As I did with the About page in this blog’s very first post, I think it would be good to paste the Why page in this one, so without further ado…
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When someone hears that I’m well on my way to memorizing the ENTIRE Bible, I’m sure the first thing that comes to their mind is “Whew, glad God didn’t call me to do that!” and then a very close second, “Why on earth would anyone want to do that?!”
My initial response would be that it’s definitely nothing “on earth” that’s motivating me to do this, that’s for sure. For reasons not totally known to me, God has laid this (very strong) calling upon my heart. In my humble opinion, it would’ve seemed far more logical to have picked and empowered someone who wasn’t the biggest sinner I know, the biggest sinner I’ve ever known, and quite possibly the biggest sinner you’ve ever known… but I think the likely answer for why God did just that, why he picked me anyway, is found in 1 Timothy 1:16 – “And yet for this reason I found mercy, in order that in me as the foremost [i.e., sinner, verse 15], Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience, as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life.” I wish I could say that my life mirrors the Apostle Paul’s in every way, like His mirrored the Lord probably more than anyone in human history (1 Corinthians 11:1), but this is definitely one which qualifies, perceiving oneself to be “the biggest sinner” – because the more of the Bible I memorize, the more and more (and more and more and more) I realize and come to see that I am such a sinner, a “filthy rag” if there ever were one (Isaiah 6:5 & 64:6), and then the Bible stored inside my mind immediately and automatically redirects it to dwell not on my sin but on His perfection and purity and righteousness which has not only become mine through the power and working and washing of the Word within but which I have literally become in the utter miracle of spiritual transformation (2 Corinthians 5:17-21).
Here’s a bullet-point then detailed (though certainly not complete) list of my motivations and reasons for dedicating my life to this whole-Bible-memorizing, Christ-glorifying, God-given task and calling and passion.
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The Summary:
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- as a love gift and “thank You” gift to the Lord for all He does and who He is! Nothing pleases the Lord like having his own words quoted back to Him by heart. (Because it’s the ultimate demonstration of submission to Him and to His Word, and because every other thing that also pleases Him is enhanced by Bible memory, recitation, meditation, and application.)
- to provide inspiration for Christians everywhere – many of whom suffer severe persecution simply for practicing their faith. They pay a premium price, far more than we in free countries could comprehend, so I want this historic, real-time event of memorizing the entire Bible to be a daily and specific source of stupendous comfort and joy and peace and hope and encouragement and inspiration, aspiration, and affirmation of their fiercely-fought-for faith.
- to help other worthy causes and Christian ministries raise much-needed funds, including: missionaries; Bible-magnifying podcasts, radio stations, and social media truth-tellers (especially those who are already displaying a Bible verse in their platform page’s profile); people, public or private, who have suffered a dire or fearful fate for no fault of their own, like victims of violence, poverty, natural disasters, dire disease, etc.
- to help Christian professionals and businesses get far more clients and customers by helping my fellow Christians obey and apply all principles set forth in Scripture including Galatians 6:10 which succinctly states and instructs and commands us to produce as much benefit as possible for fellow believers including taking as much of our business as possible to Bible-loving, Bible-living, CHRISTIAN companies and professionals! And while a Bible command is infinitely sufficient reason and motivation, the big BONUS is that they in turn will tithe a portion of those profits to their local church and other Christian causes… a massive win-win-win-win!
- to let the Bible itself keep honing and revealing to my mind’s eye a miraculous memory method! Which I’m certain will prove to be completely or at least largely repeatable and transferable. Which is absolutely certain to totally transform not only the minds and lives of individuals of all ages but also the very way we learn and teach, i.e., our educational process and approach and system is about to be not just massively upgraded but pretty much replaced. It’s that powerful. And effective. But even greater than the huge ramifications for the education process is how EASY and FUN it will make memorizing Scripture – or anything else, for that matter! That has definitely proven to be the case for me, and I’m 99.9% sure that it’ll prove likewise for 99.9% of people.
- to give Christians an additional thing to root for and person to root on! Chicago had Michael Jordan, New England had Tom Brady, New York and before that Boston had Babe Ruth, and Pittsburgh had Mario Lemieux – and while woefully unworthy, I want Christians to have me to root on every step of the way to the culmination of this historic feat which will, by definition, make not only church history (Bible) but also intellectual history (memory) … when the Lord completes that wondrous work within then through me, it will thrill me to no end to know that Christians everywhere will be able to smile and say, “Every world record in the memory category is now held by one of us!“ and therefore to “in that name [Christian] … glorify God.” (1 Peter 4:16b)
- to help spur serious spiritual revival in this nation then worldwide! As I often say… I’m 100% sure that such will occur, but I’m 1,000% sure that it will ONLY occur if and when a certain percentage of believers begin Bible memory (then recitation and meditation) on a regular, systematic basis. Which seamlessly leads to my last but not least reason for doing this, for memorizing the entire Bible…
- to inspire other Christians to get directly involved in the unparalleled cause of Bible memory! For children (in particular) to start DOING it, and for adults to fund and support this tip-of-the-spear, top-of-the-spur historic event and ministry in whatever ways they are able.
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The Specifics:
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The first reason is that I couldn’t and can’t think of ANYTHING in the whole wide world which would bring the Lord Jesus more pleasure and delight than for someone to memorize every word of His “love letter” to humanity – every word of His Word – and then recite His own words back to Him. I discuss this concept more in-depth on the home page and in my Overview video but the gist is this: think how it would make you feel if you wrote a love letter to the love of your life and at some point in the future that person quoted it back to you by heart, from memory. Enough said.
The second reason goes hand-in-hand with the first: as a very unique “love You” and “thank You” gift back to the Lord for who He is and all that He has done and continues to do for us! He is worthy of no less. (I just can’t believe it took two thousand years for someone to do this!) (On second thought…)
The third reason goes hand-in-hand with the second: to give this gift back to the Lord not just from me but from and on behalf of all believers in general and in specific all who support this effort and future outflowing ministries in whatever ways they’re able. Under that umbrella of all believers, I specifically want this to be a special source of blessing and comfort and inspiration for believers who aren’t permitted to worship and carry out their faith in various countries around the world, yet do so anyway. That’s the spirit! (And that’s the Spirit, clearly.) It’s the least I can do since they have provided so much inspiration for me my whole life, ever since I was a child and from time to time would meet missionaries who have devoted their lives to smuggling in and handing out Bibles in various communist-controlled countries with religiously repressive regimes, so the “house Christians” can study and teach and share the Word. On that day when I recite the ENTIRE BIBLE from memory in front of the entire world (literally, thanks to YouTube.com/BibleMemory and BibleMemory.ORG) I will be thinking very specifically of all the “house Christians” around the world who will be “many, many, many rows ahead of me” in heaven since they have paid a much bigger price to practice our precious faith.
The fourth reason I’m memorizing the entire Bible is to raise funds for ministries and other worthy causes including Christian radio stations, which have had a huge, healthy impact in my life throughout the years. Bringing the Word of God to the public, via powerful preaching or mighty music or timely talk shows… talk about a worthy cause! I would love it if the Lord were to use this calling and passion in my heart to also help countless ministries in such a tangible, needed way.
And not just formal ministries but also individual Bible-loving believers whose social media pages’ profile paragraph proudly promotes the Word, especially ones which blare out a Bible verse, a specific Scripture near and dear to their heart and life. It will be my delight and indeed duty and sincere spiritual service to strongly support such individuals and ministries, my fellow workers in the cause of the Bible in general and Bible memory in specific, who too have been saved, sealed, set free, self-confirmed, sanctified and schooled by the Spirit (Titus 3:5; Ephesians 4:30; Romans 8:15; Romans 8:16; Galatians 3:3; 1 John 2:27), sustained and secured by the Son (Philippians 4:13,19; 1 John 5:18), because of the unfettered favor of the Father (Psalm 5:12, also 30:5 & 84:11 and countless other verses), by the true grace of the Triune God.
And not just ministries or individuals who promote Bible memory and specifically this historic event unfolding in real-time here at BibleMemory.ORG but also people who promote it by word-of-mouth or pen and paper or however they’re able and the Lord leads. I want to be a fellow worker and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with people like this. And I must admit that I have a special place in my heart and immediate affinity for those whose social media page(s) in particular has a Bible verse/reference prominently displayed, and I hope you’ll adopt my personal practice to support and “share” those pages: like the people in Paul’s day pointed-out in Philippians 1:17, some of those perhaps promote Scripture out of improper motivations… but I’m quite sure that such represents a super-small segment, that this is true of very few if any, because given the current climate in our country and worldwide, one risks paying a price for promulgating the Bible or anything closely connected to Christ, and this factor alone almost certainly will “weed out” the wayward ones, i.e., I think it’s very safe to assume that pretty much any person who puts a Bible verse/reference in their page-topping profile is doing it for the right reasons, with very pure motives: to do their part to promote the Word and words of our wonderful God and Savior.
