Reflection: {Week 10}

Our last week to reflect on...Week #10!  Here are the verses to reflect back on:

• Proverbs 31:31
• Proverbs 14:23; 27:2; 27:18
• Acts 13:22
• Page 41 of P31 Ebook

I want to encourage you to take each verse and write down at least one thing from each of these verses that you want to remember. 

Thank you all for being a part of this Proverbs 31 study.  I have enjoyed the challenge and conviction that this study created in my life.  I have also enjoyed (well, maybe enjoyed is not the best word!) the accountability that you all have created.  I'm amazed that God still takes this wretched sinner and continues to teach and shape and mold me into who He wants me to be.

Reflection: {Week 9}

Week #9!  Reflect back on your journal notes and the following verses:

Proverbs 31:29-30

Proverbs 15:33; 22:4

II Corinthians 4:16

I Timothy 2:9-10

Pages 38-40 of P31 Ebook

I encourage you to jot down what you learned even through this time of reflection.  Is God still teaching and convicting even through these verses that you've already studied?  Is He still teaching you more even when you thought you learned everything there was to learn out of the verses?

I love how God's Word is so fresh and so new each time you seem to open His Book!

Reflection: {Week 8}

Here are Week #8's passages to reflect on today...

Proverbs 31:27-28

Proverbs 6:6-11; 9:1-2; 12:24; 13:1; 19:15; 20:4; 22:6; 24:3-4

Titus 2:4

Pages 34-37 of P31 Ebook

What is God teaching you through this reflection time?

Reflection: {Week 7}

Here are the verses/pages to read over to reflect on Week #7 of our Proverbs 31 study:

• Proverbs 31:26
• Psalms 37:3
• Proverbs 3:5-6; 4:23-24; 10:11; 10:19; 10:31; 12:18; 15:1
• Luke 6:45
• Ephesians 4:29
• Philippians 4:19
• I Timothy 3:11
• Pages 32-33 of P31 Ebook

What was the verse that spoke to your heart the most?  What is one thought on how you will put that verse into action?

Reflection: {Week 6}

As I reflect back over Week #6, I saw that this week got really interesting for me and quite convicting and challenging.  I began to let Satan use tiredness, busy-ness of life, the busy-ness of a school year coming to a close, and the distractions of kids, a husband, a home, and family all take over my focus and would use those as my excuses to shift my priorities of my day which ultimately resulted in not spending the time I needed to with my Lord and Savior every morning or even throughout my entire day.  I would get my verses read and wrote down and make a few observations just reading the verses at face value, but I failed to really spend time studying and praying over the verses to let the Holy Spirit teach me and speak to me through His Word.  It was such a gradual thing...Satan is so tricky like that!  It only taught me how much I need to faithfully be in God's Word even more and how much I need to put on the armor to fight against Satan day in and day out.  I need this accountability as well. 

So, as you reflect back over Week #6's passages, what is something that you learned? 

Week #6's reading:

• Proverbs 31:22-25
• Psalms 23:1
• Proverbs 3:26; 10:4; 12:4
• Titus 2:9-10
• I Peter 3:3-4
• Pages 26-31 of P31 Ebook

Reflection: {Week 5}

As you reflect over Week #5's verses and your journal notes, write down 5 things that you want to remember from this particular week's verses. 

Week #5's reading passages are as follows:

Proverbs 31:20-21

Deuteronomy 15:7-8

Psalms 46:1-2

Proverbs 11:25; 19:17; 27:23

Ephesians 6:7

Colossians 3:23

I Thesslonians 4:11

Pages 22-25 of P31 Ebook

Have a great day, ladies!

Reflection: {Week 4}

Have you all been wondering if the facilitator of this bloggy Bible study is still alive or even still doing this blog thing?  I must apologize.  I have been sidetracked by a vacation and my sick family to remember that I did not work ahead on the reflection blog posts.  Ooops!  So, here we are, and I am sincerely sorry.  

If anyone is still out there and following along with this blog or the study schedule, you will know (at least from the study schedule) that we have now entered into our reflection times where we reflect back over all of the verses for a certain week in just one day.  We are now reflecting on Week #4.  As you re-read the passages from Week #4 and all of your notes you made throughout that week, what is something that the Lord has impressed upon your heart?  What is something that He has challenged you to perhaps change or that He has encouraged, strengthened, or reaffirmed for you that you have been doing?  What was your favorite verse or the verse that you want to remember for the future?

By the way, the Scripture passages for Week #4 were:

Proverbs 31:17-19

Nehemiah 8:10

Psalms 118:24

Proverbs 14:23

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Philippians 4:13

I Thessalonians 4:11

Pages 16-21 of P31 Ebook

And, in case you missed reflecting on Weeks #1-3, the Scripture passages for those weeks are as follows:

Week #3:

Proverbs 31:14-16

Genesis 24:15-20

Psalms 5:3

Proverbs 9:1-2; 16:3; 21:5

Mark 1:35

James 4:13-15

Pages 11-15 of P31 Ebook

Week #2:

Proverbs 31:11-13

I Kings 11:4

Proverbs 11:28; 16:20; 18:22; 19:14; 28:25-26; 29:25

I Kings 11:4

Colossians 3:23

Pages 7-10 of P31 Ebook

Week #1:

Proverbs 31:1-10

Proverbs 12:4

Pages 5&6 of P31 Ebook

May God bless each of you today and may we see the blessings He does give to us!  Thank you all for your patience for this imperfect and forgetful blogger!

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!

But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.  They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. 

~Isaiah 40:31 (NIV)

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!!

Proverbs 14:23 et al

In all labor there is profit, but idle chatter leads only to poverty.

~Proverbs 14:23

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

~Proverbs 27:2

Whoever keeps the fig tree will eat its fruit; so he who waits on his master will be honored.

~Proverbs 27:18

Proverbs 31:31 / Acts 13:22

Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates.

~Proverbs 31:31

And when He had removed him, He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, "I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will."

~Acts 13:22 

Proverbs 15:33 / Proverbs 22:4

The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom, and before honor is humility.

~Proverbs 15:33

By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches and honor and life.

~Proverbs 22:4

I Timothy 2:9-10

...in like manner also, that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with propriety and moderation, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing, but, which is proper for women professing godliness, with good works.

II Corinthians 4:16

Therefore do not lose heart.  Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.

Proverbs 31:30

Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, but a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised.

Proverbs 31:29

"Many daughters have done well, but you excel them all."

Proverbs 31:28 et al

Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:

~Proverbs 31:28

Train up a child in the way her should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

~Proverbs 22:6

...that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,...

~Titus 2:4

Proverbs 12:24 et al

The hand of the diligent will rule, but the lazy man will be put to forced labor.

~Proverbs 12:24

Laziness casts one into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.

~Proverbs 19:15

The lazy man will not plow because of winter; he will beg during harvest and have nothing.

~Proverbs 20:4

Proverbs 24:3-4

Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.

Proverbs 9:1-2 / Proverbs 6:6-11

Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn out her seven pillars; she has slaughtered her meat, she has mixed her wine, she has also furnished her table.

~Proverbs 9:1-2

Go to the ant, you sluggard!  Consider her ways and be wise, which, having no captain, overseer or ruler, provides her supplies in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.  How long will you slumber, O sluggard?  When will you rise from your sleep?  A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep--so shall your poverty come on you like a prowler, and your need like an armed man.

~Proverbs 6:6-11

Proverbs 31:27 / Proverbs 13:1

She watches over the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.

~Proverbs 31:27

A wise son heeds his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

~Proverbs 13:1