We all know the importance of Bible verse memory. More often than not, I hear “I have a very poor memory.” They're right, except, of course, when it comes to remembering phone numbers, names of friends, and thirty years of Cubs history or anything else you really want to know. It may be more difficult and time-consuming but you can do it.
You should do it.
- First, select appropriate Bible verses. Not passages, but verses. Choose those verses that you would like to have stored away in that head of yours. Choose verses that would have meaning or significance to you and what you're experiencing now.
- Next, write out the verse. One verse at a time. One verse. Only one verse. No more than one verse. Write it on an index card. One verse. One card.
- Now you're ready to read it out loud. Read a few words, stop, close your eyes and recite what you just read. Do that again. Read the whole verse aloud, close your eyes and try to recite what you just said. Over and over and over and over again. “Repetition is the Mother of Learning.”
- Take the verse with you and say it to yourself. When you're standing in line at the store, take out the verse and read it. After you say it a hundred times, you probably have it in your mind. After you say it a hundred times after that it may be in your soul. Your goal is to have it so that you can recite it as fast as you can recite John 3:16.
Think of Step 4 as the verse would be a piece of hard candy. Roll it around in your head. Get to know it...to really know it. Savor each word. Write it out again twenty or a hundred times.
That's it. All of those steps were for one verse. After you memorize that verse, move on to another verse. Perhaps it will take you an hour. Perhaps a day. Maybe even a full week or more. Once it's in your head, though, and in your very soul, it'll be there forever.
