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Essentials!
Week 8
Lessons 50-56 teach the power and beauty of memorizing God’s Word.
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Overview:
- Learn From The Master: Christ’s Use Of Scripture
- How God Taught His People
- Memorization’s Fruit
- Toy Sword Or Sharp Sword
- Building A Radio To Hear God Constantly
- Getting Started—A Practical Approach
- Review, Review, Review
Video Lesson
Memory Verses
Primary Verse:
How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word. I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.
Psalm 119:9, 11
Secondary Verse:
Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.
Ephesians 6:17-18
Daily Lessons
Memorize
May 11th, 2026
Before we jump into this section of our study, let me make a few comments. First of all, it’s OK not to like memorization. Your culture (if you’re American) has biased you against this form of learning. We live in a unique age where questions can be looked up on handheld devices and accessed in .016 seconds! But… think about how important memorization is – did you memorize: Alphabet?Numbers and Ti...
Memorize
May 11th, 2026
Deuteronomy 6:5-9 “Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them o...
Memorize
May 11th, 2026
Psalm 119:9-11 “How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word. I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands. I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.”...
Memorize
May 11th, 2026
Ephesians 6:17-18 “Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.” This passage from Paul comes at the end of a section on “spiritual armor.” He ends with our offensive weapon – the one part of our ass...
Memorize
May 11th, 2026
I grew up outside of Miami near a Coast Guard base. One of the guys in the neighborhood found out how to build a radio out of spare parts, alligator clips, copper wire and magnets. We scrounged through our father’s workshops for a whole Saturday coming up with all the pieces; we then convened at our local secret tree house and put the “radio” together. The last step was to connect one of the clips...
Memorize
May 11th, 2026
Imagine your brain is like a closet. Inside you would like to “hang” all of the amazing truths of Scripture in an organized fashion so that you can pull them out at any time. The following is the way I was taught to memorize – commonly known as the “Topical Memory System,” developed by The Navigators in the 1940’s and 50’s. Here’s what it looks like… The topic on each card is the “hanger.” If ever...
Memorize
May 11th, 2026
Build a house and at some point, there will be maintenance. Install a landscape, and at some point, there will be weeding, mulching, and trimming. Buy and drive a car, and there will be routine maintenance. Nearly everything that we acquire that has value has a maintenance routine attached to it. Because our brains are organic and imperfect, even Scripture memory requires maintenance. By having a ...