Welcome back to Week 2 of the Making Your Home a Haven Challenge! Keep your candles burning and your thankful heart going and let’s add to it! This week’s Spiritual Focus is Meditation. Some days a scheduled quiet time just can not happen. Emergencies, sicknesses, a busy season at work, or family members who need us, just simply make it impossible. It would be wrong for us to put pressure on ourselves to always create the “Pinterest Perfect” quiet time. Life just does not work that way. So what’s the solution when an extended time alone with the Lord is not […]
Read MoreHow to Create a Prayer Closet – Your War Room
For those who have read my book, you’ve read about my prayer closets – my war rooms. As a newlywed, I felt a need to create a “prayer closet” so I turned a walk in closet into a prayer closet. Matthew 6:6 says “When you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” In the closet, I put an inexpensive chair and footstool, a cheap night stand filled with journals, pens, my Bible and hymnal; a little water fountain […]
Read MoreHow To Use the SOAK Bible Study Method and Bible Coloring Chart
Some of you asked that I further explain the SOAK and Bible Coloring Chart Method. Please remember, these methods are optional. They are tools that help us soak God’s word into our hearts more deeply. “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly.” (Colossians 3:16) This short video explains it all! {If you are reading this in an email – come on over to the blog to see this video. I hope it blesses you!} Here is the SOAK method I refer to in the video: S – The S stands for Scripture O – The O stands […]
Read More6 Benefits of an On-Line Bible Study Group {Psalm 16}
Psalm 16:3 As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight. Do you delight in the fellowship of saints? The Psalmist writes in Psalm 16:3, his delight is in the saints. Have you been some place talking to someone new – perhaps at one of your children’s events, at work, in the grocery store, or in an airport and you realize the person you are speaking with is a believer? Immediately a wall comes down and there is a connection. The Holy Spirit does that. He knits our hearts together because […]
Read MoreThis Good Morning Girl’s Bible Study Journal is AMAZING!
This is Shar! And friends you are in for a treat today! My regularly scheduled post is scrapped because I am so incredibly inspired by Shar’s daily instagrams, that I emailed her a few days ago and asked if I could share her journals with you all and she said “yes!” Hooray! So first a little about Shar aka Gypsy.Mama.nc (her instagram is not available at this time)- she writes: I’m Shar! I’m 22, I’m a Stay-At-Home mama of 3 boys under 3 (the third being due in less than 2 weeks!), and I have a huge crush on a […]
Read MoreIt’s Time to Begin “Blogging Through the Bible!” {GMG September Resources Here}
It’s time to begin reading through the Bible – one chapter a day, one week at a time, one month at a time, one year at a time until we have read the Bible cover to cover! Are you wondering how GMG began? I made this video below in 2011 for another website. I thought I would share it here today, so you could hear the heart and vision behind GMG. Some of the details in the video have since changed (I’ve now been a part of GMG for 7 years not 4 as the video states) and in the […]
Read MoreA Demonstration of My Bible Study Methods & a Free Logos Webinar
Yesterday Mandy shared 9 Ways to Study the Bible. Today I want to share with you my Bible study methods! Here is a video demonstration: (click here if you cannot see this video) Another resource I have just started using this year is Logos Bible Software. Renee Swope (from Proverbs 31 Ministries ) and I had the opportunity to make a video together when we were in Dallas just a few weeks ago together. It’s all about Logos! Listen here: (click here if you cannot see this video) Logos is hosting a free webinar for women just like you and […]
Read More9 Ways to Study the Bible
Today we have a guest post by one of the GMG Team Members! This is Mandy. Mandy is passionate about two things: The Word of God and the Souls of Men (and Ladies!). Mandy blogs at Women of Worship. “God’s truth is the most important thing in the world.” John MacArthur As Christians, one of the most important things that we can do is to study the Word of God. God’s Word is to be a light to our path.(Psalm 119:105) It teaches us about God’s heart and allows us to know the mind of Christ.(Psalm 119:105, Psalm 119, Philippians […]
Read MoreWelcome Home Good Morning Girls!
“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.” ~Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 Welcome Home Good Morning Girls! We are about to begin a new series titled: Blogging Through the Bible. For those […]
Read MoreBlogging Through the Bible
Last week I shared my plan to begin blogging through the Bible – one chapter a day – 7 chapters a week – 31 chapters a month – 365 chapters a year until we have completed 1,189 chapters –the entire Bible. This will take a few years to complete and I am sure I will need a break here and there during these next few years that will slow us down. But I am committed to working our way through the Old Testament and the New Testament until we have completed it all. We will not start on […]
Read MoreA Simple Bible Study Method For the Family
Excellent post written by Rhonda Owens at ForTheFamily.org My parenting journey has been peppered with amazing friends — fellow parents who, like my husband and me, long very much to “impress [God’s commandments] on [their] children. Talk about them when [they] sit at home and when [they] walk along the road, when [they] lie down and when [they] get up” (Deuteronomy 6:7-9). The difference between some of these sweet friends and us is that on a scale of 1-10 for family devotional creativity, they are actually on the scale; we are not. In all fairness, I did try my hand at planning a bible […]
Read MoreThe Women Living Well Book Club – Chapter 5 {Never Walk Alone}
Welcome back to the Women Living Well Book Club! Chapter 5 Discussion Image via Sally Clarkson In Chapter 5, I list the 4 ways I have found community, accountability and friendship within the church. 1. Women’s Bible Studies – raise your hand if you have been in a women’s Bible study! Women’s Bible Studies are not all created equally. Depending on the leader, the book choice and the group that attends – experiences can vary. For me personally, this has been a huge piece of the puzzle of my spiritual growth and connection with other Christian women. I LOVE Women’s […]
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