The fifth reason but one of the most important on an ongoing basis is that when I started memorizing my very first entire book (James), the Bible itself – as I stored more and more of it within me – started revealing to my mind’s eye a very specific MEMORY METHOD which has made it both much easier and, yes, more FUN to memorize and recite Scripture! I’ll know when that process is complete or at least complete enough to share with others, to roll out to the public and that will be one of the main focus points in the future, for years and Lord-willing decades to come so I’m looking forward to that with enormous anticipation; right now I’d say that it’s around 75% complete so probably in the next year or so; I won’t know for sure until I start teaching it to others but my very strong sense, hunch, expectation is that it will prove to be universal in nature, meaning that it will be of benefit to virtually ANYONE (though probably to a different degree/extent for each person since we’re all different in certain ways but 95% similar in terms of how the human mind and body work, etc. – more about this in future posts… if you’d like to automatically be notified by email when new ones are published – including ones about this will-revolutionize-the-world-and-approach-to-education/learning breakthrough – simply click on the grey “Follow Bible Memory” button in item “3.” at the very bottom of this page or at the top to the right of that “Overview” video and consider it done! Your inbox – and life – will never be the same. The Bible in general and this Bible-borne memory method and process in specific have absolutely revolutionized my mind and heart and life and I’m sure it will bear similar fruit and you will reap similar results and rewards in yours!
The sixth reason is something which has been near and dear to my heart since I was a child: nationwide and indeed worldwide spiritual revival. I’ve literally been praying for the Lord to bring that about virtually my entire life and I’m 100% sure that such will occur. But I’m 1,000% certain that it will ONLY occur IF/WHEN a sufficient percentage of believers, of the Church, of Christ’s body on earth (Colossians 1:24; Ephesians 5:25-30) get “gobs and gobs” of the Good Book, God’s Word, “richly dwelling within” them (Colossians 3:16) and “hidden in [their] heart” (Psalm 119:11) and “binge” on big “bites” of the Bible, because it’s the Bible which sanctifies and cleanses us (John 17:17; Ephesians 5:26; Psalm 119:9), the Bible is the “mirror” (James 1:21-25) which, when “looked intently” into, “performs its work” (1 Thessalonians 2:13) in “transforming us into the [Lord’s] image from glory to glory” (2 Corinthians 3:18), from one level of glory to another to another, and increases our faith (Romans 10:17) to the point that we go through life “seeing the unseen” (Hebrews 11:27) such that, to bring it beautifully full circle, “we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen” (2 Corinthians 4:18). And that, my friends, is the very picture indeed definition of spiritual revival. And it all stems from and is kindled and lit on fire by the Bible. The world is perhaps spiritually drier than it has ever been in the past 2,000 years… sounds like the perfect time for a spiritual fire to ignite and spread and do its purifying and winnowing work so we will wondrously be revived, be “refined by fire” (1 Peter 1:7).
The seventh reason I’m doing this is that the Lord didn’t put this passion and calling into a vacuum but rather into a person – me! Which includes all pieces and parts and components of my personality and traits and experiences, and one of those is that my grandmother was one of the biggest independent antique dealers on the east coast and probably the entire country, and whenever my family would visit her (once or twice a year on average throughout my childhood) she and I alone would wake up very early in the morning (around 5:00) and go down into her (massive!) basement (it was one of my earliest introductions of the concept of eternity, because that room just kept going and going and going and going, with one pile of boxes after another after another) and WORK there until around noon when the rest of my family would wake up and we’d all have breakfast together at that time but first, for me, there were a good seven hours of solid work to do. Moving said boxes to wherever she directed. Polishing the many silver teapots and silver dollars she’d be selling in the coming months (she’d make necklaces with a Silver Dollar as the centerpiece, they were among her best-selling items, those and picture frames, always in huge demand). Sweeping and cleaning the entire area. I totally understand why my other family members weren’t keen on getting up at 5 a.m. on their vacation to W-O-R-K, in a basement… but you know why I did, why I loved it so much? Because I loved her so much, that’s true, but so did the rest of my family, so I think the difference was that I loved listening to her talk, the entire time, the entire seven hours. About life and my school and her favorite TV shows, and a ton of stories about my father and uncles and aunts when she was raising them years before, but most of all by far we talked (okay, she talked, I listened 🙂 ) about business. As noted, she was a major antiques dealer, a real businesswoman the likes of which I’ve never personally seen since, the way she could “wheel and deal” and get the very best price on the items she would buy wholesale from yard/estate sales or the huge antiques market in Williamsburg, Virginia, where I accompanied her on my 13th birthday (which single-handedly and immediately made it one of my most memorable and precious) … a real businesswoman, and during those 7-hour sessions in her basement, she poured that knowledge into my young brain [we started doing those when I was in elementary school and after returning post-Christmas break I started buying a big bag of Jolly Ranchers candy at the local CVS store (called Peoples back then, before getting gobbled up by the behemoth) and then would resell them individually for a quarter to my classmates (I bought a bag of 100 for fifty cents so my pricing, my markup of fiftyfold was probably a bit much but I was in elementary school and didn’t know any better, hadn’t learned the concept of price-gouging but my grandma got such a kick out of that!].
The main point is that business has been not just an interest or hobby but a real part of me since I can remember. So what on earth does all of that have to do with this website and historic endeavor? That when the Lord put this calling in my heart a couple years ago, he also gave me a strong desire to help as many Christian professionals and businesspeople (like my dear grandmother… it’s been a few decades – she died when I was 13, less than a year after that trip together to that antiques market when I saw her in action, saw her doing her thing, saw her wheeling and dealing like never before – and I still miss her) succeed by getting the word out not just about their product or service but especially the fact that they are fellow Christians! One of the main purposes and missions of this website is to make it as easy and practical as possible to help my fellow man in general and believers in specific experience massive blessing in their lives – the one to come, absolutely, but also this one (I Timothy 4:8, 6:6) – and the path to blessing can best be summed up in one word: obedience. To the Lord. To His Word, the Bible. And one of the most practical and immediate ways to do so would be to heed the Ten Commandments as well as verses like Galatians 6:10 and I Timothy 6:2 which couldn’t be clearer about how crucial it is that we Christians put a priority on producing as much benefit and taking as much of our business as possible to, yep, fellow Christians! So along with memorizing all 66 books, the entire Bible, a secondary target of my time in the coming months and years will be spent putting together a nationwide network of Christian businesses and professionals, thus making it EASY for my fellow Christians to identify and take their business to fellow Christians and thus receive the blessings and benefits of obeying these two verses in specific. But wait, there’s more! By generating much more business/benefit for Christian companies and professionals, it will generate more tithes for their local church so that’s a major motivation, too! It might just be the greatest win-win-win-win ever this side of salvation. After I assemble a sufficient number of Christian-owned/run businesses in a given state, I’ll list them in the “Find A Christian Biz” section which is also ChristianBizPages.com so please (a) be praying for BibleMemory.ORG in general including this aspect in specific, and (b) starting soon, whenever you need a product or service, please check ChristianBizPages.com or BibleMemory.ORG/YellowPages (same exact webpage) first so as many of us as possible can apply/obey Galatians 6:10 and 1 Timothy 6:2 (benefitting fellow believers as much of the time as possible) and reap the rewards for all eternity!
The eighth reason I’m pursuing this history-making undertaking is one of the other few ways an aspect of my life can be compared with Paul’s: just as his heartfelt, passionate, all-consuming pursuit in life was to preach the gospel, mine is to memorize the Bible – such that, respectfully paraphrasing 1 Corinthians 9:16, “woe is me if I do NOT” memorize the Bible. Because, having tasted it, I’d be utterly miserable if I didn’t EAT (memorize) ALL of it!
The ninth reason I’m doing this is very similar to number four above: along with ministries in general, I’d love to help missionaries in specific raise much-needed funds. While most of the public probably wouldn’t be inclined to give money to missionaries, they are happy to contribute to the cause of Bible memory especially in such a big, historic context, and I’ll be thrilled and can hardly wait to share a large portion of incoming donations with many missionaries in the very near future, stay tuned to the blog for further details about that. Missions was a massive part of my childhood: every other month or two, a missionary couple or family would stay at my family’s house for up to a week and my jaw dropped regularly as we all sat around the dining table or living room and they’d tell story after story about amazing things God had done when they were on the mission field (usually in South America or Asia or Africa) … sometimes bone-chilling and hair-raising, always amazing. And missions and missionaries have held a special place in my heart ever since! So, yeah, I can barely wait to help raise funds for them via this website and historic endeavor.
The tenth reason is definitely the least likely and somewhat of a subset of numbers three and nine but worthy of separate note. Even just a year or two ago, before the pandemic and certain responses thereto, this would’ve been unthinkable. Absolutely unthinkable. But now I think almost every believer and indeed countless unbelievers, too, can envision a future time in which the Bible could be banned. Yes, even here in the liberty-loving, freedom-fostering U.S.A. I place the odds of that’s actually happening at around 0.0001%, not very likely but when it comes to something SO BIG, SO HUGE, SO MASSIVE, SO ESSENTIAL as the Bible, well, let’s just say that even one-in-a-million is enough for me to foresee this tenth motivation’s potentially coming into play some day: my memorizing the entire Bible will, if the unthinkable does occur, allow me to reproduce it in full and to distribute it around the globe, regardless of the consequences or costs (even if such included the death penalty – indeed, I’d be HONORED beyond words if I were to die for the cause of Christ and, under that umbrella, the Bible). I just mentioned how my whole childhood saw many missionaries spend up to a week at a time at my family’s home; one of those was an elderly Chinese couple who dedicated their lives to going back to China and smuggling in Bibles. The husband was one of the most humble people I’ve ever known, and the wife was very loud (they definitely proved the adage that “opposites attract”, at least in terms of their personalities, it was really funny to behold) and would get so passionate when giving an update in front of the whole church that she would start SCREAMING “Bibles for China! Bibles for China!” Screaming and crying. Tears would literally start rolling down her face just at the thought of how hard her fellow Chinese citizens had it (and still do). (Now THAT was something to behold, which I’ve never forgotten and never will.)
