Fighter Verses 1

(Photo by Eli)

A friend of mine recently shared something with me that convicted my heart. She said something like this, "Do you realize that if we would have memorized one Scripture passage a month since we've been saved, we would have quite a few verses stored up in our hearts?!" After doing the math, I realized I would have over 200 verses committed to memory! Using this as an encouragement to internalize more of God's Word, I decided to try and memorize a passage a month.

At approximately the same time I decided to do this, our pastor introduced us to the concept of fighter verses. Pastor Joe borrowed the idea of memorizing fighter verses from Pastor John Piper and his congregation of Bethlehem Baptist. On their website is this definition of fighter verses: "Fighter verses are short passages of Scripture which we as a church have chosen to memorize each week. The Scripture, day after day, reveals to us the greatness of all that God is for us in Christ so that by the power of the Spirit we find our joy in Him and the ways of sin become distasteful - indeed, ugly and repugnant."

Our pastor printed up a sheet of what Scripture passages to memorize - we have a passage to learn every two weeks. Pastor Joe introduces us to the passage, explains it in its' context and then encourages us to memorize and meditate on it. I thought by sharing the passage every other week with you, it might encourage you to reap the blessings of memorized Scripture in your own life.

We are into our second week of learning Jeremiah 32:17: "Ah, Lord GOD! It is you who has made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you."