Wow! Congratulations! To complete 3000 is truly impressive. And I’m also impressed that you’re keeping up with adding one new verse every day. I had to slow down, because my completion rate was too patchy, so that my review list was getting ever-longer. But you obviously have a great rhythm. May God bless you as you continue to both add and finish verses.
Great analysis, OnFire! And I also agree with you, Joosep - I think the system works with fraction of % points, which are then rounded for display. Sometimes you can review a verse that’s (for example) 98% finished, and gain +1%, and still be on 98% afterwards. In such a case, I assume it was actually 97.7% to start with, +0.6% = 98.3% afterwards. I’m reviewing almost all my verses ‘early’ most of the time, because I usually review a complete chapter using ‘test instead of read’, which means that the system drives the review cycle based on the weakest verse in the chapter.
I’m in the opposite position - I’ve added John chapters 10-21. (Started learning, that is, far from ‘fully learned’!) Now I need to add John 1-9. But it’s a long-drawn-out project, and I’m also interspersing other chapters that strike me as I read or hear them preached. (Currently 2 Timothy 2)
We had a couple who visited our church several times who had a very powerful prayer / healing ministry, and they regularly started with that simple question: ‘what would you like Jesus to do for you?’ Too often, when we pray for others, do we jump to our own conclusions about what to pray for. The story of Jesus and Bartimaeus reminds me how important it is to listen to people and encourage them to express their heart’s desire and their faith.
I feel for you with those tragic verses! I can completely relate to this. It’s usually a short verse, and a brief lapse of concentration and/or poor typing can bring it crashing down to 70% or even worse! But my memorisation technique is a lot more haphazard than yours, so I’m sure I’ve got a lot more than 7 of them. Congratulations on 489 out of 642. I’m confident in you. I predict 95,000,000.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Moviegoer. I have found exactly the same - memorising scripture using this site has become a great tool for daily devotion each morning. I started learning verses, then I switched to learning chapters. And thanks for your comments about difficult passages too. I agree that the process of slowing down to memorise gives more opportunity to explore these passages with God.
Treeswallow, I’d say there’s a difference between receiving the Spirit (as Jesus said in John 20:22) and being filled with the Spirit (as described in Acts 2). All Christians receive the Holy Spirit when they accept Jesus as saviour (2 Cor 1:22). But for me at least, being filled with the Spirit (Acts 2:4) was a separate event. I can still vividly remember the first time, and I have experienced the filling of the Holy Spirit numerous times since.
3 years! That’s amazing! I’m happy to congratulate you and rejoice with you as you store up God’s word in your heart. Will you continue the new-verse-each-day habit even though there’s no further badge to aim for?