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The Romans Project

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Why make time to Memorize God’s Word? In the age of Google, who makes time to still memorize God? Past generations made it a priority to memorize God’s Word. Are we now losing a way of life… and losing our way?

In our making to-do lists to run our lives, why not make time to let God’s Word revolutionize our lives?

Because making time to memorize His Word is putting first things first. If we fail to keep His Word in mind, we may simply fail.

"What a heart knows by heart is what a heart really knows," urges Dennis Lennon. And what the heart knows by heart is all that can calm the heart. And direct the heart. And strengthen the heart.

What do our hearts really know? Will we who claim to be believers of the Word commit to shaping our lives with His Letters? Committing the Holy to heart is the way we commune with the Holy Himself.

Scripture repetition is the way we daily revive our faith, the slow pumping of the Word of Life into the lungs with the breath of His Words. And for the disciples of Christ, this Scripture Memorization isn't a one-time hurtle — but a life-long habit. A way of living to live the Way of Christ.

We want this to be a discipline we practice for the rest of our lives. Think marathon, not sprint." writes Beth Moore. She encourages, "Never — NOT ONCE — have I ever known anyone to get to the end of a Scripture memory commitment and say that it didn’t make any real difference. Not a single time.” So this Commitment Booklet: committing our hearts to Him and His Words to heart.

ART Learning the of Memorizing Attend : Attend to the verse. Do whatever it takes to attend to the verse and work those brain muscles. If you have to act it out, draw it up, write it down, or tape it everywhere. Make up actions and sign-language to correspond with the verse. Listen it a recording of the book of Romans on CD/MP3. Listen in the car, while doing dishes, going for a walk. For children: Draw the verse in pictures. Fill in the blank. Write it down several times. Close your eyes and see the words. Do whatever it takes to Attend.

Review to Renew: Repeat. Recite. Recap. Reiterate. And then…. Recite to an accountability partner weekly. Each day, first thing, take just five minutes to review verses learned last week. Learning is important…but reviewing is paramount to retention. Repeating God’s Word renews.

Tie: Tie Daily Memorizing to Daily Duties. Knot reciting to routines: when you brush teeth, comb hair, make the bed, use the time to savor His Sweet Word. Tie memorizing to meal times. Bind Scripture learning to laundry, labor and living. Tying daily memorizing to daily duties is the living of Deuteronomy 6:7: "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.” Tie His Word to your life. Tie.

So goes the ART of Memorizing. And our motivation to keep memorizing?

“Guard my words as your most precious possession… ” Pr. 7:2 (LB)

Lord, “Your promises to me are my hope. They give me strength in all my troubles; how they refresh and revive me!” (Ps. 119:49 LB)

Seven Ways of Highly Effective Bible Memorization*

1. Old before New: Always take the old paths. Begin each day by reviewing the memorized verses first before learning the next verse. The goal is retention not accumulation.

2. Rinse and Repeat: And again. The only way to retain learned verses is to review them again and again over an extended period of time. Everyday’s memorization rhythm: Rinse and repeat.

3. Location, Location, Location: Like the mantra in real estate is location, location, location, so it is for really remembering: memorize the location of each verse. Memorize each verse number and don’t skip it. This is paramount and makes it much easier to memorize long passages and not inadvertently skip verses when reciting whole chapters. Location!

4. Take a Mental Screen Shot: Use your mental point and shoot and take a brain “photograph” of the verse. Read each new verse several times, hiding one word at a time, burning each word into your mind like light onto film.

5. Preach it: to yourself. Speak your memory verses to yourself aloud. Preach it aloud to the soul that needs it the most — our own — and say each verse with emotion and feeling. Whispering it while driving, walking, working not only is an easy way of reviewing and memorizing, it’s fulfilling God’s call to meditate on His Word day and night. And saying each verse aloud is a way to work the words deep into our memory: His Words never return void.

6. Repeat it for 100: For 100 consecutive days repeat aloud your memory work — all the verses, or the chapter, or the whole book. This is painless and demands no extra time: do it first thing every morning while getting ready for the day — in the shower, getting dressed, making the bed etc. Repeat it for 100!

