Easy ways to Practice Memorizing Scripture

One of the biggest, most effective things a Christian can do to better their life is to memorize scripture.

Having scriptures in your mind that you can reference, say out loud, or apply to your life in crazy moments, in moments of temptation, or moments when you’re struggling… can be a game changer. Putting God’s word in your mind allows you to have a constant reminder of his love, his promises, and his instructions for us on how to be human.

Deuteronomy 6:5-9, It reminds us to put God’s word in our hearts and in our everyday life.

It says, 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 on the doorframes of your house and on your gates.

Here are 10 simple ideas on how you can approach putting scripture in your heart and mind and integrating it into your life.

1. Memorize Exercise from Good News at Work This is a free growing audio podcast available on Apple, Amazon, iHeartRadio, Spotify, and more, where you can listen, repeat, and participate in audio quizzes to see how you’re doing. Learn More
2. Leave notes all around your home. Put the scripture you want to be in your mind all over the place.
3. Write it down. Use a forced pause in your life like waiting for a plane or eating to sit down and write the scripture verse you’re working on over and over again. Try and fill up the whole page practicing writing this.
4. Draw a picture of the scripture. Visual learners creatives of any level may want to try this. Write down the scripture on a piece of paper and then start doodling around it. You can make the doodle anything. Represent each word or just the meaning or the principle of the scripture. Approach it with whatever makes a connection in your mind.
5. Set phone alarms with scripture. Use your smartphone alarm label and put the actual scripture as the name. It has a very generous number of characters. It allows you to use your device to remind you to practice and you can set up as many alarms as you want.
6. Use your device background. Put an image of scripture as your background on your phone, tablet, or desktop at home or at work. Need an image? Look on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, Pinterest.
7. Passwords. Take something that you’re probably keying in every day and use it to help you memorize scripture.
8. Make rules or guidelines to help you. Tap into your human nature to help you practice. Make a rule that you can’t eat something or do something until you say your verse.
9. Use flashcards or a friend. Create cards with scripture verse where you need to fill in the blanks. You can practice anywhere you want to and you can even partner with a friend to do quizzes when you meet up over Zoom, or Teams, or FaceTime.
10. The Bible app. You can save the verse that you’re working on inside of the app, like making a bookmark for it. Then you can pull it up in your saved items to read it and practice it or use the audio recording of the verse to listen to it over and over again.

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