Saturday, October 16, 2010

Session 4 - Fill Ins

1. Time - is now
2. Turning - to Him
3. Truth - is absolute not relative
You either trust God or you don't
4. Transcendence
We serve a God who does way past your way past.
5. Totality - ALL
Everything that concerns you concerns God.
We have a God who cares about everything.
6. Turbo - power
7. Our Tribute to Him
Our God is predictable in His character, but He is unpredictable in His activity.

Session 4 - Praise/Prayer Requests

It was wonderful studying with of you last night! What a powerful truth to absorb and live out in our lives isn't it? I look forward to seeing how the homework will help us dig deeper still this week!

I wanted to pass on the praise/prayer requests. I believe I might have misplaced/lost one card so, if you don't see your praise/prayer requests please send it to me and I'll forward it on to everyone. I apologize! God bless you with all wisdom, knowledge, and power!

Carrie L. - My niece, Jessica is leaving Thursday to serve for 2 years as a missionary in Mozambique, Africa. Please pray for her work and her safety. My father-in-law is in intensive care suffering from seizures. It's unknown what damage has been caused.

? - Please pray for all the ones who are struggling with this life and with their faith in God and what He can do.

Christy - Prayer for healing of my body which is experiencing pain and sensory problems. Also that the doctors will listen and diagnose the issue accurately. If it's within God's will, that He will heal my body from this issue.

? - Prayer for brother that had kidney removed and now has found a hernia or ulcer that needs to be removed around that area. Prayer for strength and encouragement but most of all healing.

? - Prayer for family members - sister and brothers who are astray from family but most of all from God.

Sophia - Praise - Brother and sister-in-law came down so we got to spend time with them. Praise that I found a small group that I enjoy attending. Prayer - For my new jobs - that God starts to prepare my heart and the girls I will be coaching and also, for diligence in His word.

Rebecca S. - Prayer for my son, David, to get his life in order, work hard, take care of his baby and follow Christ.

? - Prayer requested for my neighbors hand injury for quick recovery and for two friends to make amends, talk and move forward. For mother-in-law, Joann she has cancer. My sister's son to find full time work and get everything together to be independent. Pray for homeless and all the children in need!

Sarah - Prayer for a dear friend of my son's Harry Kong III who just got out of the Army and received notice that he has brian and back cancer. He just lost his dad from the same cancer last month. I pray for God's full healing power to take place and that through this season of life He will find and accept Christ as His Lord and Savior. To God be the Glory! I also pray for my son, Ricky, for a job after he gets out in June 2011.

Beverly's daughter - Praise - God for the surgeon and hospital staff for my step dad's prostatectomy. Pray for his follow up appointment and healthy news. My sister's strength & faith in God to not lose hope and look to Him for guidance in her marriage. To hear God's speaking to her and have a relationship with Him.

Kelly - Praise God for the light shown in my heart and mind about being a woman & a Godly wife. Please pray for my sense of compassion and finding myself. I pray for my husband's patience, compassion and sympathy during this deployment. Please pray that on my walk that I will have wisdom and understanding and our faithfulness in our marriage is in His hands.

Carol - Praise - that foot pain is gone!!!

Martha - Please pray for my lack of rest and tiredness. For all the families who deal with Autism - that there will be a cure!

Debbie G. - Prayer - for my sister, Vera, she find out results of 8 centimeter solid mass this week. She wanted me to say thank you to the ladies that have been praying for her. Praise - my Dad's health has improved.

Virginia M - I pray God would open my wisdom and knowledge to show me how to just love my sons through their struggles. To not be judgmental but to try and understand them. Please pray for my son, Jesse who is struggling with alcoholism. I know he wants healing but says he is afraid to disappoint God if he does get healed and goes back to drinking. Also, prayer for my grandson, Jose, whom my husband and I have raised since birth. He is having a hard time in his life right now. He is not following the Lord - has turned his back on Him somewhat. Jose is 17 years old.

? - Please pray for my daughter, Erika, and Matthew J for their marriage is having troubles. They are talking and want to make it better. They have three kids that go back and forth. I'm the grandmother and I hurt for them but I have faith in God. Please help me in prayers for them.

Kim - Praise - God answers prayers and hears our cries! Praise for His amazing promises in His word that are still valid and available to us today! Prayer - my mom, Sharon, is going to CA to visit my brother, Ted, next week. Please pray that they will have a wonderful visit and that my brother will see that truly GOD is his answer for his life!

Kim - Please pray for Sam P. who was diagnosed with two types of cancer recently. She's getting ready to start treatment after she went through surgery last month. Please also continue to pray for Marcia and Gene for restoration in their marriage and for Pauline's teenage son who needs to turn his life over to God.

God bless you sweet sisters! Check out Luke 11:5-13!

Session 3 - Email

Hi Wonderful Women!

Surprise! Yes, our God is able to surprise us isn't He? I know He has given me a suprise this week by answering a prayer dramatically regarding my son! Thank you Lord! I know He responded to another precious woman from our study almost immediately this week after she prayed to Him! Thank you again Lord! And, I'm sure there are others!

Be encouraged! Keep praying as God does answer prayers. Possibly not with the answer we are requesting but with the RIGHT answer as He knows what is BEST! You can count on that! He tells us in Jeremiah 29:11, "I know the thoughts that I think for you,says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope." He thinks about you! Feast on that a moment!

