Discover the strength that lies within the pages of Scripture as Amy Hall from Stand to Reason joins me, Dwan, to shed light on the transformative practice of Bible memorization. Engage with us on a journey that reveals how Scripture, when committed to memory, can shape our daily language and actions, offering wisdom for every moment.
As we conclude, take heart in the knowledge that our brains are designed with an incredible capacity to absorb God's Word. Amy and I dispel common myths that limit our learning potential, and we encourage you to fill your mind with the richness of Scripture. We leave you with inspiring thoughts on the Holy Spirit's role in recalling Scripture when you need it most, proving that the journey of memorization is more about embracing the essence of God's message than achieving perfect recall. Join us in a celebration of faith, learning, and the everlasting goodness of God, right here on Faithfully Living.
Do you want to learn how to study the Bible? Check out the YouTube channel Faithfullyliven youtube.com/@faithfullyliven
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Discover the strength that lies within the pages of Scripture as Amy Hall from Stand to Reason joins me, Dwan, to shed light on the transformative practice of Bible memorization. Engage with us on a journey that reveals how Scripture, when committed to memory, can shape our daily language and actions, offering wisdom for every moment.
As we conclude, take heart in the knowledge that our brains are designed with an incredible capacity to absorb God's Word. Amy and I dispel common myths that limit our learning potential, and we encourage you to fill your mind with the richness of Scripture. We leave you with inspiring thoughts on the Holy Spirit's role in recalling Scripture when you need it most, proving that the journey of memorization is more about embracing the essence of God's message than achieving perfect recall. Join us in a celebration of faith, learning, and the everlasting goodness of God, right here on Faithfully Living.
Do you want to learn how to study the Bible? Check out the YouTube channel Faithfullyliven youtube.com/@faithfullyliven
Do you want to read about how to live faithfully? Check out the blog http://lyfe102.org
Get a free Road Map to get started learning how to study the Bible https://mailchi.mp/88f9c9405da0/bible-study-road-map
Welcome to Faithfully Living, the podcast where we learn how to live for Christ in our daily lives. I am Dwayne, your host, and I would like to invite you on a journey with me to explore and learn how to be a faithful follower of Christ. Hi everyone, welcome to Faithfully Living, the podcast, where we strive to encourage you to live for Christ faithfully by offering guidance on how to study the Bible, how to understand the Bible better and how to remain faithful to historic Christianity in a contemporary society. So you know, as believers, there are a number of things we do to grow in our walk with the Lord. You could call them spiritual disciplines, things like prayer, reading the Bible, worship and Bible memorization is one that's important. I know that reading and studying the Bible is important, but memorizing helps us to move God's word from our minds into our hearts.
Speaker 1:I had a conversation with Amy Hall from Stand the Reason on my YouTube channel many, many months ago about the importance of scripture memorization and I thought I would share that replay because it was extremely helpful.
Speaker 1:So here is that interview. So, before I get started my conversation with Amy, let me tell you a little bit about Amy, if I've had Amy on the show, but if this is your first time seeing Amy on the show, here is a little bit about her. Amy Hall has an MA in Christian apologetics from Biola University and currently works as a writer, editor and podcaster for Stand the Reason, where she explores culture, ethics, philosophy and theology in the light of the truth of the Christian worldview. Her goal is to help Christians truly grasp the fact that Christianity equals reality, giving them the confidence and ability to apply and live out this truth in every aspect of their lives so that they may know love and serve Christ as whole people in the fullest possible way. You can read her work on strorg. You can also hear her on Stand the Reason's hashtag STRAS Podcast and follow her on Twitter at Amy underscore K, underscore Hall. All right, here is my conversation with Amy. Hi Amy, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much. I love this topic, and so I'm really looking forward to having a chance to talk about this with you today.
Speaker 1:All right. So you know we're talking about script memorization and I think it's important for us to incorporate that into our studying of the Bible. So, kyle, let's start from the beginning and thinking about what is script memorization and why it's important.
Speaker 2:Okay. So I started being more intentional about memorizing verses quite a long time ago because somebody actually mentioned to me that their pastor had memorized all of proverbs, and I was so impressed by that, not only because of hearing somebody had done it, but just the idea that it was possible it's possible to actually memorize a book and so I decided I was going to memorize a few chapters of proverbs. This is probably 20 years ago now and I started through there and it turned out it was possible. And I think one thing that holds us back from memorizing word for word passages in the Bible and including entire books is we just don't think that it's possible. So what I really want to do today is convince people of two things First, I want to convince them to want to memorize scripture and secondly, I want to convince them that they can memorize scripture, that anyone can do this and it's really valuable. And I want to make a couple of points about why this is important. And for the first one, one thing that really motivated me right at the beginning, I was reading a book by St Patrick. Now, we've all heard of St Patrick and it could be.
