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Why Memorize
Scripture?
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Memorizing
Scripture has many benefits. In Joshua 1:8 the Lord tells Joshua, "Do not
let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night,
so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be
prosperous and successful." Our spiritual prosperity will be greatly affected by
our diligence to meditate upon and obey God's word. Memorization is a means to
meditation. As we memorize, Scripture, we can then meditate on it and apply it
to our lives.
16 reasons to memorize Scripture:
- Help in avoiding sin
Ps 119:11 I have stored up your word
in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
- Comfort in affliction
Ps 119:50
This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise
gives me life.
- Spiritual life
Ps 119:93 I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have given me
life.
- Wisdom
Ps 119:98-100 Your commandment makes me wiser
than my enemies, for it is ever with me. I have more understanding than all my
teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the
aged, for I keep your precepts.
- Delight
Ps 119:103 How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter
than honey to my mouth!
- Guidance
Ps 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my
path.
- Hope
Ps 119:114 You are
my hiding place and my shield; I hope in your word.
- Peace
Ps 119:165 Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them
stumble.
- A heart of worship
Ps 119:171-172
My lips will pour forth praise, for you teach me your
statutes. My tongue will sing of your word, for all your commandments are
right.
- Freedom
Jn 8:31 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide
in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32and you will know the truth, and the
truth will set you free."
- Makes Scripture readily available to teach, witness,
encourage or reprove others
2 Ti 3:16-17 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for
teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that
the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
- Increased faith
Ro 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of
Christ.
- Victory over temptation
Mt 4:4 But he answered, "It is written, ' Man shall not
live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the mouth of
God.'" (This is from the account of Jesus' temptation in the
wilderness. Jesus answered each of Satan's temptations by saying, 'It is
written...' then quoting a Scripture from memory.)
- Confidence in prayer
1Jn 5:14-15 And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we
ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears
us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of
him.
- To imitate Jesus' own example
Jesus often quoted
Scripture, for example, when teaching (Mt. 5:21ff), when tempted (Mt. 4:1-11),
when confronting the Pharisees (Mt. 9:13), and when explaining the parables to
his disciples (Mk. 4:12).
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