The astute reader may have picked up that this session's study is indeed Deuteronomy. These thoughts may have raced through your mind. They wanted that one, but how could they acquire it? It is brand new. My church has not even completed it yet. Let me tell you how it came about.
Remember way back in August when I was buying the Psalm's study guides. I encountered a lady purchasing the Deuteronomy DVDs. She is an avid studier of the word of God. I was blessed to meet her several years ago at Community Bible Study www.communitybiblestudy.org. Now we are members of the same church. Just that fall she would be studying Deuteronomy with CBS. She bought the Beth Moore DVDs that day as a supplement to that study and related to me that she would probably donate them to our church's library when she was finished with them. That was the secret I knew.
Two weeks ago, I tracked her down at church to see if she had finished the DVDs. She had and keeping her word gave them to the church. Together we went to the library hoping they had not been checked out because she had told several of her friends about them. Stress increased when we could not find them on the shelf. One of the ladies who oversees the library was there. She found them for us! They had not been cataloged yet! I was elated. I had them in my hands. God had made a way!
The study is entitled The Law of Love, Lessons From the Pages of Deuteronomy. It takes the same format as her lecture series through Revelation but is published by Living Proof Ministries www.lproof.org. The homework is one noticeable difference from her LifeWay studies. It is just one day's worth of reading! I am sure it is going to be another amazing study!
Monday, November 19, 2012
Friday, November 16, 2012
Bible Study Adventuring
Our Bible study went on an adventure Sunday night for two reasons.
1) For the first time in almost a year of meeting, there was someone in the exercise room when we wanted to start class. The gall of that person! Wanting to use the room for its intended purpose! I joke, but she did have first right to the room. So, we had to go to plan B. We had no plan B. What to do? Between Woody and I plus a quick conversation with the front desk person, we decided to meet at the table in the lobby. Pulling up four chairs to the laptop on the table, we watched 90 minutes of Beth Moore's latest lecture on Deuteronomy. People came and went through the lobby. One apologized for interrupting our meeting. One lady fell coming up the stairs. Others dropped their heads or tried to ignore us. We were prominently on display in the lobby, and I wonder what that did in the spiritual realm. Could he be claiming this ground for his own? More on that one day.
2) For background information, I had a God moment when I said something at church to a friend about the Bible study. I was explaining to her why our daughter could not come to Bible Quizzing like I thought back at the beginning of school. I said, "We all have a job with the Bible study. My husband watches the children while I study with the ladies. Our daughter ...," I paused. I filled it in with enjoys playing. In my mind that did not cover what I was feeling. Not five minutes later she comes to me with her arms full of Samaritans Purse Operation Christmas Child boxes. (www.samaritianspurse.org) She says she wants the children at the Bible Study to fill them. I was shocked. There it was. She was doing her job - hearing the Holy Spirit and obeying for the children. She even said that I know the Lord wants me to put my ant eater in a box. I stood amazed. Somewhere in the world a little child is in need of a tiny stuffed animal still with the tags on it!
After reading the materials she handed me, I contacted our three ladies planning a packing party for the children at our next meeting. When the project was complete, the children had packed four boxes with toys, candy, school supplies, and hygiene products. One Mom also provided the cash to ship three of the boxes. We also had the most children ever that night - 8. Two were older, and they were a great help with the personalized notes prepared for the boxes.
Adventure one took us to another location in the hotel. Adventure two took us around the world. WOW!
1) For the first time in almost a year of meeting, there was someone in the exercise room when we wanted to start class. The gall of that person! Wanting to use the room for its intended purpose! I joke, but she did have first right to the room. So, we had to go to plan B. We had no plan B. What to do? Between Woody and I plus a quick conversation with the front desk person, we decided to meet at the table in the lobby. Pulling up four chairs to the laptop on the table, we watched 90 minutes of Beth Moore's latest lecture on Deuteronomy. People came and went through the lobby. One apologized for interrupting our meeting. One lady fell coming up the stairs. Others dropped their heads or tried to ignore us. We were prominently on display in the lobby, and I wonder what that did in the spiritual realm. Could he be claiming this ground for his own? More on that one day.
2) For background information, I had a God moment when I said something at church to a friend about the Bible study. I was explaining to her why our daughter could not come to Bible Quizzing like I thought back at the beginning of school. I said, "We all have a job with the Bible study. My husband watches the children while I study with the ladies. Our daughter ...," I paused. I filled it in with enjoys playing. In my mind that did not cover what I was feeling. Not five minutes later she comes to me with her arms full of Samaritans Purse Operation Christmas Child boxes. (www.samaritianspurse.org) She says she wants the children at the Bible Study to fill them. I was shocked. There it was. She was doing her job - hearing the Holy Spirit and obeying for the children. She even said that I know the Lord wants me to put my ant eater in a box. I stood amazed. Somewhere in the world a little child is in need of a tiny stuffed animal still with the tags on it!
After reading the materials she handed me, I contacted our three ladies planning a packing party for the children at our next meeting. When the project was complete, the children had packed four boxes with toys, candy, school supplies, and hygiene products. One Mom also provided the cash to ship three of the boxes. We also had the most children ever that night - 8. Two were older, and they were a great help with the personalized notes prepared for the boxes.
Adventure one took us to another location in the hotel. Adventure two took us around the world. WOW!
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