03.28.07
Week Seven
Hi, everyone! I apologize but I have had no time to do the study for this past week (week six)… We are moving this weekend and the hours this week have been spent packing and preparing the house to move into, etc.. Due to the lack of time that I have had for this study, I thought that we could do something a bit different for Week Seven’s lesson. There will only be three questions.
1. Read Chapter Seven in “Beautiful In God’s Eyes” and write about something that stood out to you about the lesson. Something that convicted you of an area you need to work on or something that encouraged you.
2. What is something that God is teaching you in your life right now? What is an area that you see Him growing you in? This doesn’t necessarily have to relate to the book but it can.
3. What is something that you have found encouraging lately (an event, something you read, something someone said, an answered prayer – whatever!)?
I hope that you each have a blessed week and look forward to hearing from you!
03.21.07
Week Six
1. Read Chapter 6, “A Fountain of Joy”. Tell about something that stood out to you from the chapter. Were you convicted by something? Encouraged by something? What did God teach you from this chapter?
2. Why do you think that the attitude with which you do a task is so important? Who is it important to? Why does God put such stress on HOW we do the things we do (Ecc. 9:10, Prov, 31:13, Col. 3:23, Phil. 2:14)?
3. We all have things that we have to do. Think of one that you struggle to do with the right attitude and tell of a way that you will work to cultivate a more joyful spirit about it.
4. God wants his children to be full of joy (John 15:11, John 16:24, 1 John 1:4,). What are some things about Him or things that He has given or done for us that we can meditate on to increase our joy?
5. List some things that might get in the way of us being joyful.
6. We are commanded in the Bible to rejoice on several occassions. What are the contexts of the following passages? How, when, and what about do they tell us to rejoice?
Matt. 5:12
Romans 5:1-5
Phil. 1:18
Phil 4:4
1 Pet 4:13
03.14.07
Week Five
1. Read chapter 5, “A Spring of Goodness”. What is something that stood out to you about this chapter? What is something new that you might not have considered before? Was there something particularly convicting?
2. Besides a husband, who is another person/or other people in our lives that we could do goodness and not evil to? (Read Prov. 3:27, Gal. 6:10) What are some practical good things that you might know to do for that person or those people?
3. Where there is a desire to do goodness, there is the temptation to do evil. Elzabeth lists three things in this chapter that can draw us to do evil – a tendency to compare, a growing root of bitterness, a sagging spiritual condition. How have these evils affected your quest to do good all the days of your life? How did you deal with them or how might you deal with them in the future?
4. Is there a relationship or circumstance in your life in which you can PLAN to do good? What is your plan for this week?
5. What are a couple of the ABC’s listed in this chapter that you would like to apply to your own life?
03.07.07
Week Four
1. Read Chapter 4 “The Unfailing Prize”. What are some ideas that might be new to you? What is something(s) that stood out to you in this chapter? Is there an area that you see you need to grow in?
2. What are some things that you learned as a child about money that you would want to pass onto your children? What are some things that you would want to teach them that you had to learn to hard way?
3. What are we to “invest aggresively” in? (Matt. 6:19-21, Prov 22:4) What is a practical way you will begin to do that this week?
4. What are some of the ways that the virtuous woman is a good steward? List references.
5. What are some ways you can apply to your own life good stewardship in the ways that the virtuous woman does in hers?
