Summer Scripture Memory Challenge

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1 Summer Scripture Memory Challenge Hide God s Word in your heart this summer 1. Learn any verses from attached list to earn points until the deadline on August 17. See verses on page 5 for preschoolers 2. Say verses (word for word) to a listener. Most of the verses are in the ESV. The VBS verses & some others are in NIV because this is what the VBS and Sunday School curriculum uses. If you want to learn a different version, bring that version to the listener. 3. Listeners will be available in the Children s Building in the 2 nd room on the right during the fellowship time (:40 AM) each Sunday morning. We will not have listeners scheduled for Sunday evenings but can make arrangements if needed by contacting Glenda Gay. Listeners will track points and keep a record in a notebook. 4. Get a small prize immediately when you say a verse. Get a Wendy s Frosty tag when you earn your first 25 points. 5. Children: Redeem points for prizes at the Memory Market at our Summer Scripture Celebration on August 24, Youth: See Noah for details about your points 7. Families: Work on learning one of the passages together. Make good use of the time you spend in the car, around the dinner table or on family trips! Keep the verses handy to review when you have spare time. Questions? Contact Fran Jagoditsch or Glenda Gay

2 NAME: Wendy s tag given Listener s initials LAKEMONT SUMMER 2014 SCRIPTURE MEMORY CHALLENGE 00 Potential points *** See page 5 for preschool verses *** VBS Memory Verses (note some of these are repeats from previous years but are included again because they are the memory verses for this year s Vacation Bible School) 1 John 4: This is how God showed his love among us; He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 1 Corinthians 13:5 [Love] is not rude, It is not self-seeking 1 Corinthians 13:5-6 [Love] is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 1 Corinthians 13:7-8 [Love] always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. Prayer God hears us Psalm 145:18 The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. 1 Peter 3:12a For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. 1 John 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. God commands us to pray 1 Thessalonians 5: pray without ceasing, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Colossians 4:2 2 Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. Ephesians 6:18 Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,

3 perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, God helps us pray Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. Hebrews 7:25 Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. What should we pray about? Psalm 51: Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Philippians 4:6 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. James 5:14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. Matthew 5:44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 1 Timothy 2: points 1 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, 2 for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. Pray with a clean heart and the right attitude 2 Chronicles 7:14 15 points If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land Psalm 66:18 If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. James 5:16b The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. Examples of Prayers from the Scripture Philippians 1:- 35 points And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

4 Hebrews 13: points 20 Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, 21 equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. Jude 1: points 24 Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, 25 to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. PASSAGES Earn points for each verse OR earn the higher points if you can recite the whole passage Matthew 7:7-60 points 7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! Proverbs Points Note: 3 rd, 4 th & 5th grade Sunday School memory work for summer quarter- This is a good passage for parents to pray for their children 1 My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, 2 turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding 3 And, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, 4 and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, 5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. 6 For the LORD gives wisdom; and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding. 7 He holds victory in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless, 8 for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones. Then you will understand what is right and just and fair every good path. For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. Colossians 1:-14 0 points And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. 13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

5 Ephesians points for learning whole chapter or earn the lower point value if you only learn a section. Youth should focus on learning Ephesians 1 before learning other passages. See Noah for more info Greeting 20 points 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Spiritual Blessings in Christ 125 points 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8 which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. 13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is the guarantee [d] of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, [e] to the praise of his glory. Thanksgiving and Prayer 125 points 15 For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, 16 I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, 18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 1 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might 20 that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. 22 And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all. NAME: Wendy s tag given Preschoolers (finished Kindergarten and younger)

6 We encourage learning any of the verses above but will give credit for these simplified verses for our little ones. Preschool VBS Memory Verses 1 John 4: This is how God showed his love among us; He sent his one and only Son into the world 1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not envy. 1 Corinthians 13:5 [Love] is not rude, it is not self-seeking 1 Corinthians 13:5-6 [Love] is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 1 Corinthians 13:7-8 [Love] always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. Sunday School memory verses for Toddlers, 2 s and 3 s Psalm :1a I will praise you, O Lord, with all my heart Psalm 13:a Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Psalm 150:6 Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Psalm 25:4 Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths. Other verses about prayer 1 Thessalonians 5:17..pray without ceasing, 1 Thessalonians 5:18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 1 Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. Psalm 51: Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. James 5:16b The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. 5

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