Anyway, a century or two ago, I’m sure that a lot of the Chinese people never thought for a minute that the day would come when they wouldn’t be able to readily and legally discuss much less read much less possess a Bible. What if that were to spread to the rest of the world? Especially after what we’ve seen various governments do during the ongoing (but tapering) pandemic even in (formerly) famously free countries like England and Canada and Australia, those odds have gone from one-in-a-trillion to one-in-a-million. Still small, but much, much bigger than just months ago. Still very unlikely, but no longer unimaginable. Remember hearing about how all-out many people went during America’s “Prohibition” era? Well multiply that by a ZILLION and you’ll understand how all-in and all-out diligent and creative and relentless I would be to fulfill that role. Especially since I’d likely be the ONLY person on the planet who COULD fulfill it, since no one in known human history has ever memorized the entire Bible. Super-duper-duper-duper-unlikely that we’ll ever actually cross that bridge, but given how BIG a blessing the Bible is and how absolutely essential it is in terms of both salvation (Romans 10:17) and sanctification (1 Peter 2:2), in terms of both spiritual birth and growth, such a “back-up plan” or “safety net” is definitely worth making my “Top Reasons/Motivations” list. [Side note: this is a great example of how the Bible and the Holy Spirit work hand-in-hand, as the latter is equally essential in terms of both salvation (Titus 3:4-7) and sanctification (Galatians 5:22-23).]
The eleventh reason is probably the least weighty but nonetheless noteworthy: frankly, I’m dying to see exactly what would happen when the incomprehensibly powerful Word of God is placed IN FULL, IN ITS ENTIRETY, into ONE mind, one brain, one vessel. In a previously-published post, I noted several ways in which the Word and the Lord are inextricably linked, and surely enough, just as Colossians 2:3 says of the Lord Jesus, “in whom are hidden ALL the treasures of wisdom and knowledge”, there’s no doubt in my mind that this similarly applies to the Bible. What would happen, what could occur if the totality of it were to be stored in a single human mind? A finite mind filled and overflowing with the infinite Word. We’ll all find out soon enough but I am certain that it will produce not just amazing but mind-blowing, jaw-dropping, historic results, things that our finite minds can’t even imagine in advance. Like I said, not the weightiest reason but I can hardly wait to find out!
The twelfth reason I’m doing this is that, as discussed in-depth in that same post, Bible memory has proven to be the best HEALTHCARE PLAN ever! I’ll bet that the majority of even Christians think that the Bible is very powerful in the spiritual realm but doesn’t extend to the physical. WRONG! Why can I say that with such certitude? Not just because I haven’t had to go to a doctor or hospital my entire adult life and have enjoyed practically perfect health after memorizing Bible verses since I was a child and that has been even more the case now that I’ve memorized several entire books of the Bible en route to all 66… but not just because of that first-hand experience but infinitely more so because the Bible itself testifies to this truth! Don’t believe me? Think this sounds too good to be true? Well here’s a verse I’ve never heard a single other person or preacher or teacher discuss and of which even most mature believers probably aren’t aware which absolutely stuns me since it is one of the most clear and directly-applicable-in-the-tangible/physical-realm I’ve come across in the entire Bible. I’ll bet the vast majority of believers do know, have heard and even memorized Proverbs 4:23 (“Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life.”) – but not the verse right before it, Proverbs 4:22, and brace yourself because it’s a game-changer, life-changer, world-changer, true gem: ”For they [referring back to the “my words” of verse 20, i.e., the Bible] are LIFE to those who find them, and HEALTH to ALL their WHOLE BODY.” You can refer back to that previously-published post for an in-depth analysis of this verse but suffice it to say that it, that God (it’s His Word and words) says as clear as day that the Bible’s power and efficacy is NOT limited to the spiritual or emotional/mental realms (verses 23-27) but indeed extends all the way to the PHYSICAL realm: ”life”, “health”, “body”. And not just the body of those who “find” His words, the Bible, but “ALL their WHOLE body.” Amazing. Simply amazing. Stunning. Powerful. And I can attest firsthand that it is indeed totally true, that it is indeed “a thing”. And while reading is good and studying is even better, I don’t think anyone would disagree that memorizing the Bible, that Bible memory is the BEST way to “find” His words. Why? Because it most fully and ongoingly gets the Word and words of God Himself, the Bible, INTO a person’s mind and thus (verse 23) life.
The thirteenth reason I’m doing this is to give my fellow Christians a super easy and convenient and direct and immediate way to turn some of the earthly funds God has entrusted to their stewardship into eternal treasure and blessing – not only in the life to come in heaven, but in this life, too! (1 Timothy 4:8) There are many worthy ministries, I’m but a very small cog in the wheel of God’s kingdom and plan… but I’m not aware of very many if any (a) which is so destined to make church and human/intellectual history (not because of me but in spite of me; not because of me but because of Him!) and (b) which supporters will be able to literally see the results and fruit of their support in real-time, with their own eyes (again thanks to YouTube.com/BibleMemory and BibleMemory.ORG) which is most conducive to what the Bible teaches and instructs us about financial stewardship.
And last but definitely not least, the fourteenth reason I’m doing this is to give Christians everywhere something to ROOT for, to root ON, to hopefully give them a sense of hope and inspiration and something POSITIVE on which they can actively and in real-time set their mind even (especially?) when in the midst of one trial or another. I’ll never be able to play basketball like Michael Jordan or quarterback like Tom Brady or Peyton Manning or jump and run like Jesse Owens, but the Lord has granted me the desire and (Bible-borne) ability to memorize Scripture “like nobody’s business” as the saying goes. And like Michael Jordan gave the citizens of Chicago ongoing reason for hope season after season, and like Tom Brady gave the citizens of New England something to enthusiastically root for, so also I want to give the earthbound (for now!) citizens of Heaven (Philippians 3:20) – i.e. Christians everywhere – the same thing, for them to be able to root on someone as he memorizes the ENTIRE Bible for the first time in known human history so he – and, vicariously, everyone who supports this in whatever ways they’re able – can quote Christ’s own words back to Him by heart, and from the heart… I want to see the Lord receive this very special and historic gift!
One of the things I love and appreciate and am most awed about the Bible is that, while it has so many verses, even just ONE of them can literally and absolutely change and REVOLUTIONIZE a life. For eternity. And at the end of the day as they say, that, in a single blurb, is why I’m doing this, why I’m dedicating my life to memorizing the entire Bible. Not just for the massive benefit and benefits it will and indeed has already produced in my life but also because I know it will do so in the lives of countless others and is, without a doubt, the BEST “love/thank-You” gift I can give back to the Lord Jesus Christ which will bring Him the most pleasure. And like the famous children’s song says, “That’s what it’s all about!”
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If you sense that the Lord might be leading YOU to support the historic event unfolding in real-time here at BibleMemory.ORG and the future flow-forth-from-it ministries in line with 3 John 8 and thus become my fellow worker and thus share in all of the fruit and blessings and literally MAKE HISTORY together, here are nine different ways – eight of which don’t cost a dime and barely any time! May God bless you richly for helping out in any or all of the following ways:
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1. Spread the word about this real-time historic event by simply sharing this page with your friends, family, fellow congregation members, and social media followers with a single click – simply select one or more of these platforms (or the last icon to share by email), it’s that easy!
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2. Add your name to my Prayer List!
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3. Encourage as many of our fellow Christians as you can to pray for this historic event by having them go to BibleMemory.ORG/pray (please make sure they understand that it’s .org, not .com) – doing so by word-of-mouth is great, and to do so with a single click on your social media simply click here and select your platform(s) or the email icon on the far right, it’s that quick and easy!
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4. Encourage as many of our fellow Christians as you can to support this God-pleasing, Christ-honoring, Bible-centered, inspirational, real-time historic event by having them go to BibleMemory.ORG/support (please make sure they understand that it’s .org, not .com) – doing so by word-of-mouth is great, and to do so with a single click on your social media simply click here and select your platform(s) or the email icon on the far right, it’s that quick and easy!
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5. Simply SHARE the Bible memory Videos page with everyone you know and encourage them to share it with everyone they know by going to BibleMemory.ORG/videos (please make sure they understand that it’s .org, not .com) – doing so by word-of-mouth is great, and to do so with a single click on your social media simply click here and select your platform(s) or the email icon on the far right, it’s that quick and easy!
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6. Encourage as many of our fellow Christians as you can to become a Bible Memory Ambassador by simply referring them to BibleMemory.ORG/amb (please make sure they understand that it’s .org, not .com) – doing so by word-of-mouth is great, and to do so with a single click on your social media simply click here and select your platform(s) or the email icon on the far right, it’s that quick and easy!
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Ripple Effect, Part 2
/in Uncategorized /by Bible MemoryLife is something. Something else, I tell ya. Often funny. Sometimes very, very funny: one example of this literally just happened, just culminated this morning.
