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There are many things Christ reveals to us and ties it all together as we read His word....wonderful moments as He reveals to us the truth as we study Gods word with Him. I have heard some great pastors sermons but they pale in comparrison to God’s Spirit teaching and revealing to us the truth as we study and read His word...just as He promised He would do!

I agree and what I have found, too, is when we determine to memorize Scriptures, the Holy Spirit "brings back to our remembrance" truths that we have learned from Scripture. When I was in Bible College nearly 40 years ago, we usually had memory verses for part of the assignments for classes - a few had entire chapters. We had tests where the selected verses had to be written verbatim, and grades were determined by how well we did in remembering them. I can't tell you how many times those Scriptures came in handy for witnessing and even in talking to other Christians for encouragement. Most of them, I can STILL quote verbatim and with others I know the Bible addressed a subject that comes up and, even though I might not remember the actual chapter and verse, I know it is in there and use search engines in the online Bibles to find it.

Also, the Holy Spirit sometimes brings verses to my mind when I have my personal devotions or when I have something negative happen to me, it is a HUGE comfort. Study is very important, too, but added to that, memorization makes it even better. "Thy word have I hidden in my heart", the Psalm says.

I agree though I am not one to memorize scripture as many have done thru Bible College. Rather as you mentioned it seems during my time of devotions and study viewing a particular verse or verses over and over as you study seems to fix them within...though you are probably right making an effort to memorize likely is quite helpful.

I do remember making a jingle for my sons to remember the books of the Bible when they were youngsters....not realizing that would stick with me as well! Ha!

Can’t imagine those who have memorized chapters and books! My feeble mind would unfortunately not stay fixed on thatth that for long... I’d have to dig deeper to see more of what I’m attempting to memorize...

There’s a Kindle ap for memorizing 52 Bible verses.

(Also, an interesting book of value for teens . . .

QUESTIONS BUILDING . . .)

both at the Amazon Kindle store.