Bible Study Questions: Session 1

Welcome to our New Year's Bible Study. I am so excited for and grateful for those who are joining us. This promises to be a very thought-provoking, heart-stirring study.

Let's dig into the Word this session ladies. This Word is going to move you and change you. It is just that good. God never changes and His Word is ever-lasting and will not return to Him void.

So let's get to our questions for the Introductory session:

Question 1: Where are you? Now isn't that an interesting quesion. The reason I pose this question is because it is asked of us in this study. It is so important for us to recognize the season we are in right now and just where this study finds us in life. So I am not looking for a one word answer here. Really think about this one. If you are in a hard place, then that is where you are. In studying this material together, we will find a safe place to land our feelings, hopes, dreams, and desires, and also the dreams that haven't been realized or hopes that were dashed. Here is a safe place to land with those feelings.

Question 2: What are your initial thoughts on the Tabernacle?

Question 3: I watched the Introductory Session with Beth Moore and she quotes Abraham Herschel: "A return to reference is the first prerequiste to the revival of wisdom. It begins with a revival of awe. Awe precedes faith." And that is where we need to begin. In total Awe of our God and His might.

Share two Scriptures that remind you of the Awe of God. And share your favorite verse on Faith.

Question 4: In our previous studies we have written a letter to the Lord or a prayer in the front of our study, and I'd like for us to do this again this time, and then read it at the end of our study. It is so good to see how the Father works from beginning to end. It truly is beautiful.

Our first session is tomorrow, Tuesday January 11 at 6:00 PM CST.

See you there,

Come on over.....

Wanted to let y'all know that the Chatzy site for our new Bible Study starting on Tuesday is set up. Please go on over and check it out. You can leave a message if you'd like. Go right here.

I'm looking so forward to starting our study together this week. It is Beth Moore's "A Woman's Heart God's Dwelling Place". It is not to late to start. Please email me if you'd like more info. We'd love to have you.

It was suggested to me that I post the questions for our study on Monday instead of Tuesday morning, so it will give you all a day to get your answers together. Good idea G. I don't know why I didn't think about that. So hopefully I will be posting questions tomorrow.

Thank you all for joining me on this journey.

Another First Last.....Doc's Appt......AND Bible Study Info!!!!!

WOW now that's a lot to cover in one post, but we will get it done =)

So here we go with another, A BIG, first last. Yesterday was Dak's first day of his last Semester of High School!!! Breathe, just breathe mama. It is going SO fast!! But I'm just so excited for him and so proud of him. He is continuing to work hard, even though he probably could be a slacker at this point and get by. No, instead he traded Life Sports (easy, gravy class) for Art IV (hard, only four students accepted in this class kind of hard), and he has NEVER taken an Art class in High School AT ALL. But he was accepted yesterday and gets started right away today. He is a talented dude, my boy. Okay could I brag more? Oh, I could, but I'm afraid your eyes would get stuck at the top of your head for good =) So we'll carry on.....

Oh speaking of Dak, I just had to include this picture of him and his grandma from CHRISTmas. How adorable are these two? Love them. (Oh yes RJ, his hair is a different color again =) I knew you'd notice =)

Doc's Appointment: I had another follow-up for my knee yesterday, and I was expecting him to want to manipulate it to get further range of motion, because he had mentioned it in my last appointment. But this time, he was so pleased with my progress. He didn't even mention manipulation. Praise You Jesus!!!!!

He said that even though my numbers (range of motion) are the same, he can tell a difference from this month to last and that I'm doing good. So he gave me more pain medicine for night time (I'll be glad when it doesn't hurt at night anymore. Yuck.) and he ordered more PT. I tried to talk him into just two days a week, but in the end he wrote my script for three again, for the next four weeks. So that's okay too. I'm not sure what this will do to my PT schedule, but we'll see.

Also in other knee news, The Mayo Clinic sent me a packet in the mail last week saying that they wanted to see me. What?!! Yep it is time for a follow-up on the right. You see, the surgery I had on the right fell under research, and we had to sign papers that we would do follow-ups etc. But the good news is that they said if I couldn't travel up there right now, that I could fill out the paper work they sent (three pages) and have x-rays done. They were VERY specific about the x-rays they wanted. So when I was in talking to Dr. R yesterday, I asked him if that was something I could have done there. And he said no problem and ordered them right there. So I have the x-rays and now I just have to fill out the paperwork. Isn't God good?!! Yes He is, and all the time He is good!! I love Him so!!!!!

