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Sunday

Psalm 51 v 10-12 - Memorizing the Bible

I could never do it!

Do what?

Memorize a chapter of one of the Books of the Bible!

Yeah that's not so easy, BUT you can learn a verse or a few verses of the Bible.

Let's look at a few verses from one of the Psalms

Many people think they could never manage to memorize a whole Psalm or a whole chapter of Scripture.

It is a rather daunting challenge especially if you have never learned any scripture before.

But we are not going to tackle a full Psalm we will simply take on three verses of the 51st Psalm

verses 10 - 12

"Create in me a clean heart, O God,

and renew a right spirit within me.

Cast me not away from Thy presence,

and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me.

Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation,

and uphold me with Thy free Spirit."

So in memorizing this verse we will look at 4 things:

Memorising Tips
A Music Video of Psalm 51 v 10-12
Some Freebies to help you.

Memorising Tips

If you read the Top 10 Ways to Learn Scripture you will see that I give 10 tips to help in this process but we don't have to use all 10 of them on each verse - just the ones that suit best with the verse.

For Psalm 51 v 10 - 12 I'm going to advise using tips 1, 2, 7, 8, 9 & 10

1. Read the verse often, every day, multiple times in the day.

Leave a bookmark in your bible and every time you go past it grab the bible and open at the verse etc. (you will pick up other ideas later in this post).

Reading and repeating somethings over and over is the natural way to get it into your head.

With this verse it is obvious to think of it and separate it to learn into the three parts ie. the 3 verses

"Create in me a clean heart, O God,

and renew a right spirit within me.

then

Cast me not away from Thy presence,

and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me.

then

Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation,

and uphold me with Thy free Spirit."

2. Write out the verse several times.

Why? Because he action of WRITING helps us learn anything.

The first verse above can be written on two lines of a page and the next verse on the nest two lines and then the last verse on the next two lines.

So you are writing it in three parts just as reading it in the three verses as in no.1 above.

7. Understand the meaning of the verse.

We will never memorize anything properly without having understood the meaning of it and knowing the meaning helps us remember the order of the parts of the verses.

In these verses we have three sections which refer to two things each and these two things are similar.

Hence we work on the pairing of these similar things.

First pairing

Create in me a clean heart & Renew a right spirit within me

Second pairing

Cast me not away from Thy presence & take not Thy Holy Spirit from me

Third pairing

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation & uphold me with Thy free Spirit

This is not just a scrambled prayer it is well structured and obviously the Psalmist had been thinking seriously about how He should pray.

8. Make it easy to see the verse clearly and regularly each day.

In no.1 above I mentioned your bible and a bookmark

but

we cannot have our Bible at hand every moment of the day so if you feel you need frequent readings of the verse like pop-up reminders then do the following:

Get a post-it pad and write the verse out clearly on it then tear off the post-it and stick it on

the mirror you will use first thing each morning and last thing each night
the front cover of your Bible
the front cover of the book you are currently reading
the door of the fridge
the inside of the door of the cupboard where you go to get your favourite mug for that cup of coffee

9. Make or use Bible Verse Graphics

The picture of Psalm 51 v 10 - 12 near the start of this post is an example of a Bible Verse Graphic.

A picture with the words written on it clearly.

By making these yourself you will learn as you create them.

by using ones made for you that you keep close to hand to see and read frequently such as my Free printable for these verses

I also post a bible verse graphic every morning on my

Facebook Page for Sandra's Ark

so if you want to be encouraged by a verse each day or have a graphic you can SHARE to your timeline or SAVE in Facebook then click through to my Facebook Page and be sure to like and follow the page to see those graphics in your feed each day.

or Word Search Puzzles

While finding the words of a Bible Verse in a Word Search Puzzle you will be spending time around the words and this also helps to learn the verse.

or Phone Screensavers / Wallpaper

What better use of your phone - to keep that verse in front of you each time you go to check your messages.

For this you will need it to be a suitable portrait shape and size so most of the normal verse graphics you see will not suit.

I have a few verses made out for screen savers & you can download them from

My Resource Library

and finally my favourite way

but it is not always possible to use this method

10. Sing it.

It is well known that in singing a song you can easily learn the words of the song.

Fred & I have made several short videos of songs/choruses to help you memorize certain verses and you can watch the one for Psalm 51 v 10 - 12 below

I've also prepared a playlist of Short Songs to memorize Scripture on YouTube:

Sandra's Ark Youtube - Bible Memorization

Some Freebies to help you.

Don't forget that many of my posts on the blog have bible verse graphics and I have some of these available as free downloads in my

RESOURCE LIBRARY

also that's where you will find the phone screen savers for some verses.

Why not pin this pic to come back later

Lamentations 3 v 22-23 Memorizing the Bible

I could never do it!

Do what?

Memorize a chapter of one of the Books of the Bible!

