{"id":33791,"date":"2022-09-10T21:02:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/memorize-the-word\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T21:02:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:02:50","slug":"memorize-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/memorize-the-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorize the Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In a recent issue of his Daily Hope devotional, Rick Warren emphasizes the importance of memorizing Scripture. He writes: You may not think you have a good memory, but you remember what&#8217;s important to you. You remember the phone numbers and dates you care about. I&#8217;ve heard people say they can&#8217;t memorize anything, but they can quote songs from the 1960s and rattle off the statistics of their favorite baseball players.<\/p>\n<p>Memory is a skill you can learn. It&#8217;s a muscle you can strengthen. In fact, memorizing Scripture will cause your brain to have a stronger memory in other areas. I guarantee it. Study after study has shown this.<\/p>\n<p>Why is it important to memorize Scripture?<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll always have God&#8217;s Word with you. When you&#8217;re tempted, you don&#8217;t have a Bible open or by your side. When you&#8217;re witnessing to someone who doesn&#8217;t know Jesus, is under stress, needs comfort, or is in a crisis, there&#8217;s usually not a Bible around. You need God&#8217;s Word in your mind so you can remember it and review it right when you need it.<\/p>\n<p>You can meditate on Scripture wherever you go. You can&#8217;t review God&#8217;s Word unless you remember it. If you&#8217;ve memorized Scripture, you can think about it when you get into bed at night or as you drive to an appointment. You can think about the Bible because you&#8217;ve memorized it. That&#8217;s called meditation. The only promise of prosperity and success that God gives us in the Bible says that meditating on his Word is the key (Josh. 1:8).<\/p><\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_container the_champ_horizontal_sharing' data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/www.preaching.com\/articles\/memorize-the-word\/\">\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\">Share This On:<\/div>\n<div class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent issue of his Daily Hope devotional, Rick Warren emphasizes the importance of memorizing Scripture. He writes: You may not think you have a good memory, but you remember what&#8217;s important to you. You remember the phone numbers and dates you care about. I&#8217;ve heard people say they can&#8217;t memorize anything, but they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/memorize-the-word\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Memorize the Word&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}