{"id":306888,"date":"2021-06-12T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/memorizing-scripture-2\/"},"modified":"2021-06-12T07:00:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T11:00:06","slug":"memorizing-scripture-2","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-this-week\/memorizing-scripture-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorizing Scripture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a reason the Word of God is referred to as \u201cthe sword of the Spirit.\u201d It&#8217;s \u201csharper than any two-edged sword,\u201d \u201cliving and active,\u201d and it \u201cnever returns void.\u201d We can maximize this spiritual weapon by memorizing Scripture. Larry Fowler, Emmitt Fowler, Hannah Leary, and Barbara Rainey talk about the blessings of hiding God&#8217;s Word in your heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Fowler, Emmitt Fowler, Hannah Leary, and Barbara Rainey talk about the blessings of hiding God&#8217;s Word in your heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"https:\/\/d2c17sq0nj1f7e.cloudfront.net\/flw2021-06-12.mp3","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:28:00","filesize":"25.64M","filesize_raw":"26882904","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2822],"tags":[4294,4960],"podcast_series":[],"cwp_profile":[3052,9428,8831,3088],"series":[10388],"class_list":["post-306888","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","hentry","category-growing-in-your-faith","tag-family","tag-scripture","cwp_profile-barbara-rainey","cwp_profile-emmitt-fowler","cwp_profile-hannah-leary","cwp_profile-larry-fowler","series-familylife-this-week"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2023\/10\/FLTW-Podcast-Cover-2-1400x1400-1-300x300-1.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-download\/306888\/memorizing-scripture-2","player_link":"https:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/306888\/memorizing-scripture-2","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"youtube":{"key":"youtube","url":"","label":"YouTube","class":"youtube","icon":"youtube.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/feed\/podcast\/familylife-this-week","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ZR9SbQn4BJ\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-this-week\/memorizing-scripture-2\/\">Memorizing Scripture<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-this-week\/memorizing-scripture-2\/embed\/#?secret=ZR9SbQn4BJ\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Memorizing Scripture&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"ZR9SbQn4BJ\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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A lot of folks these days say that it\u2019s just too hard to memorize because the Bible is complicated; it has hard words in it and different kinds of ideas. Someone didn\u2019t tell that to nine-year-old Rebecca Horning. Here she is reciting Isaiah 40:28-31.\n\n<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not, neither is weary. There is no searching of His understanding. He giveth power to the faint, and to them that have no might, He increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall. But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:28-31[Applause]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> That\u2019s Rebecca Horning, the primary division winner of the National Bible Bee from 2009. Today, we are going to talk about the power of memorizing God\u2019s Word, whether you\u2019re five or ninety-five. Stay tuned.\n\nWelcome back to <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em>. I'm Michelle Hill. Today, we\u2019re going to talk about Scripture memory on <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em>, hiding God\u2019s Word in our hearts.\n\n[Previous Interview]\n\nI\u2019m hear in the studio today with Emmett Fowler and, via FaceTime<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> audio, Larry Fowler. Welcome, gentlemen.\n\n<strong>Emmett:<\/strong> Thanks; appreciate you having us.\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> Thanks, Michelle. Glad to be on.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> I want to do a slight introduction here. Emmett is the director of broadcast relations here at FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>. If you are hearing the program today via radio, you have him to thank for that.\n\n<strong>Emmett:<\/strong> That\u2019s not <em>quite<\/em> accurate. I mean, it\u2019s partially accurate, Michelle; [Laughter] but let\u2019s not overstate things.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> So it\u2019s not totally accurate?\n\n<strong>Emmett: <\/strong>No, no; we just don\u2019t want to <em>overstate<\/em>; that\u2019s all. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Okay; we won\u2019t overstate things.\n\nHis uncle is Larry Fowler. Larry is the founder of Legacy Coalition, helping grandparents be <em>intentional<\/em> grandparents. Before that, he served for many years with Awana<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>. Larry, it\u2019s my understanding that your family has a <em>strong<\/em> commitment to memorizing Scripture in that it was your mother, who was the moving force behind that. Can you tell me about her?\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> The commitment was <em>hers<\/em>. She certainly instilled it in all of us, but it started with her. My mom just loved to memorize Scripture herself. Interestingly, she never had any external motivations to do it; she just did it because she loved it.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> How would she encourage <em>you<\/em> to memorize Scripture?\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> When I was a little boy, I remember that we had a calendar from a Christian radio station on the wall of our house. We lived in central Nebraska, and we listened to KJLT\/was the station we had. They had a calendar that had a scenic picture and then a Scripture verse on the calendar. I don\u2019t know why she picked that, but she made sure that I memorized every one of those verses.\n\nFrom the time I was pretty little\u2014I couldn\u2019t tell you how old, but I\u2019m sure four or five\u2014I was memorizing a verse a month. She just insisted on it, so that became instilled in me and built a strong foundation.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Obviously, it started to go on generations once the grandkids came along; because, Emmett, you have memories of your grandma <em>recalling<\/em> all that she has memorized.