You see, for the past few days I noticed a sporadic, usually-dull pain in my lower back. Usually dull but a several times a day quite sharp. To the extreme that I literally could barely breathe for those few seconds when the pain would spike.
This was all the more shocking to me since I’ve never been sick or had to go to a hospital or doctor or even been sick my entire adult life, and even as a kid only to have my tonsils/adenoids and wisdom teeth removed. (Though, in the spirit of full disclosure and transparency, I did fake sick a lot, so I could stay home from school and play video games.) (My parents rightly let me since I maintained very good grades. Except for penmanship but that isn’t a real class. 🙂 ) Anyway, due to that lifelong track record of stellar health, a usually-dull-sometimes-sharp pain in my lower back for a few consecutive days did indeed come as a shock.
This thought flew through my mind for a fleeting moment: Was it the first sign of kidney failure? Was it the onset of kidney stones? Was it lupus?
All possible I suppose BUT BUT BUT I have to admit these all seemed extremely unlikely to me since I am such a firm, total believer – indeed, partaker – of Proverbs 4:22 as discussed in-depth in a prior post but to summarize, the Bible straightforwardly states a crystal-clear conclusion: that those who “find” God’s words (i.e., the Bible!) will experience not just “life” but “health to ALL their WHOLE body” so I just couldn’t really believe that any of those possibilities were actually a “thing” in this situation.
A second (albeit unnecessary) hint or piece of supporting evidence was that the spikes of sharper pain occurred exclusively when I was standing/vertical, never when I was lying down/horizontal. If it were any of those issues, the physical position of one’s body surely wouldn’t matter, at least that seems very logical and common-sensical to me.
The result is that this morning, after a few days of this matter, I remembered that I had tightened the screws of my main chair, which I sit in while on the computer, eating, watching a few news/talk shows, pretty much every day-to-day activity except sleeping and shaving. I.e., I spend a LOT of time in that chair so it hit me that maybe, just maybe I tightened said screws a bit too much which would’ve made the chair less “flexible” or “forgiving” to my body so a couple hours ago I loosened them a tad and, wa-la, what do ya know, no more pain!
It was pretty funny (at least AFTER that last part occurred) but also a great reminder of what I wrote in the “Part 1” post: that our decisions and actions have RIPPLE EFFECTS! Usually in the lives of other people, always in our own.
Which is why it’s such a total NO-BRAINER to live one’s life, to base one’s decisions and actions on one thing and ONLY one thing: the Bible.
Because it’s never, ever wrong, always right. 100% of the time. Absolutely flawless. The very picture of perfection and indeed the only perfect tangible thing in the universe.
So you’ll understand why I’m going to take the next hour or two EATING IT UP. Consuming it. Ingesting it. And I can testify firsthand that it is indeed “more desirable than gold, even more than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the drippings of the honeycomb” and that in eating (keeping, heeding, applying, obeying) it “there is GREAT REWARD.” (Psalm 19:10-11)
Thank You, Lord, for the three greatest gifts you’ve ever given us: Your Holy Spirit; Your Word, the Bible; and Yourself.
May our every decision and action be in line, in accord with all three.
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Overpowering, Overwhelmingly
/in Uncategorized /by Bible MemoryIt’s 8:30 a.m. as I write this and I felt like a quick game of chess so I played against the computer, selected one of its weaker opponent choices (since I only have a few minutes, yeah, that’s it, that’s the reason 🙂 ) then proceeded to capture his queen and both rooks.
Those who are even slightly familiar with chess know that the game was over at that point and, surely enough, it was a breeze, a proverbial “piece of cake” to vacuum up his other pieces and achieve victory.
Do you realize that’s EXACTLY how it is in life?!
From birth, a person is literally and constantly being hunted down by the devil and his minions…
… who, because they are angels – fallen, but still extremely powerful – possess superhuman indeed supernatural abilities so mere mortals, mere humans like you and me stand NO chance on our own of defending much less defeating.
Just like a chess player who has lost his queen and both rooks.
But I have some good news! And that’s this: instead of just “hanging us out to dry”, instead of leaving us on our own, God graciously gave us a guaranteed way to garner TEN queens in this metaphorical chess game of life, by sending His only begotten Son, Jesus, the second Person of the Holy Trinity, to earth as a newborn baby who voluntarily set aside the voluntary use of His deity (redundance intended)…
… and took on the fullness of humanity, of being a man…
… so that, for the express purpose of saving us from our sin and sins, of rescuing and delivering us out of that too-weak-to-win position and situation (i.e., no queen or rooks) in this life and especially regarding the life to come, eternity.
Or to summarize the situation super-succinctly, we were in a world of hurt, were in a terrible, unwinable and unwinnable position… BUT BUT BUT the good news is that GOD STEPPED IN, GOD INTERVENED to RESCUE and DELIVER and REDEEM and SAVE us!
We found ourselves in the game of life WITHOUT our queen or rooks or bishops or knights, totally OVERPOWERED and OUTGUNNED by our opponent, our adversary and his minions… but God gave us not just the ability and authority and power but the right to receive TEN QUEENS, thus FLIPPING THE SCRIPT…
… such that we not only win but WIN BIG, win overwhelmingly; are not only victorious but overwhelmingly victorious; not only conquer but, yep, OVERWHELMINGLY conquer.
And to wrap up this topic for now, HOW do we do that, HOW exactly do we OVERCOME and OVERPOWER evil and the evil one? As ever, the Bible couldn’t be any clearer, gives us a crystal clear conclusion and answer and remedy. First a hint, a glimpse…
… and then the very specific answer via the very next verse:
Ding ding ding!
Isn’t it amazing how everything always comes down to the Bible in general and Bible memory (which unleashes recitation and meditation) in specific?!
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“He is no fool…”
/in Uncategorized /by Bible Memory(As promised in the previous post…)
I love a good quote. Always have. None can compare with those which are straight out of the Bible, since they are literally God-breathed, flowing forth from the very mind of God Himself. But I also really like several which, while not straight out of the Bible are totally based on it and thus very worthy of spreading.
In the future I’ll share many of my favorites with you but for the purposes of this post will cover one which is near if not at the very top of that non-Bible list.
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose.” (Jim Elliot, October 28, 1949)
While he put his own spin on it, this clearly came from the teaching of our Lord Jesus found in Matthew 10:39 and 16:24-26.
It’s what for years I have called “the ultimate no-brainer” and “BEST. TRADE. EVER!”
Jesus offers us a supremely straightforward deal: give up our lives and get HIS LIFE, eternal life, in return.
What a trade-off! What a bargain! To give up that which is very, very temp-o-rary, and receive that which is eternal (James 4:14 <> John 3:16 among many others). To give up that which is inherently evil and drenched with sin, and receive that which is good and acceptable and perfect (Romans 3:10-18,23 <> Romans 12:1-2). To give up living for ourselves, and receive Christ Himself living in us (the two passages above and Philippians 2:3-4 and Romans 12:10-21 and too many others to list here <> Galatians 2:20).
I will no doubt spend many future posts delving and diving more deeply into this topic, this fantastic truth, this trade of all trades, but I’ll end this post with two other Bible verses – the first and last (beautiful biblical bookends!) of one of my favorite passages of Scripture which, together, sum it all up better than I or any human could ever hope to: “Therefore, if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. He [i.e., God, verse 20] made Him who knew no sin [i.e., Jesus Christ] to be SIN on our behalf, THAT we might become THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD in Him.” (2 Corinthians 5:17,21)
Like I said, GREATEST trade/trade-off/bargain/no-brainer EVER! Hell for heaven. Our own life/will for Christ’s. Utter sinfulness for utter perfection.
Count. Me. In.
Indeed, indeed: “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose.”
If you’ve never made that trade, I strongly encourage you to do so today, right now, as nothing less than one’s eternal destiny hangs in the balance.
Which is why 2 Corinthians 6:2 says, “NOW is the acceptable time”, TODAY is “the day”!
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Quick Thought: Reading Recommendation: The Journals of Jim Elliot
/in Uncategorized /by Bible MemorySpeaking of things from my youth which have borne much fruit, still, down to this very day…
When I was 19 a fellow at my church gave me a copy of “The Journals of Jim Elliot” at Christmas. (Jim’s widow and biographer Elisabeth would later speak at the church several times.)
It’s one of the fairly few books outside of the Bible which have had a huge impact on my life. And he owns my very favorite non-Bible quote of all time: “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose.” (So true! What wisdom, in a single sentence. I’ll write a post about this in the very near future since it’s totally based on if not straight out of the Bible.)
I strongly recommend it. For anyone, but especially children, teens, and college students. (It’s a great way to help them fulfill 1 Corinthians 11:1 and Philippians 3:17.)
Click here to read it online for free, compliments of Google.
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A Terrific Tip for Parents… and a Shout-Out to an Old Friend
/in Uncategorized /by Bible MemoryA few posts ago (“Why I’m Doing This”) and on the Why page in reason numbers nine and ten, I mentioned that my childhood was characterized by having famous theologians (Merrill Unger, Andy Telford, Richard Seume) and preachers (Haddon Robinson) and Christian leaders (James Dobson, Jay Adams, the latter of whom was the inventor or nouthetic counseling yet downright hilarious at the dinner table, especially when it came time for dessert) and a hundred different missionaries stay at my family’s home from time to time, for up to a week at a time (you really get to know someone when they spend seven straight nights in your home).
