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The Romans Project

: The Romans Project Cut-Out Cover Pages 2-4: Introduction to The Romans Project

Page 5: Memorizing Schedule Pages 6-23: The Romans Project Verse Cards

Why make time to Memorize God’s Word? In the age of Google, who makes time to still memorize God? Past generations made it a priority to memorize God’s Word. Are we now losing a way of life… and losing our way? In our making to-do lists to run our lives, why not make time to let God’s Word revolut ionize our lives? Because making time to memorize His Word is putting first things first. I f we fai l to keep His Word in mind, we may s imply fa i l . "What a heart knows by heart is what a heart real ly knows," urges Dennis Lennon. And what the heart knows by heart is all that can calm the heart. And direct the heart. And strengthen the heart.

What do our hearts really know? Will we who claim to be believers of the Word commit to shaping our lives with His Letters? Committing the Holy to heart is the way we commune with the Holy Himself. Scripture repetition is the way we daily revive our faith, the slow pumping of the Word of Life into the lungs with the breath of His Words. And for the disciples of Christ, this Scripture Memorization isn't a one-time hurtle — but a l i fe - long habit . A way of living to live the Way of Christ. We want this to be a discipline we practice for the rest of our lives. Think marathon, not sprint ." writes Beth Moore. She encourages, "Never — NOT ONCE — have I ever known anyone to get to the end of a Scripture memory commitment and say that i t didn’t make any real dif ference. Not a single time.” So this Commitment Booklet: committ ing our hearts to Him and His Words to heart .

Learning the ART of Memorizing Attend : Attend to the verse. Do whatever it takes to attend to the verse and work those brain muscles. If you have to act it out, draw it up, wri te it down, or tape it everywhere. Make up act ions and sign- language to correspond with the verse. Listen i t a recording of the book of Romans on CD/MP3. Listen in the car, while doing dishes, going for a walk. For children: Draw the verse in pictures. Fill in the blank. Write it down several times. Close your eyes and see the words. Do whatever i t takes to Attend.

Review to Renew: Repeat. Recite. Recap. Reiterate. And then…. Recite to an accountability partner weekly. Each day, f irs t thing, take just five minutes to review verses learned last week. Learning is important…but reviewing is paramount to retention. Repeating God’s Word renews.

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Tie: Tie Daily Memorizing to Daily Duties . Knot reciting to routines: when you brush teeth, comb hair, make the bed, use the time to savor His Sweet Word. Tie memorizing to meal times. Bind Scripture learning to laundry, labor and l iv ing . Tying daily memorizing to daily duties is the living of Deuteronomy 6:7: "You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.” Tie His Word to your life. Tie.

So goes the ART of Memorizing. And our motivation to keep memorizing? “Guard my words as your most precious possession… ” Pr. 7:2 (LB) Lord, “Your promises to me are my hope. They give me strength in al l my troubles; how they refresh and revive me!” (Ps. 119:49 LB)

Seven Ways of Highly Effective Bible Memorization*

1. Old before New: Always take the old paths. Begin each day by reviewing the memorized verses first before learning the next verse. The goal is retention not �accumulation. 2. Rinse and Repeat: And again. The only way to retain learned verses is to review them again and again over an extended period of time. Everyday’s memorization rhythm: Rinse and repeat. � 3. Location, Location, Location: Like the mantra in real estate is location, location, location, so it is for really remembering: memorize the location of each verse. Memorize each verse number and don’t skip it. This is paramount and makes it much easier to memorize long passages and not inadvertently skip verses when reciting whole chapters. Location!

4. Take a Mental Screen Shot: Use your mental point and shoot and take a brain “photograph” of the verse. Read each new verse several times, hiding one word at a time, burning each word into your mind like light onto film. 5. Preach it : to yourself. Speak your memory verses to yourself aloud. Preach it aloud to the soul that needs it the most — our own — and say each verse with emotion and feeling. Whispering it while driving, walking, working not only is an easy way of reviewing and memorizing, it’s fulfilling God’s call to meditate on His Word day and night. And saying each verse aloud is a way to work the words deep into our memory: His Words never return void. 6. Repeat i t for 100: For 100 consecutive days repeat aloud your memory work — all the verses, or the chapter, or the whole book. This is painless and demands no extra time: do it first thing every morning while getting ready for the day — in the shower, getting dressed, making the bed etc. Repeat it for 100!

