Pronounce It!/Paraphrase It!
Definition of Pronounce It!
What Is: Read the verse each time for each word, putting the emphasis on each word?
Definition of Picture It!
What is: Imagine yourself in the story or visualize what is being described?
The acronym we use for Probe It!
What is: SPACEPETS?
a food made from the pressed curds of milk.
What is cheese?
The Definition of Personalize It!
What is: Insert your name in place of the first-person pronouns; then rewrite it again, as though God were saying it directly to you?
The Definition of Paraphrase It!
What is: Put the verse in your own words! Restate the verse to understand, process, and meditate on it more deeply?
Pictionary Difficulty: 200
What is: Noah's Ark?
The question that one of the S's in SPACEPETS represents
What is: is there a sin to confess? or What is: Is there something to praise God for?
beef and pork sausage seasoned with pepper.
What is: pepperoni?
The Definition of Pray It!
What is: pray the verse back to God, thanking him for the direction, wisdom, strength, and comfort you find in his Word?
Use the Pronounce it! method on this verse: 1 Corinthians 16:14
"Do everything in love"
What is:
DO everything in love.
Do EVERYTHING in love.
Do everything IN love.
Do everything in LOVE.
Pictionary Difficulty: 300
What is: Jonah and the Whale?
One of the questions that the P's represents in SPACEPETS
What is: is there a promise to claim? or What is: is there a prayer to pray?
a fungal growth that typically takes the form of a domed cap on a stalk, with gills on the underside of the cap.
What is mushrooms?
Use the Pray It method for this verse:
May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer. Psalm 19:14
May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer. Amen
Use the Paraphrase it! method on this verse:
Philippians 4:13: "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me".
What is: Something like:
Jesus helps me do what I need to do.
Pictionary: Level 400
What is: the tower of Babel?/God confusing people's language?
The question that one of the E's in SPACEPETS represents
What is: Is there an example to follow? or What is: Is there an error to avoid?
a small shoaling fish of commercial importance as a food fish and as bait. It is strongly flavored and is usually preserved in salt and oil.
What is anchovies?
Use the Pray It method for this verse: Psalm 3
Lord, how many are my foes!
How many rise up against me!
2 Many are saying of me,
“God will not deliver him.”
3 But you, Lord, are a shield around me,
my glory, the One who lifts my head high.
4 I call out to the Lord,
and he answers me from his holy mountain.
Possible example:
Lord, I might not have many foes, but I do know the enemy wants to attack me and my sin is tempting, so please protect me. Thank you that you are my shield and that you answer my prayers. Amen.
Use the Paraphrase it! method on this verse:
Romans 12:2
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.
A possible Paraphrase:
Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out.
Pictionary: Level 500
What is: the Israelites walk around Jericho?
Apply SPACEPETS to this passage:
Saul was very angry and resentful of the song, for he thought: “They give David tens of thousands, but only thousands to me. All that remains for him is the kingship.” From that day on, Saul kept a jealous eye on David. The next day an evil spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and he raged in his house. David was in attendance, playing the harp as at other times, while Saul was holding his spear. Saul poised the spear, thinking, “I will nail David to the wall!” But twice David escaped him. 1 Samuel 18
S - sin: jealousy, murder
P - promise: David's promise to be King or God will protect you
A - attitude: don't be jealous, enraged
C - command: do not commit murder
E - example: no
P - prayer: protection from enemies, evil spirits
E - error: anger, murder, jealousy, words of others
T - truth: God's opinion > man's opinion
S - something to praise: protection, gratitude
It's made by crushing basil, garlic, pine nuts, olive oil, and hard cheese together.
What is: Pesto?
Application: use the personalize it! method for this verse:
Psalm 1
Blessed is the one
who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
or sit in the company of mockers,
2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
and who meditates on his law day and night.
3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither—
whatever they do prospers.
Blessed is _________
who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
or sit in the company of mockers,
2 but MY delight is in the law of the Lord,
and I meditates on his law day and night.
3 I AM like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither—
whatever I do prospers.