@BFHOOVEY, I admire your drive to memorize scripture. That was a desire of my heart about five years ago and led me to this forum and beyond.
Memorizing the Bible is not like picking a few entries out of a database to remember. I see it more as a grove of trees with several different types but in the same location. The scriptures are like leaves and trying to remember individual leaves on many different trees poses a big challenge. I’ve collected most of the Bible memorization books that have been published and found that they all, except for one, rely on a natural ability to remember after repeating a verse multiple times. I don’t have that strong of a natural memory so I use mnemonic techniques.
I participate in the Bible Memory Goal forum but actually, I think I’ve found better advice and ideas here on this forum. Although, I haven’t listened to all the poscasts but almost everything I’ve seen there is about brute force memory work. Ronald Johnson (@RonaldJohnson) has a good podcast and is interested in Bible memorization also.
@Hari-P has a good strategy in my mind. I used the title/subheading to form a foundation for random scriptures I heard or wanted to remember. St. Augustine thought it not that important to memorize verbatim but to have the themes memorized. So, I put together a large “memory palace” that is the image of the large grove of trees to me. You can find my published work and that of all the other published authors from this forum on the good books page.
My 7711 system works for me but I think that people need to decide for themselves what they need. I was able to keep about 100 scriptures in my head without a foundation. But they needed constant review. Now, committing the NT themes to memory and adding scriptures is my goal after coming through some health issues that afffected my memory short-term. Putting together a well-designed and consistent system for just the NT was very difficult. I haven’t seen any other complete examples out there.
If I can help out with questions on Bible memorization, I’d be happy to help. I use a patchwork of different techniques for verbatim scriptures.
Doug