What might help us stop wasting our time scrolling? Something way better to do—like memorizing God’s word. The word of God is so powerful it can create worlds and recreate hearts. We can expect more love, more victory, and more joy as we memorize God’s word and use its power.
Here is a collection of excellent apps, websites, and scripture songs that will help you memorize the word of God. Scroll to the bottom for some excellent quotes from Ellen White on why memorizing the Bible matters and what chapters would be especially helpful.
Resources
Build on the Rock – Audio Bible Memorization System. This brand new system combines writing, drawing, and listening.
FAST – Memory School. www.fastmissions.com/offer/memorize FAST Missions will help you memorize through three free classes: 1) Get Started, 2) Grow Strong, 3) Go Deep.
BibleRICH helps you memorize by using pictures that include the Bible chapter number and verse. They have included a list of 144 Bible verses that are excellent to memorize for sharing the three angels’ messages. This system will also help you memorize what is in each chapter of the Bible. One of their other websites has 144 verses to help you develop a Christlike Character.
www.biblememory.com is a non-denominational app. Memorize Bible verses fast by actively engaging 3 separate cognitive areas: kinesthetic (touch), visual, and auditory memory.
Remember Me. "Bible Memory Joy. The free, fun, and faith-building app to learn Bible verses!" Non-denominational.
Use a memory box as a fun tool to memorize and review what you've learned daily in just 5 minutes. Great for adults and children.
Print out any passage from the KJV Bible, fold it in half and use the first letter of each word to help you memorize the verse. www.granitebaysda.org/memorize-scripture
Trilogy Scripture Songs has many albums with recorded songs and sheet music. www.trilogyscriptureresources.com/shop
Scripture Singer: “Bible Memory So EASY, All You've GotTo Do Is LISTEN!” Get the app as well.
Ellen White Quotes on Memorization
“If we have some spare time, we will not go to a magazine to read some foolish, trifling, lying story, but we will find something in the Word to commit to memory. Then when the enemy besets us, we can resist him with the written word of God. That is how Jesus met the enemy in the wilderness of temptation, not with arguments of His own to match those of Satan, but with a plain, ‘It is written.’” (WR, September 15, 1909 par. 6).
“God’s precious Word is the standard for youth who would be loyal to the King of heaven. Let them study the Scriptures. Let them commit text after text to memory and acquire a knowledge of what the Lord has said” (Last Day Events, 67).
“Keep a pocket Bible with you as you work, and improve every opportunity to commit to memory its precious promises” (Last Day Events, 67).
“Build a wall of scriptures around you, and you will see that the world cannot break it down. Commit the Scriptures to memory, and then throw right back upon Satan when he comes with his temptations, ‘It is written.’ This is the way that our Lord met the temptations of Satan, and resisted them” (Last Day Events, 67).
“None but those who have fortified the mind with the truths of the Bible will stand through the last great conflict” (The Great Controversy, 593).
“The time will come when many will be deprived of the written Word. But if this Word is printed in the memory, no one can take it from us” (Last Day Events, 67).
"From their pastors the youth received instruction. While attention was given to branches of general learning, the Bible was made the chief study. The Gospels of Matthew and John were committed to memory, with many of the Epistles" (The Great Controversy, 68).
"Here the youth received instruction. The Bible was their text-book. They studied and committed to memory the words of Holy Writ. A considerable portion of their time was spent, also, in reproducing copies of the Scriptures. Some manuscripts contained the whole Bible, others only brief selections, to which some simple explanations of the text were added by those who were able to expound the Scriptures. Thus were brought forth the treasures of truth so long concealed by those who sought to exalt themselves above God" (Spirit of Prophecy, Volume 4, 73).
Ellen White Encouraged the Memorization of These Chapters
Psalm 1 “The words in the first Psalm need to be committed to memory” (Manuscript 144, 1897).
Psalm 34 “Let this chapter be read and committed to memory” (Manuscript 70, 1897).
Psalm 119 “Present before your children the instruction given in the 119th Psalm. Take this precious lesson, and read it with tender, softened hearts. Encourage your children to commit the same to memory, especially the first sixteen verses” (Manuscript 12,1898).
Isaiah 51 “The whole of the fifty-first chapter ofIsaiah is worthy of close, earnest study, and we would do well to commit it to memory. It has a special application to those who are living in the last days” (Review and Herald, December 1, 1896).
Isaiah 53 “This chapter should be studied. It presents Christ as the Lamb of God. Those who are lifted up with pride, whose souls are filled with vanity, should look upon this picture of their Redeemer, and humble themselves in the dust. The entire chapter should be committed to memory. Its influence will subdue and humble the soul defiled by sin and uplifted by self-exaltation” (Youth’s Instructor, December 20, 1900).
Isaiah 58 “The mind must be restrained, and not allowed to wander. It should be trained to dwell upon the Scriptures; even whole chapters may be committed to memory, to be repeated when Satan comes in with his temptations. The fifty-eighth of Isaiah is a profitable chapter for this purpose” (Review and Herald, April 8, 1884).
John 6 “I hope that these few suggestions may help older persons as well as younger ones to become acquainted with the Word in accordance with the directions that Christ has given in the sixth chapter of John. My brethren and sisters, this chapter contains lessons that all need to learn. Read and study it. Meditate upon the truths that it contains. Eat the bread of life. Commit this chapter to memory, and keep the magazines off your tables” (Letter 343, 1905).
John 13-17 “I feel intensely when I read and dwell upon the subjects contained in the 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th chapters of John. These lessons are of deep import and need to be studied and even committed to memory. The richest promises are found here” (Manuscript 42, 1890).
1 Corinthians 12 & 13 “The 12th and 13th chapters of First Corinthians should be committed to memory, written in the mind and heart” (Manuscript 82, 1898).
