Things are still hectic over here, although we close on our house on 11/17 and my baby girl turns ONE the same day!! Everything is really busy but exciting right now. I'm thinking that things will calm down sometime around January 2012. :) Barb's words were so refreshing to me as she reminded us that God is BIGGER than a "quiet life". Man, have I needed that reminder lately. Thanks to you ladies for your encouragement this week. I am so blessed to be a part of this group. I love M&Ming with you! Here is the link to this week's lesson, click here (or right click and save-as...)
Here is Barb's summary for this week:
"This week we worked on Isaiah 51:3. We meditated on God as the great Restorer and Comforter. What a promise to His children, that He will comfort us, look with compassion on our ruins and wastelands, and then even make them like gardens where there will be joy and gladness, thanksgiving and the sound of singing. Trust Him to do this for you. Are you fighting Him like an angry 2-year old who refuses to be comforted, or have you released your anger and unforgiveness, dropped your stiff arms, and let Him hold you and comfort you?
Then we also meditated on the upcoming verse, Isaiah 61:10. I brought my 38-year old bridal portrait for show & tell as a visual of what I imagine when I hear the wonderful, freeing, strengthening promise that "He has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness." Sister, if you are in Christ, you are dressed like this ALL THE TIME. This is for singles, married, divorced, and widows who are in Christ! Invite the Spirit to apply this truth to change your outlook on life.
We meet next week, then we don't meet the week of Thanksgiving (but don't stop M&M-ing!) and will have our last class the last week of November. DON'T FORGET THE RECITAL on Sunday evening, December 4, at Lexington Presbyterian Church. Come recite or read your verses TO THE LORD. Do it as a gift to Him: give Him the first Christmas present of His season! It will also be sure to be a blessing to all who hear, because it is GOD'S word we recite.
Love you and are grateful to you all for wanting to memorize and meditate on His Word. Press on...we're almost through with this theme!
Barb
Bridal picture
New quote:
“It is so true, as the Book says, that all things work together for our good, even our sins and vices. He takes our sins on himself, and while he drives them out of us with a whip of scorpions, he will yet make them work his good ends. He defeats our sins, make them prisoners, forces them into the service of good, and chains them like galley slaves to the rowing benches of the gospel ship. He makes them work toward salvation for us.”
from The Curate’s Awakening by George MacDonald
Start chewing on next week's verse!!
ISAIAH 61:10
I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me
in a robe of righteousness...
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