Another thing that characterized it was this: before dinner, which we’d all eat together, my dad would lead us in singing a short song or the chorus of a hymn – here are the ones we would sing 99% of the time, basically on a rotating basis but Dad would usually let each of us pick the song and I’d usually pick this first one even if it had just been sung the evening before (certain things never get boring or “old” or “tiring” to me no matter how much I hear or sing or eat them, a trait which has been with me my whole life) (as always, when I post external songs or videos or links, those aren’t an endorsement of the artist or uploader as it’s not worth the time to research all of that – even if such were doable; that said, I do have a strong hunch that most or all of them are fine people who share our Christian values, as otherwise they probably wouldn’t post a song honoring Christ):
(… those first four are the ones I sing most frequently, still, to this very day… Proverbs 22:6 in action!)
(… while in my family’s case it was around the dinner table, that one hits closest to home of these eight videos)
I rarely give advice to parents (I’m pretty sure 99.9% of whom have far more wisdom about how to raise children than I do) but I’m happy to make this twofer exception: as much as possible, (a) eat dinner together, as a family, as a unit, and (b) before “digging in” sing a short Christian chorus and say a prayer… this will pay dividends for the rest of your life. And theirs.
I’m living proof.
[Side note: Speaking of Haddon Robinson, not only did he spend an entire week at my home when I was barely out of my teens but I also got to drive him – an hour each way – to the location of the weeklong preaching seminar he was holding (you also get to know a person really well when spending ten hours in a car with them). What a gift. What a treasure. (I’ve never told anyone about 90% of all we talked about… sounds like great grist for some future posts!) He was known for teaching preachers how to preach. (Similar to Charles Spurgeon a century before, he was known as “the Prince of Preaching”.) Here’s a small example for those of you who have the interest and time and if you lack the latter at least listen to the first 30 seconds, it’s classic Haddon Robinson, Haddon in a nutshell: he never took himself too seriously, but always took the Word of God very seriously… here’s to you, old friend:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
He went home to be with the Lord in 2017, at which time I’m sure he heard the words, “Well done, good and faithful servant.” None of the scandals or “secret sin lives” which some high-profile Christian leaders have had revealed in recent years. Here’s a video of his memorial service… I’ll see you again some day, old friend, and you can let me know how I did with the many boulders (not nuggets) of wisdom and preaching and the Bible you shared with me in those five round-trip car rides in particular.]
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Quick Thought: Blocking Spam
/in Uncategorized /by Bible MemoryLike everyone else, I get quite a bit of spam in my email inbox.
I love the fact that I can simply mark those as such and BLOCK THE SENDER going forward.
That’s exactly what Bible memory does in the Christian life! It “blocks” sin from making it to the “inbox” of our mind.
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Chess
/in Uncategorized /by Bible MemoryI enjoy a good game of chess.
That has been the case since I first learned the game as a child. I just went a decade without playing even a single game (as you know, I have far bigger fish to fry these days) but started playing again over the recent holidays and it really is like riding a bike. I’m definitely not great at it, rather I’d rate myself as a solid “decent” but no Bobby Fischer or Garry Kasparov, that’s for sure; instead of enjoying the game based on skill level, the main reason is that the game is entirely bound by the rules. They provide structure, yes, but the aspect which is even far greater in my view is that once a person knows the rules, the rest of the game (strategy) is comparatively easy. Conversely, when someone doesn’t know the rules, well, you don’t want to be that person in the chess world. (And – unless you really, really, really love them – you probably won’t enjoy playing a game with someone who doesn’t know the rules.) Because those are the game of chess.
And that’s why I really enjoy it: because the rules make the game totally expectable. They eliminate any conjecture or guesswork: if you move a piece to a square that’s unobstructed and diagonal from your opponent’s bishop, you can know with utter and complete and indeed infinite certainty that your piece can be legally captured on the next move. It doesn’t mean that it will be (your opponent might not see it, might want to accomplish another purpose or make another move or two first, etc.) but you can know with infinite certitude that it can be, and that’s what allows one to develop a winning strategy.
And that’s exactly how the Bible is in the “real world” (as we used to say as kids), in life. Not knowing it, not being aware of what it says, is like trying to play chess without knowing the rules, or trying to walk in darkness.
And conversely, knowing what it says enables a person to do what it says and that, my friend, is THE KEY to life, to blessing, to all good things: obedience to God via His Word, the Bible.
Just like in chess when you know that placing a piece in a square which has an unobstructed diagonal path to the opponent’s bishop makes that piece totally vulnerable and quite possibly might end up costing you the game, so also knowing the Bible makes us aware and enables us to avoid the pitfalls of life, to avoid sin and its many devastating consequences…
… and not just to avoid the pitfalls but to reap real rewards…
… in the life to come AND in this one!
Knowing and obeying the Bible is the path to true and lasting blessing and joy and fulfillment. And there’s literally no better way to know and obey the Bible than to memorize it.
If you’d like to help me help countless others do so, please see the Side Panel to the right for several ways, all but one of which don’t cost a dime and hardly any time! (Hey, that’s a rhyme! 🙂 )
And if you’d like to memorize, to store entire books of the Bible in YOUR mind or that of your children or nieces and nephews or students, stay tuned since I sense that in six or twelve months from now I will have received all or at least a sufficiently huge percentage of the specific memory method which the Bible itself has been revealing to my mind’s eye ever since I began this historic project… more updates here on this blog as events unfold over the coming months, I am absolutely certain that it will not only change countless lives but revolutionize the world of education, the very way we learn and teach.
I saw a news article which reported that “chess has been shown to raise student’s overall IQ scores. A Venezuelan study involving 4,000 second-grade students found a significant increase in their IQ scores after only 4.5 months of systematically studying chess”…
Just wait until the world sees the results when I show students (and adults! Because as I often say, it’s never too early to start memorizing Scripture but it’s never too late either!) across the country and the globe HOW to literally transfer and store, permanently, huge chunks of the infinite and effective and beyond-mighty Bible, the “living and abiding” (1 Peter 1:23), “living and active” (Hebrews 4:12) Word of God Himself, which does not “return void” (Isaiah 55:11) but rather “performs its work” (1 Thessalonians 2:13) in any and all who simply believe and receive it.
Stay tuned. Never-before-seen and indeed never-before-imagined things are on the way.
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Why I’m Doing This
/in Uncategorized /by Bible MemoryAs I did with the About page in this blog’s very first post, I think it would be good to paste the Why page in this one, so without further ado…
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When someone hears that I’m well on my way to memorizing the ENTIRE Bible, I’m sure the first thing that comes to their mind is “Whew, glad God didn’t call me to do that!” and then a very close second, “Why on earth would anyone want to do that?!”
My initial response would be that it’s definitely nothing “on earth” that’s motivating me to do this, that’s for sure. For reasons not totally known to me, God has laid this (very strong) calling upon my heart. In my humble opinion, it would’ve seemed far more logical to have picked and empowered someone who wasn’t the biggest sinner I know, the biggest sinner I’ve ever known, and quite possibly the biggest sinner you’ve ever known… but I think the likely answer for why God did just that, why he picked me anyway, is found in 1 Timothy 1:16 – “And yet for this reason I found mercy, in order that in me as the foremost [i.e., sinner, verse 15], Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience, as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life.” I wish I could say that my life mirrors the Apostle Paul’s in every way, like His mirrored the Lord probably more than anyone in human history (1 Corinthians 11:1), but this is definitely one which qualifies, perceiving oneself to be “the biggest sinner” – because the more of the Bible I memorize, the more and more (and more and more and more) I realize and come to see that I am such a sinner, a “filthy rag” if there ever were one (Isaiah 6:5 & 64:6), and then the Bible stored inside my mind immediately and automatically redirects it to dwell not on my sin but on His perfection and purity and righteousness which has not only become mine through the power and working and washing of the Word within but which I have literally become in the utter miracle of spiritual transformation (2 Corinthians 5:17-21).
Here’s a bullet-point then detailed (though certainly not complete) list of my motivations and reasons for dedicating my life to this whole-Bible-memorizing, Christ-glorifying, God-given task and calling and passion.
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The Summary:
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The Specifics:
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The first reason is that I couldn’t and can’t think of ANYTHING in the whole wide world which would bring the Lord Jesus more pleasure and delight than for someone to memorize every word of His “love letter” to humanity – every word of His Word – and then recite His own words back to Him. I discuss this concept more in-depth on the home page and in my Overview video but the gist is this: think how it would make you feel if you wrote a love letter to the love of your life and at some point in the future that person quoted it back to you by heart, from memory. Enough said.
The second reason goes hand-in-hand with the first: as a very unique “love You” and “thank You” gift back to the Lord for who He is and all that He has done and continues to do for us! He is worthy of no less. (I just can’t believe it took two thousand years for someone to do this!) (On second thought…)
The third reason goes hand-in-hand with the second: to give this gift back to the Lord not just from me but from and on behalf of all believers in general and in specific all who support this effort and future outflowing ministries in whatever ways they’re able. Under that umbrella of all believers, I specifically want this to be a special source of blessing and comfort and inspiration for believers who aren’t permitted to worship and carry out their faith in various countries around the world, yet do so anyway. That’s the spirit! (And that’s the Spirit, clearly.) It’s the least I can do since they have provided so much inspiration for me my whole life, ever since I was a child and from time to time would meet missionaries who have devoted their lives to smuggling in and handing out Bibles in various communist-controlled countries with religiously repressive regimes, so the “house Christians” can study and teach and share the Word. On that day when I recite the ENTIRE BIBLE from memory in front of the entire world (literally, thanks to YouTube.com/BibleMemory and BibleMemory.ORG) I will be thinking very specifically of all the “house Christians” around the world who will be “many, many, many rows ahead of me” in heaven since they have paid a much bigger price to practice our precious faith.