\n\n<strong>Emmett:<\/strong> Yes; I have some very similar memories to my uncle. When I was really young, my grandparents had moved to another ranch. We both grew up on ranches there in central Nebraska. I can remember being in the car with them, going to spend the weekend or to spend a week with them. To pass the time\u2014it was a 70-mile ride between our two ranches\u2014I can remember having her help me pass the time by coming up with Scripture memory games; it was entertaining. She would give us verses to memorize, and I can certainly remember playing those games with her in the car.\n\nThe other memory that I have that\u2019s very distinct\/that\u2019s very similar to Larry\u2019s is being at her house on those week visits. Instead of the calendar, she actually made a chart; she had the verses written down that she wanted me to memorize. I was young enough, where getting a gold star was kind of a big deal. She had these little gold stars; and every time I could memorize the verse, she would put a gold star on that chart. She kept the chart on the refrigerator, and she would put a gold star by the verse when I learned it. That was going on before kindergarten, so three\/four years old.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Wow; obviously, she thought Scripture memory was very important.\n\nLarry, why is Scripture memory so important? What have you learned through it?\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> It\u2019s a spiritual discipline that\u2014like prayer, or like Bible reading, or anything else\u2014it\u2019s a Scriptural discipline that helps prepare us for the battles that we face. You don\u2019t always have a Bible that you can open; today, we\u2019re not always able to hit the app on our phone and look up that Bible verse. But when it\u2019s in our memory, the Holy Spirit can bring it to our minds just when we need it.\n\nThat\u2019s one of the reasons that I appreciate Scripture memory so much. During the times where life has really been hard\/faced some difficult things, then those verses are there. It\u2019s amazing how the Holy Spirit brings them to mind to encourage, or to strengthen, and sometimes to convict. It\u2019s a great spiritual discipline.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Larry, you spent many years of your life serving with Awana, which helps young people deepen their knowledge of God by memorizing Scripture. Do you have any tips on how to memorize? Can you encourage us in why we should be doing this discipline?\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> Yes; of course, it\u2019s work! Anything that\u2019s worthwhile is work. But there certainly are some tips to make it easier.\n\nIf you have a verse, after you have read it through several times\u2014say three or four times <em>carefully<\/em>\u2014then take a piece of paper and write down the first letter of each word. It\u2019s kind of like shorthand for dummies. It gives you enough of a visual hint to help you in that intermediate process of learning. Then, you recite the verse from just the first letters of each word rather than from reading the whole verse. That\u2019s one of the best tools, intermediate, to help memorize.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> I actually have been doing that tip. Someone gave me that tip a few months ago. I don\u2019t know how long ago\u2014it was back in February\u2014I had my cheat sheet with me; and I was traveling for FamilyLife. I had my cheat sheet on my bedside table at a hotel room. My roommate comes in; she flew in from another part of the country. The first thing she said to me was, \u201cSo are you with the CIA right now? [Laughter] Are you a code cracker?\u201d I said, \u201cNo; I\u2019m trying to memorize Scripture. That\u2019s the only way I know how.\u201d But that is a very helpful tip\/very helpful tip.\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> And of course, it always helps to visualize it in some way, too. Anything you can do to write it out to create a visual\u2014whether that\u2019s through hand motions, or writing it out, or something\u2014you add another sense to your learning process, and that helps.\n\nI remember when our son, Ryan, was in second grade. I think he conveniently forgot to tell us that he had an assignment to memorize a passage of ten verses for his Christian school. He conveniently forgot to tell us until the night before. [Laughter] He had to learn ten verses in one night. We sat him down and said, \u201cOkay;\u201d\u2014we were not too happy with that; we said\u2014\u201cyou\u2019re going to write out\/you\u2019re going to draw pictures for all these verses.\u201d And he did! Amazingly, he got them memorized that night and finished his assignment. We kept that sheet that he drew the pictures on for quite a long time; it meant a lot to us. That\u2019s a good illustration of how that works.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Now, Emmett, going back to your grandma. She had a passion\u2014a passion for Scripture memory\/a passion of hiding God\u2019s Word in her heart\u2014did you find that you had that same passion, because she had passed that on to you?\n\n<strong>Emmett:<\/strong> Well, I wouldn\u2019t say I had it at the same level she did; I\u2019m not sure many people do, frankly. As Larry said earlier, she didn\u2019t really have an external motivation for that; it was something she was convicted to do.\n\nBut she did pass that on when I was younger. I think what that did is it allowed me to have some confidence, later on in schooling\u2014both high school and Bible college\u2014where I had to memorize Scripture as an assignment. I thought, \u201cHey, I can do this; because I\u2019ve been doing this since before kindergarten.\u201d I think she gave that to me.\n\nI was thinking earlier, as Larry was talking, I think one other thing that she did\u2014I don\u2019t have a specific memory of this conversation, but I\u2019m sure she was saying things like this to me\u2014we weren\u2019t just memorizing words out of a book; we weren\u2019t just memorizing a passage like you would a poem or something. She was communicating to me that: \u201cThis was God\u2019s Word. This is something that will live inside of us as God illuminates it through the Holy Spirit.\u201d\n\nI\u2019m sure she wasn\u2019t saying it that way to a four-year-old, but she was communicating it to me that this is something that\u2019s <em>life<\/em>: \u201cThis is spiritual <em>life <\/em>to us.\u201d She played a very large role in my salvation story, coming to faith in Christ: it was her example; it was her helping me memorize Scripture; it was her reading Bible stories to me. I have wonderful memories like that of her.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> It seems like, if she is that close to God, and He\u2019s forming her character, in some ways, that\u2019s why she was so <em>special<\/em> to you because she knew how to love; she knew God\u2019s love.