“I’m starting my very first Bible study.” It doesn’t matter to me if it’s one of Priscilla Shirer’s, Kelly Minter’s, Jennie Allen’s, Kay Arthur’s, or any other Bible study author’s series. It moves me every time I hear it because nothing has brought me more fascination
and freedom
and wonder
and awe
and joy
and delight
and correction
and direction
and transformation
and liberation
and PURE GOD-BELIEVING FAITH than the Spirit of God stirring up my heart and mind through the pages of Scripture. I have had such a blast with Him there, ruined for less than a lifetime spent with Him in those glorious phrases. When I hear that somebody is just beginning to journey with Christ through a cracked-open Bible, my heart skips a beat and my memory stirs up a whirlwind. I remember my first in-depth journey so well and how a light came on in my soul and how I could hardly stand to shut my Bible at the end of the day or wait to open it the next morning. I’d put my kids on the school bus in the morning and dart back inside and pull out my Bible and the notes I’d taken the day before. I’d somehow stumbled across this thing called a “tabernacle” in the pages of Exodus during my Scripture reading one day and I could not get enough. I read and read, flipping back and forth from the Old Testament to the New. I bought my first Strong’s Concordance and looked up every place I could find the word “tabernacle.” That was all I knew to do but it was enough. Then I started getting commentaries and reading books theologians had written on it. When that journey was over, I fell into honest-to-goodness despair because I was certain I’d never experience anything like that again. I was wrong. Praise God.
“I just finished the last page of _____________________ Bible study.” (Often I’ll get a picture of that final page, complete with their own handwritten answers to questions on it. And don’t think I don’t enlarge them and read them either. I don’t have this nose because I’m not nosy.)
Listen, to finish an in-depth Bible study series is no small accomplishment in this increasingly attention-deficit culture. For people (like me!) who are becoming conditioned to sound bites and a sum total of 140 characters, getting through a Bible study course that demands anywhere from 6-10 weeks of 4-5 hours of homework a week is titanic. You are already an exception to the cultural rule by the time you finish the third week. Somebody needs to tell you what a stud you are for finishing one. So, today, I’m volunteering. You’re a stud.
“I’m doing Breaking Free.” I don’t care who it is, those words get to me every time. That series nearly killed me to write – the warfare was hellacious – but the study also means the most to me personally. I’ll tell you when those words get to me most: when they’re coming from a young woman – college age – who has not yet walked down the aisle with a man carrying more baggage than a 10-armed bellhop. It’s NEVER too late to find liberty in Christ. Never! I don’t care if you’ve been married half a dozen times or you’re on the cusp of your eighty-fourth birthday. But facing and dealing with some bondage prior to decisions that change a whole life-trajectory is less painful by a long shot. Of course, we’ve got to do more than finish a study. We’ve got to actually enter into full fellowship with Christ in those pages and receive His words down into our bones as doers of the Word and not hearers only. In the words of James, “humbly welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.” (James 1:21 The NET)
“God got me through cancer treatment with His Word.” I have no greater respect for a sister in Bible study than the one who sticks to it and keeps her face to the page and her heart open to the heavens when her prayers have been answered differently than she hoped and no one would blame her if she shut her Bible. Nothing has moved me more through the years than hearing from a small Bible study group that one of their own who was battling terminal cancer literally studied the Word of God until she could no longer hold her eyes open and God carried her Home. They’ll often send me pictures of her and tell me how they miss her and how she challenged them to be faithful to the very last breath. Flabbergasts me every time and makes me hope and pray to be faithful under such strain and able to say with that sister, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” (2 Timothy 4:7)
“I caught the Bible study bug. I’ll study the Scriptures for the rest of my life.” That’s it right there. It doesn’t get better than that. No book is like the Bible because no other book is gorgeously laced with living, breathing words of God. I love Christ’s claim in John 6:63 – “The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you — they are full of the Spirit and life.” A lifetime is not long enough to get to the bottom of the immense, unimaginable riches that can be found in Christ “in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” (Colossians 2:3) You’ll just never waste a second in the Scriptures. That’s the long and short of it.