The fourth reason I’m memorizing the entire Bible is to raise funds for ministries and other worthy causes including Christian radio stations, which have had a huge, healthy impact in my life throughout the years. Bringing the Word of God to the public, via powerful preaching or mighty music or timely talk shows… talk about a worthy cause! I would love it if the Lord were to use this calling and passion in my heart to also help countless ministries in such a tangible, needed way.
And not just formal ministries but also individual Bible-loving believers whose social media pages’ profile paragraph proudly promotes the Word, especially ones which blare out a Bible verse, a specific Scripture near and dear to their heart and life. It will be my delight and indeed duty and sincere spiritual service to strongly support such individuals and ministries, my fellow workers in the cause of the Bible in general and Bible memory in specific, who too have been saved, sealed, set free, self-confirmed, sanctified and schooled by the Spirit (Titus 3:5; Ephesians 4:30; Romans 8:15; Romans 8:16; Galatians 3:3; 1 John 2:27), sustained and secured by the Son (Philippians 4:13,19; 1 John 5:18), because of the unfettered favor of the Father (Psalm 5:12, also 30:5 & 84:11 and countless other verses), by the true grace of the Triune God.
And not just ministries or individuals who promote Bible memory and specifically this historic event unfolding in real-time here at BibleMemory.ORG but also people who promote it by word-of-mouth or pen and paper or however they’re able and the Lord leads. I want to be a fellow worker and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with people like this. And I must admit that I have a special place in my heart and immediate affinity for those whose social media page(s) in particular has a Bible verse/reference prominently displayed, and I hope you’ll adopt my personal practice to support and “share” those pages: like the people in Paul’s day pointed-out in Philippians 1:17, some of those perhaps promote Scripture out of improper motivations… but I’m quite sure that such represents a super-small segment, that this is true of very few if any, because given the current climate in our country and worldwide, one risks paying a price for promulgating the Bible or anything closely connected to Christ, and this factor alone almost certainly will “weed out” the wayward ones, i.e., I think it’s very safe to assume that pretty much any person who puts a Bible verse/reference in their page-topping profile is doing it for the right reasons, with very pure motives: to do their part to promote the Word and words of our wonderful God and Savior.
The fifth reason but one of the most important on an ongoing basis is that when I started memorizing my very first entire book (James), the Bible itself – as I stored more and more of it within me – started revealing to my mind’s eye a very specific MEMORY METHOD which has made it both much easier and, yes, more FUN to memorize and recite Scripture! I’ll know when that process is complete or at least complete enough to share with others, to roll out to the public and that will be one of the main focus points in the future, for years and Lord-willing decades to come so I’m looking forward to that with enormous anticipation; right now I’d say that it’s around 75% complete so probably in the next year or so; I won’t know for sure until I start teaching it to others but my very strong sense, hunch, expectation is that it will prove to be universal in nature, meaning that it will be of benefit to virtually ANYONE (though probably to a different degree/extent for each person since we’re all different in certain ways but 95% similar in terms of how the human mind and body work, etc. – more about this in future posts… if you’d like to automatically be notified by email when new ones are published – including ones about this will-revolutionize-the-world-and-approach-to-education/learning breakthrough – simply click on the grey “Follow Bible Memory” button in item “3.” at the very bottom of this page or at the top to the right of that “Overview” video and consider it done! Your inbox – and life – will never be the same. The Bible in general and this Bible-borne memory method and process in specific have absolutely revolutionized my mind and heart and life and I’m sure it will bear similar fruit and you will reap similar results and rewards in yours!
The sixth reason is something which has been near and dear to my heart since I was a child: nationwide and indeed worldwide spiritual revival. I’ve literally been praying for the Lord to bring that about virtually my entire life and I’m 100% sure that such will occur. But I’m 1,000% certain that it will ONLY occur IF/WHEN a sufficient percentage of believers, of the Church, of Christ’s body on earth (Colossians 1:24; Ephesians 5:25-30) get “gobs and gobs” of the Good Book, God’s Word, “richly dwelling within” them (Colossians 3:16) and “hidden in [their] heart” (Psalm 119:11) and “binge” on big “bites” of the Bible, because it’s the Bible which sanctifies and cleanses us (John 17:17; Ephesians 5:26; Psalm 119:9), the Bible is the “mirror” (James 1:21-25) which, when “looked intently” into, “performs its work” (1 Thessalonians 2:13) in “transforming us into the [Lord’s] image from glory to glory” (2 Corinthians 3:18), from one level of glory to another to another, and increases our faith (Romans 10:17) to the point that we go through life “seeing the unseen” (Hebrews 11:27) such that, to bring it beautifully full circle, “we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen” (2 Corinthians 4:18). And that, my friends, is the very picture indeed definition of spiritual revival. And it all stems from and is kindled and lit on fire by the Bible. The world is perhaps spiritually drier than it has ever been in the past 2,000 years… sounds like the perfect time for a spiritual fire to ignite and spread and do its purifying and winnowing work so we will wondrously be revived, be “refined by fire” (1 Peter 1:7).
The seventh reason I’m doing this is that the Lord didn’t put this passion and calling into a vacuum but rather into a person – me! Which includes all pieces and parts and components of my personality and traits and experiences, and one of those is that my grandmother was one of the biggest independent antique dealers on the east coast and probably the entire country, and whenever my family would visit her (once or twice a year on average throughout my childhood) she and I alone would wake up very early in the morning (around 5:00) and go down into her (massive!) basement (it was one of my earliest introductions of the concept of eternity, because that room just kept going and going and going and going, with one pile of boxes after another after another) and WORK there until around noon when the rest of my family would wake up and we’d all have breakfast together at that time but first, for me, there were a good seven hours of solid work to do. Moving said boxes to wherever she directed. Polishing the many silver teapots and silver dollars she’d be selling in the coming months (she’d make necklaces with a Silver Dollar as the centerpiece, they were among her best-selling items, those and picture frames, always in huge demand). Sweeping and cleaning the entire area. I totally understand why my other family members weren’t keen on getting up at 5 a.m. on their vacation to W-O-R-K, in a basement… but you know why I did, why I loved it so much? Because I loved her so much, that’s true, but so did the rest of my family, so I think the difference was that I loved listening to her talk, the entire time, the entire seven hours. About life and my school and her favorite TV shows, and a ton of stories about my father and uncles and aunts when she was raising them years before, but most of all by far we talked (okay, she talked, I listened 🙂 ) about business. As noted, she was a major antiques dealer, a real businesswoman the likes of which I’ve never personally seen since, the way she could “wheel and deal” and get the very best price on the items she would buy wholesale from yard/estate sales or the huge antiques market in Williamsburg, Virginia, where I accompanied her on my 13th birthday (which single-handedly and immediately made it one of my most memorable and precious) … a real businesswoman, and during those 7-hour sessions in her basement, she poured that knowledge into my young brain [we started doing those when I was in elementary school and after returning post-Christmas break I started buying a big bag of Jolly Ranchers candy at the local CVS store (called Peoples back then, before getting gobbled up by the behemoth) and then would resell them individually for a quarter to my classmates (I bought a bag of 100 for fifty cents so my pricing, my markup of fiftyfold was probably a bit much but I was in elementary school and didn’t know any better, hadn’t learned the concept of price-gouging but my grandma got such a kick out of that!].
The main point is that business has been not just an interest or hobby but a real part of me since I can remember. So what on earth does all of that have to do with this website and historic endeavor? That when the Lord put this calling in my heart a couple years ago, he also gave me a strong desire to help as many Christian professionals and businesspeople (like my dear grandmother… it’s been a few decades – she died when I was 13, less than a year after that trip together to that antiques market when I saw her in action, saw her doing her thing, saw her wheeling and dealing like never before – and I still miss her) succeed by getting the word out not just about their product or service but especially the fact that they are fellow Christians! One of the main purposes and missions of this website is to make it as easy and practical as possible to help my fellow man in general and believers in specific experience massive blessing in their lives – the one to come, absolutely, but also this one (I Timothy 4:8, 6:6) – and the path to blessing can best be summed up in one word: obedience. To the Lord. To His Word, the Bible. And one of the most practical and immediate ways to do so would be to heed the Ten Commandments as well as verses like Galatians 6:10 and I Timothy 6:2 which couldn’t be clearer about how crucial it is that we Christians put a priority on producing as much benefit and taking as much of our business as possible to, yep, fellow Christians! So along with memorizing all 66 books, the entire Bible, a secondary target of my time in the coming months and years will be spent putting together a nationwide network of Christian businesses and professionals, thus making it EASY for my fellow Christians to identify and take their business to fellow Christians and thus receive the blessings and benefits of obeying these two verses in specific. But wait, there’s more! By generating much more business/benefit for Christian companies and professionals, it will generate more tithes for their local church so that’s a major motivation, too! It might just be the greatest win-win-win-win ever this side of salvation. After I assemble a sufficient number of Christian-owned/run businesses in a given state, I’ll list them in the “Find A Christian Biz” section which is also ChristianBizPages.com so please (a) be praying for BibleMemory.ORG in general including this aspect in specific, and (b) starting soon, whenever you need a product or service, please check ChristianBizPages.com or BibleMemory.ORG/YellowPages (same exact webpage) first so as many of us as possible can apply/obey Galatians 6:10 and 1 Timothy 6:2 (benefitting fellow believers as much of the time as possible) and reap the rewards for all eternity!