Yeah that's not so easy, BUT you can learn a verse of the Bible.

Let's look at one of the books of the Old Testament.

Have you read much from the book of Lamentations?

Many people think it will be very depressing to read so they kind of try to ignore it.

However there are 2 verses found there which are very special chapter 3 v 22-23

Our challenge today is to memorize these two verses.

Most people think they could never manage to memorize something from "boring" book of the Bible but is it that boring? Have you read it to actually find out. These two verses are not boring so let's have a go at earning them.

"The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,

His mercies never come to an end;

they are new every morning;

great is your faithfulness."

So in memorizing these 2 verses we will look at 4 things:

Memorising Tips
Some Freebies to help you.

Memorising Tips

For Lamentations 3 v 22-23

I'm going to advise using tips 1, 2, 3, 8 & 9

1. Read the verse often, every day, multiple times in the day.

Leave a bookmark in your bible and every time you go past it grab the bible and open at the verse etc. (you will pick up other ideas later in this post).

Reading and repeating somethings over and over is the natural way to get it into your head.

With this verse it is obvious to think of it as 4 similar pieces of information regarding God.

"The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,
His mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness."

2. Write out the verse several times.

Why? Because he action of WRITING helps us learn anything.

Each line of this verse is very similar in that they each note a great attribute of God

So as you write it put each of the four facts on a new line and learn it as 4 similar facts

3. Feel the excitement of a verse that is an exaltation to praise the Lord.

In Lamentations 3 v 22-23 we have excitement in the knowledge that

God's Love never stops
God's mercy never ends
His love and mercy are new each day

Then how could it end except in the praise of His Great faithfulness.

We also have the similar phrasing of each line to help us.

8. Make it easy to see the verse clearly and regularly each day.

In no.1 above I mentioned your bible and a bookmark

but

we cannot have our Bible at hand every moment of the day so if you feel you need frequent readings of the verse like pop-up reminders then do the following:

Get a post-it pad and write the verse out clearly on it then tear off the post-it and stick it on

the mirror you will use first thing each morning and last thing each night
the front cover of your Bible
the front cover of the book you are currently reading
the door of the fridge
the inside of the door of the cupboard where you go to get your favourite mug for that cup of coffee

9. Make or use Bible Verse Graphics

The picture of the words of Lamentations 3 v 22-23 near the start of this post is an example of a Bible Verse Graphic.

A picture or background with the words written on it clearly.

By making these yourself you will learn as you create them.

by using ones made for you that you keep close to hand

(see my freebies)

I post a bible verse graphic every morning on my

Facebook Page for Sandra's Ark

so if you want to be encouraged by a verse each day or have a graphic you can Share to your timeline or Save in Facebook then click through to my Facebook Page and be sure to like and follow the page to see those graphics in your feed each day.

or Colouring Pages

While colouring in a Bible Verse Page you will be spending time around the words and this also helps to learn the verse.

or Phone Screensavers / Wallpaper

What better use of your phone - to keep that verse in front of you each time you go to check your messages.

For this you will need it to be a suitable portrait shape and size so most of the normal verse graphics you see will not suit.

I have a few verses made out for screen savers & you can download them from

My Resource Library

I've also prepared a playlist of Short Songs to memorize Scripture on YouTube:

Sandra's Ark Youtube - Bible Memorization

FINALLY

Some Freebies to help you.

Don't forget that many of my posts on the Blog have free downloads in which are all listed in my

RESOURCE LIBRARY

specifically for Lamentations 3 v 22-23 I have

Bible Verse graphics of the verse

Word Search Puzzle of the verse

also that's where you will find the phone screen savers for some verses.

Monday

Memorizing The Lord's Prayer + Free Printable - Coffee & Conversation

Have you heard of the Lord's Prayer?

Have you ever recited the Lord's Prayer?

Have you ever read the Lord's Prayer in the Bible?

Well let's make

Coffee & Conversation

today

into a cuppa with the

Lord's Prayer!

I'm offering this Free Printable of the Words of the Lord's Prayer as a resource to help you to memorize the Lord's Prayer or to give to someone else to help them to learn this prayer.

It is one of my assortment of free printables which can be found in my Resource Library

The Lord's Prayer

We find the Lord's Prayer in 2 of the Gospels

Matthew ch 6 v 9 - 13

and

Luke ch 11 v 1 - 4

Jesus gave the disciples these words to pray as a great example of how to pray, as a template of prayer and also as a prayer.

It reminds us to

acknowledge who God is
bring our petitions to Him
seek forgiveness for our sins
ask for help and guidance
seek protection and to recognise evil
come to God in adoration of Him

plus so much more that is too much to cover here in this short blog post.

