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#TheCircleMaker Hello all you lovely ladies - who's ready for Bible Study?!* Our very first Facebook Live is this Thursday night at 8 pm. Every week in addition to our reading I have something fun and different planned. So, you don't want to miss! So here we go.... Here’s the weekly plan! Each week there will be chapter assignments and a memory verse. Be sure, if you haven’t already, to send me a Facebook friend request  so I can add you to the God’s Girls   Facebook page —   https://www.facebook.com/ CherylCooperHoward .   Week 1                                                                                          Sept 3 rd Introduction – Getting toKnow You! Read Chapter 1 Our memory verse this week is: “I call on ...

What You Need to Know Here are a few helpful things for the “New to and Not so New to Online Bible Studies” that might help you have the BEST online Bible study experience.  In fact, whether you’re new or a returning participant & friend, read this! If after you read this, you still have questions, email me back. 1.   The study takes place right here and on our God’s Girls Facebook Page.   This is your #1 source of information. The study is run on Facebook, and you have to have like me Facebook so I can add you to the God’s Girls Facebook page — https://www.facebook.com/CherylCooperHoward .   2.   Every Monday of the study, I’ll share a basic overview and introduction of that week’s lessons to help you prepare for the week.   ·         Every Thursday at 8 pm, for approximately one hour, we will meet up live on Facebook to discuss the week’s assignment, fun activities, a time of sharing...

If not me...who then will tell them? Posterity  will serve him;      future generations  will be told about the Lord. 31  They will proclaim his righteousness,      declaring to a people yet unborn:      He has done it! (Psalm 22:30-31 NIV) Future (unborn) generations are depending on our faithfulness today. As we teach our children about the Lord, so they will teach their children and their children's children. If we fail to tell our children about the Lord, we could very well be breaking the chain of God's influence in generations to come. We must view our children and all the young people we meet as God's future leaders. If we are faithful in opportunities today, there is a good possibility we may be affecting the future. If we want our children to serve the Lord, they must hear about Him from us. It is not enough to rely on the church or those with more knowledge to provide all the Christian educa...

Take steps of faith... Plant seeds of greatness to... Reach your full potential... Have a pioneering spirit! I am strong in the Lord, I am will able to do what God has called me to do, If God be for me, who can be against! Read 1 Kings 17:3-7 & 9; Esther 4:1-4 & 16

You became a blessing to others by allowing Jesus to work in you and through you - and His life is the best life there is! The Lord your God will bless you ... in everything you put your hand to. Deuteronomy 15:10 NIV

Genuine Faith My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism. James 2:1 (NIV)    In James chapter 2, James argues against favoritism and for the necessity of good deeds. He presents three principles of faith: (1) Commitment as an essential part of faith. You cannot be a Christ-Follower by affirming the right doctrines or agreeing with biblical facts. You must commit your mind and heart to Christ. (2) Right actions are the natural by-products of true faith. A genuine Christ-Follower will have a changed live. (3) Faith without good deeds doesn’t do anybody any good – it is useless. James’s teachings are consistent with Paul’s teaching that we receive salvation by faith alone. Paul emphasizes the purpose of faith – to bring salvation. James emphasizes the results of faith – a changed life. James condemns acts of favoritism. Often we treat a well-dressed, impressive-looking person better than someone who looks shab...

Listening & Doing – What does that mean?   Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.   Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror   and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.   But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom,   and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do. (James 1:22-25 NIV) It is important to listen to what God’s Word says, but it is much more important to obey it, to do what it says. We can measure the effectiveness of our Bible Study time by the effect it has on our behavior and attitudes. Do you put into action what you have studied? God’s law offers us a true reflection of our sinful condition and gives us the opportunity to ask for God’s forgiveness (see Romans 7:7-8). As Christ-followers, we ...

  If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. 6  But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. 7  That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. 8  Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do. James 1:5-8 (NIV) We need wisdom to know how to cope with trials, for wisdom provides a clear view of our situation from God’s perspective. With wisdom we perceive that what the world calls misfortune, whatever its source, is an opportunity for God to bring about his purpose. Wisdom as the gift of God logically leads to our asking for it. Here again we see verbal links to Jesus: “Ask and it will be given to you” ( Matt. 7:7 ; Luke 11:9 ); “And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father” ( John 14:13 ). Wisdom is often se...