The eighth reason I’m pursuing this history-making undertaking is one of the other few ways an aspect of my life can be compared with Paul’s: just as his heartfelt, passionate, all-consuming pursuit in life was to preach the gospel, mine is to memorize the Bible – such that, respectfully paraphrasing 1 Corinthians 9:16, “woe is me if I do NOT” memorize the Bible. Because, having tasted it, I’d be utterly miserable if I didn’t EAT (memorize) ALL of it!
The ninth reason I’m doing this is very similar to number four above: along with ministries in general, I’d love to help missionaries in specific raise much-needed funds. While most of the public probably wouldn’t be inclined to give money to missionaries, they are happy to contribute to the cause of Bible memory especially in such a big, historic context, and I’ll be thrilled and can hardly wait to share a large portion of incoming donations with many missionaries in the very near future, stay tuned to the blog for further details about that. Missions was a massive part of my childhood: every other month or two, a missionary couple or family would stay at my family’s house for up to a week and my jaw dropped regularly as we all sat around the dining table or living room and they’d tell story after story about amazing things God had done when they were on the mission field (usually in South America or Asia or Africa) … sometimes bone-chilling and hair-raising, always amazing. And missions and missionaries have held a special place in my heart ever since! So, yeah, I can barely wait to help raise funds for them via this website and historic endeavor.
The tenth reason is definitely the least likely and somewhat of a subset of numbers three and nine but worthy of separate note. Even just a year or two ago, before the pandemic and certain responses thereto, this would’ve been unthinkable. Absolutely unthinkable. But now I think almost every believer and indeed countless unbelievers, too, can envision a future time in which the Bible could be banned. Yes, even here in the liberty-loving, freedom-fostering U.S.A. I place the odds of that’s actually happening at around 0.0001%, not very likely but when it comes to something SO BIG, SO HUGE, SO MASSIVE, SO ESSENTIAL as the Bible, well, let’s just say that even one-in-a-million is enough for me to foresee this tenth motivation’s potentially coming into play some day: my memorizing the entire Bible will, if the unthinkable does occur, allow me to reproduce it in full and to distribute it around the globe, regardless of the consequences or costs (even if such included the death penalty – indeed, I’d be HONORED beyond words if I were to die for the cause of Christ and, under that umbrella, the Bible). I just mentioned how my whole childhood saw many missionaries spend up to a week at a time at my family’s home; one of those was an elderly Chinese couple who dedicated their lives to going back to China and smuggling in Bibles. The husband was one of the most humble people I’ve ever known, and the wife was very loud (they definitely proved the adage that “opposites attract”, at least in terms of their personalities, it was really funny to behold) and would get so passionate when giving an update in front of the whole church that she would start SCREAMING “Bibles for China! Bibles for China!” Screaming and crying. Tears would literally start rolling down her face just at the thought of how hard her fellow Chinese citizens had it (and still do). (Now THAT was something to behold, which I’ve never forgotten and never will.)
Anyway, a century or two ago, I’m sure that a lot of the Chinese people never thought for a minute that the day would come when they wouldn’t be able to readily and legally discuss much less read much less possess a Bible. What if that were to spread to the rest of the world? Especially after what we’ve seen various governments do during the ongoing (but tapering) pandemic even in (formerly) famously free countries like England and Canada and Australia, those odds have gone from one-in-a-trillion to one-in-a-million. Still small, but much, much bigger than just months ago. Still very unlikely, but no longer unimaginable. Remember hearing about how all-out many people went during America’s “Prohibition” era? Well multiply that by a ZILLION and you’ll understand how all-in and all-out diligent and creative and relentless I would be to fulfill that role. Especially since I’d likely be the ONLY person on the planet who COULD fulfill it, since no one in known human history has ever memorized the entire Bible. Super-duper-duper-duper-unlikely that we’ll ever actually cross that bridge, but given how BIG a blessing the Bible is and how absolutely essential it is in terms of both salvation (Romans 10:17) and sanctification (1 Peter 2:2), in terms of both spiritual birth and growth, such a “back-up plan” or “safety net” is definitely worth making my “Top Reasons/Motivations” list. [Side note: this is a great example of how the Bible and the Holy Spirit work hand-in-hand, as the latter is equally essential in terms of both salvation (Titus 3:4-7) and sanctification (Galatians 5:22-23).]
The eleventh reason is probably the least weighty but nonetheless noteworthy: frankly, I’m dying to see exactly what would happen when the incomprehensibly powerful Word of God is placed IN FULL, IN ITS ENTIRETY, into ONE mind, one brain, one vessel. In a previously-published post, I noted several ways in which the Word and the Lord are inextricably linked, and surely enough, just as Colossians 2:3 says of the Lord Jesus, “in whom are hidden ALL the treasures of wisdom and knowledge”, there’s no doubt in my mind that this similarly applies to the Bible. What would happen, what could occur if the totality of it were to be stored in a single human mind? A finite mind filled and overflowing with the infinite Word. We’ll all find out soon enough but I am certain that it will produce not just amazing but mind-blowing, jaw-dropping, historic results, things that our finite minds can’t even imagine in advance. Like I said, not the weightiest reason but I can hardly wait to find out!
The twelfth reason I’m doing this is that, as discussed in-depth in that same post, Bible memory has proven to be the best HEALTHCARE PLAN ever! I’ll bet that the majority of even Christians think that the Bible is very powerful in the spiritual realm but doesn’t extend to the physical. WRONG! Why can I say that with such certitude? Not just because I haven’t had to go to a doctor or hospital my entire adult life and have enjoyed practically perfect health after memorizing Bible verses since I was a child and that has been even more the case now that I’ve memorized several entire books of the Bible en route to all 66… but not just because of that first-hand experience but infinitely more so because the Bible itself testifies to this truth! Don’t believe me? Think this sounds too good to be true? Well here’s a verse I’ve never heard a single other person or preacher or teacher discuss and of which even most mature believers probably aren’t aware which absolutely stuns me since it is one of the most clear and directly-applicable-in-the-tangible/physical-realm I’ve come across in the entire Bible. I’ll bet the vast majority of believers do know, have heard and even memorized Proverbs 4:23 (“Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life.”) – but not the verse right before it, Proverbs 4:22, and brace yourself because it’s a game-changer, life-changer, world-changer, true gem: ”For they [referring back to the “my words” of verse 20, i.e., the Bible] are LIFE to those who find them, and HEALTH to ALL their WHOLE BODY.” You can refer back to that previously-published post for an in-depth analysis of this verse but suffice it to say that it, that God (it’s His Word and words) says as clear as day that the Bible’s power and efficacy is NOT limited to the spiritual or emotional/mental realms (verses 23-27) but indeed extends all the way to the PHYSICAL realm: ”life”, “health”, “body”. And not just the body of those who “find” His words, the Bible, but “ALL their WHOLE body.” Amazing. Simply amazing. Stunning. Powerful. And I can attest firsthand that it is indeed totally true, that it is indeed “a thing”. And while reading is good and studying is even better, I don’t think anyone would disagree that memorizing the Bible, that Bible memory is the BEST way to “find” His words. Why? Because it most fully and ongoingly gets the Word and words of God Himself, the Bible, INTO a person’s mind and thus (verse 23) life.
The thirteenth reason I’m doing this is to give my fellow Christians a super easy and convenient and direct and immediate way to turn some of the earthly funds God has entrusted to their stewardship into eternal treasure and blessing – not only in the life to come in heaven, but in this life, too! (1 Timothy 4:8) There are many worthy ministries, I’m but a very small cog in the wheel of God’s kingdom and plan… but I’m not aware of very many if any (a) which is so destined to make church and human/intellectual history (not because of me but in spite of me; not because of me but because of Him!) and (b) which supporters will be able to literally see the results and fruit of their support in real-time, with their own eyes (again thanks to YouTube.com/BibleMemory and BibleMemory.ORG) which is most conducive to what the Bible teaches and instructs us about financial stewardship.
And last but definitely not least, the fourteenth reason I’m doing this is to give Christians everywhere something to ROOT for, to root ON, to hopefully give them a sense of hope and inspiration and something POSITIVE on which they can actively and in real-time set their mind even (especially?) when in the midst of one trial or another. I’ll never be able to play basketball like Michael Jordan or quarterback like Tom Brady or Peyton Manning or jump and run like Jesse Owens, but the Lord has granted me the desire and (Bible-borne) ability to memorize Scripture “like nobody’s business” as the saying goes. And like Michael Jordan gave the citizens of Chicago ongoing reason for hope season after season, and like Tom Brady gave the citizens of New England something to enthusiastically root for, so also I want to give the earthbound (for now!) citizens of Heaven (Philippians 3:20) – i.e. Christians everywhere – the same thing, for them to be able to root on someone as he memorizes the ENTIRE Bible for the first time in known human history so he – and, vicariously, everyone who supports this in whatever ways they’re able – can quote Christ’s own words back to Him by heart, and from the heart… I want to see the Lord receive this very special and historic gift!
