I want to know who God is. The God of the Bible and not who I imagine Him to be. Only then can I draw strength from Him to get me through each day. I’m learning and know for sure that God is good, and God is sovereign. My two pillars of strength. I’m also enjoying learning these verses from Psalm 119 which give many more reasons for hiding God’s word on my heart. 9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. 10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. 11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. 12 Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes. 13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth. 14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches. 15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways. 16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word. Thanks everyone for your encouragement. I love being on my journey of learning scripture with such lovely companions.
It is wonderful to think of all the time in the scriptures that is represented by 50 Million points here. "So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." Praise to the Lord for what He is accomplishing in you and for how he is using you to encourage others to also immerse ourselves in the scriptures. 😊
Awesome achievement! You’ve been an inspiration and an encouragement to throughout my LearnScripture journey. Thanks for posting the link in the Deut6v7 list, many years ago!
I want to know who God is. The God of the Bible and not who I imagine Him to be. Only then can I draw strength from Him to get me through each day. I’m learning and know for sure that God is good, and God is sovereign. My two pillars of strength. I’m also enjoying learning these verses from Psalm 119 which give many more reasons for hiding God’s word on my heart. 9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. 10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. 11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. 12 Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes. 13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth. 14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches. 15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways. 16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word. Thanks everyone for your encouragement. I love being on my journey of learning scripture with such lovely companions.
My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me. Psalm 63:8
"The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him; and all the time we are pursuing Him we are already in his hand." (AW Tozer)
That comment was actually from me, Joosep. I have another username which I use to practice my weaker verses. And then I forgot who I was when I commented. But I've been here for more than five years, and I wish to express my gratitude for the good example you've set on this website with the comments you've made.
‘The only thing that keeps me stable and settled in these days of uncertainty, -yea, utter perplexity- is the absolute dependability of God’s Word’ -Elisabeth Elliot And I thank the Lord for your example, your gentle invitation to sign up on learn scripture and the encouragement you have given me in so many ways.
Another reason why some people’s number of verses learnt dropped was because The system was rejigged a few months back. Previously if you’d learnt say John 3v16 and John 3v 17 and also the double verse of John3v16-17 it would have shown as 3 verses learnt. Luke changed that so that it would only show as 2 verses whichever way you learnt them. My total dropped by quite a lot as I used to do something similar a lot in the first year or so as I found I wasn’t getting enough review. I actually learnt verses singly then as blocks of 4 verses. As the site has improved the amount of review needed is better tailored to my need so I don’t need to do that.
Worm please don’t go. We’re all here to learn scripture. I know how much this site has been a help to me. Please don’t feel you need to sacrifice that. We all owe everything we have to the Lord. None of us deserve anything but He graciously loves us and gives us our very breath. Anything that helps us become more like this wonderful Saviour is too good to give up. I’m not very good at putting words together hence I don’t feel good at sharing the gospel. But I have encouraged so many to join this site in the hopes it will help them to know the Lord better. I would really hate to see you leave.
I’m glad you clarified that Worm. I understand now the spirit of what you were saying and see that I did indeed read it the wrong way for which I very relieved.
?? Am I missing something? I’m sure Luli hasn’t said or done anything to deserve such words. Perhaps I’m reading the message the wrong way but it comes over as very judgemental to me. The irony is that if you knew Luli’s story you would not want to live through what she has lived through. I love this site because as well as learning scripture which is a huge blessing, I get to enjoy some lovely company and some lovely encouragement. I’m just puzzled by this message and why Luli has been singled out as though she’s been ungrateful(untrue) or hasn’t had enough suffering (untrue). I’m a little hurt on her behalf.
I agree Bethia. I wish I’d had it from being a child. It’s been the single biggest help to me in learning scripture/meditating/spending time with the Lord/growing in the Lord. So much further to go!