\n\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Emmett:<\/strong> Yes, she did; and she communicated that to me as a child, and my sister as well. It wasn\u2019t just me; it was my sister, who\u2019s two years older. We were both memorizing verses like that when we were very young. We would both, to this day, say that she\u2014along with my parents, of course\u2014but she has had some of the greatest spiritual impact in either of our lives.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Emmett, that\u2019s so great to hear about your grandmother, Margaret Fowler, and her legacy. We\u2019re going to hear more about her, and also about memorizing Scripture when we return. We\u2019re going to take a break, though. We\u2019ll be right back. [Child\u2019s voice reciting Scripture]\n\n[Radio station break]\n\n[Child\u2019s voice reciting Scripture]\n\n<strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Welcome back to <em>FamilyLife This <\/em>Week. I\u2019m Michelle Hill. We\u2019ve been talking about Scripture memory; and in particular, one important grandmother, Margaret Fowler: grandmother to Emmett Fowler, who joins me in the studio today; and mother to Larry Fowler, who is on via FaceTime.\n\nLarry, you\u2019re a grandpa. You\u2019ve got to be doing something with memorizing Scripture, and with your grandchildren; right?\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> Absolutely. My wife and I work in Awana in our local church. We work with four-year-olds, and we have a four-year-old grandson in the group that we serve with. That becomes a tool for us to use. We have three grandsons we live real close to. The little two-year-old memorizes right along with his bigger brother and wants so badly to do it.\n\nOf course, Grandma\u2014my wife, Diane\u2014she adds an M&amp;M each time they say the verse correctly. [Laughter] There always needs to be some motivation for little kids; that works pretty good.\n\n<strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Emmett: <\/strong>I like the idea of M&amp;M\u2019s better than gold stars. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Even now; would that help you memorize now?\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> It would; it would. [Laughter]\n\nMichelle, just an illustration of how much it meant to my mom. She was very unique\u2014I\u2019m with Emmett\u2014I don\u2019t know that there\u2019s hardly any other people that I\u2019ve met, maybe one or two, that valued Scripture memory as much as she did. It was just who she was.\n\nWhen she was 94\/95, even a year or so before she passed away, we\u2019d go visit her. Emmett and I both had this experience. She had this piece of paper\/half sheet of paper. She had written, in pretty small writing, columns of Scripture verses that she had memorized over the years. She would want to review those. I can remember sitting with her; and for 40 minutes, my mom just recites verse after verse after verse that she\u2019s memorized. Then, she always wanted to make a game out of it too. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Emmett:<\/strong> That is so true. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> Yes; she would say, \u201cGive me a letter of the alphabet. I want to see how many verses I can recite that begin with that letter.\u201d Right up until the end of her life, until she wasn\u2019t able to anymore, she wanted to continually refresh her mind with God\u2019s Word.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> What a legacy; what a special lady.\n\n<strong>Emmett:<\/strong> I had that same memory\u2014like Larry said\u2014she wanted to play that game a lot. I remember times, when I was in high school, it didn\u2019t feel quite as cool; I mean, I was in high school and didn\u2019t feel like I had time.\n\nBut as I got older, as an adult and married, we would go and visit my grandmother. That\u2019s exactly what she would want to do. I think she actually got bored with being able to just recite verses, and that\u2019s why she would come up with the game\/the alphabet game. It made it a little more of a challenge for her. She had entire books memorized; it was an amazing thing to watch.\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> I have a question for Michelle: \u201cWhat letter of the alphabet do you think has the <em>least<\/em> number of verse that begin with that letter?\u201d\u2014not counting \u201cQ\u201d and \u201cZ\u201d and \u201cX.\u201d\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Wow.\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> Okay; we won\u2019t stump you too long: \u201cR.\u201d\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u201cR\u201d?\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> \u201cR\u201d: there are hardly any verses that begin with the word\/with the letter \u201cR.\u201d\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Not even \u201cRemember\u201d?\u2014I guess maybe.\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> Of course, there\u2019s a few: \u201cRejoice evermore.\u201d But there\u2019s just not very many. She knew that; she knew that really well.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Wow; what an incredible, incredible legacy\/incredible memories that she has left with you guys. She really did; that is amazing. Thank you, guys, for sharing the <em>memories<\/em>.\n\nOh, Emmett; yes.\n\n<strong>Emmett:<\/strong> I actually have one more. It will fit well with what you just said, Michelle. You want to talk about how it lasts\u2014I\u2019ll get a little teary as I tell this, so bear with me\u2014I don\u2019t have my Bible here with me today; but if I had it, I\u2019d open it up and show it to you. I have a 3x5 index card that\u2019s in my Bible. It\u2019s my grandmother\u2019s handwriting; it\u2019s dated 1972. I would\u2019ve been five years old.\n\nIt\u2019s the list of verses that she had written out for me\/the references. It says: \u201cEmmett\u2019s verses; September 1972.\u201d It\u2019s the verses that she gave to me to memorize. I still keep that in my Bible; that\u2019s evidence of her lasting legacy, and it\u2019s a challenge to go back and review those verses. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u2014that you learned so many years ago.\n\n<strong>Emmett:<\/strong> Nineteen-seventy-two was a long time ago.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> It was. As Scripture is commanding us to hide God\u2019s Word in our heart that we might not sin against Him\u2014that\u2019s truly what she did\u2014and she left that legacy. She lived that legacy, and she taught that legacy; it\u2019s incredible.