Welcome! Many of you are visting from Ann’s and we are so glad you are here! If you are looking for the latest link-up, CLICK HERE. We also have a vibrant community of Scripture memory kindreds on Facebook. We’d love for you to join us!
I have a treat for you today. My friend Kyndall and I have teamed up to bring you Romans 8:1-25. Kyndall has been rockin’ Romans 8, and is pulling this “old fogey” along with her!
Join in the fun!
Not memorizing Scripture? There are loads of great resources and communities available for you! Here are just a few:
- Hiding Romans 8 in My Heart – Join hundreds of us who are memorizing Romans 8
- Sermon on the Mount – Jump in with Lara and others who are memorizing Mathew 5-7
- Memorize the Mount – Ann Voskamp also has a great plan for Matthew 5-7
- Check out the past Hiding His Word challenges and resources
Scripture memorization is an incredibly fruitful way to abide in the Word! It isn’t a race, but an intentional choice to dwell with Him through His Word. So, take the plunge with us, and join in the fun!
Share Your Journey
Are you memorizing scripture? We want to hear about it! Have a memorization tip to share? Are you stuck and need some help? Let’s chat in the comments!
Leave a comment, or link-up your posts, vlogs, and instagrams. Anything that shares about your Scripture memory journey!
This is a great chance to encourage one another, so be sure to visit and comment on the link before and after yours! Grab some flair for your post, so others can find us!
While. I have memorized Scripture over the years a verse here and there, my passion for it began after reading Janet Pope’s book “His Word in my Heart.” I had never heard of someone memorizing a complete chapter or even a complete book of the Bible before reading her book. Since then, I have gone on to memorize many chapters and have the confidence now to consider taking on the challenge of memorizing a book of the Bible. For tips and info on how I memorize Scripture, I have written it up dedicating a page to Bible Memorization on my blog http://brookeespinoza.blogspot.com/p/bible-memorization.html
That is a great book! I read it years ago, and it definitely spurred me on towards trying big chunks of scripture! Thanks for linking up!
I’ll have to check out that book. I never heard of people memorizing chapters or books of the Bible until I came upon this site. =) I actually think it’s easier to memorize Scripture this way, rather than stand-alone verses, although there are some great ones that I have memorized as a kid that will always stay with me.
I just found Ann’s post about memorizing the Sermon on the Mount last week…so I am a little late, but all ready to go. Started Monday memoring Matthew 5:1-2!:)
Yay! There are some great resources over at Ann’s! Thanks for linking up!
Great job, Katie and Kyndall! I love how real this is. If you had done it word-perfect, I would have felt hopeless. :-)
Well, Kyndall has it DOWN. Me, i sputter and spatter, and mis up all the words. Haha.
Going back and forth that way was in some ways more difficult than going at it by myself. My distracted mind would start wondering, and just like that I had lost my place.
If you look closely, you can see I had to almost mouth the words to keep up. haha.
You and your AL ladies should do something together!!!
“THAT’S MY BABY!” hehehe (Kyndall will understand that one) Very proud of you both. Almost to the end. Wow! Awesome chapter to commit to memory! :)
Thanks for cheering us on, Nina!
There are a small group of us on Facebook who are memorizing two Scriptures each month and sharing them on our FB posts. We are encouraging one another to hide God’s Word in our hearts. You can join us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/291687450883166/.
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing! Community makes all the difference, doesn’t it?
My one yr. old grandaughter is named Kyndal! I hope and pray she grows up memorizing scripture like you Kyndall! Sweet blessings, Linda
PS-you inspired me to brush up on Romans 8. At one time I memorized it too!
Sweet name for a sweet girl. My niece’s name is Kendal—so I have to be very careful when I am spelling everyone’s names. Ha!
Thanks for visiting, and for your encouragement. Looking forward to have this chapter completed in my heart!
I am going to join Ann as she memorizes the Sermon on the Mount. What a great sight you have as well. I am anxious to see what all is here!!