“I’m teaching my first Bible study class.” To see God raise up young teachers is one of the greatest highs of my entire life. To see them study hard and start practicing the disciplines that Bible teaching demands and not just seeking a platform is incredibly thrilling to me. There is no short cut to it. Teaching still takes the same kinds of things it took in the first century: spiritual gifting, perseverance, diligent study, the work of the Holy Spirit, profuse prayer and enough people skills for people to be able to stand us. And, on top of that, it subjects us to stricter judgment just like James 3:1 says but, if we’re called, we’ve got to get out there and do it anyway and receive the difficulties as discipline. A fiery passion alone cannot sustain us. We must also have obedience and follow-through and the capacity to get back up especially after we’ve been harshly criticized. And we will be. That’s part of the growing process. That’s part of God testing our mettle. Proving us genuine.
My man needs me so I’m going to have to close. I’ve rambled enough anyway. I meant for this to be about a paragraph long but, of course, y’all know me. That’ll be the day. All this came from one little tweet I got today from a woman who said she’d just finished a Bible study. And I thought to myself,
I never get over hearing that.
Good grief, I love y’all so much. Stay in the Scriptures.
Beth, as I’ve facilitated your studies for the past 10 years, my heart leapt readingyour words. Seeing other women fall in love with His Word is one of the greatest joys of my life. Last summer I facilitated “Children of the Day”, and my 22-year-old niece who’d just graduated from Texas A & M was able to participate. It was her first Bible study of yours, and it was my absolute privilege to watch her completely fall in love with His Word. She would arrive at my house early, and we would sit at my breakfast table together and review our homework. She is now in graduate school in Massachusetts, and I am thrilled to have such sweet memories. Thank you so much, Beth! Praying for your man again today.
Beth, I am in the process of doing your Bible Study “Daniel”. What a intense study. We have four more weeks and we will be finished. I am learning so much about prophecy. Our ladies’ Bible Study group at church has done many, many of your studies. Thank you so much for your service to God. Your Bible Studies always come to me right when I need them. Thank You for being the Woman of God that you are.
Hi Beth!
That tabernacle study was the first in-depth Bible study I ever did. It wrecked me. The anticipation that comes with starting a new Bible study is so rich!
Thank you for all the studies over the years, and for introducing me to other Bible study authors. I have been richly blessed by every single one.
Much love and ((hugs)),
Adrienne
Thanks. Its such a lot of work sometimes that I skip out. I do Kays studies. I read loads of books but have found Kays studies to help me best find answers for myself. I have breaking free the study and have read the book. Might be coming to a time to do that one. Have created a bible study out of one of Kays books that wasn’t bought in the study format. Nobody came. I’ve wrote my own studies through Genesis because they tranformed my view of the church and therefore HAD to be shared (email list of people got them all) The Lord has truely been my all (and for that I’ve failed the Lord in enough ways that you’d wonder if He actually meant anything at all to me at times–I have)
It is a timely encouragement. I’ll take some time this day and do another day in Hosea. A Love that will not let me go. Ms Kay on the Kings and Prophets in the OT.
And I’ll get to yours in a while Ms. Beth. But I just read book version of your study through the Apostle Johns life. And I liked it. Made me think–I need to study the bible more because theres not a chance I could glean than much (or even know how) from the life of one person in the bible. Took some hours put in and took me through Revelation which used to terrify me (think left behind) but I’ve since come to love that book. And you did well in going through it in your book. At least as far as I know. Made me want to read it again. So I did read some to my girl. Wrapping it up might go work on my puzzle of the 4 horses of the apocolypse which I purchased this past summer on vacation upon seeing in in the hotel lobby for sale and having just read the chapter in the end book about those four horses. Seemed like a good vacation marker.
