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This blog is about a group of amazing, unique, wonderfully ordinary women ranging in age from 16 to 70+ who get together every other Saturday morning to hang out and study God's Word. We meet in the upper room at Parkland Fellowship (hence the name of the blog) and our teacher is Beth Moore. I would love to say that she is with us live and in person but I can't . . . she is almost live and almost in person . . . and we are blessed!

This blog is also for this group of amazing, unique, wonderfully ordinary women to check up on study dates, share insights, access resources . . . and just be in community.

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Friday, March 26, 2010

A Woman's Heart, God's Dwelling Place

Here we are, once again, at the beginning of a new study . . . I am SO excited!!!!

In this introductory session, Beth laid the groundwork for the next 10 weeks of study by asking us to open our spiritiual eyes to:
  • "the wonder of God's pursuit of man" - reminding us that God pursued Adam after his disobedience
  • "the beauty of God's consistency" - showing us, from Exodus 25 and Hebrews 8, that God "caused" Moses to see "a copy and shadow of a heavenly reality" of which the Old Testament tabernacle was to be patterned after
  • "the glory of God's Son" - the cross was not Plan B . . . the Lamb "was slain from the creation of the world" (Revelation 13:8) . . . Jesus fulfilled everything that was spoken of about Him in the Scriptures (Luke 24:44)
In keeping with being open to what God is going to show us through this study, Beth encouraged us to pray that the Lord would open our minds that we might have understanding. I really liked the word picture she gave for ""suniemi", Greek for "understanding" . . .

"collecting the pieces of a puzzle and putting them together."

Ladies . . . the picture of this particular puzzle is the title of our study, "A Woman's Heart, God's Dwelling Place."  The pieces of this particular puzzle is from the Word - Genesis through Revelation - and will reveal God's determination in finding a way to dwell among us.  But I'm giving away some of Session 1 . . .

Come with your thinking hats on - we are going to cover a lot of ground . . . see you Saturday! 

Jan : )
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  1. DianaMarch 28, 2010 at 1:13 PM

    This is an exciting study for me too.
    I love the part about God's pursuit of us all, it reminds me of the story of the lost son and how the Father ran out to his son. How the image of the Father running, and our heavenly Father running and now we are to understand pursuing us. He isn't sitting by idly waiting on us to decide to follow or to listen for Him, He is out there drawing us in, making us hunger for Him; He is actively pursuing us. Running full force towards us. Amazing!!!

    Thank you God for your love for us, we are so small in our understanding what that love really looks like, yet You are telling us over and over in Your Word, we just need to listen.

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