Thanks for stopping by, Rhonda!
Hope you find some encouragement for your scripture memory journey! Looking forward to walking alongside you as we hide His Word in our hearts!
How exciting..to encourage each other to hide His Word in our hearts…the Holy Spirit can’t bring to remembrance what we don’t read or have in our hearts. My children ages 6 and 4 have Psalm 23, Psalm 1, and several more in their hearts…and now we join you in the sermon on the mount ;)
Welcome, Arcelia!
What a treasure for your children, that you are encouraging them in Scripture memory! We actually just started on Psalm 23 with them recently.
There is a community here, who are memorizing different passages, at different paces, but I hope you can find encouragement and tips for the road!
Great job!! I actually have not tried to do the whole thing in one sitting. So far, I’m still using the first letter method, and I’ll be using my 2-week cushion to get it down hopefully! And I’m starting to get it memorized by 10 verse chunks. Right now, it’s all a jumble of verses in my head.
I am still in this plugging along. :) I loved seeing your vlog. I tried making a video of myself reciting the verses from Romans 8, but I kept making mistakes or forgetting what was next. I sometimes forget that things don’t have to be perfect every time in order to be good and pleasing to God. Thank you for being such an encouragement to me!
I have required my children from an early age to begin memorizing Scripture – every morning begins with it, and once they are able to read VERY well with understanding (around 8ish) then I don’t have to help so much. The method with every single child so far (the oldest 6), and it has never once failed to work, and we find has been as successful as other methods for a verse a day – whatever verse they happen to be on, is to 1. Read the verse several times aloud, silently 2. Look away from it and say it aloud 3. Look back and restudy for accuracy 3. If they got the whole verse correct, they then come say it to one of the parents
4. If there was even 1 word incorrect, they repeat the process 5. they do a new verse 3 days in a row, and on the fourth day they say all three verses together, no mistakes. Repeat as long as it takes (and it doesn’t take long.
Before age 8, they only work on individual verses, up to 3 in a group; after age (when the reading is very good), we start going for the larger passages, a whole chapter, on to whole books by 11-12 years old.
Once they are on to these large passages, we follow the exact same method of a verse a day, and on day 4 all 3 verses together. Once they reach the entire end of the chapter, book, etc, they go back to the beginning and now daily they do 3 verses at a time for review; when that is complete, they go back to the beginning and do 6 verses a day, then repeat with half the chapter a day all the way through, then a whole chapter a day, till they finally get to the POWERFUL, high adrenaline day of saying the entire book (or chapter) all in one sitting – I allow no more than 3 mistakes. My oldest son did thios for the first time at age 12,with the book of Philipians. This was a HUGE deal in our home, because we were all day-to-day witnesses of the time, the effort, the struggles, and sometimes the tears….Our oldest has gone on to do James, Peter, Psalm 119, and is currently on Timothy…and along the way has done other large portions.
Both of my daughters have spent over a year on the Sermon on the mount – the 10 year old just finished it in December, all in one sitting; the 13 year old is almost finished – she is at the ‘3 verse a day’ stage…and we are all cheering her on.
Memorizing scripture is becoming such an important and satisfying part of my life. Several years ago I started memorizing individual verses and while I loved that, as others have said it is not a very good way to do it. So about a year and a half ago I started memorizing psalms. I could give a entire testimony on how God encouraged me in that endeavor. Anyway, my first psalm (well, aside from 23) was 139 and it took me nearly a year. Then last year I read tips on Ann Voskamp’s blog and really was able to take off. Since school started this fall I’ve added 1,8,46,103 and 150. Last year as I read about Ann memorizing the whole book of Collossians with her little (and big) children, I started to think maybe I should try something bigger. So this year I have joined her with the sermon on the mount. On my own, I’m also working on Exodus chapter 20 figuring maybe I’ll actually keep those commandments better if they are burned into my memory! Now I keep a wish list in my journal of scripture that I want to memorize. It is such a blessing!