LY Beth.
Thank you for such encouraging words. Truly, the Word of God is alive and powerful. I’m so grateful for the gift of “wonderful Words of life.” And, you’re right, there’s nothing like the experience of knowing that the Spirit of God is speaking right into my heart through the printed Word. I hunger for time spent reading it and studying it. and, if there’s been a period of time where I haven’t been diligent in daily study, I’v said out loud, “I miss you, Lord!” Thank you for being the teacher from whom I’m continuing to learn and grow.
I just had to share…my daughter, who has 4 children- ages 2 months, 2, 3 and 5- just finished Children of the Day! Completely finished! It brought tears to my eyes because she worked so hard to finish, inspite of homeschooling, an emergency c-section and a chronically ill husband. She rocks and I just had to brag a bit!
I must say thanks for providing the studies that are so much meat of Gods Word. It has been a joy to do them and to lead them!
You tell that young, busy mom of four that I am so proud of her and that she has not wasted one single second in those Scriptures. You’re right. She rocks.
Learning the scripture has transformed my life. Stick with it. Do it even when you don’t feel it. Satan wants you to believe this part doesn’t have anything to do with you. It is all about Him so it is all important to you.
I cannot tell you the extent to which I was impassioned about God’s Word as when I heard one of your studies for the first time, “Believing God”. Changed my life and life habits toward His Word. I’ve taught it 3-4 times! Thank you, Thank you!!! Love your passion for Him and His word so much.
Beth, I am in my 30s and a Mom to three beautiful little girls. I am doing my first Bible Study Faithful, Abundant and True. I can’t believe it has taken me this long to get so fully in the Scripture, but boy am I happy I did. I cannot wait to help shape my girls in their walk with the Lord. Thank you for inspiring me to pick up that bible and join a group. I am forever changed. As will my girls be. Xoxo
I am currently studying the Living Free study; I did Breaking Free on my own several years ago. Then we did it as a group. After seeing you in Ft. Wayne, I have really felt compelled to allow God to work through me to demolish strongholds in me. Thanks. Learning the Scripture and quoting it has really been a secure haven for me.
Beth – I could go pull every study you’ve written off my shelf and find a word that was for me in my season of life during the study. In fact, I shared with a woman just this past Monday a nugget that abides in my mind and heart from “Living Beyond Yourself.” [The difference between a peacemaker and a peace keeper.]
You say you never tire of hearing these things, will you never tire of me (us) saying, thank you for being available, for studying long hours, praying, seeking, and writing for His glory?
I love you friend. And I thank you again for equipping me for my journey as a pastor’s wife and women’s ministry leader.
I’m headed to North GA today to a women’s ministry leadership retreat where Johnnie Haines is leading/speaking. I can’t wait. I know she’s one of yours…and I am too! 🙂
GJ
Oh GJ! I was praying for Johnnie this morning, not knowing she was coming towards you!! I am going to hear her in person one of these days!! She is one of the funniest people on the planet.
I cannot wait. I love fun and funny people. I’ve enjoyed making a few laugh myself, as recently as some coworkers this morning. 🙂 And of course Beth can get me so tickled when she gets so tickled.
Laughter is pure therapy and good like medicine. I think I’m gonna get some this weekend! Proverbs 17:22
I love y’all.
Indeed. Take some mustaches maybe… 😉
I smiled when you referenced the James 3:1 verse because I just prayed this morning for 2 co-workers who will be teaching today. One seasoned in teaching; one fairly new at it. God bless them with the joy to serve the Body, and the strength to fulfill their calling. I love them, and you, so much.
