Following Jesus

Following Jesus

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Scripture Memory Programme 2024

Christian living is all about learning to follow Jesus. We follow Jesus not only by emulating His fine example but also by yielding to God’s work of changing us into His image, and being conformed to His Word in every area of life. May you experience the joy of following Jesus as you memorise and meditate on these passages of Scripture.

January 7 & 14 – Running the Race

Philippians 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

January 21 & 28 – Running the Race

Philippians 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

February 4 & 11 – Following Christ

Luke 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

February 18 & 25 – Following Christ

Matthew 10:38,39 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

March 3 & 10 – Christ’s Exaltation

Philippians 2:9,10 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth.

March 17 & 24 – Victory over Death

1 Corinthians 15:55,56 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

March 31 – Victory through Christ

1 Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

April 7 & 14 – Service

1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

April 21 & 28 – Reward for Service

2 Timothy 4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

May 5 & 12 – Honouring Parents

Exodus 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

May 19 & 26 – Marriage

Mark 10:7-8 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

June 2 & 9 – Marriage

Mark 10:9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

June 16 & 23 – Parenting

Colossians 3:21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

June 30 – Gospel

Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

July 7 & 14 – Work Relationships

Colossians 3:22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

July 21 & 28 – Work Attitude

Colossians 3:23,24 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

August 4 & 11 – God’s Sovereignty

Psalm 75:6,7 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

August 18 & 25 – Christian Living

Philippians 2:12,13 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

September 1 & 8 – Christian Living

Philippians 2:14,15 Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.

September 15 & 22 – Bearing Fruit

John 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

September 29 – God’s Love

1 John 4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

October 6 & 13 – Brotherly Love

John 15:17,18 These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

October 20 & 27 – Chosen out of the World

John 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

November 3 & 10 – The Word of God

Psalm 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

November 17 & 24 – The Word of God

John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

December 1 & 8 – The Word of God

Jeremiah 15:16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.

December 15 & 22 – Christ’s Birth

John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

December 29 – Salvation

Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

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