Choosing the first passage to memorise (after Ephesians 3:14-21 which I'd prepared earlier) is dead easy.
It has to be Jeremiah 29:11-13:
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
This passage occupied an early morning prayer meeting we began when I was minister at North Camp Methodist Church for a year. We kept trying to move on to a new passage and God kept bringing us back.
Different parts of it strike me most powerfully at different times - at the moment its the last verse that grips me, 'you will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.'
I've been a follower of Jesus for over 50 years and I've never quite managed this. There's always something that gets in the way of me giving my whole heart to him. Sinfulness, busyness, good things that aren't God things and many more.
Repeating this verse as part of my memory passage will challenge me over and over again to allow God's Spirit to fill my heart completely. Repeating the Ephesiansd prayer reminds why its in my best interest to do so.
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