 1 Thessalonians 3:12 The Message

January 15, 2011
"And don't be wishing you were someplace else or with someone else. Where you are right now is God's place for you. Live and obey and love and believe right there." 1 Corinthians 7:17 The Message

February 1, 2011
"Then we'll be a choir-not our voices only, but our very lives singing in harmony in a stunning anthem to the God and Father of our Master Jesus!" Romans 15:6 The Message

February 15, 2011
"Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift my soul." Psalm 143:8 NIV

March 2, 2011
"Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland." Isaiah 43:18-19 NIV

March 15, 2011
Forgot to write this one down!

April 1, 2011
"God hasn't invited us into a disorderly unkempt life, but into something holy and beautiful-as beautiful on the inside as the outside." 1 Thessalonians 4:7 The Message

April 15, 2011
"A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger." Proverbs 15:1 NIV

May 1, 2011
"He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds." Psalm 147:3 NIV

May 15, 2011
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are my ways your ways, declares the Lord." Isaiah 55:8 NIV

June 1, 2011
"You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all of your heart." Jeremiah 29:13 NIV

June 15, 2011
"I will thank you Lord, with all of my heart, I will tell of all the marvelous things you have done." Psalm 9:1 NLT

July 5, 2011
"Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love." Ephesians 4:2 NIV

July 15, 2011
"But even if he does not, we want you to know, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up." Daniel 3:18 NIV

I would really really really recommend a similar challenge to you. It is well worth the time and investment and I believe God will bless you for it! I thank my sister for challenging me to do this. I don't want this to be just a one year thing-I want to be memorizing and hiding God's word in my heart for the rest of my life. I very much believe that how we treat people is the overflow of our heart. I want my heart to overflow with God's love and His word is one place where He shares that directly with us.