“I have stored up your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.” Psalm 119:11
That’s a pretty good reason to memorize scripture! Another good reason is that we never know when persecution might arise, so it is nice to have God’s word in your heart, where people can never take it away.
You know that memorizing scripture is good, but it’s just too hard! Here are some tips that I have learned while memorizing the Psalms:
1. Pray for God to give you a desire to memorize and that he will also help you too. God will give you the desire and the power to do this.
2. Get to know what is in the passage that you are memorizing. If you are just memorizing a bunch of sounds and words, you might tend to forget the passage. Besides, what’s the point of memorizing scripture if you don’t know what it is saying? I find that if you learn what the passage is saying, it will be easier to remember.
3. Start by reading the verse/s to yourself. I like to read out loud to myself. I think it trains your mind what to say when you recite it. So what if your little sister thinks you’re silly! You’re doing this for God.
4. Don’t try to memorize too much at once. I like to focus my time on memorizing a few verses really well, and then expand off of those verses, (if you are memorizing a passage of scripture instead of just one verse.)
5. Set goals for what you are going to memorize. Sometimes I would start slacking off while I was memorizing. So I made a new year’s resolution to memorize a certain number of Psalms before next year.
6. Use keywords and keyletters to help you. There are certain times when you can use certain words or letters to help you memorize. I like to associate a letter to a Psalm or chapter to help me remember what to say. Example: I will memorize which Psalms begin with “O Lord” and then remember what follows that in the rest of the first verse.
There are also tricks you can use to remember what to say: Sometimes I remember the next verse by using a keyword/keyletter from the first verse:
“that I may recount all your praises, that in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in your salvation. The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught. The Lord has made himself known; he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the works of their own hands. - Psalm 9:14-16
Notice that each verse, and sometimes the segment in the verse, starts with TH. If you can remember things like this, it can make it easier to memorize passages. Another example:
“For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted. Be gracious to me O Lord . . .” – Psalm 9:12-13
I remember that, in the alphabet, B comes after A and the previous verse ends with an A-word, so the next verse will start with a B-word. Another example:
“. . .their drink offerings of blood will not pour out or take their names upon my lips. The Lord is my chose portion and my cup. . .” – Psalm 16:4-5
The first verse ends with an L-word, so I memorize that the same letter comes next in “The Lord.”
I hope these things were helpful!
I have decided to post a song that I like on all of my posts. It doesn’t necessarily relate to the subject. This is a song from the former band called the O.C. Supertones. Enjoy!
1999 and the stakes is high
Our options have come down to either we do or we die
We need You now more than ever, Pull out all of the strife in the church, get us together
Is time running out? I can't say I do know. We have one day less than we did yesterday.
So it's up to us to unite, You wanna fight the power? You need the power to fight.
And can we sing with one voice, if we all love the same God? Can we agree to disagree?
And so we cry with one voice to the only God in all the universe- who holds us in His hands.
No more time for us to bicker and complain,
If we're called by the same name, there's nowhere for us to lay the blame,
except for ourselves. And if we died to our old selves we've come alive as God's flesh,
that makes us family.
Deeper than death, but we don't act so tight when there's a back to bite.
Are we less like a family, and more like a fistfight?
Are we there, but not quite are hypocrites children of light?
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I am planning on memorizing a few scriptures this summer.
I am grateful that God has given you a desire for scripture memory, this is by no means what I excel in. I would say that means everything to be really passionate about Gods word. This is something that I can grow in.
Amen! We all need God's Words in our hearts. Thanks for all of the tips on how to memorize it!
Will,
Several of my siblings are memorizing scripture for this years National Bible Bee. Since sometime in May they have memorized anywhere from 50-100 parts of scripture passages, some which are only one verse long, some that are several verses long(I am not sure what to call them, scriptures, passages?). They are going to be memorizing 1-3 scripture passages every day until September, when they will get drilled.
I never thought it was possible for most people to memorize so much. They have proved me wrong. It has been hard work,and they spend hours at it each day, but it has inspired me to try harder. I hope it inspires you as well.
Most of us have excuses that we think are good for not memorizing scripture, but that are just that, excuses. We just need to stop being lazy and get to work. After all, doesn't the Bible tell us that all things are possible? Let's not limit His power, and let's not take our freedom to read the Bible for granted, one day we may not be able too, and like you said then at least we would have God's Word in our hearts.
In Him,
Kaomi
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