\n\nThanks, Emmett; thanks, Larry, for joining me today. And thank you, Margaret Fowler, for the legacy and the memories that you passed on.\n\n<strong>Emmett:<\/strong> Thanks for having me.\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> You\u2019re welcome, Michelle.\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> There was a leader of the Israelites\u2014he took over after Moses\u2014his name was Joshua. Upon taking over as leader, God shared with him these words\u2014actually, God <em>commanded<\/em> him and said\u2014\u201cThis book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you might be careful to do according to do all that is written in it.\u201d That\u2019s what Margaret Fowler did.\n\nThat\u2019s also what Hannah Leary is starting to do. Hannah is a young woman, who meditates on God\u2019s Word day and night. She started memorizing Bible verses at a very young age through the National Bible Bee. I had the pleasure to talk with Hannah\/ really, just a quick conversation about the first summer she started to memorize Scripture for the Bible Bee. She said it wasn\u2019t always that easy. Here\u2019s Hannah.\n\n[Previous Interview]\n\n<strong>Hannah:<\/strong> That first year there was a lot of memory work\u2014I got this package in the mail\/this <em>stack<\/em> of memory verses\u2014I\u2019m like, \u201cI can <em>never<\/em> memorize all this.\u201d And I <em>didn\u2019t<\/em>. That first year, I didn\u2019t memorize everything and was just overwhelmed by the amount; but I was surprised at how much I could do. I got to the end of it; I was like, \u201cWow; I memorized 1,000 verses. I never knew I could do that!\u201d You know what I mean? The competition motivated me to do something I never thought possible.\n\nWhen the competition wrapped up that first year, I looked at the different passages I had memorized and was going through them. I noticed, just for an example, that, in the book of Ephesians, I had part of chapter 1, part of chapter 2, most of chapter 3 memorized. I\u2019m like, \u201cI might as well just memorize the whole book.\u201d I went ahead and memorized the book of Ephesians. It just developed in me this love and excitement about memorizing God\u2019s Word. I continued competing ever since that first year in 2009 up until 2014.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Wow. That\u2019s incredible; I mean, to start off with 1,000 verses.\n\n<strong>Hannah:<\/strong> Yes!\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> That is incredible. I\u2019m sitting here, going, \u201cHow did you do that?\u201d Was that just writing the verses out? Or do you have any tricks of the trade or anything to share with us?\n\n<strong>Hannah:<\/strong> Right. It <em>is<\/em> an overwhelming: \u201cOh, my goodness; how could you ever possibly do that?\u201d But you don\u2019t know until you try.\n\nI know, for me, memorization\u2014people are like: \u201cOh, you must be a pro,\u201d \u201cIt must come easy to you,\u201d \u201cIt must be something you\u2019re super smart about or really diligent about,\u201d\u2014yes, I did put a lot of time and energy into it\u2014but your mind and your brain is a muscle; so the more you do it, the easier it becomes. When you start out, it is hard; and it is hard to retain them all. For me, it was keeping at it\u2014reviewing\u2014the more you do it, the easier it becomes.\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Memorizing Scripture is hard; it\u2019s very hard. I want to put a little plug in for the National Bible Bee. Just so you know, there are just five days left to sign up for this year\u2019s National Bible Bee. We\u2019ll have a link on our website that will point you to all the information: FamilyLifeThisWeek.com.\n\nI know what you might be thinking: \u201cIt is just way too hard to memorize Scripture,\u201d or \u201cHey, you don\u2019t even have the brainpower.\u201d That was probably my excuse about four months ago: \u201cI don\u2019t have the brainpower!\u201d\n\nBut I want to share something from my own life. I was convicted\u2014it was probably about four months ago\u2014that I spent more time working out than I did in memorizing God\u2019s Word and meditating on it. It didn\u2019t happen overnight, but I did change some things. I gave up a little bit of TV time and some other things. I began memorizing Hebrews 11\u2014you know, that Hall of Faith chapter\u2014it took awhile. It did take awhile, and it was hard work; but I am happy to say that Hebrews 11 is memorized. And actually, it was so energizing that I\u2019ve gone on to Hebrews 12. I have found that the power God gives us to memorize is actually fun, and we <em>learn<\/em> more about His Word when we hide it in our hearts.\n\nWe\u2019re never too old. We heard from Rebecca, who\u2019s nine; and we heard from Hannah, who\u2019s 20. But we are never too old to spend time memorizing God\u2019s Word. Here\u2019s Barbara Rainey, co-founder of FamilyLife, sharing with me the importance of memorizing Scripture as one of the spiritual disciplines.\n\n[Previous Interview]\n\n<strong>Barbara:<\/strong> What\u2019s important for us is that we grow in our love for Christ\/we grow in getting to know Him. The more I get to know Him, the more I love Him and the more I am in awe of what He did for me. There\u2019s not a checklist; it\u2019s all about getting to know Him. So whatever system you want to use, the point is: \u201cRead your Bible and pray\/and talk to Him so that you can get to know Him.\u201d That\u2019s really the purpose of spiritual disciplines: is to develop a relationship.\n\nI\u2019m starting actually to memorize a Psalm. I haven\u2019t done any Bible memory in a long time, because it was always a challenge for me. I decided, rather than try to memorize verses, I just wouldn\u2019t; and then I wouldn\u2019t fail. [Laughter] But I\u2019m trying to memorize Psalm 139, because it\u2019s been such an encouragement to me recently. I thought, \u201cI can do that! I can memorize that just by reading it over and over again.\u201d\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> That\u2019s really neat. I\u2019m going to have to talk to Barbara the next time I see her and ask her about where she is with Psalm 139, or if she\u2019s moved on to other passages of the Bible.\n\nMy producer and production coordinator in the other room are questioning whether or not I truly have memorized Hebrews 11.\n\n<strong>Keith:<\/strong> Hear it! We want to hear it!\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Okay; Megan\u2019s got Hebrews 11 open in her Bible to make sure that I\u2019ve got everything right here. Okay; let me start: Hebrews 11.\n\nNow faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of\u00a0things not seen.\u00a0For by it the people of old received their commendation.