Brief Tips to help you learn the Lord's Prayer

The Lord's Prayer printable is available to download in both A4 and Letter size. So it can be used to help you memorize this gift that the Lord Jesus gave us to come before God the Father.
Break it up into 3 sections, the first 5 lines about God, the next 6 lines about our requests, the last 4 lines about praising God
Then break it up further into individual lines to learn off small amounts within each section and lead on to learning each full section.
Read it through in it's entirety at the start and at the end every time you spend some time to learn it. This will help with the placement in your mind of all of it.
Print out 3 copies and actually cut one copy up into the 3 sections and then another copy up into all the individual lines and then keep one of the full prayer to check as you practice putting the sections or individual lines into place together.
Make it a challenge to memorize it. You can even print out a 4th copy & make it into a puzzle of the whole prayer by cutting out each individual word.

Have you downloaded the Free Lord's Prayer Challenge yet?

Download your FREE PRINTABLE HERE in A4 or Letter size

Or pin this pic below to come back later

Sunday

Revelation 4 v 11 - Memorising the Bible + Free Printables

I could never do it!

Do what?

Memorize a chapter of one of the Books of the Bible!

Yeah that's not so easy, BUT you can learn a verse of the Bible.

Let's look at a verse from the last book of the Bible.
Yes that book which many people avoid reading because they feel they will not understand it.
But
We don't have to understand everything the first time we read it and we might miss out on some very encouraging words
if we don't read it.

In this chapter 4 of the book of Revelation we have a great verse which encourages us to consider and remember that God is worthy of our praise and worship and everything else.

It's not a very long verse so let's be encouraged by that as well.

"Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created."

In memorizing this verse we will look at 4 things:

Memorising Tips
A Music Video of Revelation 4 v 11
A Bible Reading Video of Revelation 4 v 11
Some Freebies to help you.

Memorising Tips

For Revelation 4 v 11 I'm going to advise using tips 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10

1. Read the verse often, every day, multiple times in the day.

Leave a bookmark in your bible and every time you go past it grab the bible and open at the verse etc. (you will pick up other ideas later in this post).

Reading and repeating somethings over and over is the natural way to get it into your head.

With this verse it is obvious to think of it in two parts

"Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power:

for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created."

2. Write out the verse several times.

Why? Because he action of WRITING helps us learn anything.

Write it out in two parts.

So you are writing it in two halves just as reading it in the two halves as in no.1 above

7. Understand the meaning of the verse.

We will never memorize anything properly without having understood the meaning of it and knowing the meaning helps us remember the order of the parts of the verses.

The first part of the verse is a PROCLAMATION and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of how God is worthy of glory, honour and power.

"Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power:

Then the second part we notice starts with the word FOR and is the WHY or the REASON the Psalmist is making the proclamation which is because GOD is the great CREATOR.

for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created."

8. Make it easy to see the verse clearly and regularly each day.

In no.1 above I mentioned your bible and a bookmark

but

we cannot have our Bible at hand every moment of the day so if you feel you need frequent readings of the verse like pop-up reminders then do the following:

Get a post-it pad and write the verse out clearly on it then tear off the post-it and stick it on

the mirror you will use first thing each morning and last thing each night
the front cover of your Bible
the front cover of the book you are currently reading
the door of the fridge
the inside of the door of the cupboard where you go to get your favourite mug for that cup of coffee

9. Make or use Bible Verse Graphics

The picture of 1 John 3 v 1 near the start of this post is an example of a Bible Verse Graphic.

A picture with the words written on it clearly.

By making these yourself you will learn as you create them.

by using ones made for you that you keep close to hand like these I created below

(see my freebies)

I also post a bible verse graphic every morning on my

Facebook Page for Sandra's Ark

by watching a short Bible Reading video like this one I created

or Word Search Puzzles

While completing a Bible Verse Word Search you will be spending time looking for the words and this also helps to learn the verse.

You can download this Word Search Puzzle of Revelation 4 v 11

or Colouring Pages

While colouring in a Bible Verse Page you will be spending time around the words and this also helps to learn the verse.

or Phone Screensavers / Wallpaper

What better use of your phone - to keep that verse in front of you each time you go to check your messages.

For this you will need it to be a suitable portrait shape and size so most of the normal verse graphics you see will not suit.

I have a few verses made out for screen savers & you can download them from

My Resource Library

and

finally my favourite way

but it is not always possible to use this method

10. Sing it.

It is well known that in singing a song you can easily learn the words of the song.

Fred & I have made several short videos of songs/choruses to help you memorize certain verses and you can watch the one for Revelation 4 v 11 below

I've also prepared a playlist of Short Songs to memorize Scripture on YouTube:

Sandra's Ark Youtube - Bible Memorization

Some More Freebies to help you.

Don't forget that many of my posts on the blog have bible verse graphics and I have many of these available as free downloads in my

RESOURCE LIBRARY

Also that's where you will find the phone screen savers for some verses.

SEE OTHER POSTS related posts below:

BIBLE MEMORIZATION

FREE PRINTABLES