7. Sabbath Sanctuary to see the weeds: After your Repeat it for 100, take the last Sunday of every month and make a sabbath sanctuary to read through your memory work. This will help you to “see the weeds” — any mistakes that have crept into your recitation of longer projects, chapters, books. Soak in His Word on a Sabbath — pluck out some weeds. Commit your heart — and mind —- to Him again.

(*Ideas adapted from Dr. Andrew Davis)

“I know of no other single practice in the Christian life more rewarding… than memorizing Scripture… No other single exercise pays greater spiritual dividends…”

~Charles Swindoll

online helps: http://www.scripturetyper.com Scripture Typer: Highly recommended. “Combine touch typing with Bible memory and feel the patterns of the scripture as you type them so that you memorize faster, increase retention, and enhance your capacity to memorize verses.” 5 star resource for the whole family. Must-see. http://www.biblegateway.com Biblegateway Search for the verses in your preferred version and print out as many copies as necessary. http://www.downes.ca/memorization.htm First Letter of the words Memorization. Type in verse, click convert, then copy and print the text of just the first letters of each verse. Read several times. The brain works hard to fill in the blanks!

The Romans Project in a Year: Just 2 Verses a Week

Week New Review Recite Week New Review Recite 1 Rom 1:1-2 27 Rom 8:17-18 Rom 8:1-16 2 Rom 1:3-4 Rom 1:1-2 28 Rom 8:19-20 Rom 8:1-18 3 Rom 1:5-6 Rom 1:1-4 29 Review Romans 1 & 8:1-20 4 Rom 1:7-8 Rom 1:1-6 30 Rom 8:21-22 Rom 8:1-20 5 Rom 1:9-10 Rom 1:1-8 31 Rom 8:23-24 Rom 8:1-22 6 Rom 1:11-12 Rom 1:1-10 32 Rom 8:25-26 Rom 8:1-24 7 Rom 1:13-14 Rom 1:1-12 33 Rom 8:27-28 Rom 8:1-26 8 Rom 1:15-16 Rom 1:1-14 34 Rom 8:29-30 Rom 8:1-28 9 Review Romans 1:1-16 35 Rom 8:31-32 Rom 8:1-30 10 Rom 1:17-18 Rom 1:1-16 36 Rom 8:33-34 Rom 8:1-32 11 Rom 1:19-20 Rom 1:1-18 37 Rom 8:35-36 Rom 8:1-34 12 Rom 1:21-22 Rom 1:1-20 38 Rom 8:37-38 Rom 8:1-36 13 Rom 1:23-24 Rom 1:1-22 39 Rom 8:39, 12:1 Rom 8:1-38 14 Rom 1:25-26 Rom 1:1-24 40 Review Romans 1 & 8 15 Rom 1:27-28 Rom 1:1-26 41 Rom 12:2-3 Rom 12:1 16 Rom 1:29-30 Rom 1:1-28 42 Rom 12:4-5 Rom 12:1-3 17 Rom 1:31-32 Rom 1:1-30 43 Rom 12:6-7 Rom 12:1-5 18 Review Romans 1 44 Rom 12:8-9 Rom 12:1-7 19 Rom 8:1-2 45 Rom 12:10-11 Rom 12:1-9 20 Rom 8:3-4 Rom 8:1-2 46 Review Romans 1, 8 & 12:1-11 21 Rom 8:5-6 Rom 8:3-4 47 Rom 12:12-13 Rom 12:1-11 22 Rom 8:7-8 Rom 8:5-6 48 Rom 12:14-15 Rom 12:1-13 23 Rom 8:9-10 Rom 8:7-8 49 Rom 12:16-17 Rom 12:1-15 24 Rom 8:11-12 Rom 8:9-10 50 Rom 12:18-19 Rom 12:1-17 25 Rom 8:13-14 Rom 8:11-12 51 Rom 12:20-21 Rom 12:1-19 26 Rom 8:15-16 Rom 8:13-14 52 Review Romans 1, 8, & 12