Thank you, Beth. I had just been mentally discussing with The Lord you and your amazing depth, breadth, and intimate knowledge of His word and wishing I could go deeper with my studies. I wondered and marveled at how you could put it all together and have the time to read not only His word, but all the additional books and commentaries that enhance understanding of His word. I have a tendency to be daunted and dissuaded when I consider just how much effort is needed for such things. I get lost in the “I’ll never be able to…” with the … being a goal years and years down the line. Like a book that I read talking about the journey that I have had to make to be functioning and even have joy after losing my son said, “Just do the next thing.” Whatever that thing is that you can do…just do it. You will be able to do more things as time goes on. So, anyway…your description of your first in-depth journey helped me see how I can start small and focused. One word…learn all you can about one word. It really embodies the “just do the next thing” philosophy. I have my word, “praise” and I’m going to follow where it leads on my journey toward an ever deeper and trusting relationship with our Lord. Thank you, Beth…you always help me, right when I need a good word. I am so grateful that you have given yourself to our Lord for His good purposes. He sings through you music my heart dances to. I love you. Leah
This took me down spiritual memory lane! My first Bible study was Experiencing God, followed by the original A Woman’s Heart. Breaking Free? I did that 3 times, probably need to do it again. After a few years in Bible study, I started leading them. After all, that is the best way to ensure you get all your lessons done! God’s word has changed me and my life and those around me. I’ve never had cancer, but would consider trading the disease that brought my life to a screeching halt. Index cards with scripture literally sustained me. Years ago in one of the videos we were challenged to ask God to give us a love for His word-HE IS FAITHFUL
“I caught the Bible study bug. I’ll study the Scriptures for the rest of my life.”
That’s the one that describes me best! If I don’t read the bible on my own at some point during the day and contemplate the words, something is definitely missing! I’m using your “Whispers of Hope” prayer devotional right now on my own and I just started a bible study at my church on the book of Philippians. Don’t you dare change how you write yours posts on this blog – we would all wonder why you wrote only one paragraph! Love you too!
Dear Beth,
I know you’ve heard it a thousand times, but your study ‘Breaking Free’ really did change my life and my relationship with the Lord. I had never really grasped God’s love for me- just me personally- and God used that study to get through to me! In your writing you used the word ‘lavish’ often to describe His love, and it has always stuck with me. I’ve done many other LPM studies in the years since, (and they always corresponded to what the Lord knew I needed at the time) but Breaking Free will always be dear to my heart- as you are, Siesta Mama!
Beth, I am so blessed by your study, “Breaking Free”! I am dealing with a lifetime of abuse that started when I was four. Sometimes I have reread chapters several times before I could believe, “Wait! This applies to me!” I’ve done so many studies trying to make sense of all of the pain. This study has helped me see that through His Spirit, my precious Abba is speaking to me. Not just me learning history. I now have the blessing of going through this study with a new sister with similar abuse. Continue to follow. You are such an amazing blessing to all of us!
Last night, armed with a coupon, I bought two of your studies: Jesus the One and Only and To Live is Christ. I’m so excited! I want and need to know and love Jesus in a deeper way and then learn how to serve him from that love, no matter what. The two greatest desires of my heart! THANK YOU for doing what you do!
P.S. I get to hear your teaching at the Colour Conference in London – can’t wait!