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7. Sabbath Sanctuary to see the weeds: After your Repeat it for 100, take the last Sunday of every month and make a sabbath sanctuary to read through your memory work. This will help you to “see the weeds” — any mistakes that have crept into your recitation of longer projects, chapters, books. Soak in His Word on a Sabbath — pluck out some weeds. Commit your heart — and mind —- to Him again. (*Ideas adapted from Dr. Andrew Davis) “I know of no other single practice in the Christ ian l i fe more rewarding… than memorizing Scripture… No other single exercise pays greater spiritual dividends…”

~Charles Swindoll

online helps: http://www.scripturetyper.com Scripture Typer: Highly recommended. “Combine touch typing with Bible memory and feel the patterns of the scripture as you type them so that you memorize faster, increase retention, and enhance your capacity to memorize verses.” 5 star resource for the whole family. Must-‐see. http://www.biblegateway.com Biblegateway Search for the verses in your preferred version and print out as many copies as necessary. http://www.downes.ca/memorization.htm First Letter of the words Memorization. Type in verse, click convert, then copy and print the text of just the first letters of each verse. Read several times. The brain works hard to fill in the blanks!

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The Romans Project in a Year: Just 2 Verses a Week

Week New Review Recite Week New Review Recite 1 Rom 1:1-2 27 Rom 8:17-18 Rom 8:1-16 2 Rom 1:3-4 Rom 1:1-2 28 Rom 8:19-20 Rom 8:1-18 3 Rom 1:5-6 Rom 1:1-4 29 Review Romans 1 & 8:1-20 4 Rom 1:7-8 Rom 1:1-6 30 Rom 8:21-22 Rom 8:1-20 5 Rom 1:9-10 Rom 1:1-8 31 Rom 8:23-24 Rom 8:1-22 6 Rom 1:11-12 Rom 1:1-10 32 Rom 8:25-26 Rom 8:1-24 7 Rom 1:13-14 Rom 1:1-12 33 Rom 8:27-28 Rom 8:1-26 8 Rom 1:15-16 Rom 1:1-14 34 Rom 8:29-30 Rom 8:1-28 9 Review Romans 1:1-16 35 Rom 8:31-32 Rom 8:1-30 10 Rom 1:17-18 Rom 1:1-16 36 Rom 8:33-34 Rom 8:1-32 11 Rom 1:19-20 Rom 1:1-18 37 Rom 8:35-36 Rom 8:1-34 12 Rom 1:21-22 Rom 1:1-20 38 Rom 8:37-38 Rom 8:1-36 13 Rom 1:23-24 Rom 1:1-22 39 Rom 8:39, 12:1 Rom 8:1-38 14 Rom 1:25-26 Rom 1:1-24 40 Review Romans 1 & 8 15 Rom 1:27-28 Rom 1:1-26 41 Rom 12:2-3 Rom 12:1 16 Rom 1:29-30 Rom 1:1-28 42 Rom 12:4-5 Rom 12:1-3 17 Rom 1:31-32 Rom 1:1-30 43 Rom 12:6-7 Rom 12:1-5 18 Review Romans 1 44 Rom 12:8-9 Rom 12:1-7 19 Rom 8:1-2 45 Rom 12:10-11 Rom 12:1-9 20 Rom 8:3-4 Rom 8:1-2 46 Review Romans 1, 8 & 12:1-11 21 Rom 8:5-6 Rom 8:3-4 47 Rom 12:12-13 Rom 12:1-11 22 Rom 8:7-8 Rom 8:5-6 48 Rom 12:14-15 Rom 12:1-13 23 Rom 8:9-10 Rom 8:7-8 49 Rom 12:16-17 Rom 12:1-15 24 Rom 8:11-12 Rom 8:9-10 50 Rom 12:18-19 Rom 12:1-17 25 Rom 8:13-14 Rom 8:11-12 51 Rom 12:20-21 Rom 12:1-19 26 Rom 8:15-16 Rom 8:13-14 52 Review Romans 1, 8, & 12

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Jan 2-9 : Week 1 Recited to _______________

Learn Romans 1:1-2 �� 1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God— 2 the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy

Scriptures.µ


Review Romans 1:1-2 ��

Learn Romans 1:3-4 ��

3 regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life was a descendant of David, 4 and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God

in power by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.µ

Jan 16 - 23 : Week 3 Recited to _______________



5 Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for his name’s sake. 6 And you also are among those Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus

Christ.µ

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7 To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be his holy people: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your

faith is being reported all over the world. µ

Jan 30 – Feb 6 : Week 5 Recited to _______________



9 God, whom I serve in my spirit in preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you 10 in my prayers at all times; and I pray that now at last by God’s will the

way may be opened for me to come to you. µ

Feb 6 - 13 : Week 6 Recited to _______________



11 I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong— 12 that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s

faith.µ

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Feb 13 – 20 : Week 7 Recited to _______________



13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I planned many times to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.