Speaker 2:A lot of people don't even know that he was actually a real person, but he was and he actually was an Irish, he was a Britain and he was kidnapped by pirates when he was a young man and they took him to Ireland as a slave and he was out in the, you know, taking care of the sheep for years, all by himself, and he was praying and he was. I think he spent most of his time praying and he escaped at one point, came back, he got a theological education and he went back as a missionary to Ireland. Now he actually wrote a book. This was in 400 AD, so this is quite a long time ago. But he wrote a book and you can find it on Amazon called the Confessions of St Patrick, and I was reading this book because he was kind of an inspiration to me because he went back to save the people who had enslaved him and that's such an image of Christ for us.
Speaker 2:But as I was reading this book, what I noticed is that Scripture just flowed out of him in the writing. It had actually become part of his language, it was part of everything he said. So I kept seeing references in his work in his work where it would point out oh yes, he's quoting this verse and this verse and this verse, and I just thought this is what I want to be. I want Scripture to be so much a part of me that it just flows out of me, that it's wisdom and its beauty flows out of me, and that I know God in such a deeply profound way from his revealed word that I'm changed by it and I worship him. And so the idea that I wanted Scripture to become part of me, that's the first reason, I think, why memorization is really important.
Speaker 2:The second reason and this is something that I discovered as I went along is that memorization helps you to understand the text like nothing else will Nothing, because you have to really pay attention to what you're reading and you have to really understand it if you're going to be able to memorize it word for word. And so as you're reading over it, over and over it, and as you're memorizing it, what you see is how all the parts fit together. So now, when you have the entire chapter in your mind, you can see oh yeah, now it's mentioning something. At the end it's using the same word. I noticed at the beginning, and now I see how his whole train of thought flows from that first sentence into this one and then into the next chapter and the next chapter and through the whole book. When you know it so intimately, you can see how all of these parts fit together, you can see the flow of thought and you can see the text as a coherent whole. And so, if you have questions about the text as you're memorizing, you have to really struggle to figure those things out because, again, understanding helps you to remember and, as you're saying it over and over, you're also meditating on Scripture. So it's actually like it's a meditation exercise, as you're thinking very carefully about what's being said and you're incorporating it into your heart and your mind and your soul. So it encourages that and all of this changes you and it causes you to worship God. So, ultimately, what it does is it helps us to see God more clearly and it helps us to worship Him.
Speaker 2:Now, one thing I read. I read this article a few years ago and it was about a man named John Bassenger and he had memorized the entire book of Paradise Lost, which is something like 60,000 words, and he was an actor, I think, and he had memorized this whole book. And here's what he said and I thought this is after I had tried memorizing entire books of the Bible, shorter books, and the way he describes. I'm going to read to you the way he describes what this experience is like, because I think this is probably the best description I've ever heard someone describe this kind of memorization. So here's what he says.
Speaker 2:During the incessant repetition of Milton's words, I really began to listen to them, says Bassenger, and every now and then, as the whole poem began to take shape in my mind, an insight would come, an understanding, a delicious possibility. For his part, bassenger says his years of effort have let him explore Paradise Lost as if it were a physical space, as a cathedral I carry around in my mind, he says, a place that I can enter and walk around at will. Now, that's an incredible thought. And that's not an inspired book, that's just a book written by a man.
Speaker 2:So what if we did that with an inspired book and we had it as a cathedral in our mind where we could? You know, sometimes we're in line somewhere, we're waiting somewhere and we can just wander through that text and we know every corner of it and we know the stained glass windows and we know the hallways and the doorways and the pictures on the walls, everything we have it in our minds and we can be part of that and experience that and taste that and see that. I think that is what happens when you can sit down and you can say one of the shorter books, one of the longer books if you take a long time to do it and you can just say it and you can think about it and meditate on it. So hopefully I've inspired people to want to do this and I'll get probably more into how we can do this a little bit later, but so hopefully now people can see why we want to do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think what I've read about scripturalization it kind of incorporated into like a spiritual discipline like memorizing, meditating, as far as studying the Bible, worship and things like that. So I think your case is even more you know, to really understand and to, you know, get God's word in our minds so we can constantly turn it over and over again, because the more you think about it and you know, you go over it, you know, the more you understand and you'll get those insights, like he was saying, as you're memorizing, trying to repeat it over and over again. So that was a great example as far as like an endorsement of memorizing, you know, or even though that was just a man-written book not, like you said, not inspired but it could have the same effect.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's something beautiful about knowing a text that well, even if it's not inspired and the Holy Spirit's not using it in your life. Just by knowing a text really well, there is something really beautiful about that. So when you add on the fact that this is also something spiritual and you're coming to know God better, you can see how great this opportunity is that we have.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so let's kind of get the excuses out of the way. Okay, people you know put up for saying I can't memorize anything, you know.
