Week 46 Can We Be Too Righteous or Too Wise?

By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger) Week 46 Scripture Readings: Ecclesiastes 7-8 Key Scripture Verses: Ecclesiastes 7:16-18 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “Do not be overrighteous, neither be overwise—why destroy yourself? Do not be overwicked, and do not be a fool—why die before your time? It is good to grasp the one and not let go… Continue reading Week 46 Can We Be Too Righteous or Too Wise?

Week 46 Finding Peace By Doing God’s Will

By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger)  Week 46 Scripture Readings: Psalms 131-133 Key Scripture Verses: Psalm 132:4, 13-14 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “I will allow no sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids, till I find a place for the Lord, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.” “For the Lord has… Continue reading Week 46 Finding Peace By Doing God’s Will

Week 46 Being Open To His Call

By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger) Week 46 Scripture Readings: Ezra 1-5 Key Scripture Verse: Ezra 1:5 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “Then the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and Levites—everyone whose heart God had moved—prepared to go up and build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem.” The Hebrews had been… Continue reading Week 46 Being Open To His Call

Week 46 Second Tithes

By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger) Week 46 Scripture Readings: Deuteronomy 13-15 Key Scripture Verses: Deuteronomy 14:22 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year. Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks… Continue reading Week 46 Second Tithes

Week 46 Cast All Your Anxiety on Him

By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger) Week 46 Scripture Readings: 1 Peter 4-5 Key Scripture Verse: 1 Peter 5:7 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.”  This key scripture verse is one of my favorites, because even though the gospel says throughout it that Jesus loves me,… Continue reading Week 46 Cast All Your Anxiety on Him

Week 45 How To Have A Meaningful Life

By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger) Week 45 Scripture Readings: Ecclesiastes 5-6 Key Scripture Verses: Ecclesiastes 5:15 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb, and as everyone comes, so they depart. They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands.” We come into the world as vulnerable,… Continue reading Week 45 How To Have A Meaningful Life

Week 45 The Encourager

 By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger) Week 45 Scripture Readings: Acts 13-14 Key Scripture Verses: Acts 13: 2-3 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, ‘Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.’ So after they had fasted… Continue reading Week 45 The Encourager

Week 45 When God Gives Us Our Marching Orders

By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger) Week 45 Scripture Readings: Haggai Key Scripture Verses: “’But now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ declares the Lord. ‘Be strong, Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’ declares the Lord, ‘and work. For I am with you,’ declares the Lord Almighty.” Haggai was… Continue reading Week 45 When God Gives Us Our Marching Orders

Week 45 If God Himself Gives Us Life, Who Can Take It From Us?

By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger) Week 45 Scripture Readings: Psalms 128-130 Key Scripture Verses: Psalm 129: 1-2 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “’They have greatly oppressed me from my youth,’ let Israel say; ‘they have greatly oppressed me from my youth, but they have not gained the victory over me.’” The author of Psalm 129… Continue reading Week 45 If God Himself Gives Us Life, Who Can Take It From Us?

Week 45 Our Loving and Forgiving God

By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger)  Week 45 Scripture Readings: 2 Chronicles 33-36 Key Scripture Verses: 2 Chronicles 33:12-13 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “In his distress he sought the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors. And when he prayed to him, the Lord was moved… Continue reading Week 45 Our Loving and Forgiving God