5 Benefits of Memorizing Scripture
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
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🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Have you tried memorizing Scripture? Jeff invites us to commit God’s Word to memory—to hide God’s Word in our hearts so it can guide, strengthen, and transform us. Even a single verse each week can deepen our faith, renew our minds, and help us live with the mind of Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Ascension. To discover even more free Catholic podcasts, |
| 0:05.6 | videos, and resources, to help you live your faith every day, visit ascensionpress.com. |
| 0:11.7 | Welcome to the Jeff Kaven Show, where we talk about the Bible, discipleship, and evangelization, |
| 0:18.5 | putting it all together in living as activated disciples. |
| 0:23.7 | This is show 475. Why memorize the Bible? |
| 0:33.7 | Welcome to the Jeff Kaven Show. I'm Jeff. And it is good to be with you talking this week about a topic that is very near and dear to my heart. Or should I say in my heart? That is the word of God and committing God's word to memory. |
| 0:53.4 | This is going to be an interesting show. I have some scriptures |
| 0:56.1 | for you that are going to talk about hiding God's word in your heart, and I'm going to talk to you |
| 1:01.3 | about the benefits. I'm going to give you five benefits to do this. It's funny because over the years, |
| 1:06.7 | right away when I mentioned memorizing scripture, people, well, I have a hard time doing that. |
| 1:11.4 | I'm not very good at memorizing that. |
| 1:14.0 | To which I would say, I don't know if I quite believe that because there's a lot of things in life that we memorize because we're either required to or if it's some benefit to us or something we simply want to remember. |
| 1:28.0 | We liked it. |
| 1:29.1 | Songs to, or lyrics to a song that really touched your heart, whatever it might be. |
| 1:35.2 | You know, I don't think that God has created you or created me in such a way that we simply can't memorize something, you know, just a few words. |
| 1:44.7 | I think we're marvelously made and God created us for himself and he gave us his words. |
| 1:50.0 | Certainly you would think that this is something that we could tuck away in our heart |
| 1:54.5 | for the benefits that I'm going to be going over today. |
| 1:57.3 | So if you're in that school of thought that says, well, there are people who can |
| 2:01.8 | memorize and people who cannot stick with me here. And let's just see if we can't work this out. |
| 2:07.9 | You know, sometimes people say, I'm really bad at memorizing. So I say, well, don't then. Don't |
| 2:12.0 | memorize the Bible. Just remember it. That's easier. |
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