I first started a Bible study group because the preacher who had been coming to the senior citizen housing decided there was not enough participation from the tenants to keep coming. Now I have a real problem with this because what if that last Gentile soul lived there and would possibly have gotten saved which would have ushered in the coming back of Jesus?  Just my opinion! I moved into the senior housing after my husband of 34 years had went on to glory.  There were so many nice people who lived there but now they didn’t have anyone to teach the Bible studies. My dear friend and angel which God had sent into my life after I had lived there about six months thought it would be a great idea if I taught the Bible study. I had taught God’s Word before and throughly loved the thought of doing this again. Since I lived in the building, I was always on sight so to speak. I was so excited to be teaching again because I love the Word of God and teaching what revelation I gleaned by the Holy Spirit from the Word  so others could understand and love Him too.

I began the Bible Study with prayer and praise music. We then read Psalm 119:1-8, 1. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. 2. Blessed are they who keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. 3. They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. 4. Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. 5. O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! 6. Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. 7. I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgements. 8. I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly. (King James Version). God’s Word is the very life of God because it proceeds from His very Heart. This is so vital for people to understand.  When God speaks something it will happen! It has happened! It will continue to happen! His Word is living truth, alive with promise and is still creating what He has spoken. How amazing is this revelation! Yet, we in our tiny finite minds limit Him with our thinking and lack of faith in His Word. Jesus Christ is His Spoken Word. God speaks only the truth and we can stand on that firm foundation as told to us in the Scriptires. We can believe His Word totally! This Truth is verified in John 1: 1-5, 14, 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2. The same was in the beginning with God. 3. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. 4. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 14. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (KJV). Jesus was and is and will always be the Spoken Word of God filled with the heart, soul, mind, and Spirit of the Living God.

In the beginning as God was saying, “Let there be light! His precious Word (His Son, the Light) was birthed, being issued out by the eternal voice of His Father into the darkness of this world and dispelling it to the outer reaches of the universe. Genesis 1: 1-5; 1.In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.(KJV) Today the scientific greats have discovered ‘darkness’ in the universe that they can’t explain. It is I believe this darkness that had to back away and make room for the Light of Day! Just like the darkness of the earth had to recede when the created light came so does the darkness in our souls when the revelation of the Light of Jesus (The Word), along with the moving of the Holy Spirit upon the spoken Word of God, comes into our minds to reside in our hearts..  Romans 12:12 says, And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and perfect will of God. (KJV))Our minds must be renewed from the old ways of thinking (in some if not most cases,todays ways of thinking) that were created in our thought processes over the course of our lives. I believe it is called, ‘set in our ways’. The Father wants us to open up our hearts and minds to receive His Son by understanding His Word and accepting Him as Lord and Savior of our lives. II Timothy 2:7- Consider what I say, and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.(KJV) He wants us to have the very best He has for us yet we shun the leading of the Holt Spirit Who would lead us into the knowledge of The Word. Why? I don’t know! But I want too. So we will travel down this road together if you want to stick around. What started out as a small Bible study will continue on in some variations as we glean insights from God’s Word and guidance from the Holy Spirit.