Veronica Copenhagenhaver says you'll get a lot out of memorizing scripture, even if you start small.

Even if it takes you one verse and it takes you a whole year to memorize it, that's one more verse than you had last year.

And you have no clue how God will use it.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of A Place

of Quiet Rest for Friday, December 30th, 2016.

Well, I'm here in the Reviver Our Hearts Studio this morning recording some programs with my husband,

and we just finished recording a program, and we turned around and looked out the window,

and there were a whole bunch of little ones.

One of our staff members came through.

He lives a few hours away.

He came through with his wife and kids, and his sister-in-law,

and her kids are here, Veronica, Copenhaver, and we just met for the first time, and you started telling me Veronica about your love for revive our hearts, and I said, can you walk in the studio and let's talk about it for a few minutes? So thank you for letting me put you on the spot. Thank you. I'm a little nervous.

And all the way from Alaska, your husband's a pastor there. And you're here in the Midwest visiting family. You said that you've been listening to Revive Our Hearts since we first went on the year, 15 years ago. How did you come across it? I don't remember for sure. But when I was getting ready in the morning to go to work, I was a school teacher before having kids.

I would just, from 6.30 to 7 every morning, that was my routine to get ready and listen to Nancy.

I was pretty consistent and faithful.

And then you threw out the challenge to memorize scripture and you were working through Philippians.

And I was listening to that. I'm like, I could do that. I had random verses memorized that I went through, but that only took 10, 15 minutes. And I was like, oh, I think I could do a whole book. And so I emailed Eric and Brian and my other sister, Jen and my parents. He said, hey, let's do a family challenge. I've memorized the book of Philippians. And Eric and Brian wrote back and went, oh, we already have that memorized. Now, Brian is on our staff. He heads up our web and digital department. So he was familiar with this challenge, but it sounds like you made it more personal. Yeah, they hadn't shared the fun challenge. And so I'm like, okay, fine. Well, the rest of us can do it. So we started with Philippians. And then my husband was involved. And then we went to the sermon. Wait, wait. Philippians. How long did that take?

Five months. So you really spent some time on it? We did. We all have our different routine now. My sister and I, Jenna,

are accountability partners with it. So we do about a verse a day. We try to. Eric and Brian and my

parents all have their own little routine. So verse a day and then you're just reviewing.

And then review a chapter for about a week and then start the next chapter and then review for about a

week when the whole book's done. We're up to nine books, I think, memorized.

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