Finally I’m starting up another round of a bible study with the youth girls. We kept waiting on the guys to do one and they never did so I’m just gonna do it while the students are on summer break. We’re doing Beth Moore’s fruit of the spirit study. I had done most of of it on my own last fall and it’s great.
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David Nasser – Glory Revealed Ch 3
I’ve been reading David Nasser’s new book Glory Revealed. It’s actually a devotional really. I sat down the night before last and went through the few pages of Chapter 3 and then even looked up the extra verses and even answered the questions. It was kind of shocking really how much I felt like God revealed to me when I actually sat and listened to what he was trying to show me. It dealt with the fear of God and the verse that stuck out to me was Proverbs 9:10. I didn’t really understand the connection between fear and wisdom and especially the beginning part of it until then. Here are some notes I wrote down:
The fear of God puts Him on a pedestal one step higher. He knows best and you have to listen to Him even when it hurts to obey. You must know that He is perfect to have fear of Him. Fear is not being scared. It is being in awe of or to have respect for.
Wisdom is putting knowledge into practice, or knowing what to do in a situation. The more we “fear” the Lord, we begin to obey Him because we know He is right. The knowledge of knowing to do right becomes wisdom when we do what is right. Wisdom is obedience. Obedience is wisdom. Wisdom originates in fear, hence, Proverbs 9:10 says The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
I don’t know if I have it all nailed down yet but I know I do have a new perspective of the fear of the Lord. It makes me want to go back and read all the scriptures about fear of the Lord again just to see if they have new meaning for me. It is like the other week when the speaker at our women’s conference gave me a new definition of grace–I wish I could repeat it verbatim–I wanted to go back and read all the scriptures with grace in it.
I’m planning to sit down and read the next chapter here after I find a new template 🙂 Hopefully this one will be just as good–the chapter, not the template ;).
End of 30 days
So my 30 days of no secular radio and no Grey’s Anatomy is over. I’m currently downloading a Grey’s episode that for whatever reason is not posted on abc.com. But believe me, I have no issues whatsoever spending $2 on catching up.
Listening to the radio today was a bit disappointing. I thought I would be SO glad to hear it but I wasn’t. Not saying I didn’t listen or won’t but I think I could definitely live without it for much longer if required.
Weekend
Lexi ended up staying with Emma at MILs on Friday night. Scott and I went out to Target late but it was really nasty outside so it wasn’t all that great. And then we woke up early on Saturday. He went off with a friend and I went to the gym. Boy, you can tell I haven’t been very often lately. I had to leave within 30 minutes. But of course I never have much energy in the morning when I go. I don’t know how those people go at 5:30 in the morning.
So I had a meeting at church around lunchtime and I got the girls from MIL then. We then cleaned out my closet and I wouldn’t even mention except to say I am donating 2 garbage bags full of clothes and I took out my summer clothes. I don’t think my closet has EVER been so cleaned out. It was quite a job. That evening was the Fall Festival at church. Both the girls looked cute and had a really good time. Lexi cracked me up with getting suckers out of everyone’s basket and wanting to open each one as she got it.
Sunday was the usual church, eat (ate at C&D’s house), nap, church. Emma and I did make homemade cupcakes for Lexi’s class today because Friday is her birthday. I tasted one last night and it was REALLY good. Emma and I had a good time. Me and her with leftover icing and cake batter was dangerous but it was fun. She’s such a good helper these days.
Tonight is our last bible study. I created this layout thing to teach the lesson from and I was pretty happy with it. Hopefully they will like it too. I’m not sad about not having to prepare two lessons each one (one for BS and another for SS) but I am sad about losing that connection with the girls each week. Maybe we will plan on a monthly outing just to keep us in touch. I know we see each other at youth but it’s not the same.
Week 7
I was REALLY not looking forward to bible study last night. I think I mentioned that last week. Anyway, I was almost sick to my stomach before the lesson last night. I stared at that lesson all day yesterday and could not get in my head how I wanted to teach it. I even talked to Scott about it, researched on the Internet, printed this and that. Finally, an hour before I had an idea. It was very simple, very pared down from what I originally planned. And it turned out well I think. Only one week left. And maybe some type of group fun thing. Actually we went to Starbucks with a couple of them last night. That was fun.
Oh, and “the girl” in my bible study showed up basically high on half a bottle of NyQuil–on purpose. She could barely walk and her talk was slurred and she kept saying she couldn’t think straight. I didn’t know what to do except I told her I didn’t think it was funny and she was seriously going to end up hurting herself. I talked to the youth pastor today and Scott said I should have called the police. Ugh.
Dr. B
Gr, I hate when I lose a post. Basically I was going to comment on the fact that we did the second session with the girl (D) from our bible study and Dr. B along with one of D’s friends this weekend. So we’re supposedly halfway through sessions with him and I’m a little disappointed that I haven’t really seen any progress. He seems to be listening a lot and gathering a lot of info about all of us but hasn’t really begun to dole out any advice. I am encouraged by the fact that he has a very similar background to D and it’s obvious God put them together for a reason. I just really want a lot for D and am unfortunately being impatient. That being said, I can say D does seem to trust this guy and has opened up to him so I’m just going to wait it out and see what happens.
T-shirts
Oh, we got our t-shirts Wednesday and they are SO cute. The other girls in the youth group want them. I will have to post a picture soon. Hopefully more will join the bible study next time around. We only have tonight and next week and then we are done!
Week 6
I can’t believe we only have 2 more weeks of Bible Study. Last night went really well. I enjoyed teaching the lesson and a couple people commented that they thought it went well. So yay. We talked about moving slowly through the steps of Attention, Attraction, Affection and Attachment and then the dangers of Affairs and Addictions. I had a movie clip, a little crafty demonstration and a bookmark I had made them to hand out. This next week is NOT going to be fun to teach. S T Ds, o r a l s e x, friends with benefits and lzbian experimentation do not mix well for a fun lesson to teach. Good news is we get our t-shirts this week. We had 20 t-shirt orders which I think is pretty cool for the first round of a brand new bible study group.