Divide and Conquer!!

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Memorizing Bible Verses!

I am sure many of you as Bible teachers have witnessed children saying their Bible verse from memory. They met the challenge and nailed it! How proud they feel!

Learning Bible verses can be a challenge. But what a rewarding to feeling to challenge our brain and actually learn a Bible verse! One we can actually put to use in our daily lives, especially when we are needing to combat that old Devil.

I remember when Jesus was tempted. He used scripture to fight the enemy.
We should do the same.

Ephesians 6: 10-17 speaks of taking up the full armor of God, that includes the shield of faith with which we are able to extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one. This armor also includes the Word of God which the sword of the spirit.

How can we learn to wield our sword unless we learn/torture the scriptures! 

Here is an idea that may aid you in helping anyone do just that. 

I call this Divide and Conquer! 

These are little take-home memory cards! 

Put the scripture reference on the first card with 2 or 3 beginning words of the Bible verse. Then split  up the words of the rest of the verse on other cards.

( I typed mine out and glued them onto folded colored cardstock. You may want to put numbers on the back of the cards so you can see the order easily as the cards face the students.)

Shuffle the cards and see if your students can put them in the correct order. Once the verse is in the correct order say the Bible verse together and taking out a card and saying the Bible verse again until all the cards are gone and see who can recite their Bible verse.

What is really fun is when the students get to test their teacher to see if they know the verse as well!

(Ha, my students lined the sheep up to read 

from right to left instead of left to right.)

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