SOS

Study On SONday
WEEK TWO with P31 OBS of Jennifer Rothschild's book "Me, Myself, and Lies"
"CHOOSING and SPEAKING TRUTH"

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"...  Jennifer gives us a battle plan to help shut the door to those negative thoughts: The three R’s — Recognize, Refuse and Replace I know I find it hard to Refuse the “lie.” That’s the one “R” I want to work on this week. What’s the most difficult “R” for you? What can you do to shut the door on your negative thoughts?" - See more at: P31 OBS and Jennifer Rothschild's book, "Me, Myself and Lies"

I am only highlighting this so you can link up or follow along with Proverbs 31 OBS who already do an exceptionally wonderful weekly discussion but there's quite often so many "comments" it's hard for me to connect but I love them, their choices for book studies and their team No reason for me to reinvent what they do so well
however
you are certainly welcome to comment here rather or in addition to there because I have so few comments, you're guaranteed that I won't miss it
I'll Repeat the questions (and that's not even one of the "R") here: What’s the most difficult “R” for you?  What can you do to shut the door on your negative thoughts?"
For me, I'm sure I struggle with all 3 of the "R's" but initially it has to be "RECOGNIZE"
because often I don't realize that and recognize it as a lie but receive the lie as truth usually spoken by another but rehearsed and replayed in my mind without recognizing it as a lie or device of the enemy to mess me up but I am getting better at discerning a lie spoken to me
and I guess that if I knew the answer to the 2nd part of this ? I would have written JR's book and not be struggling with this, hoping I will learn from this book how to shut the door especially when the negative thoughts are mine or  spoken by me to others (but I sure hope not)
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Going to try to do Fridays for Faith Gateway's OBS of "The Daniel Prayer" by Anne Graham Lotz [Kick-off] but I will share on SOS that week's link
Session 2 "Preparing for Prayer"
What are some areas you need to work on to better  prepare your heart to pray as Daniel did?
{but this is for Friday for me here, if I get to it before then;  if not, this will have to do-sorry}

TRUSTING ...

"ENTRUSTED" 

by

Beth Moore

A Study of 2 Timothy

starts today with
LIFEWAY Online Bible Study"Entrusted"
SESSION 1 (videos up until August 15, 2017)
Are you ready? for 6 weeks
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SIGN UP HERE with Lifeway and Beth Moore
{if I share anything, it'll be either Thurs. like Lifeway OBS or back to MOORE ON MONDAY like I had}
This week, complete Week 1:  Divine Triangulation (pages 12-43)  in your Bible study book. 
I thought it was just the Introduction, but we're digging right in to the 5 days of material this week already
ACTS 14
So today, I am watching the video and filling in the Viewer's Guide
Friday is my day offline so either Fri. or Sat.  I will be doing Day One: "A Trail of Two Cities" On Reading Scripture
Day 2 (Sat. or Sun.) "Meet the Teacher" Day 3 (Mon.) "Where Was He When" Day 4 (Tues.) "A Beeline to City Three" Theology: A Collective Struggle Day 5 (Weds.) "A New Son and A Circumcision"
{interesting titles for background introduction of Paul and Timothy}
2 Timothy begins in WEEK TWO

I am so enjoying Bonnie's Book Club of "Whispers of Rest" and would love to be reading "Me, Myself and Lies" by Jennifer Rothschild with P31 OBS but I've had this study since the beginning of 2017 when I purchased "Redeemed" and my first real book by Beth Moore (though I have many in my Kindle) but was disappointed when I opened the book and realized that I didn't get the DVDs so I could listen and watch Beth Moore teaching this and NOW I have the opportunity to do this at LIFEWAY so I can't miss out on this, nor should you. The Study videos are long, approximately 65 minutes so they are well worth setting time aside to at least watch these ... if you can't get the "Entrusted" Bible Study book right now. 
Often when I start a Bible Study, I need to define the title or understand why the author entitles their study with that title, so
Entrusted: 1. To give over (something) to another for care, protection, or performance 2. To give as a trust to someone
I needed to see if there is a correlation between "trust" and "entrust" and 2 Timothy! 
{I did not realize this was focused on MENTORING, but it seems so from this opening session. How I know I would have grown spiritually if I had a mentor and by now should be mentoring someone but as Beth points out we feel inadequate and need to get over that. How true.}