One of the things I love and appreciate and am most awed about the Bible is that, while it has so many verses, even just ONE of them can literally and absolutely change and REVOLUTIONIZE a life. For eternity. And at the end of the day as they say, that, in a single blurb, is why I’m doing this, why I’m dedicating my life to memorizing the entire Bible. Not just for the massive benefit and benefits it will and indeed has already produced in my life but also because I know it will do so in the lives of countless others and is, without a doubt, the BEST “love/thank-You” gift I can give back to the Lord Jesus Christ which will bring Him the most pleasure. And like the famous children’s song says, “That’s what it’s all about!”
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If you sense that the Lord might be leading YOU to support the historic event unfolding in real-time here at BibleMemory.ORG and the future flow-forth-from-it ministries in line with 3 John 8 and thus become my fellow worker and thus share in all of the fruit and blessings and literally MAKE HISTORY together, here are nine different ways – eight of which don’t cost a dime and barely any time! May God bless you richly for helping out in any or all of the following ways:
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1. Spread the word about this real-time historic event by simply sharing this page with your friends, family, fellow congregation members, and social media followers with a single click – simply select one or more of these platforms (or the last icon to share by email), it’s that easy!
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2. Add your name to my Prayer List!
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3. Encourage as many of our fellow Christians as you can to pray for this historic event by having them go to BibleMemory.ORG/pray (please make sure they understand that it’s .org, not .com) – doing so by word-of-mouth is great, and to do so with a single click on your social media simply click here and select your platform(s) or the email icon on the far right, it’s that quick and easy!
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4. Encourage as many of our fellow Christians as you can to support this God-pleasing, Christ-honoring, Bible-centered, inspirational, real-time historic event by having them go to BibleMemory.ORG/support (please make sure they understand that it’s .org, not .com) – doing so by word-of-mouth is great, and to do so with a single click on your social media simply click here and select your platform(s) or the email icon on the far right, it’s that quick and easy!
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5. Simply SHARE the Bible memory Videos page with everyone you know and encourage them to share it with everyone they know by going to BibleMemory.ORG/videos (please make sure they understand that it’s .org, not .com) – doing so by word-of-mouth is great, and to do so with a single click on your social media simply click here and select your platform(s) or the email icon on the far right, it’s that quick and easy!
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6. Encourage as many of our fellow Christians as you can to become a Bible Memory Ambassador by simply referring them to BibleMemory.ORG/amb (please make sure they understand that it’s .org, not .com) – doing so by word-of-mouth is great, and to do so with a single click on your social media simply click here and select your platform(s) or the email icon on the far right, it’s that quick and easy!
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7. Encourage everyone you know to listen to and SHARE the (very catchy) Bible Memory theme song with everyone they know by going to BibleMemory.ORG/song (please make sure they understand that it’s .org, not .com) – doing so by word-of-mouth is great, and to do so with a single click on your social media simply click here then select your platform(s) listed below the video or the email icon on the far right, it’s that quick and easy!
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8. Regularly read every new post published on the Blog page! (Reading it every day is best but even just catching up each weekend will work wonders.) If you think a post would be a blessing to your friends, family, social media followers or fellow congregation members, SHARE it with them by simply selecting your preferred platform(s) listed at the end of each post! Or to do so by word-of-mouth, simply encourage them to check out BibleMemory.ORG/blog (please make sure they understand that it’s .org, not .com)
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“Norm!”
/in Uncategorized /by Bible MemoryAs we all know, given God’s gracious sovereignty there’s no such thing as “accidents” or “coincidences”, such simply don’t exist. So it was a double blessing when I was researching car batteries and “stumbled upon” a certain webpage which was such an immediate and immense (and ongoing) blessing to me that I just had to share it with you, my readers, here on the BibleMemory.ORG website:
https://www.interstatebatteries.com/about/leadership/norm-miller
Our brother in Christ Norm Miller is a great example of the power of the Bible to truly, tangibly, totally transform a life. From alcoholic at the bottom of the spiritual barrel to the very top of corporate America, that’s the Bible’s revolutionary power. (How fitting that he became the Chairman of a battery company.)
Powering vehicles is his secondary job in life. Powering vessels of a spiritual nature and instilling a sense of hope in everyday people and glorifying God is clearly his primary job and focus in life. After reading his life story and testimony via the link above, I’m sure you’ll agree that it has already been a job “well done” by that good and faithful servant, our fellow Bible-loving believer and brother, Norm Miller.
One of the main motivations and missions of BibleMemory.ORG is to encourage and make it as EASY as possible for folks to apply/obey the Bible, as that is the key to true blessing – not only in this life but also in the one to come… not only in the life to come but also in this one – and I’ve found that the key is to imitate Christ but that can be made much easier to do if we focus on imitating those who imitate Christ which is why the beloved Apostle Paul wrote this:
In other words, imitate Christ, imitate those who imitate Christ, and imitate those who imitate those who imitate Christ.
Praise the Lord for making it easier to imitate Him by giving us people who do such a good job modeling that behavior.
Like Paul.
Like Norm.
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Trumped: Two Truths
/in Uncategorized /by Bible MemoryNo, this post isn’t about politics. Rather, I’m talking about two facts of human existence.
It’s in the Bible so it’s an absolute fact that “Each day has enough trouble of its own.” (Matthew 6:34)
But also in the Bible and equally true is the fact that God’s compassions and mercies “are new every morning.” (Lamentations 3:22-23) Which is why we can count on the crystal-clear claim that “joy comes in the morning.” (Psalm 30:5)
Each day brings new potential pitfalls but starts with NEW MERCIES from God to us to HANDLE those troubles, to avoid those potential pitfalls with flying colors.
Fully. Completely. To turn those lemons into delicious lemonade as it were.
On this end, from our standpoint, it’s almost as though that second truth trumps or counteracts or conquers the first one! If we let it.
The best (only?) way to do so is to meditate all day, every day on the Bible…
… and it’s obvious and logical and self-evident that the best way to truly meditate on the Bible (or anything, for that matter) “all day” is to memorize it.
I hope that noise I just heard wasn’t many groans! Because while memorization probably holds all the allure and appeal of a dentist visit to most people, even many believers, I’m here to tell you that, as discussed on the home page and Overview video, the more of the Bible I memorize, the more I’m ABLE to memorize. The more of the Bible I store in my mind, the more I’m ABLE to store. The more of my mental capacity I fill up, the MORE capacity there is to put/fit even more of the Bible in there, not less as is the case of, say, water in a glass. It truly is a miracle, smashing the (literal) laws of nature. In other words, when I first set out to memorize my very first entire book (James), it was downright daunting. “NO WAY am I going to be able to fit this ENTIRE BOOK in my head!” I thought at 1:1. But by 5:20 I had come to see this miracle, this power in action. But of course, human nature being what and how it is, when I contemplated memorizing my second entire book (Hebrews) I thought to myself – yep, you guessed it – “NO WAY am I going to be able to fit THIS entire book in my head, too!” But by the end of Chapter 5 I was like, “Wow, that wasn’t so hard after all and in fact was EASIER than the five chapters of James” and by the end of Chapter 10 those five chapters were EVEN EASIER than 1-5 and so forth, and this miracle has been playing out like clockwork for SIX entire books of the Bible so far!
It’s not a fluke. At all. Just the opposite. You see, ever since that very first verse of that very first chapter of that very first book, the Bible itself has been revealing to my mind’s eye a specific memory method, which has made each chapter and book noticeably easier to memorize than the one before. I’m 100% about this, and 99% sure that it will be universal, that it’ll work for virtually everyone, not just me. I certainly hope and pray it plays out that way because it will R-E-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N-I-Z-E your life! It will BLOW YOUR MIND because it will UNLOCK and UNLEASH your mind. Just look at the Videos page and you’ll see with your own eyes what I’m talking about!
It’s impossible to say for sure since this mind’s-eye-opening process is ongoing, but my sense, my hunch is that it’s around 75% of the way complete… and I can hardly wait to share it with you and with the world! But in the meantime, while memorization still seems so difficult and/or boring to many no doubt most of you, one way you can still receive much of the blessing and many of the blessings of Bible memory is to spend as much time as possible, as practical, with someone(s) who HAS stored a huge amount of Scripture in his or her heart/mind, as the principle of osmosis definitely works in that realm, too.
Another way is to support this historic endeavor which is unfolding in real-time and before your very eyes at BibleMemory.ORG! Via your prayers and “shares” and, for those who are comfortably able and strongly Lord-led, with a one-time or, far better, a monthly donation as the latter will provide much more visibility and capacity to plan for the months and years ahead so as to best fulfill the Plan of Action discussed on the home page.
And unlike, say, a fast-food meal, investing in THIS will produce eternal fruit and results which you will be able to see with your own eyes for the next several years as, one by one, all 66 books of the Bible make their way onto that Videos page. 🙂 I’m trusting the Lord to lead a sufficient number of like-minded Bible-loving believers to support this so we can please Him in this special way!
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