\u00a0By faith we understand that the universe was created by\u00a0the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of\u00a0things that are visible.\n\nBy faith\u00a0Abel offered to God\u00a0a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as having pleased God. And\u00a0by his faith, though he died, he\u00a0still speaks.\n\nBy faith\u00a0Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death.\n\n<strong>Keith: <\/strong>Okay fine; we believe you! [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Okay; all kidding aside, this isn\u2019t about me showing off. I want to encourage you to mediate on His Word\/to memorize His Word. Maybe pick a couple of verses today and start walking through that, and lock it in your memory. There are more gems in His Words than in anything else that we have in front of us; I know I\u2019ve learned, just through Hebrews 11.\n\nComing up next week, we\u2019re going to have some encouragement for dads. We\u2019ll hear from H.B. Charles and a few others on the strength and encouragement that dads bring to their children. Hope you can join us for that.\n\nHey, thanks for listening! I want to thank the co-founder of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and our president, David Robbins, along with our station partners around the country. 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A lot of folks these days say that it\u2019s just too hard to memorize because the Bible is complicated; it has hard words in it and different kinds of ideas. Someone didn\u2019t tell that to nine-year-old Rebecca Horning. Here she is reciting Isaiah 40:28-31.\n\n<strong>Rebecca:<\/strong> Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not, neither is weary. There is no searching of His understanding. He giveth power to the faint, and to them that have no might, He increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall. But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:28-31[Applause]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> That\u2019s Rebecca Horning, the primary division winner of the National Bible Bee from 2009. Today, we are going to talk about the power of memorizing God\u2019s Word, whether you\u2019re five or ninety-five. Stay tuned.\n\nWelcome back to <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em>. I'm Michelle Hill. Today, we\u2019re going to talk about Scripture memory on <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em>, hiding God\u2019s Word in our hearts.\n\n[Previous Interview]\n\nI\u2019m hear in the studio today with Emmett Fowler and, via FaceTime<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> audio, Larry Fowler. Welcome, gentlemen.\n\n<strong>Emmett:<\/strong> Thanks; appreciate you having us.\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> Thanks, Michelle. Glad to be on.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> I want to do a slight introduction here. Emmett is the director of broadcast relations here at FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>. If you are hearing the program today via radio, you have him to thank for that.\n\n<strong>Emmett:<\/strong> That\u2019s not <em>quite<\/em> accurate. I mean, it\u2019s partially accurate, Michelle; [Laughter] but let\u2019s not overstate things.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> So it\u2019s not totally accurate?\n\n<strong>Emmett: <\/strong>No, no; we just don\u2019t want to <em>overstate<\/em>; that\u2019s all. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Okay; we won\u2019t overstate things.\n\nHis uncle is Larry Fowler. Larry is the founder of Legacy Coalition, helping grandparents be <em>intentional<\/em> grandparents. Before that, he served for many years with Awana<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>. Larry, it\u2019s my understanding that your family has a <em>strong<\/em> commitment to memorizing Scripture in that it was your mother, who was the moving force behind that. Can you tell me about her?\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> The commitment was <em>hers<\/em>. She certainly instilled it in all of us, but it started with her. My mom just loved to memorize Scripture herself. Interestingly, she never had any external motivations to do it; she just did it because she loved it.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> How would she encourage <em>you<\/em> to memorize Scripture?\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> When I was a little boy, I remember that we had a calendar from a Christian radio station on the wall of our house. We lived in central Nebraska, and we listened to KJLT\/was the station we had. They had a calendar that had a scenic picture and then a Scripture verse on the calendar. I don\u2019t know why she picked that, but she made sure that I memorized every one of those verses.\n\nFrom the time I was pretty little\u2014I couldn\u2019t tell you how old, but I\u2019m sure four or five\u2014I was memorizing a verse a month. She just insisted on it, so that became instilled in me and built a strong foundation.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Obviously, it started to go on generations once the grandkids came along; because, Emmett, you have memories of your grandma <em>recalling<\/em> all that she has memorized.\n\n<strong>Emmett:<\/strong> Yes; I have some very similar memories to my uncle. When I was really young, my grandparents had moved to another ranch. We both grew up on ranches there in central Nebraska. I can remember being in the car with them, going to spend the weekend or to spend a week with them. To pass the time\u2014it was a 70-mile ride between our two ranches\u2014I can remember having her help me pass the time by coming up with Scripture memory games; it was entertaining. She would give us verses to memorize, and I can certainly remember playing those games with her in the car.\n\nThe other memory that I have that\u2019s very distinct\/that\u2019s very similar to Larry\u2019s is being at her house on those week visits. Instead of the calendar, she actually made a chart; she had the verses written down that she wanted me to memorize. I was young enough, where getting a gold star was kind of a big deal. She had these little gold stars; and every time I could memorize the verse, she would put a gold star on that chart. She kept the chart on the refrigerator, and she would put a gold star by the verse when I learned it. That was going on before kindergarten, so three\/four years old.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Wow; obviously, she thought Scripture memory was very important.\n\nLarry, why is Scripture memory so important? What have you learned through it?