I remember catching the Bible-Study Bug about 15 years ago in my mid-20’s, after a rebellious and angry time that stemmed back from painful and dumb decisions following childhood abuse. It came from the most unlikely source for me. After growing up in a small fundamental church and loving God all my life with extreme fear (not the healthy fear), I had Jehovah’s Witnesses come to the door, and if it hadn’t been for one of them being a friend who played Viola in Orchestra with me back in High School, I never would’ve let them in, but I felt God telling me to learn about Him, with them. I loved studying with her and many others that came with the heart to find the truth, not just to try to tell it. We never agreed on everything, but we loved talking about God and seeking Him, and I started to realize that God isn’t about us agreeing with each other in everything, but loving each other through everything. Studying opened my eyes to the Hebrew and Greek language and researching for myself, and a realization that God is so much more then what we give Him credit for! Sometimes our words change meanings over the years, and different translations are often so helpful in understanding the original intent of His words. But even more, just to pray for true understanding and knowing what He wants us to take from any specific passage or Word. I have studied and talked with Apostolic Faith, Catholic, Baptist, Seventh Day Adventists, Community Church goers etc, and I love that there are so many sisters (and brothers) truly seeking the Truth, across the spectrum. It gave me a heart to not judge others just by a label, but to try to understand and share with a loving Spirit. I’d already married a wonderful man from a Catholic family, and realized then how amazingly similar the foundation of our faith was, and even though there are differences in the way we study or celebrate God or worship, God reaches out to us where we are and plants us where He wants us for whatever time He knows is right. Study on my Dear Sisters! Share and enjoy talking about our wonderful Father and all that He is to you, and never stop wanting to learn and understand more! I have SO much more to learn and cement into my heart! 🙂 Hugs, Sandy
Sandy. Very cool. I like this. As a brand new christian (but having learned a lot of the bible in my childhood kind of like you so with some ‘knowledge’) I set out to save a witness I worked with. And have since then been convinced that we’ll share heaven with witnesses and others that we (or at least me) have learned do not know or teach the bible right. I mean I DO NOT agree with the witnesses governing and the doctines but for individuals I am convinced that some or even many who have not paid close attention to the politics are honest in their want to love the Lord. And they do read the bible.
I simply love you and honor you for getting me started in Bible Study in 1999. A Woman’s Heart, God’s Dwelling Place, yes, I am ruined! Thank you for serving Jesus and us!
We completed the James study and there are two of us that are trying to memorize the book of James. It make take us a couple years, but we are determined to know those words and apply them to our lives.
Three of us from the study are in the Siesta Bible Memory group and so we are submitting a verse 2x a month. We need all the prayer we can get because we are all past 50 and memorizing is not easy for any of us.
Next study we are doing is “When Godly People do Ungodly Things. I have shared this a couple times with ladies and it will be the first for this group. Just love the studies.
Beth, I hope this makes your day even more Blessed. Yesterday I started “BREAKING FREE” This will be my first study that you wrote. After attending your conferences in S. Dakota and in Minnesota this last year. Where God used you speak nightly into my life. I can only imagine what God has for me during this study.
Blessings to you Siesta
Hey there, I’m currently working through “Breath, The Life of God in Us.” Melissa’s article have always been brilliant. However, her writing now is saturated in compassion and heart, so good. Please let her know. Thanks.
Tonight we will be starting the Breath study with a few fresh faces and some who have journeyed with me in various studies before. I am almost giddy over beginning again.
Bible study has become the heart of my ministry to the ladies at our church, whether facilitating one of yours, or someone else or teaching from what the Holy Spirit is teaching me. I have you to thank for that sweet Beth. I am so thankful for you and for LPM but most of all I am thankful that He did not leave us comfortless, he left us with a great teacher in the Holy Spirit and His WORD!
Beth your post today brought tears of joy to my heart. Thank you , thank you for all you do to help women of all ages to jump into God’s word. I gave up trying to count back the years or remember the first BM study I went to but like you said once you start youre a “bible study” girl forever!!! Such a blessing! One of my BS girlfriends and I did the siesta scripture memory 2013 (we are doing 2015 too)and were so blessed, we challenged our Corpus Christi Women’s Bible Study to try it this year. We have a few ladies who are starting by just sending us the scripture they are memorizing. So exciting for each of them… They will be so blessed to have the word of God in their hearts!
Keep your studies coming, and thank you for your love and encouragement to all the “Siesta’s”!!!
My first in-depth bible study was A Heart Like His and then the second was your study on the Tabernacle. I could not believe I had been in church all my life and never knew some of the things I learned from those studies. Also it was the beginning of my marriage (17+ years and counting now…) and I will never forget your comment in one of those videos…..”Girls, we are not meant to be our husband’s Holy Spirit!” Wow, have I had to remind myself of THAT!! Still love studying the word now even more than I did then! 🙂
In case I never told you, but I am certain I did, I caught the Bible study bug after finishing “Living Beyond Yourself” my freshman year of college. After a lifetime spent in church, it was the first study I had ever finished. I’m grateful for you and I love you.
