Thank you LavenderC for sharing! I hope you had a great day and praying for your pains!

Lavender, I am so delighted to hear you are reading your Bible a lot more. That is a big goal of mine! To get Christians to read their Bibles! We would have such a strong foundation as the church, if everyone did that.

A few years back we did a "Read the Bible" initiative, and tried to get everyone reading. Many people wrote me and told me they were reading their Bible. Beryl is one person I really remember saying how she got into her Bible.

Oh, yes. The daily Bible reading initiative. That was really useful. I still do it most days, and I'm way more familiar with what the Bible actually says, though I am still learning.

A great way that got me to really dig into the Bible was doing a work book that gave me assignments to do and verses to read and write about! I just finished my work book, I’m going to order another!

@Hereforyou You might want to try, if not now, in the future, just reading the Bible from cover to cover. If you read 3 chapters of the OT and 1 chapter of the NT a day, you will get through the Bible in a year.

I've read the Bible from cover to cover over 50 times. Many times in modern English, French, German, the NT in Koine Greek and books of the OT in Hebrew.

I always learn more and more. But God uses it to change me, too!

@ Hereforyou.....
We used workbooks in "Bible" when I was homeschooling my son, and in Sunday School classes when I was a kid, but usually they came as part of a set. Where are you getting individual ones (if you don't mind saying)?

Also, the cover to cover method MarleneJ suggests has been really useful to me for familiarity.

I can also imagine using workbooks for deeper study of a certain passage or subject. Do you get them from christianbook.com or somewhere else?

Listening to good sermons is important too. Preachers and Bible teachers are there to help believers understand God's words.

Hello everyone, would you Please pray for me, and my husband ? I am praying for each one of you!
Thoughts and prayers, jobbie

I definitely will keep you both in my prayers. Thank you for your prayers. I pray God gives you His wisdom and strength and help you in all your problems and concerns and health issues.

Praying for you as well Jobbie.

Peace and blessings to all.

I will also pray for you, Jobbie & your husband.

@Lavender. When I took preaching in seminary, our professor was very demanding we listen to and read other preachers, especially the best ones. Haddon Robinson comes to mind..

We also got a subscription to a Preacher's magazine, and a subscription to a preacher's website, with lots of audio sermons. Thanks for bringing that up!

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Praying for you all.

I just want to give a few praise reports.

I saw my eye doctor and he said I have an inflammatory disease in my eyes. I have to take prednilisone drops 4 times a day for 10 days. I was going well with the drops, then forgot to take them till bedtime tonight. My eyes are doing much better, and it is not super serious, unless I can't get rid of it.

Last night I woke up in agony at 3 am. I got up and took 5 mg of prednisone, then another 10 mg throughout the day. It is night & day. I couldn't go up a 4 inch step, now I can go up several larger stairs. I can walk, move around. -and the stiffness is gone. I asked my rheumatologist to let me go in it, but he wanted to see me worse. Well, this was worse!

It is not a cure, and I will have to come off of it, after I go back on my regular meds. I haven't been that bad since 2015, when my meds failed, and we couldn't find a combo that worked.

Another praise is that we went to a hot spring today, and just relaxed in the water. I went into the cold pool (95F/35C) and dove into the water and swam 3 or 4 strokes. The last time I did that, 2 years ago, I started rolling and I couldn't tell which way was up, and which way was done, because of balance issues. Today I had no issues at all, I was back to normal. Praise God for healing my balance issues!

So, I continue to pray for everyone. Please post praise reports when your prayers are answered. I know it might take years, I praise God my answers were quick in coming.

Thank God for His answers to your prayers and the pain issue. I hope you can do more of your study (classes). Be sure not to overdo it and get plenty of rest. I will continue to pray for you and everyone in the group.

Praise God for answered prayers!!