Speaker 2:Okay. So I think there are two excuses that people would have in their minds at this point. And the first excuse is I can't do that. I don't have that ability, I'm not. I'm not anyone special. But in that article about that man it actually says there is nothing special about his memory. They actually did test A psychologist actually did test on his memory and this is what the article said. Nothing in Bassinger's test suggested that his memory was otherwise irregular or exceptional. His memory for everyday tasks appears entirely normal to someone his age. The psychologist said he still forgets where he puts his keys.
Speaker 2:For those of us who struggle to remember, to do this it's encouraging to know our findings are in agreement with other research on world-class memory performers, which indicates that exceptional memorizers are made, not born. So you don't have to have some special ability, you don't have to be a genius, any of those things. You can actually learn how to do this. So I think that's the first excuse. The second excuse people have is I just don't have time for that. I'm really busy. I have a lot of things going on. There's just no time.
Speaker 2:But here's what I want you to think about If you are just, you're disciplined and you're faithful and you do a little bit each day and you think about this like a long-term project for the next 20 years.
Speaker 2:I'm going to put a small deposit into this account and I'm going to see what happens and over time this it really builds up and you don't have to go quickly. You can go very slowly, as slowly as you want to go, but it all adds up over the years and I'm going to give some more tips as we go on to help you figure out how to fit this into your life so that you can actually do this. And I do recommend that people memorize larger portions in a row to get all of these benefits, rather than a verse here and there, because we want to be able to understand what we're reading, we want to get the bigger picture and we want to make sure we're not taking anything out of context. So what I'm going to be talking about here is kind of memorization, where you take a larger portion like a chapter or a few chapters or a whole book.
Speaker 1:All right, so you mentioned benefits, so what would be some benefits to Memorize?
Speaker 2:So yeah. So I think the benefits were all the things I said above, the main one being you just you're incorporating scripture into your heart and your soul and it will come out of you. Your mind will be shaped. You know that the Bible says we're supposed to renew our minds. Well, how do we do that? We let scripture shape our minds, we let scripture shape our hearts, and so the more that we have it in us and the more we're meditating on it and thinking about it, the more we will be changed, and I think that is probably the biggest thing we have here. That's good. So, like I said, the making scripture part of you and also understanding the text I think those are the biggest benefits. So we've talked about.
Speaker 1:Why is it important? The benefits. So let's get into some practical steps in. You know how should we start? How do we start memorizing scripture? Where do we start?
Speaker 2:Okay, so I'm going to give, because I've been doing this for a while and so I'm going to give some ideas. But what I recommend is that you start off with these things, but you might find something else works better for you. So don't feel like this is the way you have to do it. You might find that if you tweak my ideas just a little bit, you learn faster or better or whatever it is. So these are what work for me, and this is a place to start. Okay, so I have 10 tips.
Speaker 2:The first one is choose a passage. Choose a passage that you love, because if you're going to be spending a lot of time in a passage, what you want is you want it to be something you want to think about for a long time, and maybe even choose one, especially as you're starting out. Maybe even choose one that it's something you partly know already. So if it's a favorite passage, you might have read it many times and have the ideas in your mind. That's a great place to start. Also, it's pick a passage. Proverbs is actually a lot harder than the epistles, and the reason why is because they're disconnected from each other, so it's harder to know how one goes into the next one. If you pick a book, that, where the train of thought is more clear to you, it'll be easier to memorize because you'll know what comes next, because all the thoughts are together. So choose a passage Now. If you're starting off, maybe you just choose a chapter, maybe you choose the first chapter of a book that you want to start working on and you just think about okay, I'm just going to do this first chapter and see how it goes. So that's the first step. You need to choose a passage Now.