Hey, we miss you!
Lindsee Lou!
Great to see a comment by you! You are not forgotten, dear sister- Hope you’re doing great. Miss you!
so good to see you Lindsee!! you are missed!
Wonderful post. Lifted me up. I love when I hear other sister falling in love with the Word of Life.
Love this post! Love this Jesus! Love His Word! thank you ~
Hey Beth!
I sent a note to your staff with pictures from our 13th study which began Sunday night for college girls and young adults. See the pictures I sent to Susan. Here is the note:
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THANKS!!! This is our 6th year hosting an interchurch young adults BS at our house using Beth’s materials. We started Breaking Free Sunday with about 20 college age girls (We are both college professors and my amazing husband hosts the young men’s study using Chan, Piper, Giglio etc…) We just returned from serving at PASSION in Atlanta (we missed you being there).
So…
God put it on my heart to get a big chain and padlock it shut. After the session one video I passed the chain from girl to girl asking them to feel the weight of it. I shared with each that we probably carry more than one around. I then had them brainstorm how to break the chain. Eventually they saw the padlock (and although one suggested a bobbypin to pick the lock) we eventually decided that having the key was the answer. I asked them if any key could work (my car key? house key?). They determined only the right key would work. At that point I produced the key and we unlocked the lock and freed the chain.
We then talked about how Jesus is the key and has unlocked our chains but sometimes the world and our past tries to keep up thinking we are still locked up. I then gave the girls necklace chains and an assortment of keys to choose from to wear to remind each young lady that no matter what the world says or we think, we already HAVE the key to freedom through Jesus!
Here are a couple pictures of the chain (see email to Susan) and then the necklace chains and keys, the stack of books minus 5 that were already gone and a pic of my wonderful hubby Bill and I.
Thought it might be fun for you guys to see what God placed on my heart for these girls 🙂
Pray for this generation!! They are rising up!! We are praying for you and feel like we know you all at LP well 🙂
Peace,
Cynthia M Evans
NUT House Bible Study
Beth, Thank you for these words of encouragement! A friend of mine has led almost every one of your Bible studies for over 10 years. I have been a member of the group for 9 years. I only missed 1 study during that time. I spent 5 of those years battling cancer. I was bald for 1 year. Yet, I yearn to study God’s word. I have led a Bible study in my home (“Duty or Delight”), and I am planning to do your “Breath” study, because I won it from LPM. I am amazed every time I do one of your studies, with the depth, and the insight, and your passion for teaching. I can’t imagine doing what you do. God chose you, and you have served Him well, and everyone of us Siestas love you for it. Praise God! Please pray for me to find a place to do the “Breath” study. Thank you.
Beth,
You are SUCH an inspiration to me and SO MANY OTHERS. God has richly blessed you and you never appear to tire or waver in sharing His message.
Thank you for always being the supportive, bubbly, kind, thoughtful and loving lady you are. So many of us have never met you, only heard or seen you through a machine, but you are family to us.
Thank you for your unwavering service and role model for us all, and for Jesus! 🙂
My small group just started Children of the Day and we are loving it. My first study was Breaking Free and I have done it more than once because I was leading it:). I can’t even think how many I’ve done but that study really made me realize how hungry I was for the Word and how easy it is to get that spiritual food I so need! I’ve also done some Priscilla, some Kay and Kelly Minter along the way. Tonight at small group we will be talking about making a trip to the Living Proof Live in Milwaukee, our 5th ‘field trip’…can’t wait for August to be here! Thanks for all you do, Beth Moore and team!
