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- More people
have said to me "I just can't memorize."
I say "baloney".
All of us memorize in the same
way. It takes a focus and a concentration that does not feel
like it is there until the process actually begins. What I always
tell folks is that they haven't actually tried.
Saying the verse two times is not
memorizing.
What are the things in your life
that are really important to you? I'll bet they get done!
If you look closely, the
Bible is specific about memorization. Psalm 119 is all about
one who has hidden the Word of God in his heart. That cannot
happen without memorizing. The first chapter of Joshua makes
it clear that the Israelites were to be constantly quoting the
things that God had told them.
We are told that we should commit
ourselves to absorbing God's Word and that we should constantly
repeat it and tell it to our children - that it should be written
on our foreheads (meaning the mind) and over the doorposts and
on the gates of our houses.
Any questions?
You get the verse and you say the
first few words. Add another word. Mess it up. Start over. Pretty
soon you can say the sentence, and maybe two sentences. Then
add more. It takes tenacity and the willingness to feel ridiculously
sluggish of mind.
It takes me from ten to twenty
minutes to have a verse so that I will remember it all day. I
say it over a few times in the hour after I have learned it,
and then I find I think about it all day.
It comes out of my mouth, it is
written on my forehead, and what ever happens during the day,
it is written over my doorpost and on my gate, because it comes
to mind over and over and over.
He is the Word.!
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