September 1, 2011 with 27 Comments

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Scripture Memory Team Info

I’m going to take a break in regular programming today to bring 2 items to your attention.

1. The Upside Down Series. I will begin teaching a study of Acts on September 13. If you live in the Chicago area, I’m inviting you to join us on Tuesday nights for class at Harvest Bible Chapel. Click here to register. If you do not live in Chicago but want to participate, you can buy the workbook by visiting the Media page, and going through it on your own. Each week, I will post an audio recording of my teaching by thursday morning for you.

2. The Scripture Memory Team. I’m introducing the SMT for you today.  As many of you know, Beth Moore is my new best friend. As such, she has willingly agreed to let me use her brilliant Scripture Memory Method that has been so successful in her ministry. When I asked her whether I can blatantly plagiarize her idea for Scripture Memory, her exact response was: “Do it. I believe God loves it!”

Here’s how it’s going to work:

On the 1st and 15th of every month starting September 15, 2011, I will ask for your memory verse and give you mine.

  1. You are to enter the verse you’ve chosen to memorize for that 2-week period within 24 hours of the post going up.
  2. When you clock in with your verse 2 times a month, keep your comments limited to your name, location, verse, and translation. Here is a sample comment:  Lina from Mount Prospect: “I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13 ESV
  3. Choose a verse that means something to you in your present season or circumstance. Try to refrain from memorizing scripture you think your spouse or your children need to learn. Memorize what you need to learn.
  4. Stick with only 1 verse to memorize each time. Keep it simple and meaningful.
  5. Write the verse by hand in your own spiral notebook or 3×5 card system or purchase a beautiful scripture memory pack on our media page.
  6. Review your verses with a friend regularly.

If you go to my church, we will have a year end celebration in June for those who enter 15 out of 17 entries between now and the end of our ministry year in May.

If you are a blog follower, we will do this through July 1, 2012. If you enter 17 out of 20 memory verses, I will enter your name in a raffle for an iPad, and will also buy your registration for a Kay Arthur Conference at Harvest Bible Chapel on July 28-29.

These are great opportunities to get the word of God in our heart. I hope you will find both the Bible Study and the Scripture Memory Team a huge benefit to you in your walk with the Lord.

I may not be Beth Moore, but I feel like I could hug your necks and love each and every one of you.

Lina

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  • http://ZCxz Milo

    GAood start.

  • Gina

    Morning. Ill do my best! So, looking forward to acts class. Thanks Dr L :)

  • Marie Longo

    Marie from Mt Prospect: “Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance, and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that us set before us,” Hebrews 12:1 NASB

    • Lina

      Marie! I should have clarified: today I was simply trying to let folks know how this will work. We will formally begin scripture memory next week!!

      So hold your horses eager beaver!! Or spend an extra 2 weeks on this one! It’s a great verse!

      P’s I LoVE that u r on it!

      • Marie

        Well with our Beth getting married on 9-10-11 I’ll need the extra time!
        This is one of the verses that Dr Norris highlighted at the workshop- that was wonderful!

  • Jaclyn Hunt

    I am too far away to do the Bible study, but I am all in for the SMT. Thank you Lina. I will get started today. :)

  • Gina

    This made me :) big before work! :)

  • Marian Schwebemeyer

    Marian from South Elgin. ” Don’t think only about your own affairs, but be interested in others too, and what they are doing”. Philippians 2:4 NLT

    • Marian Schwebemeyer

      I’m so sorry…I was an eager beaver too! I will post next week. Again…sorry.
      Marian

  • Gina

    Gina pal. I saw the lord always before me “acts” :)

  • Amber

    I can’t wait!!! I’m going for the gold on the memory verse :-)

  • Diana Behnke

    Lina, I am so in on the SMT!!! Do women over 50 who struggle with memory have to memorize as many???? Got my good friend Lori to keep me accountable. Thanks so much for doing this. I needed someone to light a fire for me. : ) Diana Behnke

    • Dawn

      I love the book of Acts and l love that you are blatantly plagiarizing Beth’s idea for Scripture Memory! “Let’s do it. I believe God loves it too!” :-)

    • Lori Ridder

      we will keep each other accountable girlfriend! You can do a whole verse, even after 50 – it’s harder work and more dependence on the Lord!

      • Diana Behnke

        And who doesn’t need more dependence on the Lord??? I know I do everyday!!

  • Rachel C.

    Lina, I want my SG girls to do this…but not sure if they’ll all be good about checking in online. If they do in group, can we make it count to join the year end celebration? =)

    • lina

      don’t worry about checking in online – the key is to MEMORIZE SCIPTURE! not to write it in. the blog is simply a tool that God will use as we allow him to!! Keep track of your gals and they will be welcome at the end of year celebration!

      • Rachel C.

        yay thanks lina! we meet tonight, can’t wait to partner alongside you all to hide God’s Word in our hearts!

  • Debra

    Debra from Arlington Heights-Ephesians 4:29-Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear.

  • http://lily_mozart@yahoo.com Lily from Palatine

    “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life”.
    Proverbs 4:23 NIV

    “For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love, and of self-discipline”. 2 Timothy 1:7 NIV

  • Marie

    Marie from Mt Prospect: “Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance, and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that us set before us,” Hebrews 12:1 NASB

  • Deborah Hendricks

    Deb from Rolling Meadows – ” The Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places, and make your bones strong, and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.” Is. 58:11 ESV

  • Marie

    Marie from Mt Prospect, “fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:2 NASB

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  • Marie

    Marie from Mt Prospect, “For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you may not grow weary and lose heart.”Hebrews 12:3 NASB

  • Dawn Vivirito

    proverbs 3:5-6 “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him and He will make your paths straight.”

  • Susan

    Susan from Palatine: “This is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life.” I John 2:25 NASB