14 I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. µ

Feb 20 - 27 : Week 8 Recited to _______________



15 That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome. 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to

the Gentile.µ

Feb 27 – Mar 6 : Week 9 Recited to _______________

A week to Review Chapter Oneµ

Review the first chapter of Romans: Romans 1:1-16 ��

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Mar 6 - 13 : Week 10 Recited to _______________



17 For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” 18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness

and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness,µ




19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from

what has been made, so that people are without excuse.µ




21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became foolsµ

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Mar 27 – Apr 3 : Week 13 Recited to _______________



23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual

impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.µ

Apr 3 – 10 : Week 14 Recited to _______________



25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. 26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even women

exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.µ

Apr 10 - 17 : Week 15 Recited to _______________



27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. 28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God

gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.µ

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May 1 – 8 : Week 18 Recited to _______________

A week to Review Chapter Oneµ

Review the first chapter of Romans: Romans 1 ��

Apr 17 - 24 : Week 16 Recited to _______________

Review Romans 1: 1-28 ��


29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent

ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; µ

Apr 24 – May 1 : Week 17 Recited to _______________



31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but

also approve of those who practice them.µ

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May 8 - 15 : Week 19 Recited to _______________



1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set

you free from the law of sin and death.µ




3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us,

who do not live according to the flesh according to the Spirit.µ




5 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit

is life and peace.µ

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May 29 – June 5 : Week 22 Recited to _______________



7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.µ

June 12 - 19 : Week 24 Recited to _______________



11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you. 12 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the

flesh, to live according to it.µ




9 You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. 10 But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because

of sin, the Spirit gives life to because of righteousness.µ

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13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. 14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.µ

July 3 - 10 : Week 27 Recited to _______________



17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. 18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory

that will be revealed in us.µ

June 26 – July 3 : Week 26 Recited to _______________



15 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.µ

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19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the

will of the one who subjected it, in hopeµ




21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. 22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of

childbirth right up to the present time.µ


Review Chapters One and Eightµ

Review the eighth chapter of Romans: Romans 1, 8:1-20 ��

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Aug 7 - 14 : Week 32 Recited to _______________



25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. 26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us

through wordless groans.µ




27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. 28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love

him, who have been called according to his purpose.µ

July 31 - Aug 7 : Week 31 Recited to _______________



23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who

hopes for what they already have?µ

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29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified;

those he justified, he also glorified.µ

Sep 4 – 11 : Week 36 Recited to _______________



33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is

also interceding for us.µ

Aug 28 – Sep 4 : Week 35 Recited to _______________



31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how

will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?µ

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Sep 18 – 25 : Week 38 Recited to _______________



37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor

demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,µ

Sep 11 - 18 : Week 37 Recited to _______________



35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

Sep 25 – Oct 2 : Week 39 Recited to _______________


Learn Romans 8:39, 12:1 ��

39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and

proper worship.µ

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Oct 2 - 9 : Week 40 Recited to _______________

Review Chapters One & Eightµ

A week to review chapters one & eight: Romans 1 & 8 ��

Oct 9 – 16 : Week 41 Recited to _______________

Review Romans 12:1 ��


2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. 3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has

distributed to each of you.µ

Oct 16 – 23 : Week 42 Recited to _______________



4 For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs

to all the others.µ

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Oct 23 - 30 : Week 43 Recited to _______________



6 We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith;

7 if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; µ

Oct 30 – Nov 6 : Week 44 Recited to _______________



8 if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully. 9 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.µ

Nov 6 – 13 : Week 45 Recited to _______________



10 Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. 11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor,

serving the Lord.µ

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12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. 13 Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice

hospitality.µ

Nov 27 – Dec 4 : Week 48 Recited to _______________



14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.µ


Review Chapters One, Eight, and Twelveµ

A week to review chapters one, eight, and twelve: Romans 1, 8, 12:1-11��

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Dec 4 – 11 : Week 49 Recited to _______________



16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited. 17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the

eyes of everyone.µ

Dec 11 - 18 : Week 50 Recited to _______________



18 If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. 19 Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath,

for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord.µ

Dec 18 - 25 : Week 51 Recited to _______________



20 “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.” 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.µ

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Dec 25 – Jan 1 : Week 52 Recited to _______________

Review Chapters One, Eight, and Twelveµ

A week to review chapters one, eight, and twelve: Romans 1, 8, 12 ��

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