Beth, I’m one of those gals who is hooked on staying in God’s Word ’til He takes me home! When I’m nearing the end of a study, I start praying about what to do next because I HAVE to have a plan! I thank you again for every lesson you have taught. I’d love to chat with you about them and how God moved in my life and how much closer I am to the LORD because of your studies.
Now, if you could, please pretend we’re in a classroom and I’m raising my hand to ask the teacher a question….I heard just a snippet of a lesson that the gifts that the wise men brought to Jesus – gold, frankincense, and myrrh, were symbols of Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection. I’m just itching to research that and find out how. I found the verse, Matt. 2:11, and now I want to dig to find out more, but I have no idea how to begin to get started.
Can you tell me how, please?
PS – I bought the “Breath” study for myself for Christmas and have watched the first session and completed the homework. I cannot wait for the next session! I love the image of dust getting wet for the first time and God creating Adam! That lesson – the whole thing is amazing! Thank you again, our sweet teacher!
Hi Dana, So glad you are hooked on the study of the Word! Regarding your question on Matthew 2:11, you might start where Beth started, with a Strong’s Concordance, and see where that takes you. A few years ago Beth shared her favorite getting-started resources. Check it out here and see if any of these will be a help: http://blog.lproof.org/2011/04/starting-your-library-for-those-who-are-interested.html
KMac, thanks so much! I cannot wait to dive in!
Thank you for posting this! Like many others, I feel like this was perfectly timed, as this very evening, I’ll be starting my first in-depth Bible study with some women at the church I have just begun going to. It is your 1&2 Thessalonians study. Is it strange that I’m actually quite nervous after reading all these comments? 🙂 I guess it reveals how tight my grip is on being reluctant for God to change anything in my life, though that really is my deepest desire.
This is also my first time doing the SSMT! Already the first two verses have been my go-to weapons for some daily battles. Thank you for encouraging us to do this!
Oh Beth!
You are my guiding light when it comes to bible study – I wanna dig, dig, dig – just like you do! I started with Esther, then Revelation, then Esther again, then Breaking free (I bought the book & will need to do this one again) and we are finishing up Daniel. Your bible studies excite me beyond words!! And I will be attending the conference in TAMPA this June – can’t tell you how excited I am to be in your company!!!!!!!
You are in my prayers always – Love you just as much!
D : )
Beth…we just started another Bible Study….Living Beyond Yourself, one that we had not yet done (I say this because we have done several of them multiple times). This study has a special back-story for me. About seven years ago, my friend called me and said, “we just started a Bible Study at my church and the speaker reminds me of you! It’s about the Fruit of the Spirit!” She went on to tell me your name. Straight away, I went and looked you up….and asked my pastor if we could do one of your studies. He said yes, and so it began! I had never participated in (let alone facilitated) an in-depth Bible Study. I was soooo excited. We started with “Believing God” and have continued to do 2 – 3 studies per year since then.
Over and over I have wanted to tell you how your studies have stirred an unquenchable desire in me to study the Word. Oh, I’ve been in church all my life…and have loved Jesus for as long as I can remember. But truly digging in and studying His Word…well I just hadn’t done it.
Today, I feel nearly obsessed with it…and I am so glad.
We pray for you in our group time, and I pray for you personally. We are so thankful that God put you on his Kingdom Calendar at the same time as He put us here. We love God so much, and we love you, too.
Thank you for showing us how to love God through the study of His word. He has truly transformed my life through it!!!!
Beth,
Our ladies Bible study group recently finished The Inheritance and we all LOVED it! And, just this past Sunday, we began COTD!!! The cool thing is that not only do we have several who are returning, but we had 8 new faces in first-time study! Pretty incredible isn’t it??!!! My very first one to do and to lead was Jesus, The One and Only…..started it 1 month after having surgery for cancer. And, that was almost 14 years ago!!!!! I’m thankful for sure!
Blessings,
Ginger Lowe
Wetumpka, AL
Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose.