So I have PT today and we will see how the next four weeks will look with that. I was so excited when I left yesterday that I was praising Jesus all through the hall thinking that if someone would see me they would think I was crazy but I didn't care!!! His Name be praised!! Lisa, I was thinking of you sister as I praise walked through the halls of that Dr.'s office =) You are SUCH an inspiration to me girl!!

Bible Study: Our next Bible Study is set to start next Tuesday evening. I can hardly wait to get started!!! It is Beth Moore's "A Woman's Heart: God's Dwelling Place".

We will start next Tuesday evening at 6:00 PM (CST). The time has changed from 7:00 PM (CST) to 6:00 PM (CST). If this time does not work for any of you that would like to participate, then we can change it back to the original time.

This is how it works. We meet every other Tuesday over at Chatzy. I don't have the link up yet, but by next Tuesday, I'll have it up and running again, and I'll let y'all know when it is up again.

On each Tuesday of study, I will post Questions pertinent to the last two weeks of study. On our first meeting, since we haven't study out of our book yet, I pose a few questions that we discuss on that first evening, just to get our feet wet. =)

Okay, so I'm off to get Sir Cuteness and have breakfast. Oh I can hardly stand it =)

Have a Blessed and beautiful day!!!

Psalm 27:13-14 "I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. 14 Wait for the LORD, be strong, and take heart and wait for the LORD."

Love you,

My pitifully small faith.....

Have I mentioned how much I love Apps? I think I have, but please let me reiterate this: I am loving them.

I have a Beth Moore App: Praying God's Word Prayer Card app.

I LOVE IT!!! I read this yesterday:

"I didn't ask you to believe in Me. I asked you to believe Me.

I sat very puzzled for several moments until I was certain that the Holy Spirit had faithfully shed light on my pitifully small faith. I sensed Him saying,'My child, you believe Me for so little. Don't be so safe in the things you pray. Who are you trying to keep from looking foolish? Me or you?'"

Okay so I don't mind telling you, that it shook me. I was riding my recumbent in the garage listening to Pandora and the next song that came on while I was reading this passage was:

How Deep the Father's Love for Us

How deep the Father's love for us,
How vast beyond all measure
That He should give His only Son
To make a wretch His treasure

How great the pain of searing loss,
The Father turns His face away
As wounds which mar the chosen One,
Bring many sons to glory

Behold the Man upon a cross,
My sin upon His shoulders
Ashamed I hear my mocking voice,
Call out among the scoffers

It was my sin that held Him there
Until it was accomplished
His dying breath has brought me life
I know that it is finished

I will not boast in anything
No gifts, no power, no wisdom
But I will boast in
Jesus Christ
His death and resurrection

Why should I gain from His reward?
I cannot give an answer
But this I know with all my heart
His wounds have paid my ransom

The part that kept sticking out to me was "It was my sin that held Him there..." My sin held Him there, He died for me, I live because He lives, and my pitifully small faith keeps me bound in the arena of "I wish......" I wish my leg would get better..... I wish my loved one would quit running from Him..... I wish......... I wish........ instead I should be saying, I KNOW my God is able. It was my sin that held Him there, but He conquered it. I do not have to have pitifully small faith. That's the deal. I can BELIEVE HIM....not just in Him, but believe Him. When He says He is able, because He is ALWAYS able. I can believe Him.

So as I enter 2011 I am entering in learning mode. I want to know more. I want to know Him more!!! I will be starting by joining the Seista Scripture Memory Verse Team with the LPM Blog. God has already laid my first verse on my heart. I am so ready to start the New Year with Scripture on my heart every day. How cool is that?!!

We are also starting up our online Bible Study the second week of January (tentatively), and it will be Beth Moore's "A Woman's Heart: God's Dwelling Place". If you would like to join us, please leave me your e-mail address and I will send you more information. We'd love to have you.

Luke 2:4-5 (New International Version, ©2010)

"4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5 He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child."




Have a Blessed day,