Scripture Memory {Post} Catch-up!

I'm not sure why I've had such an avoidance to the computer the last several months, but I haven't had much time to hop on here, either. I've still been posting my verses on the Living Proof blog, but am quite behind here, so here they are:

March 1

Then (Jesus) opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.
Luke 24:45 TNIV

March 15/April 1/April 15

You have searched me, LORD,
and You know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise;
You perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down;
You are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue
You, LORD, know it completely.
You hem me in behind and before,
and You lay Your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Where can I flee from Your Presence?
If I go up to the heavens, You are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, You are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there Your hand will guide me,
Your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me."
even the darkness will not be dark to You;
the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
For You created my inmost being;
You knit me together in my mother's womb.
I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from You
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
Your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me were written in Your
book before one of them came to be.
How precious to me are Your thoughts, God!
How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them, they would outnumber the
grains of sand-when I awake, I am still with You....
Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me
and lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalm 139:1-18, 23-24 TNIV

May 1

Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means. For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.
2 Corinthians 8:11-12 TNIV

May you be spending time with your Creator, drinking from His thirst-quenching waters!

A History/Science Experiment

I've heard about, but never tried, an experiment to make a volcano. Here's our first {successful!} attempt:

Memory Verse #4

To me, winter seems like it should be a slow time of year. I don't know, perhaps the fact that all of nature slows down...trees grow more slowly, bears hibernate, plants are no longer blooming. This winter has not felt slow. At all. On one hand it's nice because I don't feel like the snow and cold is dragging on. {I've really enjoyed the beauty of our winter weather!} But on the other hand, our weeks are filling up at a feverish pace and just when we get one "really busy" week past us and think the next one will be slower, we find out that the next week has just as much awaiting us. Nevertheless, we can only manage one day at a time. And I am really trying to do that~just focus on what needs to be done today...by breakfast...by lunch...by dinner...by bedtime. Our faithful God continues to guide and things are getting done. Perhaps not on my lightning speed timetable, but we haven't starved and bills haven't been late.

My verse for this season does not mirror the busyness of it, but it calms my spirit. Two of the things I pray for God to grow in me most often are wisdom and discernment. May I grow more in these ways...

"But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and not hypocritical."
James 3:17 The NET Bible

February 1st Scripture Memory

After studying Beth Moore's "When Godly People do Ungodly Things" with two of my closest girlfriends last summer, I knew this was a verse I would commit to memory, I just didn't know when. I believe it is critical that we remember...once we or someone else has fallen, our Creator God wants us to run back to Him, not hide from Him. He works marvels with the disgusting stuff we choose to bring into the light. The enemy can no longer hold us hostage by our sin when we give it to our Father and choose to believe His words of truth instead. He is right there waiting for you.

I Samuel 12:20-25 TNIV
“Do not be afraid,” Samuel replied. “You have done all this evil; yet do not turn away from the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart. Do not turn away after useless idols. They can do you no good, nor can they rescue you, because they are useless. For the sake of His great Name the LORD will not reject His people, because the LORD was pleased to make you His own. As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by failing to pray for you. And I will teach you the way that is good and right. But be sure to fear the LORD and serve Him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things He has done for you. Yet if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will perish.”

The new recruits...

Our boys have been super excited about playing their first season of basketball for about 2 months now and finally, yesterday brought the first practice of their season. There were frequent time checks, as well as confirmations from Dad and Mom that, no, it wasn't time to go, yet. I managed to get a few shots of their practice, as well as their talk just before they received their precious uniforms~it was like Christmas morning all over again!!





Then they took the opportunity to try on their new uniforms and snapped a few pics of each other!



the beauty of reversible uniforms :)

Join me for an adventure!!

Two years ago I accepted a challenge that has radically changed my life! Beth Moore needed an accountability partner for 2009 to memorize scripture with and she chose her blog community of 'siestas.' Anyone was welcome to participate and it was a blast. I can't tell you how much I've learned and how many times the LORD brings a scripture to mind at just the right time~to encourage me or someone else. We celebrated keeping our commitment of memorizing 24 scriptures (2 per month) in January 2010 with worship, teaching, fun and the awesome power of hearing nothing but God's Word rising from 500 lips as we recited our verses to one another. WOW!!!
I knew if I laid scripture memory down for a time it would be easy for me to walk away from it altogether, so I've continued the practice of meditating on and memorizing 2 passaged a month for 2010. Well, the challenge is back! It's 2011 and the siestas are keeping one another accountable on Beth's Living Proof blog once more. Please join us!! We will celebrate the victory of this year together in January 2012 and I would love for you to be with us!
On that note, I've been quite late in posting my second December scripture, so here it is:

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 TNIV
"Hear O Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates."

I knew much of these verses, but had never commit them to memory. Each time I read/say them, two words light up in my brain, "DON'T FORGET!" How many times do we fail to remember? Oh, how I pray we won't forget~for the sake of our children and our children's children.

And for January 1st...because, though many times we may forget, we ARE in a war~

Revelation 17:14 NLT
"Together they will go to war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will defeat them because He is Lord of all lords and King of all kings. And His called and chosen and faithful ones will be with Him."

May we live in victory through the power of His Spirit and bring much honor and glory to Him. He is worthy!