Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Your walls are continually before Me.
--Isaiah 49:16. The "walls" refer to walls of protection, defense against evil, security. They are continually before Him -- on His mind, in His thoughts!
68 “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, For He has visited us and accomplished redemption for His people, 69 And has raised up a horn of salvation for us In the house of David His servant-- 70 As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from of old-- 71 Salvation from our enemies, And from the hand of all who hate us; 72 To show mercy toward our fathers, And to remember His holy covenant, 73 The oath which He swore to Abraham our father, 74 To grant us that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, Might serve Him without fear, 75 In holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.
(Luke 1:68-75 NAS; prophecy of Zacharias, John the Baptist's father, upon the birth of his son when Zacharias' mouth was opened after he had been made mute)
Thank you for that reminder, onfire247. It's especially pertinent these days.
janet23, thank you for sharing that -- it's encouraging when we find out that brothers and sisters are thinking similar thoughts, even when separated by a huge distance across the globe.
Thanks for that reminder concerning the seriousness of our times. I've added Hosea 10:12 to my learning queue. Mt 6:33 is already there. Dear Lord, may we heed very well the words contained in those two verses.
If I may ask, Janet, do you like to leave your fully learnt verses as fully learnt? or do you test them again?
I myself used to (a few years ago) re-test the fully learnt verses, but then I decided to just always leave them as fully learnt, so that I could move on to other parts of the Bible. What do you like to do?
A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. And he said, I love You, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge;
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.
15 “Can a woman forget her nursing child And have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you. 16 “Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Your walls are continually before Me.
Thank you for the encouragement, PeterP. There's certainly no other website in existence which has helped me as much as this one has -- I'm sure many others here would say the sme.
Thank you! (In the interest of transparency ... I got that 256 in a row by reviewing a collection of about 80 or 90 verses that I know really well, and then repeating them over and over ... so maybe it's not quite so amazing) But the whole exercise was awesome, it gave me a deeper focus and concentration on the Lord during that time when I was doing it.
I live in Estonia, and there is a saying here which people sometimes repeat: Repetition is the mother of wisdom. (Of course, they say it in Estonian and not in English). Anyway, that saying certainly applies to learning scripture as well.