Speaker 2:The second step and this one has been really helpful to me, and this one is you make a photocopy of the page in your Bible and that's what you're going to use as you're learning it, as you're walking around. You keep it with you and what this does for you. And here's an example. Here's a copy of my. I have a little Bible and here's a copy of what I use and I'll just keep it with me. So I'll keep it with me if I go on a walk, I'll keep it with me. If I sometimes in the car at a light, if I'm working on it, I have it right there. It's just something it's easy to take with you and the reason why you want to use your Bible is because what this is also helping you do is learn where things are on the page. So the more that you're looking at the same page and you have that visual reminder okay, what comes next? It's something at the top of the page. Now it's easier to remember. So that's what I like to do. I like to see you're also seeing your verse in the context of the whole chapter, because if you're just trying to use like a note card or you're using a digital Bible, it of course that changes as you're scrolling up and down. So if you're looking at your page in your Bible and you see where it is every time you read through it, you're going to trigger that memory, and so I found that this really helps.
Speaker 2:Now. Next, that's one and two. So number three what you need to do is choose two triggers to help you to work on memorization. Now, what I mean by trigger is you wanna find something else in your life that's already a habit. It's already a well-established habit that you don't have to think about, and you wanna connect your Bible memorization to that habit you've already created, because what you wanna do is develop this. So it's second nature. It's always hardest to get going. But once you get going and you have a habit, it's a lot easier to keep going. So you want two triggers. You want one for the memorization process and one for the review process.
Speaker 2:So for the memorization process, you could. Your trigger could be when you wake up. It could be when you're brushing your teeth. You could tape your Bible verse right on your mirror. It could be when you're making breakfast. It could be anything. It could be when you're walking the dog. And then for your trigger for memorization could be something later in the day. It could be any of those things. The one that I use is when I get in the car. So when I'm driving somewhere by myself, that's a great time for me to just go over to say out loud whatever I've been memorizing. So my trigger will be when I'm reading the Bible. So I do that every day already. I already have that plan. So then I work on a verse or two there. And then my second trigger for review is when I get in the car and then I review. So pick two triggers that are things you do every day and just be creative. It could be when you're changing diapers. I mean, it could be anything, just something that you do every day without having to think about it.
Speaker 2:Okay, number four, slow and steady. When you start off, you're gonna think you might be tempted hey, I'm doing really well, I'm just gonna do a ton of verses. But resist that temptation because you're thinking long haul and you don't wanna burn yourself out. So I would keep it to either one or two verses a day. I think two verses is probably the maximum that you wanna do, because if you're adding two verses every day and then you're reviewing, it can be a lot. You can burn yourself out. Don't do that. So just start and go slow and steady. And then, number five review, review, review. So you've learned your two verses. And then that day, whatever your trigger is for reviewing, you read the whole. You'll say the whole section, so the whole chapter, the whole book, whatever it is, depending on how long you've been working and how long the passage is. And then next, number six, say the passage out loud as you memorize and as you review both.
Speaker 2:Now, saying out loud just adds another sense to help you to memorize. So you're seeing it, you're seeing it on your Bible page, you're also hearing it. Another thing you might wanna do is write it out. That involves touch, so you wanna use as many senses as you can, but as you're saying it out loud and you hear it, you'll be surprised how much the way you say that verse is gonna help you to remember. So I encourage you to say it out loud. One thing that you can do when you're saying it out loud if you every once in a while and I don't know what causes this, but every once in a while I'll come up on a sentence that is really hard to remember, for whatever reason. And when I get to a sentence like that, sometimes what I'll do is say the verse in a memorable way, so I'll say it rhythmically or a song, or somehow I'll add something in there to the way I say it that will help me to remember it. So that's another thing you can do. As you're saying it out loud, that just helps you nail it down by how it feels and how it sounds.
Speaker 2:Okay, number seven don't just say the words. Put yourself inside the book, okay. So you're not just saying words. I want you to speak the words as they would have been spoken by the person who was writing. So you're gonna instruct with him, you're gonna rejoice with him, you will plead with him. As you are saying these words, you're gonna put yourself inside the book as if you are speaking the book. Now, in order to connect with what's being said this way again, you're gonna need to understand what is being said and why, and this increases the depth of your meditation and your understanding, and this makes it easier to memorize. And I found that in that same article about John Bassinger that this was actually a method that he used to help him memorize he put himself inside the book and he said the words as if he were inside the book. So that's another way that you can help to memorize.
