15 Scripture memory tips: 2) Stick ‘em up.

Here’s a handy Bible memory strategy that works for lots of people.

If you’re struggling to remember a particular passage of Scripture, why not write it on a sticky note or an index card and post it someplace in your home or work space?

If you’re struggling to remember a particular passage of Scripture, why not write it on a sticky note or an index card and post it someplace in your home or work space? Stick it on the front of the nightstand by your bed or on the bathroom mirror.

What about setting your computer, your smart phone, or your tablet - so your current memory verse appears as a graphic screensaver?

Maybe that’s the point of the Old Testament practice of displaying sections of God’s Word on door frames. Perhaps that’s why the priests wore certain passages of Scripture on their own garments.

Remember this familiar passage?

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. (Deuteronomy 6:4-9, ESV).

If we display special Scriptures in prominent spots, will we not be reminded of their content?  Placing passages of the Bible in key places, where we cannot help but see them and take notice often during the day is a great way to jump start our Bible memory.

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15 Scripture memory tips: 1) Write ‘em out.

Wanna commit a key Bible verse (or even a longer passage to memory? Write down the words!

Seriously? Yep, you got it. Put pen to paper. Hand-write every word. Do it a few times, if that’s what it takes.

Maybe this undertaking merges visual and kinetic learning styles. The two-pronged approach really does help to imprint the words into the human brain.

In Bible times, scribes were well-versed in the Scriptures. (Yes, I went there.) These artisan-scholar professionals spent their days hand-writing copies of the sacred texts. And you can bet they could quote plenty of passages – chapter and verse.

Don’t you just wonder how out lives might be enriched from practicing this technique with our own Bible study?

Right now, I am blessed to belong to a wonderful small-group Bible study. We are diving into Beth Moore’s Children of the Day: 1 and 2 Thessalonians. And one of the homework assignments is to write out both books in longhand in the back of the book.

Maybe that sounds like a tedious task. But I am already amazed at how this process makes me stop and ponder the words, instead of speed-reading them.

I had the same assignment last summer (in a different group), while completing the homework in Beth Moore’s James: Mercy Triumphs workbook. I came to enjoy writing out the verses each day.

Keep my commands and you will live;
    guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
Bind them on your fingers;
    write them on the tablet of your heart.

(Proverbs 7:2-3, NIV)

Why not pick up a pen, and write down the Bible verses you want to memorize? Your brain just might pick those Scriptures up faster than you ever realized it could. And your heart may carry those truths in a deeper way as well.

* All verses taken from NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION.

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