Cherrilynn Bisbano @bisbanowrites
The Word of God fights for me and encourages me. The only way Scripture can do this is if I commit it to memory.
I understand my brain doesn’t work like it used to. However, if God commands me to write His Word on my heart, won’t He give me the capacity to do so?
Here are 7 tips I use to saturate my heart and mind with His promises.
Choose verses that strengthen your faith and support what God is teaching you right now. Scripture sticks when it speaks to your season.
There’s something powerful about putting pen to paper. Writing a verse slows me down and helps God’s truth settle into my heart.
7 Tips Every Christian Writer Can Use to Memorize Scripture by @bisbanowrites on @BRMCWC #Writing #Writinglife #BRMCWC Share on XRead your verse with enthusiasm. If the dog starts looking at you funny, just tell him you’re talking with the Author.
Review your verse while driving, walking, or waiting in line. Those little moments quickly become big opportunities to hide God’s Word in your heart.
When I learn the context and meaning of a verse, remembering it becomes much easier. God’s Word isn’t meant to be collected; it’s meant to be lived.
Turn Scripture into a conversation with God. His Word moves from my head to my heart when I begin praying it.
Don’t just memorize new verses. Revisit the old ones often because repetition turns familiar verses into lifelong companions.
When my heart is filled with God’s Word, my writing naturally reflects His truth, and that’s far more powerful than anything I could create on my own.
Do you memorize His Word?
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Cherrilynn Bisbano is an award-winning writer, coach, editor, and speaker. As former managing editor of Almost an Author, she helped the website earn the #6 spot on the Top 100 best writing websites for 2018 by The Write Life and Top 101 Websites for writers with Writers Digest. Cherrilynn is a speaker with Women Speakers. Her topics include leadership, book proposals, and the Bible.
She is a two-time winner of Flash Fiction Weekly. Her work in progress, Accidental Findings, won the first 10 pages award with, When Words Count Retreat. You can find her published in Blue Ridge Writers Blog, Southern Writers, More to Life (MTL), Christian Rep, Christian Voice, Refresh, and other online magazines. Cherrilynn is a contributor to award-winning, Get to the Margins-Author Anthology; Breaking the Chains; Heart Reno, Kiss Guilt Goodbye; and Chicken Soup for the Soul-Miracles books. Her latest book, Shine Don’t Whine, released October 2020. Cherrilynn proudly served in the Navy and Air National Guard, earning the John Levitow Military leadership award. She lives with her eighteen-year-old son, Michael, Jr., and husband of 22 years. Cherrilynn loves Christ, Chocolate, coffee, and Cats. You will often find her on the beach sea glass hunting.