Speaker 2:Okay, number eight and this is kind of a weird one and I don't know why this works, but this one works for me and that is go on a walk. Do this on a walk. For some reason, I found that when I'm walking, I actually memorize faster, and I'm not sure. I've seen a couple things online where people have talked about how, when you're walking and you're using both hemispheres of your brain because you're looking back and forth, that that actually does help your brain to work harder. I'm not sure if that's why this happens or if it's just some weird thing to me, but I have found that when I'm walking, I can learn faster. Now, if this really works for you, what you might wanna do is, one day a week, go on a walk and maybe memorize several verses while you're walking and then use the rest of the week just for review for those verses. So that's another. I've done that at times too and that really works. So that's another option. And this is again an example of how you can adjust the way you do this, depending on what really helps you to remember. What's interesting is that even now, I associate certain books of the Bible with the places where I was walking when I was memorizing. You'll be surprised how all the things that will help you to remember.
Speaker 2:Okay, number nine and this one. This might be too much for some people, just in terms of time, but if you're able to, I recommend that you read the entire book you're working on once a day. So if you're, this obviously would only work for the shorter books, but if you're doing a longer book, you could just pick four or five chapters and read those every day, and what this does is that it gives you a better understanding of the big picture of the text, especially if you're reading ahead for the parts you haven't memorized yet. You're already starting to get kind of a jump on that. But you get an idea of how the verses fit together with the whole. You also catch if you're missing a word. So as you're reviewing without your paper, you might be missing a word, but if you're reading the book every day, you're gonna catch those words that you're missing. And as I do this, I will kind of test myself and look away a little bit, look down a little bit, but it's just another way of reinforcing the book that you're working on.
Speaker 2:Now for a while, what I would do I did this plan of Bible reading that was developed by someone named James Gray, and what he recommended for knowing your Bible really well is reading the book from start to finish, over and over and over for a period of time, depending on how long you wanted to do it. I did it every day for 30 days and I went through the New Testament like this, and as I did this during those 30 days I would work on memorizing that book and at the end of the 30 days I would just move on to the next book. It's fine if you don't make it all the way through whatever it is you're working on, but that reading through it every day really helps with whatever memorization that I was doing. And finally, here's the 10th one. This is a very important one Switch to a different book if it's become a chore that you avoid.
Speaker 2:Sometimes, if you're working on something for a long time, you start to get bored with it. That can happen. It's the Bible, but that can happen. You wanna stay motivated. So if you find that suddenly oh, I'm not excited about this, sometimes it's worth pushing through, but sometimes you just need to go to a different book. You can always go back to that book later. I've done that. I've started and made it halfway through and then a couple of years later, I've gone back and I've finished. So you can always come back. But the point is you wanna keep this habit going. You wanna develop this discipline and you wanna keep it going. So if you need to switch it up, that's okay. You don't have to finish an entire book if you don't want to or if it's gotten to a point where it's.
Speaker 2:Some chapters are just harder to memorize than others because maybe they're a little bit, they're not quite as focused and linear. It could be any reason. So those are my 10 tips. I'll just go over them quickly one more time. Number one choose a passage that you love. Number two make a photocopy from your Bible. Number three choose a trigger for memorizing and a trigger for reviewing. Number four slow and steady, just keep making those deposits into your account and you'll look back 10 years from now. You won't believe how much you've memorized. Number five review, review, review. Number six say the passage out loud as you're memorizing and as you're reviewing. Number seven don't just say the words, put yourself inside the book. Number eight go for a walk. Number nine if you can read the entire book that you're memorizing once a day. And number 10, switch to a different book if it becomes a chore that you're avoiding. So go out and memorize.
Speaker 1:So there was one question that I had. So what translation did you use? Did you use like the translation that you normally read out of, or how did you decide?
Speaker 2:So, yeah, yeah, I well, I. What I really recommend is that, as much as possible, you use one Bible as much as possible, because you want, every time you're reading it it's helping to memorize it and to know it to know where things are. So I use the same Bible that I use for everything, and it's in ASB. But you can use anything. I, just I, if you, whatever one you use the most, whatever that is, I would use that one. The more you can use the same Bible, I think, the better off you are.
Speaker 1:Right, alright, so you know, we got the tip. So once you say, for instance, though we, we memorized the whole book of James. So what do we do after that? How do we keep it in our brain?
