“We’ll memorize Scripture because it is no empty word for us but our very life.”
Too often we view Scripture memorization as something that would be nice to do if we had the time. But this quote from Glenna Marshall in her book, Memorizing Scripture, reminds us that it is essential to our spiritual life and maturity. Our goal as believers is to grow in our love for Christ and to be more like Him. We can only do this by the power of the Holy Spirit working through God’s Word. It is God’s Word that transforms our hearts and minds.
Colossians 3:16 instructs us:
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
We want to have a life shaped by the Word and one of the ways that happens it through storing it in our hearts and letting it dwell in us richly.
To this end, Women’s Ministry is encouraging the women of Immanuel to memorize Scripture in July. What better place to start Scripture memorization than in the Psalms. Join us as we memorize Psalm 1 in the month of July. We will have cards that outline the memorization plan which will officially start the week of July 5. You can pick up the cards at the flyer stand next to the Welcome desk in June.
We hope you will join us as we seek to let the Word of Christ dwell in us richly and live a Word-shaped life.
- Week of July 5 – Psalm 1:1-2
- Week of July 12 – Psalm 1:3-4
- Week of July 19 – Psalm 1:5-6
- Week of July 26 – Rehearse & review Psalm 1
Psalm 1
1 Blessed is the man
who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree
planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.
4 The wicked are not so,
but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
6 for the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.
