Bitterness & Forgiveness Bible Study What you will need to do this study: A willing heart to be open to how God will change your heart through this study A Bible or online Bible Notebook and a pen, or you can save to your desktop via word doc. A trusted friend. This can be someone you can actually talk to face to face, via the phone, through letters, or via online chat. This person can help you with memory verses, be there to discuss what you are going through as you do this study. This person does not have to do the study, but must be someone you trust to share the intimate details of your life with. If you are new to an area and do not have someone to fit this description...consider finding a women at your church who serves in a ministry role whom you could form this relationship with. Lessons one - four will focus on Bitterness…We will spend four weeks reading, listening, learning, praying and discussing while confronting bitterness. Bitterness may be something y...
Luke 1:38 And Mary said, "Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word." I have been thinking on these words of Mary often this Christmas. Mary describes herself as the servant of the Lord….servant of the Lord. How did that play out in Mary’s life? She was probably ostracized for most of her pregnancy for being “supernaturally pregnant.” Scripture doesn’t say exactly what she endured, but it does record that God sent an angel to Joseph to explain to him that Mary’s story was real. So, obviously it was a big enough deal to require a heavenly messenger. We see in the Gospel of Luke that Mary had the joy of going on a trip during the later part of her pregnancy, birthing a baby in a stable, laying him in an animal trough, and being greeted by shepherds after giving birth. Wow, not exactly what I would have expected the mother of our Lord to have endured in order to welcome Him into this world. Not exactly what I like to think of when I...
And they cried out in a loud voice: "Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the lamb." ( Revelation 7 :10) At different times in my life I have different "favorite" verses in the Bible. A few years ago, while studying the book of Revelation the entire seventh chapter gripped me. Most especially verses nine through 17. John is in the midst of heaven through a vision that God has given him. He sees before the throne of God a great multitude that cannot be counted. People from every nation, tribe, people and language crying out in worship before God. What grips my heart is that these are they who have come out of the great tribulation. Each of us have a long list of people we know and love who have walked away from serving God or others who continually choose not to serve him. These are those whom we should remind ourselves to pray for often. Each time just one person repents, there is rejoicing in heaven! (Luke 15:7) Imagine the rejo...
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