Jan 2-9 : Week 1 Recited to ______

Learn Romans 1:1-2 1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God—

2 the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy

Scriptures. µ

Jan 9-16 : Week 2 to ______Recited Review 1:1-2 Romans Learn 1:3-4 Romans 3 regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life was a descendant of David,

4 and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God

in power by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord. µ

Jan 16 - 23 : Week 3 to ______Recited Review 1:1-4 Romans Learn 1:5-6 Romans 5 Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for his name’s sake. 6 And you also are among those Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.µ

Jan 23-30 : Week 4 Recited to ______

Review 1:1-6 Romans Learn 1:7-8 Romans 7 To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be his holy people: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world. µ

Jan 30 – Feb 6 : Week 5 to ______Recited Review 1:1-8 Romans Learn 1:9-10 Romans 9 God, whom I serve in my spirit in preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you 10 in my prayers at all times; and I pray that now at last by God’s will the way may be opened for me to come to you. µ

Feb 6 - 13 : Week 6 to ______Recited Review 1:1-10 Romans Learn 1:11-12 Romans 11 I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong— 12 that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s

faith.µ

Feb 13 – 20 : Week 7 Recited to ______

Review 1:1-12 Romans Learn 1:13-14 Romans

13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I planned many times to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.

14 I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. µ

Feb 20 - 27 : Week 8 to ______Recited Review 1:1-14 Romans Learn 1:15-16 Romans 15 That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome. 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. µ

Feb 27 – Mar 6 : Week 9 to ______Recited

A week to Review Chapter Oneµ

Review the first chapter of Romans: Romans 1:1-16

Mar 6 - 13 : Week 10 Recited to ______

Review 1:1-16 Romans Learn 1:17-18 Romans 17 For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” 18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, µ

Mar 13 - 20 : Week 11 to ______Recited

Review 1:1-18 Romans

Learn Romans 1:19-20 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God

has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from

what has been made, so that people are without excuse. µ

Mar 20 - 27 : Week 12 to ______Recited Review 1:1-20 Romans Learn 1:21-22 Romans 21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.

22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became foolsµ

Mar 27 – Apr 3 : Week 13 Recited to ______

Review 1:1-22 Romans Learn 1:23-24 Romans 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual

impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.µ

Apr 3 – 10 : Week 14 to ______Recited

Review 1:1-24 Romans

Learn Romans 1:25-26 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even women

exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. µ

Apr 10 - 17 : Week 15 to ______Recited Review 1:1-26 Romans Learn 1:27-29 Romans 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. 28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God

gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.µ

Apr 17 - 24 : Week 16 Recited to ______

Review 1: 1-28 Romans Learn 1:29-30 Romans 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; µ

Apr 24 – May 1 : Week 17 to ______Recited Review 1:1-30 Romans Learn 1:31-32 Romans 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but

also approve of those who practice them. µ

May 1 – 8 : Week 18 to ______Recited

A week to Review Chapter Oneµ

Review the first chapter of Romans: Romans 1

May 8 - 15 : Week 19 Recited to ______

Review 1:1-32 Romans Learn 8:1-2 Romans 1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. µ

May 15 - 22 : Week 20 to ______Recited Review 8:1-2 Romans Learn 8:3-4 Romans 3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh according to the Spirit. µ

May 22 - 29 : Week 21 to ______Recited Review 8:1-4 Romans Learn 8:5-6 Romans 5 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.µ

May 29 – June 5 : Week 22 Recited to ______

Review 8:1-6 Romans Learn 8:7-8 Romans 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God. µ

June 5 - 12 : Week 23 to ______Recited Review 8:1-8 Romans Learn 8:9-10 Romans 9 You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. 10 But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life to because of righteousness. µ

June 12 - 19 : Week 24 to ______Recited Review 8:1-10 Romans Learn 8:11-12 Romans 11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you. 12 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.µ

June 19 - 26 : Week 25 Recited to ______

Review 8:1-12 Romans Learn 8:13-14 Romans 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. 14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. µ

June 26 – July 3 : Week 26 to ______Recited

Review 8:1-14 Romans

Learn Romans 8:15-16 15 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in

fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to

sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”

