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 ONE verse of the Bible
or
a few short verses
Let's look at 3 short verses from one of the books of the
New Testament - 1 Thessalonians
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.
So we are not even going to tackle all of the book of 1 Thessalonians or even of it's 5 chapters but we will take a short passage of three verses 1 Thessalonians 5 v 16-18
but even these 3 verses are just about the same length as most individual verses in the Bible.
17. Pray without ceasing.
18. In everything give thanks:
for this is the will of God
in Christ Jesus concerning you"
So in memorizing this passage we will look at 2 things:
- Memorising Tips
- Some Freebies to help you.
If you read my previous post
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 1 Thessalonians 5 v 16-18 I'm going to advise using tips 1, 2, 3, 5, 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.
For memorizing this short passage you may feel like breaking into 2 parts as it seems at first to be three statements followed by a reason for the statements.
"Rejoice evermore.
Pray without ceasing.
In everything give thanks:
for this is the will of God
in Christ Jesus concerning you"
But when reading the passage you want to memorize it is often best to read the whole passage together at the start to instil the meaning into your mind which actually helps overall with the memorizing.
"Rejoice evermore.
Pray without ceasing.
In everything give thanks:
for this is the will of God
in Christ Jesus concerning you"
Then you may find that with this one it is best to actually break it into 2 parts by taking the first two verses first and then the third verse.
"Rejoice evermore.
Pray without ceasing.
In everything give thanks:
for this is the will of God
in Christ Jesus concerning you"
2. Write out the verse several times.
Why? Because the action of WRITING helps us learn anything.
If you note the way I have written the verse above in 5 lines and use this method of writing it out yourself you will find it easier to get a kind of flow to the wording.
As we all know, when we write we often say the words in our heads then you will understand why I mention the flow of the words.
3. Feel the excitement of a verse that is an exaltation to Praise the Lord.
Obviously this verse is about praising God because we praise as we rejoice in God, praise should always be a part of our prayers and as we thank God we cannot help but praise Him.
So really think about the words and meaning here and get excited about the content of this verse and this will help the content to be remembered.
5. Instruction and the reason why it is good advice.
Obviously this verse is about praising God because we praise as we rejoice in God, praise should always be a part of our prayers and as we thank God we cannot help but praise Him.
We are instructed here to rejoice, pray and give thanks.
All of these things involve action on our part and we are also told why we need to do this
a) it is God's will
b) and it is personally good for 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 1 Thessalonians 5 v 16-18 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.
or
by using ones made for you that you keep close to hand as you can see here and watch out for this is the freebies below
I also post a bible verse graphic every morning on my
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 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
Some Freebies to help you
For this verse I have 2 Freebies to help and you can download them via my RESOURCE LIBRARY (available in both A4 and Letter size)
Firstly a pdf containing 6 copies of the graphic for 1 Thessalonians 5 v 16-18 shown earlier in this post.
Secondly a pdf containing a Word Search (plus answer grid) of most of the words in 1 Thessalonians 5 v 16-18 shown here below.
More Help:
For other verses see my
We also prepared a playlist of Short Songs to memorize Scripture on YouTube:
