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can you read it and tell me how I did
newspaper has been posted on bible memory newspaper
A friendly reminder that God is good
I think one of the hidden verses was in a group with the school’s name 🙃
My school is 9 hrs away or 7.5 hrs if I go at night
How many hours away is the place your moving?
Thanks, yes my pfp has to do with Sad Hour, maybe like the war between the flesh and the spirit 🙃
I’m getting ready to move next week
Does that have anything to do with Sad Hour?
Cool pfp, Will. Interesting how half of your face is in the light and half of it in the dark
Thank you, so far so good. How’s your day?
thanks will that is helpful 😊
Part 6, “Now all has been heard;
here is the conclusion of the matter:
Fear God and keep his commandments,
for this is the duty of all mankind.
For God will bring every deed into judgment,
including every hidden thing,
whether it is good or evil.” Ecclesiastes 12:13-14. The difference between the aging unbeliever and the aging Christian is this: the unbeliever loses everything that matters to them - memory and legacy. For the Christian memory and legacy have no meaning and replaces them with the fear of God, love for God, and obedience to God. None of that is for our sake, but for the sake of God and His will.
Part 5, So what is our hope if we have no legacy, no memory (eventually), and no guaranteed positive impact. Well, first of all, why are worry about these at all? Isn’t a legacy for your glory? Your memory for your delight? And positive impact for your sense of purpose? They are all about you being meaningful, when in fact the only meaningful being in existence is God. Nothing about you or what you do is meaningful apart from what comes from Him. James 1:17-18, “every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like the shifting shadows. HE CHOSE to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruit of all he created.” By God’s grace you were saved through Jesus, and He has given you your current circumstances for you to work out. Whether the result will be remembered or impactful is of no consequence to you. Only God’s will matters, not your memory and legacy, and He will determine the impact of what you do. So, do not worry, love God, do what He says - He loves you, so obey Him. He is your reward and all you should ever love. Then you will not need a legacy, you will not need memory, you will not need to be impactful: all you will need is God.
Part 4, What this tells me is that I will leave no legacy to be remembered by, and neither will you. You will be utterly forgotten. I had an uncle who reached old age and became very concerned with the legacy he would leave behind. The only legacy he left was the sinking feeling that nothing he did mattered because he didn’t know the Lord. But will we as Christians leave behind a positive legacy? Will the actions of us be remembered? I believe the answer is no, our actions are not guaranteed to have positive impact, and they certainly will not be remembered. This is because we have no control over the impact of our actions on others whether positive or negative; we don’t know how other’s will perceive us or even whether our greatest efforts will be our least positively impactful or whether our least effort will have the greatest positive impact. Ecclesiastes 2:21, “for a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge, and skill an then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune.”
Part 3, In both Ecclesiastes and in The Father, the tragedy is the loss of memory. For some reason, memory seems essential to the ability of humans to feel a sense of meaning. Without memory, what’s the point? But it’s abundantly clear that eventually there will come a time when you will not remember much anything, and eventually you will pass from the memory of your descendants until all you are is a name among thousands on the page of a family tree.
Part 2, Ecclesiastes makes clear that the fate of the wise and the foolish are the same: “I saw that wisdom exceeds folly, just as light exceeds darkness:
14The wise man has eyes in his head,
but the fool walks in darkness.
Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both. 15So I said to myself, “The fate of the fool will also befall me. What then have I gained by being wise?”
And I said to myself that this too is futile.
16For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool! 17So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind. (Ecclesiastes 2:14-17)
Part 1, I'm was listening to the soundtrack to the movie The Father - a movie from the perspective of an old man with dementia. It is not a Christian movie, and it shows just how hopeless life just before death is for nonbelievers. But why is being a Christian any different? We all grow old and lose our memories and eventually our lives. What is the difference between an elderly non-believing man who doesn't know his children and an elderly Christian man who doesn't remember his family either?
I have always been taught to capitalize his name
well if you don't it actually means a fake god
well yea… I guess I get what you mean and ye
Sure, I just mean it shouldn’t be a big deal if it’s an accident
but I think we should because we are showing respect and it’s a name
I don’t think there’s any place in the Bible that says you must capitalize the word God 🧐
it's okay but remember to capitalize it
you better capitalize God because that means the real God
umm … don’t be pessimistic I want him to come back and through god anything is possible
not to be mean be mean but it most likely won't come back
I hope your cat comes back
I guess it is just my cat ran away a little bit ago and I miss so bad
how’s everyone been recently?
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“On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night. Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings. I cling to you; your right hand upholds me.” Psalms 63:6-8
ummm maybe I just well no offense but you have not been on that long yet and I have not known you long give it a little time maybe just a little time
can I have admin on your group Emma
please join my new group be still
will do you want admin in friendly discussion
@felix594, I only give admin to users who’ve been active for a while, sorry
because I and I am not saying I should I am just asking for it
but why should you get it
because I joined before you
no why would you get it if I get it
hi I just joined can I have admin
Part 3: So before God I have nothing. I am nothing - except for what He has given me. He gave me life, He gave me life, He gave me breath, He gave me His image, He gave me Hos righteousness, He gave me His love. I am poor, but He is rich, and He has given me some of that wealth. Enough to live in-spite of the horror that is the world. I love God, but I hate living. But because I love God I love living. I do not understand it. Only that it is my privilege to love as I slowly whither away into dust. And if God is gracious as He says He is, if He has indeed died for me, then I will live with Him. But it seems unjust that a worm should live with God. I wish He would reject me as I deserve, but He hasn’t and He tells me He loves me? Why? What is there to love? Yet He does. And there is joy, there is hope, there is peace, there is satisfaction - a resignedness to living for loving: there is God, and there is loving God.
Part 2: I am utterly powerless before Him, if He were just He would smite me. If life were easy He would kill me now and send me to heaven. But to desire heaven and forget to live is to idolize heaven. It values heaven above God. But instead, love God. And God will add those things to you if He wills. Which He promises He will, but it is not your right, but His desire. That is why I am filled with joy; because I am not significant enough to fail God’s plans for me. What can I do but follow Him? If I love Him, I will walk with Him and will not fall. If I fail to love, Jesus is my advocate and His righteousness saves me. But my righteousness or unrighteousness has no effect on God’s accomplishments through me because I never had any righteousness to begin with. I came to God with nothing but broken shards, but He put those shards together because He wanted to. He loved me for some reason - because He made me and He wanted to love me - He gave me the righteousness of Christ.
Part 1: Why in the world did God save a sinner like me, I don’t get it, I don’t understand, but it’s so amazing that I don’t know what to do? Is this joy for real or will it leave me tomorrow or even a month from now? I don’t know, but I do know that God is good, and if it is His good pleasure to crush me, than it is my good pleasure to exist for Him and let His sovereign will work within me to the fullest of my potential in His will. What can I do but love God? What will I do without Him? So all that is left is to love God, there is nothing else to do. No one ever sinned because they loved God too much, but only because they loved Him to little. And by extension my weakness is that I don’t love God love enough, yet He says that His power is perfected in my weekends. But how can that be when my weekness is not loving God enough? Yet there it is, God works through me despite my weekness, He does not give His plans for me to another, but works through me because I cannot alter His will. I will accomplish all He wishes me to accomplish because I have no way of altering His plans.
Here is a stream-of-consciousness style summary of what I’ve learned this summer and what brings me joy. It is my solution to the meaninglessness of life and the world.
JJ
Monday, Aug 7, 2023 at 6:49 PM
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Hey, Haven💖, thanks for helping me understand salvation in Hard Times.
“Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places. To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.” Habakkuk 3:17-19 ESV
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Ok will do also thanks for praying for me and my friend! I have been feeling better and so has he !
hey if anyone is on youtube then please check out my channel called dreams drawing! thanks!
My family gets back from a trip and I’ll be with them
Oh, how come only for the rest of the week?
Yep, I’ll be back for the rest of the week I think
the newspaper has been posted on “Bible Memory Newspaper” make sure to check it out!
good morning all, I hope you are all doing amazing!! tomorrow is the weekend!! NO SCHOOL 😅😂 very excited. hope you all have fun 😁
Also I am pro panda just with a different account!
I will pray for you and your friend😔🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Also can you pray for me I have been feeling really sad/down for some reason thanks 🙏🙏🙏
can you guys pray for !y friend Ryan he doesn't think he deserves friends and he is also not a beliver!
hi will do you remember me?
hi it's me pro Panda again
“A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.” Ecclesiastes 1:4
thanks I’ve been feeling a lot better 😊
@everyone thank you for praying ☺️
Praying for sure @Lydia!!
Praying @Lydia, hope you feel better soon
hello I was jus5 wondering if you guys could pray for me i’m feeling really down for some reason idk 🙁
Oh Sofia are you the one who said on Memoji you wanted a friend? (Btw I’ll definitely pray for you!)
I agree with you Will. The science is always real.
@SDAJohn pretty much everyone experiences symptoms of depression at some point in their life, that doesn't necessarily mean you have depression. Though it could be worthwhile to get help anyway. For a psychiatrist to diagnose you with major depression (clinical depression), you must have at least five symptoms with either "depressed/sad mood" or "losing enjoyment in usually pleasurable things" experienced almost daily for at least 2 weeks." (WebMD)
@Sophia, thank you for reaching out. I will definitely pray for you. Do you have any people in your life that you can or already have talked to about this?
Hey, I'm new here, and I saw the description. Please pray for me...
I've been going through a lot of depression for a couple of months,
and everything seems wrong, I hate myself sometimes, and I feel like I was a mistake. Please pray. I know you guys don't know me, but I need some help and prayer
@SDAJohn, are you depressed?
Hi @Buddy, there are quite a number of ways to deal with depression. A lot of studies show exercise is just as or more effective than antidepressant medications. Regular sleep, healthy eating, and good hygiene can also help. Also, it is also good to talk about your experience with friends and family, so you aren't struggling alone. Some people also decide to get counseling or therapy from non-psychologists, though I would recommend finding a Christian counselor who can help you spiritually as well as mentally. Other people find they have problems with their thyroid and get hormone treatment from regular doctors. For severe depression, especially when suicide is a risk, you should probably see about getting medication from a psychiatrist. Since depression can often impair judgement, I would also recommend making decisions about dealing with it with someone else. (Disclaimer: I'm not a medical doctor or psychiatrist, so make sure to evaluate things for yourself, I've just researched some stuff that might be helpful) Does that help?
Is depression something you can deal with without a pysche?
M_E
Thursday, Mar 30, 2023 at 12:31 PM
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hello!
And @Henry yeah imma glad you are ok now!
@Avery I’ll definitely pray!!🙏🙏
Glad you are doing better @Henry
OH NO!!! I’m so sorry, Avery!!!
Seems like I used to have all those things in the description 😂😅 God in His grace healed me of them 🙂 I still have ADHD though 😅 but God brought healing in that to, so I now take the lowest prescribed dosage instead of the highest prescribed dosage and hope to get off them for good eventually
Yeah I’ll definitely pray!! 🙏@Hannah
Hey, I read the description, very nice btw, and I used to have sever social anxiety. I still have anxiety, but not quite so bad, and am going thru some tough times rn, so prayers for me plz.
I added a bunch of stuff to the group description 🙂
sorry I had violin lessons today
o don’t know why I said lol
And I did my best with the verses if you don't want any of the ones I added then feel free to remove them😅
Also, thanks for adding all those verse collections 😃
Anyone got any more verses I can add to 'difficult verses to understand?'
Thanks! I'll get those added
And here is a difficult verse to understand... Rev 12:7 😁 it is hard to understand bc I can’t imagine spiritual beings fighting 🤔 Like how do they? Because there is no way that an Angel would die in a battle, so I think that maybe it is a different type of fight.. idk yet..
Here is a sad verse Acts 7:60 😊
Also Psalm 3:4-8 😊(All of those can be in any translation you choose) Thanks 😊
And in the same collection can you add 1 Peter 5:7-11.. Thanks 😊
In the Hope Collection can you add James 1:1-10 Is it too long? 😅
Let me know if there’s any verses you’d like to add
I was just thinking how disgusted David sounds with the people in the Psalm Paul quotes from in Romans 3:10-18
Some key words that give the passage structure: first Paul repeats “none” and “no one.” Then these synonyms: “throat,” “tongues,” “lips,” and “mouth.” Then Paul explains their effect on others: “feet are swift to shed blood” and “in their paths…” The conclusion and ultimate wrong is that they do not “fear God.”
“as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one." "Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive." "The venom of asps is under their lips." "Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness." "Their feet are swift to shed blood; in their paths are ruin and misery, and the way of peace they have not known." "There is no fear of God before their eyes.” Romans 3:10-18
I think you changed your name so I thought you were a different person 😂
a month late welcome but thanks!
Welcome @Lagomorph lover and @ToHimBeTheGlory
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Saturday, Apr 16, 2022 at 1:38 AM
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FACT: The nails in Jesus’ hands probably went through his wrists and not in the center of his hands as is traditionally shown. That is because the wrist has a cluster of nerves and bone that could support his weight on the cross. The nail would rip through his hand if put through the center.
what time zone are you in? central?
Big rant about music on Theological Discussions (overflow) if anyone’s interested
I'm sad hour's best friend
fyi, I made @AidenGale an admin
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Thursday, Mar 24, 2022 at 1:57 PM
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Vera anonymousey wants to talk to you
Will, praise God! That's wonderful! 😃
@Vera I was also raised by a Christian family, my dad is a pastor/biblical counselor, and I was homeschooled for my entire pre college education. I believed that Jesus died on the cross for my sins when I was about 4 years old. Since then, God has guided me to become more mature in my understanding of His glory, my fallenness, and His grace. I have had times of doubt and pretty dark depression, but God has helped and is helping me through those times. He is the reason existence is meaningful.
Well, if I hadn't condensed mine, it would've been long, too 😅 I don't care how long it is, I'd like to hear it 😉
What are y'all's testimonies? 😃 I love hearing them and seeing how God brought each one to Jesus
Yes, thank the Lord, I have been! 😄 My condensed testimony is: I was blessed to be raised in a loving, Christian family. When I was 4 years old I was born again. When I was around 9, the Lord took my family through a refining process, and during that time, I was baptized in the Holy Spirit and Fire (Matt 3:11), and I pressed into the Lord, rededicating my life to Him. Somewhere around that age, I was also baptized in water. I have since rededicated myself, but one time that sticks out more clearly is when I was 15, and I prayed for joy and felt it surge up within me. Throughout these past few years, the Lord has been teaching me more and more through His Word and others, and I'm very thankful to Him 😃
washed by the water I'm clean
I was born again when I was about 4 yrs. old
Slouch and Tom (and any other of you), I'm curious, have you been born again?
Hezekiah isn’t a book in the Bible, so I would imagine a verse from there would be very difficult to understand.
Anyone else have any verses that they find difficult to understand?
I have a new group called “hard times” if want uplifting and comforting verses pls join
I love the verse psalm 41:1-2
Hello I just joined, because I love the verses, God bless.
Question: what do you think was the most (or one of the most) difficult passages in scripture for you to read or understand?
let me know if you have anymore verses you want to add
Yes it is, I’ll put it in a new section
psalm 23 1-6 is a good verse
i love this group I love this group I love this group. Add Matthew 5:4 as well!
Yes, I thought it was appropriate 😄
the shortest verse is, Jesus wept John 11:35
I think this group should be about contrasting suffering to the grace and life found in Jesus Christ
is me Josiah but space jam
I see! That’s a good perspective!
they are supposed to make you think, and ask why God put them in the Bible are there at all.
I did not expect to get many people
It’s not too encouraging to do these verses anyway…
Do be honest, I’d say these are the saddest verses I’ve seen! You probably won’t get too many people to join this group!