16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. µ

July 3 - 10 : Week 27 to ______Recited Review 8:1-16 Romans Learn 8:17-18 Romans 17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. 18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.µ

July 10 - 17 : Week 28 Recited to ______

Review 8:1-18 Romans Learn 8:19-20 Romans 19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope µ

July 17 - 24 : Week 29 to ______Recited

Review Chapters One and Eightµ

Review the eighth chapter of Romans: 1, 8:1-20 Romans

July 24 - 31 : Week 30 to ______Recited Review 8:1-20 Romans Learn 8:21-22 Romans 21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. 22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of

childbirth right up to the present time.µ

July 31 - Aug 7 : Week 31 Recited to ______

Review 8:1-22 Romans Learn 8:23-24 Romans 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who

hopes for what they already have? µ

Aug 7 - 14 : Week 32 to ______Recited Review 8:1-24 Romans Learn 8:25-26 Romans 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. 26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us

through wordless groans. µ

Aug 14 - 21 : Week 33 to ______Recited Review 8:1-26 Romans Learn 8:27-28 Romans 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. 28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.µ

Aug 21 - 28 : Week 34 Recited to ______

Review 8:1-28 Romans Learn 8:29-30 Romans 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified. µ

Aug 28 – Sep 4 : Week 35 to ______Recited Review 8:1-30 Romans Learn 8:31-32 Romans 31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how

will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? µ

Sep 4 – 11 : Week 36 to ______Recited Review 8:1-32 Romans Learn 8:33-34 Romans 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died— more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.µ 18

Sep 11 - 18 : Week 37 Recited to ______

Review 8:1-34 Romans Learn 8:35-36 Romans 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

Sep 18 – 25 : Week 38 to ______Recited Review 8:1-36 Romans Learn 8:37-38 Romans 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor

demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, µ

Sep 25 – Oct 2 : Week 39 to ______Recited Review 8:1-38 Romans Learn 8:39, 12:1 Romans 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.µ

Oct 2 - 9 : Week 40 Recited to ______

Review Chapters One & Eightµ

A week to review chapters one & eight: 1 & 8 Romans

Oct 9 – 16 : Week 41 to ______Recited Review 12:1 Romans Learn 12:2-3 Romans 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. µ

Oct 16 – 23 : Week 42 to ______Recited Review 12:1-3 Romans Learn 12:4-5 Romans

4 For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.µ

Oct 23 - 30 : Week 43 Recited to ______

Review 12:1-5 Romans Learn 12:6-7 Romans 6 We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith;

7 if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; µ

Oct 30 – Nov 6 : Week 44 to ______Recited Review 12:1-7 Romans Learn 12:8-9 Romans 8 if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.

9 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. µ

Nov 6 – 13 : Week 45 to ______Recited Review 12:1-9 Romans Learn 12:10-11 Romans 10 Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. 11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.µ

Nov 13 – 20 : Week 46 Recited to ______

Review Chapters One, Eight, and Twelveµ

A week to review chapters one, eight, and twelve: 1, 8, 12:1-11 Romans

Nov 20 – 27 : Week 47 to ______Recited Review 12:1-11 Romans Learn 12:12-13 Romans 12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.

13 Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice

hospitality. µ

Nov 27 – Dec 4 : Week 48 to ______Recited Review 12:1-13 Romans Learn 12:14-15 Romans

14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.

15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.µ

Dec 4 – 11 : Week 49 Recited to ______

Review 12:1-15 Romans Learn 12:16-17 Romans

16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited. 17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. µ

Dec 11 - 18 : Week 50 to ______Recited Review 12:1-17 Romans Learn 12:18-19 Romans

18 If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. 19 Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord. µ

Dec 18 - 25 : Week 51 to ______Recited Review 12:1-19 Romans Learn 12:20-21 Romans

20 “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.” 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.µ

Dec 25 – Jan 1 : Week 52 Recited to ______

Review Chapters One, Eight, and Twelveµ

A week to review chapters one, eight, and twelve: Romans 1, 8, 12