\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> It\u2019s a spiritual discipline that\u2014like prayer, or like Bible reading, or anything else\u2014it\u2019s a Scriptural discipline that helps prepare us for the battles that we face. You don\u2019t always have a Bible that you can open; today, we\u2019re not always able to hit the app on our phone and look up that Bible verse. But when it\u2019s in our memory, the Holy Spirit can bring it to our minds just when we need it.\n\nThat\u2019s one of the reasons that I appreciate Scripture memory so much. During the times where life has really been hard\/faced some difficult things, then those verses are there. It\u2019s amazing how the Holy Spirit brings them to mind to encourage, or to strengthen, and sometimes to convict. It\u2019s a great spiritual discipline.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Larry, you spent many years of your life serving with Awana, which helps young people deepen their knowledge of God by memorizing Scripture. Do you have any tips on how to memorize? Can you encourage us in why we should be doing this discipline?\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> Yes; of course, it\u2019s work! Anything that\u2019s worthwhile is work. But there certainly are some tips to make it easier.\n\nIf you have a verse, after you have read it through several times\u2014say three or four times <em>carefully<\/em>\u2014then take a piece of paper and write down the first letter of each word. It\u2019s kind of like shorthand for dummies. It gives you enough of a visual hint to help you in that intermediate process of learning. Then, you recite the verse from just the first letters of each word rather than from reading the whole verse. That\u2019s one of the best tools, intermediate, to help memorize.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> I actually have been doing that tip. Someone gave me that tip a few months ago. I don\u2019t know how long ago\u2014it was back in February\u2014I had my cheat sheet with me; and I was traveling for FamilyLife. I had my cheat sheet on my bedside table at a hotel room. My roommate comes in; she flew in from another part of the country. The first thing she said to me was, \u201cSo are you with the CIA right now? [Laughter] Are you a code cracker?\u201d I said, \u201cNo; I\u2019m trying to memorize Scripture. That\u2019s the only way I know how.\u201d But that is a very helpful tip\/very helpful tip.\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> And of course, it always helps to visualize it in some way, too. Anything you can do to write it out to create a visual\u2014whether that\u2019s through hand motions, or writing it out, or something\u2014you add another sense to your learning process, and that helps.\n\nI remember when our son, Ryan, was in second grade. I think he conveniently forgot to tell us that he had an assignment to memorize a passage of ten verses for his Christian school. He conveniently forgot to tell us until the night before. [Laughter] He had to learn ten verses in one night. We sat him down and said, \u201cOkay;\u201d\u2014we were not too happy with that; we said\u2014\u201cyou\u2019re going to write out\/you\u2019re going to draw pictures for all these verses.\u201d And he did! Amazingly, he got them memorized that night and finished his assignment. We kept that sheet that he drew the pictures on for quite a long time; it meant a lot to us. That\u2019s a good illustration of how that works.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Now, Emmett, going back to your grandma. She had a passion\u2014a passion for Scripture memory\/a passion of hiding God\u2019s Word in her heart\u2014did you find that you had that same passion, because she had passed that on to you?\n\n<strong>Emmett:<\/strong> Well, I wouldn\u2019t say I had it at the same level she did; I\u2019m not sure many people do, frankly. As Larry said earlier, she didn\u2019t really have an external motivation for that; it was something she was convicted to do.\n\nBut she did pass that on when I was younger. I think what that did is it allowed me to have some confidence, later on in schooling\u2014both high school and Bible college\u2014where I had to memorize Scripture as an assignment. I thought, \u201cHey, I can do this; because I\u2019ve been doing this since before kindergarten.\u201d I think she gave that to me.\n\nI was thinking earlier, as Larry was talking, I think one other thing that she did\u2014I don\u2019t have a specific memory of this conversation, but I\u2019m sure she was saying things like this to me\u2014we weren\u2019t just memorizing words out of a book; we weren\u2019t just memorizing a passage like you would a poem or something. She was communicating to me that: \u201cThis was God\u2019s Word. This is something that will live inside of us as God illuminates it through the Holy Spirit.\u201d\n\nI\u2019m sure she wasn\u2019t saying it that way to a four-year-old, but she was communicating it to me that this is something that\u2019s <em>life<\/em>: \u201cThis is spiritual <em>life <\/em>to us.\u201d She played a very large role in my salvation story, coming to faith in Christ: it was her example; it was her helping me memorize Scripture; it was her reading Bible stories to me. I have wonderful memories like that of her.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> It seems like, if she is that close to God, and He\u2019s forming her character, in some ways, that\u2019s why she was so <em>special<\/em> to you because she knew how to love; she knew God\u2019s love.\n\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Emmett:<\/strong> Yes, she did; and she communicated that to me as a child, and my sister as well. It wasn\u2019t just me; it was my sister, who\u2019s two years older. We were both memorizing verses like that when we were very young. We would both, to this day, say that she\u2014along with my parents, of course\u2014but she has had some of the greatest spiritual impact in either of our lives.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Emmett, that\u2019s so great to hear about your grandmother, Margaret Fowler, and her legacy. We\u2019re going to hear more about her, and also about memorizing Scripture when we return. We\u2019re going to take a break, though. We\u2019ll be right back. [Child\u2019s voice reciting Scripture]\n\n[Radio station break]\n\n[Child\u2019s voice reciting Scripture]\n\n<strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Welcome back to <em>FamilyLife This <\/em>Week. I\u2019m Michelle Hill. We\u2019ve been talking about Scripture memory; and in particular, one important grandmother, Margaret Fowler: grandmother to Emmett Fowler, who joins me in the studio today; and mother to Larry Fowler, who is on via FaceTime.