Week 2 ~ Days 4-7

Hello everyone!  Happy Friday, I hope that you had a good week in God's word!  I must say how encouraging it has been get to see you in God's word as we were home last weekend and talking with some of you over the phone about the study.  I am SO proud of each of you!  This first week can be a little tough, as we are just beginning and as Kay is leading us through God's word to show us why seeking God is so vital for our lives!  But next week we are going to get started in Jonah and learn more practical tools on how to study the Bible.  I think you will be amazed at how much there is too learn through a story we have heard since childhood.

Here are a few questions on the past 4 days. If you have any additional questions, please post!  No question is silly!

1. Based on what you read this week, what do you think about Josiah at this point? What new insights into his life did we gain as you read 2 Chronicles? 

2. Have you read anything this week that has encouraged you? What?

3. What can we learn about God's character through His response to Josiah in 2 Kings 22?

4. In Deuteronomy 17, how often was the king to read the words of the law? How often would we think God would want us in His word today?

5. Briefly what is inductive Bible study?  This is what we will go into more next week!

Love you all dearly!  Praying the pray on page 41 for each of us, this week!

Week one questions

This week I would like to focus on the questions on page 20.

1. What similarities do you see in Hosea and our world today?
2. What effects have you seen from having a knowledge of God and his word in your life, your family, or your country?
3. What effects have you seen from a lack of knowledge in these areas?
4. Most important, how will you take what you have learned and apply it to your life?

Feel free to answer any or all! Just click on comment below! Love you all :)

Week One Days 1-3

Good evening! I hope that you all are having a lovely week and making time to be in God's word!  I hope that you have caught a glimpse of the truth that there is nothing sweeter and nothing more desirable than God's word to YOU!  If this week has been tough for you, please hang in there and press on!  We have been going through John in church and I was amazed at how much it went along with what we are learning about knowing God and his word this week. 

In John 14:21, Jesus tells us "Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me."

In John 15:10 Jesus tells us "If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love."

I pray that this will encourage you to know that God's commands are not to be burdensome to us but to allow us to abide in his love.  As we saw in Hosea, it was a lack of knowing God that led to mourning and wasting away in the land.  God's commands are to protect us and allow our joy to be full!  So reading God's word is for your good!  And keeping God's commandments is proof that we truly love God.  When we love God, our obedience flows out of us in response.  And the more we learn about the truth of who God is, the more we fall in love with him!  As 1 John 4:19 says, "We love because He first loved us."

And were off....

Well I hope you are all as excited about this adventure through God's word as I am!  I have been praying for each of you and anticipating great things because God's word is all powerful!  He has preserved it for you over thousands of years because He wanted you to know Him in truth and live in obedience.  How cool!  So I hope that you have read the Introduction and Before you begin.  If you have not, start with that and then move into the first 3 days over this next week.  


This may take a little while to get used to if you have not been doing this type of study.  O, how I hope you will press on, for there is great rewards and I don't want you to miss it!  I will post some questions during the week and send out an email with the Blog link so you know there is new postings.  Also, you can post anonymously if you choose!


I love you all and will be praying for you this week!


*Also check out the links at the bottom of the page.  Blueletterbible.org is wonderful....you can look up the original Greek/Hebrew words and their meanings.  More instruction on that later!