I rushed to my dresser, pulled out the pack, and read through the instructions. In an hour I was working on my first verse. That verse took me a week of determined repetition before it was firmly stitched into my mind. But I was on my way. That pack and, later, other tools were to become a focal point of my spiritual life.
Words to Remember I know how difficult it is to motivate people to memorize Scripture. Churches feature programs, pastors exhort, and disciplers encourage, but little memory work gets done. Our lives in the nineties have become so helter-skelter that we
was in my room, praying, when suddenly I said, "What on earth is wrong, Lord? My brain waves have gone berserk."
It was then a thought resounded clearly in my head. Remember that Bible Memory Pack you threw in the back of your drawer? Maybe you'd better get working on it. I hadn't thought about it for two days.
I remember when I first began memorizing Scripture. I became a Christian in the summer of 1972, after my graduation from
College. The next year I decided not to blitz the business world with my presence, so I became a ski bum at Stiat-ton Mountain in Vermont I was a short-order chef at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and a maniacal skier the rest of the time. I loved it.
One day I received some information from a Christian campus organization. They enclosed a brochure with a listing of their tools and books used in disci-pleship and witnessing. I scanned the list and noticed an offering called "Bible Memory Pack." The blurb explained the secret and the necessity of Bible memorization. So, I added it to my already lengthy list of purchases and sent off the list with a check.
Three weeks later I received several books, over a hundred tracts, and my Bibl...
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...e you've memorized to another, especially if you begin memorizing whole books of Scripture. You become able to correlate truths and concepts not just words.
8. God gives you the mental capacity for more. One thing I've always worried about in memorizing Scripture was reaching a saturation point. Would my mind reach a point where there was just too much? Would I begin to overflow, unable to retain more?
I've been memorizing for over seventeen years now and there's no stopping point in sight. In fact, my mind has become keener, more logical, more able to assimilate data than ever before. It carries over into everything—my work, my home, and my hobbies.
The beauty of Bible memorization is that with commitment, anyone, anywhere can do it. You don't have to be a genius. But it does take discipline. You just have to decide that you'll do it. The question is, will you?
Kay teaches study methods throughout the book that reveal how to begin dissecting the Bible little by little. After finishing “Lord, Teach Me to Study the Bible in 28 Days” by Kay Arthur, you will see how to observe a chapter of Scripture. You will know how to exhaust it. You will know where and how to start digging as you progress through a story.
Foer recounted of how “training one’s memory was not to become a living book but rather a living concordance” (165). He goes on to list various beings throughout history that have tried to obtain this goal. Peter of Ravenna authored a book, Phoenix, which was about memory training. Now in the fifteenth century, Peter’s book was a hit as Peter himself “bragged of having memorized twenty thousand legal points, a thousand texts by Ovid, seven thousand texts from scripture, along with a host of other classical works” (166). Peter placed reading in a different way in which it is today. He reread and dwelled upon each work he read, this emphasizes the work staying and settling in his mind. Whereas, reading is superficial with a “premium on doing it quickly” (166). Or Camillo who was paid by King Francis I to build a memory palace for him and him alone. Camillo promised that one “can hold in the mind and master all human concepts and all things that are in the entire world” (168). He believed that there was a magical system where memorizing images, one could understand the connections of everything. Now in the case of Schulz, she talks about a famous philosopher Descartes. He brings up the argument that “error does not rise from believing something that isn’t true, but believing on insufficient evidence” (362). Descartes wanted to be an ideal thinker and take in every bit of evidence he possibly could
Just as I learn how to use the map or my GPS to get to a certain destination, using my Bible will allow me to have divine wisdom directing me to a righteous and perfect plan
Every Bible verse I've ever memorized has developed a memory. In 2nd grade, I presented Luke 2:4 in the Children's Musicals in my church play; in 4th grade, I repeated John 3:16 to myself for an hour so I could win a balloon animal; and in 7th grade, I went to Hume Lake Christian Camp where we gained points for every memory verse we could recite and my team memorized the entirety of Romans 12.
... that just learning about the Bible is not enough, but having a deepening understanding and personal relationship with it, so then there will be a transformation with the individual.
The Final tip provided from Donald Whitney is through reading about prayer. He uses the passage out of Proverbs chapter 13 verse 20, which states, “Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise.” This shows that if a believer seeks the counsel of the wise or invest their time learning from wise people they will able to gain wisdom. This is why Donald Whitney advises believers to read books written on
getting ready to start reading a new book when the Lord said, don’t read a book. Write a book.
Throughout this course we have discussed through the scriptures ways of helping our students learn and grow in God’s word. It is our duty to model God’s lessons in our daily lives and in our
carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus" (The Holy Bible: New International Version). This is what it will take to be an effective
Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart, authors of How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth, have written an easy to read book for those who want to learn more about what the Bible has to offer. The authors present distinct principles for interpreting different genres found in the Bible. The book has sold over a half a million copies and is one of the most popular books regarding biblical interpretation.
Maddix, M. A., & Thompson, R. P. (2012). Scripture as formation: the role of Scripture in Christian Formation. Christian Education Journal, S79-S93.
The idea of preparing the night before attending church, is an excellent idea. The world is full of distractions and if you begin to set those distractions aside and focus on the word of God, you will be enriched with glory. I also never gave it a thought about the message one is receiving from reading the paper. Pray the paper, for the outcome of the articles to be positive. I have said many times, “I wish the paper would print more of the good things people are doing”, but they usually do not. Lastly and one that I fall victim to is the music. I recently started attending a different church and I am struggling with the music. I am focusing on the tone being monotone and knowing how I enjoyed and liked the music of my old church. It is evident that I am not focusing on the word of God.
I pull my Bible out of my bag and flip to Romans. Where is it..? Ah-ha! Romans 5: 3-5. That'll do.
The desire to study God’s word to obtain a personal connection is a pursuit for many believers. Beginning a course to study and engage with the word at a collegiate level can be overwhelming and intimidating. Even though one may read the word countless times during their lifetime, understanding the reading material academically and historically is a different concept to master. Personally, I was apprehensive about my overall ability to retain the information and comprehend the context of the scientific and historical aspect of God’s word. However, Tarwater wrote in a manner that was engaging and invited me into the historical importance of the words and understanding God. From beginning to end, Tarwater
As I sank into despair, a book caught my eye. Buried beneath homework, magazines, and litter was my poor bedraggled Bible, falling apart from years of use-none of it recent. I dragged it out and opened it to Philippians.