How to Memorize Scripture

Why should I memorize scripture?

Reason #1 The Importance of The Bible

Heb_4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword,
piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a
discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
In searching for heaven-revealed truths, the Spirit of God is brought into close connection
with the sincere searcher of the Scriptures. An understanding of the revealed will of God
enlarges the mind, expands, elevates, and endows it with new vigor, by bringing its faculties into
contact with stupendous truth. No study is better to give energy to the mind, to strengthen the
intellect, than the study of the word of God. No other book is so potent in elevating the thoughts,
in giving vigor to the faculties, as is the Bible, which contains the most ennobling truths. If God's
word were studied as it should be, we would see breadth of mind, stability of purpose, nobility of
character, such as is rarely seen in these times. {Signs of the Times, January 30, 1893 par. 4}
John 5:39 2 Timothy 2:15
1. Make time to study and memorize
2. Memorize what is Relevant
Every Christian should become thoroughly acquainted with the word of God. The importance
of this study can hardly be over estimated. "Given by inspiration of God," able to make us "wise
unto salvation," rendering "the man of God perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works,"
the Book of books has the highest claim to our reverent attention. We must not be satisfied with
a superficial knowledge, but must seek to learn the full meaning of the words of truth, and to
drink deep of the spirit of the holy oracles. {ST, May 19, 1887 par. 1}
Pro 2:2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
It is of but little profit to read a certain number of chapters daily, or to commit to memory a
stipulated amount, without careful thought as to the meaning of the sacred text. Earnest
attention and prayerful study are required. Some portions of Scripture are, indeed, too plain to
be misunderstood; but there are others whose meaning does not lie upon the surface, to be
seen at a glance. Scripture must be compared with scripture; there must be careful research and
patient reflection. And such study will be richly repaid. As the miner discovers veins of precious
metal concealed beneath the surface of the earth, so will he who searches the word of God as
for hid treasure find truths which are concealed from careless seekers. {ST, May 19, 1887 par. 2}
1. Make time to study and memorize
2. Memorize what is relevant
3. First letter approach

Great pains should be taken to establish a right habit of study. If the mind wanders, bring it
back. If the intellectual and moral taste has been perverted by over-wrought and exciting tales of
fiction, so that the mind is disinclined to the diligent study of God's word, then there is a battle
to be fought with self to overcome this depraved habit. A love for fictitious reading should be
broken up at once; and rigid rules should be enforced to hold the mind in a proper channel. The
pernicious practice of story-reading is one of the means employed by Satan to destroy souls. The
mind that is occupied with exciting stories loses all relish for solid reading that would improve
the memory and strengthen the intellect. {ST, May 19, 1887 par. 3}
Our memory can be improved.
I am acquainted with many sad examples of the evil effects of this baneful practice. I have
known persons of well-balanced minds, whom God had endowed with mental powers of no
ordinary character, to take up the reading of romance; and the more they indulged the
appetite for this kind of mental food, the greater was the demand. The imagination
constantly craved its accustomed stimulus, as the inebriate longs for his wine or tobacco.
Their mental and moral powers were weakened and perverted. They lost their interest in
the Scriptures, and their relish for prayer; and they were as truly ruined, mentally and
spiritually, as is the liquor drinker or the tobacco devotee. Novel-readers are mental
inebriates; and they need to sign a pledge of total abstinence as verily as does the victim
of any other form of intemperance. {ST, May 19, 1887 par. 4}
Baneful: poisonous - destructive
Inebriated: Intoxicated drunken - disordered
1. Make time to study and memorize
2. Memorize what is relevant
3. First letter approach
4. Eat Healthy Mental Food
Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over
to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Rom 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Rom 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents,
Rom 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable,
unmerciful:
Rom 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of
death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
2Co 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed
into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Why should I memorize scripture?

Reason #2 - Victory Over Temptation

Psalms 119:11 Matthew 4 John 17:17

Heb 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our
infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Heb 2:18 For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are
tempted.

1 Corinthians 10:13 John 14:6

Jesus is the Word
Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory
as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Rev 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word
of God.
Romans 10:17 Hebrews 11:3 Psalms 33:6 Philippines 2:5
Colossians 3:16 Roman 12:2 Proverbs 10:7 John 14:26

How to Memorize Scripture Part 1

1. Make time to study and memorize
2. Memorize what is relevant
3. First letter approach
4. Eat healthy mental Food
5. Pray for supernatural ability to memorize
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