Writing Verses in Our Hearts
I am so excited about what we are doing today. We are going to be drawing out verses which will help us learn them. In 2020 when COVID hit us and we were all stuck in our homes, my friends and I met on Zoom to draw verses. It started when my friends Winnie and Sheila said they just could not draw. I wanted to rid them of that fear to draw so encouraged them saying we could do a session on drawing verses together. We had fun!
My word that goes out from my mouth
It will not return to me empty
But will accomplish what I desire
And achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Isaiah 55:11 NIV
So, to get started, grab your journal or sheets of paper or a notebook (no bits of paper or tiny note pads or scrap paper please), a pencil, a pen, and an eraser. We use the pen to write out the reference so it stands out clearly.
Impress them (God’s commandments) on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk on the road, when you lie down and when you get up…Write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates.
Deuteronomy 6:7 and 9 NIV
If you are a mother and you have toddlers or children who love to draw, this is an excellent way to memorize Scripture. Do use it with Sunday School children and share it with your adult friends too!
We will be drawing out 10 verses today.
We will draw the highlighted words and fill in the rest of the words with arrows, lines, or words (varying the fonts and sizes).
1. Psalm 127:3b
Children are gifts from God.
2. Ephesians 4:26
In your anger do not sin, Do not let the sun go down when you are angry.
3. Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds of the air, they do not sow or reap or store away in barns and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them.
Matthew 6:28
(Why do you worry about clothes?
See how the lilies of the field grow
They do not labor or spin…..yet not even Solomon was arrayed like them)
4. Psalm 96:12b
The trees of the forest will sing for joy.
5. Psalm 119:11
I have hidden your word in my heart
That I may not sin against you (God).
6. Deuteronomy 26:11b
Rejoice in all the good things the Lord has given to you and your household.
7. Hebrews 1:14
Angels – ministering spirits, sent to serve those who will inherit salvation.
8. Luke 6:12,13
Jesus went out to the mountainside to pray and spent the night praying to God.
(And in the morning, he chose 12 disciples)
9. Exodus 14:21,22 paraphrased
Moses stretched his hand over the sea
All that night long the Lord sent a East wind which drove the sea back and turned it into dry ground.
The waters divided and the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.
10. Ruth 1:2-4 paraphrased
The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name Naomi and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were from Bethlehem and went to Moab and lived there.
Elimelech died, the son’s married Moabite women- Oprah and Ruth.