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 […]
Read MoreThe Women Living Well Book Club – Chapter 4
Welcome back to the Women Living Well Book Club! Here’s the links from past posts: The Weekly Reading Schedule Chapter 1 Chapters 2&3 “Your Walk With God” webcast & Extra Resources Let’s Discuss Chapter 4 The world is changing rapidly. It’s amazing for me to consider that my kids have no idea what a typewriter or word processor looks like. They simply don’t know a world without tiny devices that both entertain and answer all their questions. Our kids are not familiar with those thick JC Penney Catalogs or record players or phones attached to walls. Remember when we […]
Read MoreThe Women Living Well Book Club – Chapters 2 & 3
Welcome back to the Women Living Well Book Club! If you are looking for the weekly reading schedule – click here. Now let’s dig into Chapters 2 & 3! Chapter 2 During our discussion of chapter 1, a lot of women said the #1 hindrance to setting aside time to be in God’s word was “busyness”. We are simply too busy…or so busy – we aren’t carving time out for God. But you will find in Chapter 2 “The Busy Mom’s Guide to Meditating on a Passage of Scripture” written just for you (this guide was also featured over […]
Read MoreThe Women Living Well Book Club – Chapter 1
Welcome to the Women Living Well book club! Today’s reading assignment was the Introduction and Chapter 1. The book opens and closes pointing to the fact that we have to INTENTIONALLY shut out the clamor of this world so we can hear the voice of God. My daughter was sick this past week – throwing up! Blak! I knew she was sick the minute she lost her appetite. And I wonder – Have you lost your appetite for God’s word? Is your soul sick? Has another voice crowded out the voice of God in your life? The key to being […]
Read MoreToo Busy to Get Into God’s Word – 7 Tips for Busy Women
If you have followed my blog for long – you know that one of my favorite authors and theologians to both read and quote from is John Piper. So imagine my surprise when I received an email from his ministry!!! {Bah!!! Don’t tell them but I screeched, jumped up and down and ran to my husband’s home office and said – “you won’t believe this!” Then I proceeded to email my parents and sisters and tell them and then I group facebooked my closest blogging friends and told them too! Then I played it real cool in my emails back to […]
Read MoreSolution For Keeping Little Ones In Bed {so you can have your quiet time}
Lately, I have seen a lot of status updates on Facebook from parents that mention their small children – toddlers and preschoolers – waking up WAY too early in the morning. And I know that when the children wake before mommy wakes – a quiet time is sure to not happen. Children need our full attention so having our eyes on the Bible is not best when our eyes need to be watching them! I know there are mothers desperate to get their quiet time in, in the morning. So this post is for you! I have two solutions […]
Read MoreSummer Bible Reading Plan & Book Club
So yesterday’s challenge was…“Purpose to not read ANYTHING else before you have read God’s word for at least 1 minute in the morning. Do not read the newspaper, facebook, a spiritual devotional or check your email. Go straight to God’s word first.” Do you need some help as to where to read in God’s word or some accountability? Then keep reading! I’m excited to announce the Good Morning Girls summer session! GMG will be using my FREE eBook “The Proverbs 31 Woman ~ One Virtue at a Time!” If you haven’t downloaded it yet – now’s the time – here’s how […]
Read More5 Disciplines – Week 3 ~ Spirit
Week 1 & 2 Update: My week 1 personal goal was to lose 5 pounds in 5 weeks and so far I’m at 2 pounds lost…right on target. My week 2 personal goal was to pray over my to-do list each day. I made some really long to-do lists…I’m not sure what I was thinking lol! I fell really short at getting everything done that I wanted to get done…old habits die hard…I’m still learning to pray “thy will be done” and not “my list be done.” I’m using the “Plan of Attack” from Saturday’s post this week – we’ll […]
Read MoreWhen You Are Hungy For God
When our soul aches, our daily to-do list is a mile long and we can’t hear God over the noise of our technology then what? Maybe it’s time we fast. Fasting is a spiritual discipline that feeds our soul while we starve our body. Every time our mind signals “I want food” it’s a signal to pray. As Americans, to give up our beloved food from sun down to sun down is not an easy task. When it comes to fasting, my friend Diet Coke is hands down the hardest thing to deny myself for 24 hours! But how hungry […]
Read More
