Congratulations on the nine million! I too have wondered at times if my work process here is flawed. In a given passage of about 25 verses, I might be able to get half of them to fully learnt, but the other half "get stuck". Once a verse gets into the 90 percent progress range, you have to test at least at 95% to move it toward 100 with any significance. So, I keep a spreadsheet as a record of each passage, and try to rate its strength. The passages which are weaker I repeat more often ... that's my current process ...
The problem for me, ever since I joined this site, is that I always want to add more verses. And then a conflict ensues between dealing properly with memorizing new verses and also maintaining those which are "middle aged" and those which are nearing Fully Learnt. So, once again I'm attempting to slow down and add even none at all, but just to be satisfied with dealing with the ones I have added in some proper way.
Not saying that everyone should do that, no not at all. Just saying it's where I am at the moment.
I also did a total reset back in October 2019, but I don't recommend doing that. I ended up regretting having to start everything from zero again ... now my primary goal is to get each verse up to Fully Learnt. Having said all that, it's a great joy to come to this site, truly.
Thank you for pointing that out, Jane. I like the idea of constancy in 63:8. "My soul clings to you". (as it is said in my NASB). I feel that the Lord is trying to teach me to seek Him more constantly -- "rejoice always, pray without ceasing". "My soul clings to you". If something clings, it holds on and doesn't let go! Also verse 1 and the word "earnestly" means a lot to me (in the KJB it says "early". Earnestly -- is for me seeking God a light thing along with other means of entertainment? Or is it life and death, as it is in a "dry and weary land where there is no water".
This is how I feel God is challenging me, teaching me.
Slow is OK :) It's much more important to have the right attitude towards God's Word. What comes to my mind is Isaiah 66:2b: "But to this one will I look, to him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My Word." (NASB)
Having said that ... I have my moments when I am humble and contrite, and I have many other moments when I am proud. I pray that I would be more consistently humble.
I hope it's helpful. In general I like this idea, but my ability to remember the verse really suffers when there's no context .... but, have a good evening! (where I am, it's evening)
I'd like to add another possible "tip" to the mix. What I've been doing lately is this: If I have a passage where for example, there is one weak verse at 50% while the rest are 55-65%, I add that weak verse as an individual verse. What happens then is I can test on that individual verse when it comes due and afterward the passage will disappear from the review queue, until more are due.
The downside of this method is that I don't test very well on individual verses ... without having any context at all, I usually don't score very well, but at least it's "pushed forwards" toward the rest of the pack, without me needing to go through all the verses of the entire passage.
Luli2016, I came upon this by chance, and shared some of those quotes with my wife, the ones above from the books you've read. We (my wife and I are both dealing with the issue of forgiveness at the moment, concerning someone who has hurt us, whom we need to forgive ... anyway, I hope this is encouraging to you, that what you shared is bearing / will bear fruit.