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Feels good, doesn't it? Great job!

400! So good!

Congrats!

I see. I thought it was probably just an anomaly on the Dashboard wall count. Thanks for the info.

Excellent! Congrats!

I have up to six volumes planned, I just haven't gotten around to it yet. I have the scriptures saved though.

This just goes to show you what four years of hard work looks like. Congrats!

Great job!

Great job! Keep it up!

Great job, Rachel! I love how consistent your graph is. Keep it up!

I feel you. In the ESV version of John 4:26, the translators have Jesus answer the woman with "I who speak to you am him." What an obtuse way to phrase that! Anyway, I personally stick with the ESV for memorization, but I find that my previous knowledge of the KJV messes with my testing. Honestly, which translation you pick for which verse doesn't really matter. Whatever makes the Word stick in your mind is fine. The reason I pick the ESV is because they try to stay true to the way the author wrote it in the Greek and Hebrew, which actually does matter. This is especially true in the Greek, because the ordering of the words in the sentence show which point the author is trying to emphasize. I find that some paraphrasing translations fail to pick that up.

Awesome!

Welcome to the club! Congrats!

Thanks! I'm glad I found this website.

Glad you could join us. Welcome to the group. 🙂

Woohooo. Well done. Your consistent and fast progress is an encouragement. Trust you are being blessed as you learn scripture. You should soon receive an invitation to the multi-millionaires club. Hope you can join us.

Awesome! congratulations! :)

Thanks! I'm glad I found this website.

me too :) May your progress here continue to be steady and consistent!

When you hit these times, close your eyes and take several deep breaths. Take a moment to thank God for his word and the ability that he’s given you to memorize it. Take as long as you need but do not give up. When you start again, break the sentence down into smaller parts. Repeat the first part five times, then close your eyes and do it again from memory. Read that part and then the next part together, and repeat the process. Finish that verse, and then quit for the day. Say out loud, “I will not be derailed by one bad session, and I will be back here tomorrow to do it again!” Then get up and do something fun to reward yourself for your perseverance.

Whenever you are faced with a difficult situation in life, you will hear two different voices in your head. The first voice will say, “You can’t do this,” and the second voice will say, “You can do this.” Whichever voice you listen to is the one who wins. Do not let the negative voice win. Remind yourself that the Creator of both the Word you are memorizing and the mind you are doing it with dwells within you through the Holy Spirit.

There are going to be times where you want to give up. You will come along a verse or a passage and regardless of how many times you try to remember it, it just will not stick. It is perfectly natural to want to stop during these times. Do not do this! The first time you quit is hard, but it gets easier every time after that.

I knew there had to be a story there. Thanks for sharing yours with me. I can't imagine how long that took, writing down every verse that's good in the Bible! Also, I'm impressed you can keep track of them all. I tried learning individual verses, but I found that they just wouldn't stick unless I memorized the context in a chunk together.