You may not be able to possibly see the "why" of the answer to some of your prayers but you can trust and believe His word. He is Faithful! Remember 1 Cor 10:13, "No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it." He doesn't allow you to be tempted above what you are able - He has your back! You are precious to Him and He loves you with agape love. Agape meaning "perfect unconditional" love ! I don't know about you but that makes me want to go running and jumping into His lap for a huge hug and be able to hear His heartbeat!

I encourage you to stay in His word daily being determined, diligent, dedicated, deliberate by doing it! Yes, the 6 "D's" are back! I thought of another one "DELIGHTED" to be in the Word

I will be updating the blog tomorrow with fill-ins, praise, prayer requests. The class blog is www.faithfulpalmvalley.blogspot.com

God bless you with His mighty riches through our precious Lord! See you all the 11th! (We are not meeting this upcoming week of the 4th)

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Session 3 - Fill Ins

Able
Surprise
He can
Pinnacle
Pray
1. Time
Now
Doxology
Praise and Honor
Impossible
2. Turning

Session 3 - Praise/Prayer Requests

Hello Prayer Warriorettes!

I wanted to forward to you the praises and prayer requests I received so that each of you will be "diligent" and "determined" to lift each other up in prayer "daily" before our God who is "able" to do "exceedingly" and "abundantly" "above" and "beyond" what we can possibly think or imagine! NOW, here they are! Sorry, I couldn't help but do a little review after such a powerful word from Priscilla last night! Awesome!!!!

Robin W - I need to rest in faith for God's timing as I have a huge desire to be in full time ministry at PVC in the area of student ministries & missions. There are times my heart aches and longs for the day God opens the door for it to be a reality.

Christy - Prayer for my sister, Julia, and my friend, Margaret, who are both lost and desperately need God to open their eyes and heal them.

Sophia - Praise - I got a job! I will be working for a high school as a coach. God is faithful and good!

Unspoken

? - Prayer request - please pray for me to have patience with my husband. He is not a believer and its becoming increasingly difficult being with him.

Kelly - Praise God for whatever the reason my husband has been making a conscientious effort to keep in to contact with me during deployment. Pray for my EMT test and career & confirmed marriage growth.

? - Praying that my hopes and dreams are aligned with God. For my husband to be able to have alone time (due to stress at work.)

Debbie - I have a couple of prayer requests, one is for my sister Vera who's health is not very good right now. The other one is for my Dads health, it is also not good. And lastly for my sister Vera's marriage, specifically that her husbands priorities be lined up with Gods.
I am so thankful that I have a women's Bible study that I can attend and to learn and grow in Him. He is so faithful!

Renee - My mother-in-law has had heart issues for a while now plus diabetes… my sister took her to the doctor yesterday and they did a bunch of tests… the tests came back today, when they received the results all her levels were way too high… “Her INR reading was above 7.5 (should be at 3) and that’s too high, they’re taking her to ER at Banner Estrella to give her vitamin K and run some tests.”
Because they are all new to the signs and stuff my sister is beating herself up for not taking her in sooner… Nana has been sleeping a lot lately and very sluggish… she also fell last week so Sophie thought the bruising was from that… she’s 77 years old… please keep her and my family in your prayers for healing and awareness and also preparing our hearts …



Kim - Praising God that He truly is ABLE! Loving that truth! Praise - My husband told me he was reading the Bible for the past couple of nights - blessed beyond belief! Prayer request - that he receive another job project here in AZ so that he'll be able to come home.

Marcia - Please pray for her husband, Gene of 24 years who recently left. That God would restore and renew their marriage.

Pauline - Please pray for her son, a young teenage man, who needs to have God radically transform his life.

God bless you beyond measure!!! See all of you on the 11th for more fantastic teaching from Prisilla Shirer! Praise - we all have TWO weeks to do our homework - so DIG DEEPER!

Session 2 - Email

Hi Precious Sisters in Christ,

Daily, deliberate, diligent,determined and dedicated to doing God's will! My goal this week has been to focus on the 6 "D's." The Christian walk is not one that by osmosis happens. We are active participants striving to become more like Christ. It takes work and effort but the rewards are abundant in Christ when we make choices in our lives to set our priority on Him.

I am challenged by our memory verse this week which is 2 Tim 2:15 "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of God."

God's word is truth. I have loved reviewing the homework from last week and the focus of Faith. Rom 10:17 tells us that "Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God." Heb. 11:1 tells us that "Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen." Without faith it is impossible to please God it tells us in Heb. 11:6. God tells us that the righteous shall live by faith and if he shrinks back, His soul has no pleasure in Him. For a Christian, faith is a way of life. If you feel like your faith is weak, ask God to increase your faith just as the apostles asked of Jesus in Luke 17.

Be encouraged to do your weekly study and spend time with your Lord! I've done the first two days of study so far and have been blessed beyond measure! We serve a God who is GREAT! Worship Him and ask that He be glorified in your life!

For those of you who have missed sessions, you can go to this link to watch or hear the studies for a small fee. http://www.lifeway.com/search/results/?o=Quick&sp=faithful+abundant

The class blog has been updated for your review with the fill-ins and praise/prayer requests!
www.faithfulpalmvalley.blogspot.com

God bless you with all knowledge, wisdom, understanding and may He increase all of our faith!