2019 Study is Officially in The Books
Each week the writers gather together to pray for this ministry and all those involved in it, for we truly believe this is His ministry, and we can do nothing apart from Him. That hour of prayer continues to be one of the most treasured hours of our week!
Below is one of the prayers we often include during our time throughout the year:
Abba, Take Your precious children right up next to Your heart today. Keep us and make Your face shine upon us and be gracious to us, we pray. (Num 6:24-25). Shower us and the women on WitW with an outpouring of Your blessing, Your presence, the assurance of Your favor, and Your enabling grace.
You have written our days in Your book. You knew us by name before we were born and how we would glorify You! (Ps 139:15-18). Your thoughts of us are too numerous to count. We are constantly on Your mind. Hallelujah!Please continue to assure us that Your presence goes with us, and don’t let us go where You do not bless (Exo 33:12-16). Teach us Your ways and make us sensitive to Your hand on our lives. Let us know Your faithful direction at all times. Go before us to open the way where there seems to be no way. Please place before us an open door that no one can shut, according to Your sovereign will (Rev 3:7-8), and shut all doors outside Your will for us.Please make a way for all those YOU desire to do this study to join us and bless each woman's efforts. Yes, bless us indeed and enlarge our territory in all areas in our lives! Let Your hand be with us constantly to strengthen us and keep us from harm (1 Chron. 4:10). Establish Your appointed work through our hands with Your favor (Ps 90:17). Great are Your purposes, and mighty are Your deeds. Your eyes are open to all our ways (Jer 32:19). Smile upon us today and throughout this study with Your compassion and Your full blessing, as we seek You continually. (Isa 30:18). Amen.
We believe God has continued to honor our requests found here in this prayer incredibly! For example, take this one request I've highlighted found in 1Chronicles 4:10, "Yes, bless us indeed and enlarge our territory in all areas in our lives!" In the fall of 2012 we began our first study with 35 women! I remember rejoicing and thinking at the time it was more than I could fit comfortably in my living room! Today, seven years later, we have women joining us from all over the world! Over 17,000 on our T2 women Facebook page, and more than 800 have joined us in our closed Facebook group we call, Women in the Word!
And this year we decided to translate our study into Spanish and post on Mujer Proverbios 31, our Spanish speaking Facebook page which now has over 20,000 members reaching Central, South America and Spain! And to that we can say, "Gloria in excelsis Deo"! He so amazes us!
Next year we'll start a new decade, with a brand new study starting on January 1, 2020! We'll be journeying through the entire New Testament chronologically!! Reading it how it was written! I actually did this, this year in my own devotion time and LOVE it! Which is why I know you will too!
We're also offering a HUGE challenge to anyone willing to accept it!! The challenge with be to memorize the entire Sermon on the Mount - chapters 5-7 in the Book of Matthew in 2020! This was Jesus' sermon- the greatest ever recorded and even if you can't get it all to memory wouldn't it be awesome to simply meditate on it throughout 2020!!? We'll be breaking the passage up into 2 verses each week. Two verses doesn't sound too terribly difficult and before you know it, we'll be done!
I am so excited to get started and I hope you'll join us and invite your friends to join in as well! It's looking like it's going to be an incredible year to grow in our walks with Him!!
All for His glory alone!
God bless you this Christmas, and we look forward to gathering together again in 2020!
Blessings,
sue