I have a question. There are so many, so many verses in the bible. How do you actually select which verses you are going to memorize?
How do you select which verses to memorize?
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Choose the ones that say something to you or help you through a difficult time. Choose the ones that God uses to speak directly to you. It takes time to build up your 'armoury' of special verses.
Papa Smurf
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Hello @chongjasmine, part of my discipleship training included the Navigators' Topical Memory System. It's a Scripture memory system that is, in fact, required learning by the Navigators for all of their missionaries. It's been used for almost 90 years now and is basically, with very little variation, the very same system that they started with 90 years ago (IOW, it is a very proven way to memorize Scripture 
).
The only major change/upgrade has been the additon of Apple and Android apps, which I highly recommend (all we had when I went through the training 30 years ago were flash cards).
The verses/passages themselves were carefully chosen by the Navigators to help their missionaries with both their ministries, as well with their personal walks/Christian living in general, and the topical "system" was created to help facilitate memorization, both immediate and longterm.
So, if you'd care to, go to The Topical Memory System and check it out (you will see the memory topics and the verses/passages that go with each topic there) and then further, the Apple App and the Android App. Both apps are available at either the Apple or the Android app store, just FYI.
God bless you!!
--Papa Smurf
p.s. - if you'd like some help getting started with Scripture memorization, please don't hesitate to ask me, either here or via PM, and I'll tell you what I know/what has worked best for me over the years.
).The only major change/upgrade has been the additon of Apple and Android apps, which I highly recommend (all we had when I went through the training 30 years ago were flash cards).
The verses/passages themselves were carefully chosen by the Navigators to help their missionaries with both their ministries, as well with their personal walks/Christian living in general, and the topical "system" was created to help facilitate memorization, both immediate and longterm.
So, if you'd care to, go to The Topical Memory System and check it out (you will see the memory topics and the verses/passages that go with each topic there) and then further, the Apple App and the Android App. Both apps are available at either the Apple or the Android app store, just FYI.
God bless you!!
--Papa Smurf
p.s. - if you'd like some help getting started with Scripture memorization, please don't hesitate to ask me, either here or via PM, and I'll tell you what I know/what has worked best for me over the years.
Psalm 119
9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Thy word.
11 Thy word I have treasured (hidden/stored) in my heart, that I may not sin against Thee.
.In my morning Bible reading, I look for a verse that seems to have a special relevance; something I never noticed before, or something the Lord seems to be placing on my heart; that's my verse of the day. Sometimes it's a verse or just part of a verse; I try to keep it simple. I used to memorize long lists of scriptures or passages but that became very tedious.
Bob Estey
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I don't try to memorize any verses, but I do keep a list of verses I frequently refer to.
Ronald Nolette
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Listen to Pearl in number 2. You will memorize verses as you go. Just keep reading and studying. Put it in and God will use it in your life even if it is not memorized yet.
MA2444
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It seems to me that bible verses to memorize choose us rather than us choosing them. You see, reading the Bible is like looking into a mirror, where we see ourselves. It is good to look in the mirror every day.
I'll be reading and a verse or passage will like jump off the page and stick to me in some way because I have seen myself in that scripture. When a scripture speaks to us like that, it is called receiving a Rhema.
John 14:26
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.../KJV
Now we all know that things with God are transactional in a sense. All through the OT it says, if my will my people will repent and turn from their wicked ways then I will...Bless them and heal their land and so forth. So much of what God does for us is because we have obeyed Him. When I read that in John 14 it sounded to me like code talk for read the entire Bible, cover to cover. Because How can the Holy Spirit bring a scripture to our remembrance if we have not ever read it for our selves and input it into our mind in the first place. So I started reading the Bible once per year, 3 chapters a day, so I know that I have input all of the data into my mind and heart. So the Holy Spirit has something to work with!
So I've never really tried to memorize scripure refrences. I can tell you what it says, but not always chapter and verse.
I'll be reading and a verse or passage will like jump off the page and stick to me in some way because I have seen myself in that scripture. When a scripture speaks to us like that, it is called receiving a Rhema.
John 14:26
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.../KJV
Now we all know that things with God are transactional in a sense. All through the OT it says, if my will my people will repent and turn from their wicked ways then I will...Bless them and heal their land and so forth. So much of what God does for us is because we have obeyed Him. When I read that in John 14 it sounded to me like code talk for read the entire Bible, cover to cover. Because How can the Holy Spirit bring a scripture to our remembrance if we have not ever read it for our selves and input it into our mind in the first place. So I started reading the Bible once per year, 3 chapters a day, so I know that I have input all of the data into my mind and heart. So the Holy Spirit has something to work with!
So I've never really tried to memorize scripure refrences. I can tell you what it says, but not always chapter and verse.
I don't choose, I just keep reading the passages over and over until I know them. Sometimes they jump out at me, God speaking personally, and those places I learn much more quickly.
Much love!
It does work, because I can then recall to mind passages that I can then meditate on, as God speaks still through them.
Much love!
For a long time I could tell you what various passages said, but I couldn't quote them, and I often didn't remember the references.
The day I was to begin teaching my first weekly home fellowship, I was driving home from work, and I realized that as I was mentally reviewing my intended study, that I was quoting to myself complete passages, and knowing the reference, and ever since that day, I've remembered it as the day God switched on my Scripture Memory.
Much love!
Not at all! But I do know - not memorised, but knowing - a great deal of the New Testament in particular.
Much love!
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