I wish to apologize for the double postings! I'm really very sorry about that ... I click post, and then nothings seems to be happening, so I click post again, and a double post results. I will concentrate on waiting longer in the future. I write this because I know that sometimes everything on the newsfeed can be distracting.
I wish to apologize for the double postings! I'm really very sorry about that ... I click post, and then nothings seems to be happening, so I click post again, and a double post results. I will concentrate on waiting longer in the future. I write this because I know that sometimes everything on the newsfeed can be distracting.
You're welcome rvfc2. I'll just share one more thing, if it's helpful to anyone. For verses 17, 18, and 19 of Romans 5, I use acronyms to memorize the first four words of each verse -- especially because the first four words were at first the ones I was most often getting wrong.
17 FIBT (I remember "fib", a white lie). 18 STAT (I remember "stat", as used in a hospital) 19 FATT (I remember "fat", a condition which afflicts many of us) (smile)
Using these has helped me with these verses a lot. However, these acronyms are specifically for the NASV ... if you're using the ESV, perhaps you'l have to make your own acronyms :)
You're welcome rvfc2. I'll just share one more thing, if it's helpful to anyone. For verses 17, 18, and 19 of Romans 5, I use acronyms to memorize the first four words of each verse -- especially because the first four words were at first the ones I was most often getting wrong.
17 FIBT (I remember "fib", a white lie). 18 STAT (I remember "stat", as used in a hospital) 19 FATT (I remember "fat", a condition which afflicts many of us) (smile)
Using these has helped me with these verses a lot. However, these acronyms are specifically for the NASV ... if you're using the ESV, perhaps you'l have to make your own acronyms :)
yes, good point, PeterP. In that scenario, if you score 100% on a verse, the progress might be only 4, 3, 2, or 1 percent, depending on that verse's proportional relationship with the weakest verse.
I've done that too, onfire ... at first unintentionally, but then several times also intentionally, I mean, trying to reduce 75% down to 25% or something like that ... yes, it would be awesome if we could control the intervals "at will".
I agree ... it is indeed effective. I'm going to make it my aim to do that more in the future, "prepping" the verses before adding them, by reading them aloud for several days.
I agree ... it is indeed effective. I'm going to make it my aim to do that more in the future, "prepping" the verses before adding them, by reading them aloud for several days.
Those five verses you've mentioned have also been problematic for me, rvfc2.
Thank you for that tip, as to reading commentaries on the verses themselves. Good idea!
One thing I tried was creating invididual verse sets, such as Romans 5:15-18, then perhaps Romans 5:16-19, Romans 5:17-20 (when you create "individual" verses for review, you can include up to four verses in that "individual" verse).
Using that method those five verses come up for my review more often.
The old fashioned method of simply reading them out loud every day for perhaps ten days in a row will also do the trick ... but do we have the patience to be so old fashioned these days? (I ask this pointing the finger squarely at myself)
I did this with Galatians 5. Before even adding them here at LS dot net, I read them aloud for ten days in a row. Then when I did add them, they just sailed along. Now that they are more mature, there are a few which are becoming a bit difficult, but I guess I'll just have to go back and read them aloud again, maybe for five days in a row this time ... I hope all this helps someone :)
Yes, there are moments when for me too it feels like a grind. At that point, I try if I can to slow myself down and take as medicine, as it were, one verse at a time ... as I do that, and hear from God the Holy Spirit, I'm encouraged again :) Some days I'm successful at that, others not.
We're engaged in a spiritual discipline, I believe. A discipline (of Bible reading, of prayer, of other "Christian" activities) doesn't necessarily bear fruit every single moment in which you engage in it, but if it is engaged in in a God-ward fashion, consistently, with perseverance, genuinely and from the heart, in the long run it will bear much, much fruit. It also bulds for the believer a very strong foundation in Jesus Christ.
It's meaningful to me to see how you continue to move forward with your stated plans. It encourages me to keep doing the same with mine. I praise and thank God for that.
Fabulous accomplishment, joosep! 👏🏽 As an aside, when I visited Israel two years ago, I got a ring with “Ezra 7:10” inscribed in Hebrew. It’s a wonderful verse.
Seeing that set appear on my newsfeed is like a time capsule. I was learning everything in ESV back then, but then when NASV was added, I started over using that version. And now I've only just recently started working on John 7.
Anyway, I pray God's blessings on you as you meditate on these verses!
For some reason it gave me Proverbs 10:12 as the next one. Not sure why, maybe because the Lord knew that I needed it LOL :) I'm slowly working on John 7 and very much looking forward to the day when I can work on John 8!