Hallelujah Joan

Thanks, Who, that will make it easy to keep track. I've been reading in-a-year Bibles for a while now, and that format gets me through, for instance, Leviticus. Recently I got a Reader's Bible, the kind that doesn't give chapter and verse numbers in the text, and would like to read that for awhile, so I'll just count chapters, as you say. Also thank you for the suggestion of the notebook. BK, I hear you on the importance of studying the Bible, as opposed to just reading it. I mean, just reading it is 1000 times better than nothing, and reading at least some every day without fail has been amazing for me. But there are many verses that I've read multiple times and still don't really know what they mean. Can you recommend a good commentary? I tried using one once, but got discouraged because it didn't explain anything except the easy parts that you'd automatically understand just by reading.

Hi! I'm looking for a printable Bible reading plan that is the same as the "one year" Bibles, which give portions of the Old and New Testaments, Psalms and Proverbs every day. I used to have a copy of a plan like that, but I discarded it because I thought if I ever needed one, it would be easy to find online. Now, however, I'm finding all kinds of Bible-in-a-year plans online, but not that one. I'll be grateful if anyone can steer me to one - thanks in advance!

Oh my goodness - somebody should write that into a movie. Just goes to show, I guess, that you never know where the conversation will take you when you start a thread on Worthy Christian. Thanks for the story, I'm going to be imagining that scene for days!

Thanks, Coliseum, for the benefit of your experience with memorization. I do mainly follow the habit you outlined, of memorizing one line until I know it, adding a line and repeating both, and onward. However, memory has never been a strong point for me. Even in everyday life, memory tasks that come easily to most people tend to be difficult- right down to remembering my address and phone number. I love to memorize verses, but it takes me forever. and I start forgetting the old ones while I'm working on the new. The book I mentioned had a wonderfully simple way of organizing your verses so that you'd be going over them at progressively longer intervals, but would continue to review all of them periodically. But my tendency is to try and rely on systems and structures, which is okay to a point, except when it leads me to lean on them rather than on the Holy Spirit. Another unfortunate tendency I have is to think that a good system will totally make up for failing to spend enough time on things that are important to me but that can be put off from day to day, like Bible memorization. I very much admire that you spend an hour a day on memorizing Scripture (and it must be great to have sunshine every afternoon! ) Sometimes I do better with this, but lately I'm averaging about seventeen seconds a day. Jostler, thank you for all the wonderful Scriptures, some of which I'd never thought of in terms of their application to memorizing Scripture today. And thanks everyone for all the encouragement, it's much appreciated!

I couldn't agree with you more, John. I finished my sixth reading of the whole Bible at the end of December (and have read it extensively in addition to those times straight through). Not that I'm bragging! Okay, I kind of am. But a friend of mine read the entire Bible every year for her first 20 years as a Christian, and I know there are many like her, with whom I will never catch up. To what you said about understanding what the Lord is telling us, I agree that that's what we're here for. Have to say, though, that memorization is more than just nice - my experience has been that it's truly amazing. I've heard teaching saying that by memorizing Scripture, you "rewire" areas of yourself that are out of harmony with the Lord and His Word, and I believe I've experienced that. I need to do a lot more of it, seeing as I still have miles and miles of faulty wiring. Thank you, Neighbor, for the Awana outline. I do some of those things already, but I don't usually repeat the verses I'm memorizing to someone else, and that could be helpful.

Hi! I'm hoping someone can help me recall the title of a book about Bible verse memorization. It was written a long time ago, I'm thinking probably the 70's or the 80's - possibly even the 60's - by an evangelist who was well-known at the time. He had a wonderful systematic method for memorizing Bible verses. I remember that it involved copying verses onto file cards and then reviewing them according to a schedule, so that you'd always be memorizing new ones and reviewing the old. Unfortunately, I've forgotten all the details about how to organize them. I've searched online but have been unable to find the method, the book, or the evangelist's name. Twenty-something years ago I memorized Isaiah 55:6-13, and was completely healed of severe depression that had shadowed me for most of my life. I have worked on memorizing other verses, especially in recent months, but I'd get farther faster with better organization. I'll be eternally grateful if anyone can give me a clue about this book!