Speaker 2:Okay. So one thing I don't want people to have unrealistic expectations, because as you're doing it, I think you should strive for word for word memory and you should be able to do that for a while. But don't expect that you will retain that word for word memory forever. You can develop a system of review and that can be a good thing. But the way I don't really have that expectation for myself. Like, maybe a couple years later I'll go back and I'll work on something again, but I don't have a real system for reviewing. But somebody could develop that.
Speaker 2:But the thing to remember is that even if the word for word recall fades, you're still. You're still gonna have that deep understanding of the text and you're gonna know where it is. So later on, if you have questions about something or if somebody says, hey, what does God say about XYZ? You'll know exactly where it is, not only what book, what chapter. You'll know what page, you'll know where on the page it is. Even if you can't remember every single word on your own, your stats that will remain.
Speaker 2:So I just want to encourage people don't worry if you, if that fades a little bit now, a lot of times, if I, if I'm looking at it later, I'm looking at the page later, I'm reading later. It all is still very familiar, even if I couldn't, without the page in front of me, go through the entire book by itself. That I just wanted people to know. That's okay. Just have grace for yourself and keep going. Go on to the next book again. Don't get bogged down by thinking you have to retain all of these things in your mind all the time. When I go on to a different book, then I pretty much focus on that book and.
Speaker 2:I know some people might disagree with me or they might enjoy going back and reviewing, but I tend to focus on one book at a time and leave the other things behind until I come back around to them again yeah, I think I think that is true.
Speaker 1:You know, even if you don't remember it, you still remember the context of the chapter that you threaten, that chapter, but the whole book that you read. So you know, like the overall thing, the overall picture of that, of that book. And then also you know we can also rely on the Holy Spirit because he can bring that picture back to us that we've memorized so you'll pop up. It's not like you can just go ahead and hold it. You know the Holy Spirit, it brings it back up for us that's so true.
Speaker 2:And what's funny is this I mentioned a couple things that motivated me to start.
Speaker 2:There was another thing that was a little bit silly but I still was a motivation for me, because I would read stories about people who, during World War II or other times they ended up in prison or in concentration camps and there would be somebody there who would actually have a book memorized and they they served as the Bible for that situation and I thought, hey, if I ever end up in one of those situations, I want to be that person. And it's not only true, for, like prison, I mean, hopefully none of us will end up in prison without a Bible, but there are times when you don't have a Bible with you and it will be valuable then. But but for the people who have ended up in persecution situations, I have heard that they are able to remember things that they did not think they'd be able to remember. So, like you said, the Holy Spirit can bring these things to mind and it doesn't even have to be prison, it could be anywhere. The Holy Spirit will bring these things to mind yeah, but that's good.
Speaker 1:That is some good encouragement for us, you know, to spurs on into, you know, knowing that even though if we don't remember everything, we, we put that word in our heart, mm-hmm, all right. So any other you know tips on memorizing do you want to tell us before we wrap up with our last question?
Speaker 2:well, I, for I, just want to give one more bit of encouragement. You know I've already talked about you can do it, that if you do a little bit at a time and you don't give up, it will add up even if you're just doing a tiny bit. But the other thing I want to say is your mind is not like a jar that fills up and then that's it. There is no limit to how much of the Bible we can memorize. You aren't going to fill up.
Speaker 2:I and I think this is kind of a weird thing we have in our mind where we we think, oh, I'm only going to make it through three chapters. No, the fact is, if you made it through three chapters, you can do three more chapters, and three more chapters. It just means you can do it. There's no limit. Your brain's not going to shut down and say that's it. Now you might have to start on a new book or whatever it is, to refresh yourself and and start again, like we talked about. But don't think I can only do three chapters and that's all I'm able to do. No, it's not true. You can keep going, you can start on a new book. You can keep doing this and your mind is not going to fill up.
Speaker 1:So don't give up and just keep going and I think I think that is true that you brought out that we won't fill our brain. So I don't know the percentage, but they say we only use the very small percentage of our brain. So we might as well try to use as much as we can, because God created to you know, hold this information we can, we can surely try to fill it up with. You know his word that's right, that's right all right well, amy.
Speaker 2:Thank you for being on the show and helping us and encouraging us to memorize scripture thank you so much and I hope everybody watching will try this out and maybe you can let us know in the comments how it goes and encourage other people and say, hey, these things really work.
Speaker 1:I really can't do this so I pray this conversation was helpful and that you will start, little by little, adding more scripture into your mind and into your heart. So until next time, remember God is always good and he's always faithful. Thank you for listening to the podcast. Do my favor by following the podcast and leaving a review to help spread the word. I look forward to hearing from you.