Quest to Memorize The New Testament

Feb 11, 2019 After memorizing the book of Ephesians, I am still in daily review but I feel I still can take new verses rather than purely reviewing. I remember that when I was reviewing James,  I couldn't perfectly recite it yet but I take in new verses of another book and through out the next few month reviewing I can perfectly recite it. Now I am taking Philippians,  2nd day and I have 15 verses already. It is such a lovely book, full of graceful words which rejoices my heart.   Feb 16,2019 I've finished memorizing Philippians 1 and started in Chapter 2. Ephesians daily review for 7 days is done and maybe I'll review after 3 days if I can safely put it in weekly review.  Feels good to be on track.  I created a new plan of memorizing the new testament with monthly separate tab. Documenting every step so I can repeat the method in every book on the way.   Feb 19, 2019 I am scheduled to finish memorizing Philippians 2 tomorrow.  As always...

Feb 6, 2019   I'd like to emphasize that now that I returned in this practice (about two weeks now),  all the days seemed important, not only weekends which was used to be my favorite. I look forward even to go to work because the dead times are profitable time to complete my goals.  The world has lost its attraction to me,  I didn't need to spend money out to entertain myself or watch tv for hours because of the word of truth reminds me my position in Christ.   I hastily memorize this book before I embark memorizing the Gospel of John.  Because I was too excited to start in John,  I didn't follow my review schedules.  Then comes my long period - two years that I stopped reviewing any books. (it was a very difficult time for me, like a malnourished child from word of truth). As a result,  Ephesians is now difficult to re-memorize,  at least compared to James, which I really spent good time of review. I now learn the lesson of...

Feb 2019 Hiatus means a pause or break in an activity. I didn't realized it has happened to me, as if I left in my home and searched an unknown place - nothing but barrenness and dessert without the constant words of God in my memories. Many reasons, like my change of job , change of systems in our company that needs more re-learning, pregnancy, death of a beloved brother in Christ (Bro Henry) who the Lord helped to lead me to him after I became agnostic. Whatever the reasons are, I am glad I realized how is my life without this activity - it is a blessing in disguise and now I know I will do this forever this time as long the Lord gives me life.    It was a while that I paused memorizing and reviewing my memorized books,  about two years (2017-2018). Those times were the most difficult days of my life since I knew our Lord,  because I seem to forgot the hope to which I was called out of my stress in every area o...

I am now 39 weeks on my pregnancy and had my maternity leave. The change in lifestyle of being so free got me so bothered initially. Then I find myself so fond of TV series that our new cable provider have- it was so convenient because it is recorded and I can watch at anytime. Then those I watched cling to me that sometimes I lose sleep and sometimes my desires are being worldly.  Thus I get back to reviewing my memverse and the Word of God lift me up on top of my situation. Now I decided to get back on book memorization. In fact today is my 3rd day in memorizing book of Romans, for I know this book tackles about indwelling sin. This is the dose of my own medicine, thanks be to God and His word and the Holy Spirit who guides us in living in this fallen world.   **Update, this was the post when I am in a struggle to do my memorization and I was in long Hiatus. I am glad to update after two years I was able to get back to memorization and determined to never let ...

May 2017   Its been 3 months since I last posted here. I know I am in the hiatus of memorizing. One reason is my difficult pregnancy - almost 4 months now and always dizzy yet I praise God for this blessings!   One more thing is its now a challenge to keep the books I memorized because of adjustments in my new work with almost no Christian around here, there is only one Christian I know who is not always in our office, he is in the other building. I'm still adjusting seeing people offering and celebrating different many gods and the company culture, usually they don't speak in English but most can only speak local Chinese, so I am usually alienated.    Sometimes I use my little spare time to sit down and watch nonsense things on TV to divert my mind off work, sometimes I use my very little spare time browsing non sense Facebook wall posts. I admit I rarely study the bible and keep me closer to unfruitful works inst...

It has been a long time since I updated my blog. I am doing all I could to hold on to what I already memorized, honestly some had slipped. When my work was changed from full-time to part time seven months ago, my memorization improved so much. It required me more time as I had more things to review but I was so peaceful and makes it easier for me to learn new information. Indeed verses that I memorized helped me so much in times of difficulty. The circumstances have changed recently, my husband may lost his job (though he found a better job after, thanks to God), this circumstance pushed me to find a full time job again. I still have my part time but it cannot sustain all our expenses in Singapore if my husband will be out of job nor pay-off the investments we have started paying. I thought it would be nearly impossible for me to have another job on the same field I am doing, by the way I am an ERP consultant - MS Dynamics AX to be exact. It is because for t...

It was fresh in my mind when I posted that something had improved my memorization. Being active, taking a photocopy of the pages I'm memorizing and constant practice. These are all by the flesh but it does work. Lately my focus on my study is to understand the Gospel. To find answers to the questions I had when I was younger, like why did Jesus prayed with blood on the night before he was crucified if He knew from the beginning that all this will going to happen. Also when he was on the cross why did He say "Father, why have you forsaken me". Some sermons by Paul Washer, reading Psalms, bible study, earnest prayer to the Lord to help me understand...these things leads me to somehow grasp a little, if its the "tip of the ice berg" so to say. To understand that it is not the beating that our Lord feared, it was not the nails or the torture, it was the "Cup of Wrath" that God had given to him to drink on that cross, its the full measure of just punishme...