Thread by @BethMooreLPM

Ok, this is just for those thinking about memorizing Phil 2:1-18 with me. Below are the worst videos ever & done after work today sitting in my car in the Starbucks parking lot. The 1st step is deciding what approach you want to take & acquiring that app or those materials.

An app’s most convenient & coolest but I don’t love it because a lot of the time I practice my memory work is on a walk & I don’t want to be staring at a screen. I get the whole segment printed out just like it appears in my Bible & have it laminated. I know! Pathetic old school.

What you want to do is choose the method that best suits your learning style. This is mine but who’s even gonna go to the trouble to laminate anymore?? I’ve tried every approach and all of them have worked to the extent that I persevered in the discipline but this is my groove.

Here is the page with the rings attached so it’s with my other laminated sheets of Scripture. With the 3 rings, I can either take out the one page for my walk or I can carry the stack. Don’t freak out over this page. We are only committing as a group to the 1st 18 verses!

I’ll say more later but, for now, let me tell you two things that are crucial in this spiritual discipline for me. 1st, I pray earnestly & throughout for God to grant me the supernatural ability to memorize. 2nd, I fellowship with him through it. I say it to him and, when I can’t

remember the next phrase or the next word, I say stuff like, Lord, please remind me what’s next! I love to remind Jesus how he told his disciples the Holy Spirit would remind them of what he taught them. It’s no magic formula. It’s work! But so often, he’ll remind me sure enough.

Go at the pace that is best for you. This is not a race. And also please refrain from berating yourself for not getting every word. Feeling like a failure would be a terrible shame! You’re in Scripture, fcol! The win is Scripture implanted within us. We are still planting down

deep, meditating on God-breathed words even when we don’t have every phrase in perfect order. The key is finding great value in the process, not just a finished work & let’s be honest, social media has stripped us of our focus. This is a way we can push back. Ok! Enough for now!

So happy to have you along.