Kim Hernandez, Roswell,Ga Let your light so shine before men , that they may see your good works and glorify your father who is in Heaven. Matthew 5:16 KSV
Is Beth working on a new bible study now ?? What book ??
I fell in love with the Bible while doing my first Beth Moore study. And ever since, I can’t get enough of bible study. It’s like I have a craving, and in between studies, I’m a little lost during my morning quiet time!
After years of laughing at me for doing Bible Study, my sister did Children of the Day and is now hooked! Who got the last laugh now? The Lord has a fabulous sense of humor. As I sit in a hospitlal waiting for my bible study sister to come out of a cerebral aneurysm procedute, I am aware of God’s presence in the waiting room. We are praying, and expecting, for a miracle. Our group is doing Living Beyond Yourself, the first time for most and second time for some. We are fruit basketcases working it out! While I was writing this, the doctor confirmed the miracle. GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME AND IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES!
Hi Beth! Several years ago while in the midst of Jesus delivering me from a stronghold a Catholic friend asked my Lutheran friend and I to a Baptist church (that just makes me smile) to your Bible study on James. It changed my life and Jesus brought this to me at just the right time. I have been in continuous Bible study since then…mostly yours but also Priscilla Scherer’s, either in a group or just doing it myself! I cant be without it! My dad was a Lutheran minister and i too was at church every time the doors were open. I had this foundation but being in these Bible studies has meant so much to me and has grown my faith and personal relationship with our Savior more than i can say. I cant thank you enough for James, Breaking Free, David, Esther, Jesus The One and Only, now John and more to come :). My friends and I also had the wonderful experience of attending Living Proof Live in Springfield Il and were all deeply moved by it. Continued Blessings on your ministry and thank you so much!
I, too,fell in love with Bible Study while doing my first Beth Moore study, which was, “Jesus, the One and Only”. I’ve just finished doing that one for the third time, and have begun “The Patriarchs” for the first time. I KNOW God answered my prayers by sending me Beth Moore’s website! I am fighting my fifth round of cancer in 14 years, and praying that I will win, but whatever God has in store for me, I thank Miss Beth for leading me faithfully to His Word each day. When my ladies group is between studies, I pick up a study and do it on my own. A bit different from a group experience, but lots to be gained there too. Thank you so much for continuing to lead us thirsty souls and I can’t wait to see the next study!
P.S. I am an Arkansas gal too, and just adore that occasional twang that slips in from your childhood!
Smiles and Blessings to you and yours!
joy~
Beth,
I am BREAKING FREE! I am currently in week 4 of that study and it is right on time for me! It’s such an amazing study…although I do hear myself saying, “Ouch!” quite a bit! This summer I did A Heart Like His, the study of David’s life,
and it was also just what I needed at the time. I met you in the airport in Missouri while I was doing that study, and had it in a bag right under my arm because I was doing it on the plane. I didn’t even think to pull it out and have you sign it. I kept thinking to myself, “I can’t believe I am talking to Beth Moore. I want to ask her if I can take a pic with my phone, but I don’t want to be ‘THAT WOMAN’ in the airport.” Haha! Thanks for making a difference in the lives of women! God has used you to speak to me, for sure!
Beth, bless you, bless you, bless you and yours!!! I am personally grateful that you tilled that garden of your life and I have had the opportunity to receive the fruits for my life’s journey ( war zone). Love ya
I just want to say I have done Breaking Free three times. The third time I brought it to my ladies at church and I got to see their lives be transformed! I am about ready to go on the adventure again with three 11th grade high school girls. They already have so much pain and bondage in their lives. I would really appreciate any extra prayers as I go on this journey with them. Thank you Beth for your continued obedience! Your ministry has blessed my life in more ways than you will ever know! God bless!
“The Patriarchs” was my first study of yours. My first study with a workbook, etc. I always loved God’s Word but I am now totally hooked on in depth study. I mourned a little when I finished Daniel. We are now doing “Jesus, The One and Only”. Thank you Beth!!!!