\n\nLarry, you\u2019re a grandpa. You\u2019ve got to be doing something with memorizing Scripture, and with your grandchildren; right?\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> Absolutely. My wife and I work in Awana in our local church. We work with four-year-olds, and we have a four-year-old grandson in the group that we serve with. That becomes a tool for us to use. We have three grandsons we live real close to. The little two-year-old memorizes right along with his bigger brother and wants so badly to do it.\n\nOf course, Grandma\u2014my wife, Diane\u2014she adds an M&amp;M each time they say the verse correctly. [Laughter] There always needs to be some motivation for little kids; that works pretty good.\n\n<strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Emmett: <\/strong>I like the idea of M&amp;M\u2019s better than gold stars. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Even now; would that help you memorize now?\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> It would; it would. [Laughter]\n\nMichelle, just an illustration of how much it meant to my mom. She was very unique\u2014I\u2019m with Emmett\u2014I don\u2019t know that there\u2019s hardly any other people that I\u2019ve met, maybe one or two, that valued Scripture memory as much as she did. It was just who she was.\n\nWhen she was 94\/95, even a year or so before she passed away, we\u2019d go visit her. Emmett and I both had this experience. She had this piece of paper\/half sheet of paper. She had written, in pretty small writing, columns of Scripture verses that she had memorized over the years. She would want to review those. I can remember sitting with her; and for 40 minutes, my mom just recites verse after verse after verse that she\u2019s memorized. Then, she always wanted to make a game out of it too. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Emmett:<\/strong> That is so true. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> Yes; she would say, \u201cGive me a letter of the alphabet. I want to see how many verses I can recite that begin with that letter.\u201d Right up until the end of her life, until she wasn\u2019t able to anymore, she wanted to continually refresh her mind with God\u2019s Word.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> What a legacy; what a special lady.\n\n<strong>Emmett:<\/strong> I had that same memory\u2014like Larry said\u2014she wanted to play that game a lot. I remember times, when I was in high school, it didn\u2019t feel quite as cool; I mean, I was in high school and didn\u2019t feel like I had time.\n\nBut as I got older, as an adult and married, we would go and visit my grandmother. That\u2019s exactly what she would want to do. I think she actually got bored with being able to just recite verses, and that\u2019s why she would come up with the game\/the alphabet game. It made it a little more of a challenge for her. She had entire books memorized; it was an amazing thing to watch.\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> I have a question for Michelle: \u201cWhat letter of the alphabet do you think has the <em>least<\/em> number of verse that begin with that letter?\u201d\u2014not counting \u201cQ\u201d and \u201cZ\u201d and \u201cX.\u201d\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Wow.\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> Okay; we won\u2019t stump you too long: \u201cR.\u201d\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u201cR\u201d?\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> \u201cR\u201d: there are hardly any verses that begin with the word\/with the letter \u201cR.\u201d\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Not even \u201cRemember\u201d?\u2014I guess maybe.\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> Of course, there\u2019s a few: \u201cRejoice evermore.\u201d But there\u2019s just not very many. She knew that; she knew that really well.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Wow; what an incredible, incredible legacy\/incredible memories that she has left with you guys. She really did; that is amazing. Thank you, guys, for sharing the <em>memories<\/em>.\n\nOh, Emmett; yes.\n\n<strong>Emmett:<\/strong> I actually have one more. It will fit well with what you just said, Michelle. You want to talk about how it lasts\u2014I\u2019ll get a little teary as I tell this, so bear with me\u2014I don\u2019t have my Bible here with me today; but if I had it, I\u2019d open it up and show it to you. I have a 3x5 index card that\u2019s in my Bible. It\u2019s my grandmother\u2019s handwriting; it\u2019s dated 1972. I would\u2019ve been five years old.\n\nIt\u2019s the list of verses that she had written out for me\/the references. It says: \u201cEmmett\u2019s verses; September 1972.\u201d It\u2019s the verses that she gave to me to memorize. I still keep that in my Bible; that\u2019s evidence of her lasting legacy, and it\u2019s a challenge to go back and review those verses. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u2014that you learned so many years ago.\n\n<strong>Emmett:<\/strong> Nineteen-seventy-two was a long time ago.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> It was. As Scripture is commanding us to hide God\u2019s Word in our heart that we might not sin against Him\u2014that\u2019s truly what she did\u2014and she left that legacy. She lived that legacy, and she taught that legacy; it\u2019s incredible.\n\nThanks, Emmett; thanks, Larry, for joining me today. And thank you, Margaret Fowler, for the legacy and the memories that you passed on.\n\n<strong>Emmett:<\/strong> Thanks for having me.\n\n<strong>Larry:<\/strong> You\u2019re welcome, Michelle.\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> There was a leader of the Israelites\u2014he took over after Moses\u2014his name was Joshua. Upon taking over as leader, God shared with him these words\u2014actually, God <em>commanded<\/em> him and said\u2014\u201cThis book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you might be careful to do according to do all that is written in it.\u201d That\u2019s what Margaret Fowler did.\n\nThat\u2019s also what Hannah Leary is starting to do. Hannah is a young woman, who meditates on God\u2019s Word day and night. She started memorizing Bible verses at a very young age through the National Bible Bee. I had the pleasure to talk with Hannah\/ really, just a quick conversation about the first summer she started to memorize Scripture for the Bible Bee. She said it wasn\u2019t always that easy. Here\u2019s Hannah.\n\n[Previous Interview]\n\n<strong>Hannah:<\/strong> That first year there was a lot of memory work\u2014I got this package in the mail\/this <em>stack<\/em> of memory verses\u2014I\u2019m like, \u201cI can <em>never<\/em> memorize all this.