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How To Memorize Scripture
Luke 24:6 - He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee

The disciples needed to remember what Jesus said. So much anxiety, fear, and perplexing can be saved when we simply remember what Jesus spoke to us; the promises we have in God’s word. One way to store those words in your heart is by memorizing scripture.

Scripture memorization is very difficult. It takes a number of qualities for a person to be able to do it successfully: patience, discipline, zeal, and time commitment. Here are some things to remember which will aid your endeavor:
  •  There are three keys to memorizing scripture: repetition, repetition, repetition.
  •  Avoid getting discouraged at first. After a few weeks it becomes much easier and quicker to store one verse away in your head. Memorization is a very tedious undertaking at first, and it is easy to give up… be patient and stick through the initial labor and it will pay off.
  •  Don’t set out to memorize the whole bible. It’s quite an achievement to memorize even a few chapters.
  •  Don’t go too fast. Right now you can probably read a verse once, and recite it immediately. You will not be able to recite that same verse a week from now. It takes a hundred times more work than that to have a verse ‘permanently implanted’ in your head. Diligently work with a couple of verses a day (maybe even just one) and recite the previous weeks verses also. As time goes on, you will need to recite the previously memorized verses less and less for them to become ‘permanently implanted’.
  •  Be disciplined. A person who decides to memorize one chapter (thirty verses) in a month is very likely to never finish if he takes a break for more than a day. The next break will turn into three days. The next will turn into a week. After that he will forget he was even memorizing scripture.
  •  Choose passages that you can use from day to day to help you walk God’s path and glorify Him. It will be much more useful to memorize the book of Proverbs than the book of Leviticus.
  •  When reciting verses, try as hard as possible not to look down at the written text if you forget what comes next. Even if it takes two minutes to remember what word comes next, that two minutes will have been well worth it. You can be sure that the next time around it will be closer to two seconds to get that same word out. Even a mouse in a cage finds the cheese faster after the second time around.
  •  Find some friends to memorize with. If you can’t find any or the ones you do find give up early and you can’t convince them to keep going, then you’ll have to challenge yourself and press on by yourself.
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