Sign up to memorize Isaiah 55 together! It’ll be easy–one verse per week for thirteen weeks of beautiful promises from God’s word.
Each Monday, beginning January 20, we’ll highlight the verse of the week here at the blog, ending Easter week, April 20.
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RESOURCES
Print or download as many of these free resources as you’d like. (Resources are for ESV, but use the translation of your choice.)
- Schedule Bookmark
- Text Cards
- Text One Page
- First Letters
- Audio (to save, right click and “save link as”)
- Button
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I’m in!! Ephesians 1 was awesome!
I’m glad you’re joining us again, Jennifer!
I’m in! But.. I made a different challenge for myself. The bonus is that if I fail at my own challenge, I will still have time to succeed with the schedule here. =) This is a bit of an experiment with my family, but we set a goal to learn it in a week. We are going to make up a song together to memorize it, and learn 2-3 verses each day.
I made up a song for the whole book of Titus and for Isaiah 53:3-12, and I have a song for Ephesians 1. Songs have been GREAT – my kids just pick all of this up from hearing me singing it and they start singing along with me. But this time it is going to be focused! There is a specific time goal, and everyone is going to be working at it together. I am really excited to see if this works this quickly. =P
I told them if we get this down in a week, we better look up Isaiah 54 and fill in the gap! Haha! I am also still working through Ephesians. I know chapter 1 very well and today I got through chapter 2 with just a couple small mistakes. I want to memorize the whole book. =)
It is so encouraging just reading your site and seeing that there are other people out there memorizing Scripture. I encouraged my women’s group to memorize Ephesians 1 and I only know of two people that actually did it. It really discouraged me. =\ Having an attitude that Scripture memory is hard really does make it hard, I think! I feel much more capable knowing that other people think it’s possible, too. =)
On the positive side, one of the ladies that actually did memorize Ephesians 1 is almost done with Ephesians 4 now!! She totally passed me up and I am so excited for her. It was her first time memorizing a large portion of Scripture and she is excited by it! That makes me happy. =)
Your comment makes me very happy, Kate. So glad you’re with us for Isaiah 55! And challenging yourself to learn it in a week—I’m impressed. Please keep us posted on how it goes. And if you ever want to share your songs, we’d love to hear those. Your Ephesians 1 song as well….even though we’re recently finished our schedule through Ephesians 1, many of us are still learning and/or reviewing it.
It definitely is encouraging when we hear of others who are passionate about scripture memorization. In this age of almost instant access to scripture through our laptops, phones, etc., we still benefit greatly by having the words accessible straight from our hearts where it can do the most work. God’s Word is living and active still.
Wow!! Kate! I make songs to memorize with too (Philippians 1, Psalm 117, 118, 128, etc.). I memorized Ephesians 1 with Tirzah Joy’s Ephesians songs. What version do you use? I am memorizing in KJV and would love to hear your work if it’s in the same version. Keep pressing on! I understand your discouragement, I don’t have any IRL memorizing friends.
That is great!! I am using ESV. I really can’t sing at all, lol. My husband can’t, either. Last night we were trying to record our song for Isaiah 55. Usually, I make something up on the fly and then try to remember it and eventually I sing something the same way enough that I do remember it. But since this is a thing we don’t have time to do that with, I thought we’d make it up on the fly, but record it, and then learn it off of the recording. Well, even with autotune it was really bad. lol Our poor kids sat around for 45 minutes and we laughed a lot… My husband didn’t like recording it on the fly and I couldn’t remember what he sang long enough to sing it, and it was sort of a disaster doing it that way. We did memorize the first two verses, though! My husband recorded a song that went through verse 5, so we’ll be working on a few more verses tonight. So far so good, but not as easy as I’d hoped. =) I think if I could sing, then I could just make up the whole song ahead of time and record it and then learn it bits at a time. That’s really what I had in mind, but my husband thought we were all making the song up together. I don’t know how you make that a group project, though! Especially when nobody can sing. =D
Whether your singing is good or bad, you’re still making great family memories. Plus learning too. Love this. :)
I sometimes sing mine verse by verse. to Scripture Typer – it has a recording feature. I do it on the fly too. Then if I forget the tune I can just replay it!
I didn’t know Scripture Typer had a recording feature. That could get interesting… Thanks, Jennifer!
Me, either! That sounds perfect!
So, we have learned verses 1-5 so far. Last night I didn’t really think about the night being taken up with Bible studies and choir, and we didn’t learn anything new yesterday. But I think 5 verses in 2 days is still on track enough that we can do this by Sunday night! My girls are 5, 7, and 9 and they have been singing our song. My son Titus is 1 and he keeps singing “money, money!” Hahaha!
I’m looking at Scripture Typer and I don’t see how to record on it. Where is that? Thanks! =)
We need to add you to a Memory Hall of Fame, Kate. :) Teaching your little ones so much scripture now will bless them for years to come. I want to improve at creating songs for chapters I’m learning; I just haven’t broken that code yet. ha.
Let us know how your week ended, Kate! I’m smiling at Titus’ song. ha. I hope you reached your goal, but if not, you can jump on board with us slower learners. :)
Hi! =) Well, tonight is our last night and we have two verses left to learn. So as long as we don’t have some kind of disaster happen, we’ll be learning those last two verses tonight! It has been really fun. =)
Yesterday we were out and weren’t going to have time to practice at home, so we just made up our song in the car and sang it over and over and that worked, too!
I find that the kids pick it up quickly and remember it. For me and for my husband, we know it one night, but then have a harder time remembering it the next day. But then once we have practiced it the next day, too, we have it!
I wonder if we would be able to keep up learning new chapters at this pace, or if it would all turn into mud in our brains. =)
We got our last two verses done, but I think we’ll need tomorrow to really solidify it. At least, the adults will. =)
That’s great, Kate! I’m sure you’ll get those last 2 verses tonight.
A verse a day is a quick pace, but some people can do it–and you might be one. Janet Pope, author of “His Word in My Heart,” learns a verse a day, then takes a week (or however many weeks needed) to review it before starting with a new chapter. My brain isn’t that flexible. :)
Great job, Kate! Whether or not it’s solidified yet, you’ve done well. I’m encouraged to know of the possibility anyway of learning it in a week. :)
We’ve definitely got it now. It is so exciting! =) When I put Titus down for a nap today he asked me to sing him “money, money” so I got to practice again. =) Hehe!
I think it is a great idea for mommas to make it part of bedtime – that is my review of Titus 1, 2, & 3 and Ephesians 1. I need to make up a song for Ephesians 2 so I can sing that to him, too. It only takes an extra 5-6 minutes to sing a chapter and he already knows so much more than he can repeat. He will be 2 next month and if I leave out a word in the book of Titus, he can say what the next word is. Last night at bedtime, we got all the girls together, too, and our whole family sang “money, money” to him. =) I don’t know if that is in memory tips anywhere but it would be good to add! =)