\u201d And I <em>didn\u2019t<\/em>. That first year, I didn\u2019t memorize everything and was just overwhelmed by the amount; but I was surprised at how much I could do. I got to the end of it; I was like, \u201cWow; I memorized 1,000 verses. I never knew I could do that!\u201d You know what I mean? The competition motivated me to do something I never thought possible.\n\nWhen the competition wrapped up that first year, I looked at the different passages I had memorized and was going through them. I noticed, just for an example, that, in the book of Ephesians, I had part of chapter 1, part of chapter 2, most of chapter 3 memorized. I\u2019m like, \u201cI might as well just memorize the whole book.\u201d I went ahead and memorized the book of Ephesians. It just developed in me this love and excitement about memorizing God\u2019s Word. I continued competing ever since that first year in 2009 up until 2014.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Wow. That\u2019s incredible; I mean, to start off with 1,000 verses.\n\n<strong>Hannah:<\/strong> Yes!\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> That is incredible. I\u2019m sitting here, going, \u201cHow did you do that?\u201d Was that just writing the verses out? Or do you have any tricks of the trade or anything to share with us?\n\n<strong>Hannah:<\/strong> Right. It <em>is<\/em> an overwhelming: \u201cOh, my goodness; how could you ever possibly do that?\u201d But you don\u2019t know until you try.\n\nI know, for me, memorization\u2014people are like: \u201cOh, you must be a pro,\u201d \u201cIt must come easy to you,\u201d \u201cIt must be something you\u2019re super smart about or really diligent about,\u201d\u2014yes, I did put a lot of time and energy into it\u2014but your mind and your brain is a muscle; so the more you do it, the easier it becomes. When you start out, it is hard; and it is hard to retain them all. For me, it was keeping at it\u2014reviewing\u2014the more you do it, the easier it becomes.\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Memorizing Scripture is hard; it\u2019s very hard. I want to put a little plug in for the National Bible Bee. Just so you know, there are just five days left to sign up for this year\u2019s National Bible Bee. We\u2019ll have a link on our website that will point you to all the information: FamilyLifeThisWeek.com.\n\nI know what you might be thinking: \u201cIt is just way too hard to memorize Scripture,\u201d or \u201cHey, you don\u2019t even have the brainpower.\u201d That was probably my excuse about four months ago: \u201cI don\u2019t have the brainpower!\u201d\n\nBut I want to share something from my own life. I was convicted\u2014it was probably about four months ago\u2014that I spent more time working out than I did in memorizing God\u2019s Word and meditating on it. It didn\u2019t happen overnight, but I did change some things. I gave up a little bit of TV time and some other things. I began memorizing Hebrews 11\u2014you know, that Hall of Faith chapter\u2014it took awhile. It did take awhile, and it was hard work; but I am happy to say that Hebrews 11 is memorized. And actually, it was so energizing that I\u2019ve gone on to Hebrews 12. I have found that the power God gives us to memorize is actually fun, and we <em>learn<\/em> more about His Word when we hide it in our hearts.\n\nWe\u2019re never too old. We heard from Rebecca, who\u2019s nine; and we heard from Hannah, who\u2019s 20. But we are never too old to spend time memorizing God\u2019s Word. Here\u2019s Barbara Rainey, co-founder of FamilyLife, sharing with me the importance of memorizing Scripture as one of the spiritual disciplines.\n\n[Previous Interview]\n\n<strong>Barbara:<\/strong> What\u2019s important for us is that we grow in our love for Christ\/we grow in getting to know Him. The more I get to know Him, the more I love Him and the more I am in awe of what He did for me. There\u2019s not a checklist; it\u2019s all about getting to know Him. So whatever system you want to use, the point is: \u201cRead your Bible and pray\/and talk to Him so that you can get to know Him.\u201d That\u2019s really the purpose of spiritual disciplines: is to develop a relationship.\n\nI\u2019m starting actually to memorize a Psalm. I haven\u2019t done any Bible memory in a long time, because it was always a challenge for me. I decided, rather than try to memorize verses, I just wouldn\u2019t; and then I wouldn\u2019t fail. [Laughter] But I\u2019m trying to memorize Psalm 139, because it\u2019s been such an encouragement to me recently. I thought, \u201cI can do that! I can memorize that just by reading it over and over again.\u201d\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> That\u2019s really neat. I\u2019m going to have to talk to Barbara the next time I see her and ask her about where she is with Psalm 139, or if she\u2019s moved on to other passages of the Bible.\n\nMy producer and production coordinator in the other room are questioning whether or not I truly have memorized Hebrews 11.\n\n<strong>Keith:<\/strong> Hear it! We want to hear it!\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Okay; Megan\u2019s got Hebrews 11 open in her Bible to make sure that I\u2019ve got everything right here. Okay; let me start: Hebrews 11.\n\nNow faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of\u00a0things not seen.\u00a0For by it the people of old received their commendation.\u00a0By faith we understand that the universe was created by\u00a0the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of\u00a0things that are visible.\n\nBy faith\u00a0Abel offered to God\u00a0a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as having pleased God. And\u00a0by his faith, though he died, he\u00a0still speaks.\n\nBy faith\u00a0Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death.\n\n<strong>Keith: <\/strong>Okay fine; we believe you! [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Okay; all kidding aside, this isn\u2019t about me showing off. I want to encourage you to mediate on His Word\/to memorize His Word. Maybe pick a couple of verses today and start walking through that, and lock it in your memory. There are more gems in His Words than in anything else that we have in front of us; I know I\u2019ve learned, just through Hebrews 11.\n\nComing up next week, we\u2019re going to have some encouragement for dads. We\u2019ll hear from H.B. Charles and a few others on the strength and encouragement that dads bring to their children. Hope you can join us for that.\n\nHey, thanks for listening! I want to thank the co-founder of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and our president, David Robbins, along with our station partners around the country. 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