It Starts Small

I can not believe we are just days to walking into a new year! I pray at the close of this year we all take moments to get on the mountain with the Lord and do some deep retrospection on our year. I pray that the Lord speak to each of you and gives you focus into the new year.

This next year, we will take our Holy Spirit microscope. We will dive deep into the Letters of the New Testament. This could quite possibly continue into 2026, we will let the Lord lead and see where it goes. For January, we are going to start in 1 Corinthians. The overall theme of Paul’s letter to the Corinthians is that Jesus is relevant in ALL areas of our lives.

Our first day is going to be spent taking a look at the author, Paul. The next 29 days we will dive through the scriptures. The last two days are a day we spend coming up with our own summery of the book. If we had a chance to sit over coffee, I bet the Lord speaks to us in many different ways. We need to listen to His guidance. I would love to hear how He is working the scripture in your life.

Finally, we are going to spend a day of reflection. We are going to pull our journals out and look at all the ‘A’ boxes. How can we apply what the Lord has revealed to us? What commitments is the Lord asking you to make? What changes is the Lord asking you to make?

These two days are subjective to you and your walk. Therefore, there will not be any blog posts for those days.

As always, there is a free printable journal for you to use. I have changed the layout a bit.

You can download the S.O.A.P page and create your own journal. Included in extra downloads is the first day – researching Paul worksheet with scripture to get you started. I also have worksheet pages for the summery and reflection. These are all included in the journal or you can download them individually.

I also have the scripture only graphic. You can save this picture to your device. Use your own journal style to mark off each day as you go.

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If you are interested, you can join facebook group. It is for women only as I feel it is only appropriate to be working with women. You can share in learning with other women. There is a chat set up for daily reminders of the scripture we are studying for each day.

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Also this next year, I am working on coming up individual mailing lists for each study plan. You can subscribe to that plan and receive the daily scripture reminder. This will require I upgrade the plan on WordPress to be able to use a third-party plugin. AT the moment I have a plan that just removes ads.

As part of this upgrade I want to do a 365 days of Promises email list. Each day, you will receive a scripture of promise to reflect and ponder upon. As I started my disciple journey, I heard a pastor say that there are more than 5,000 scriptures about the Promises of the Lord. I decided I am going to find them all. SO far, in three years I have found over 500. I want to share these with you all and get these written in our hearts! SO be on the look out for this and much more to come.

The Psalms 23 bracelets got put on hold. I didn’t have the funds available to buy a full plan for the QR code. You get it at a reduced price when you sign up. I recently discovered through an upgrade to the WordPress site, I can generate free QR codes. For those unfamiliar, the QR code is a funky looking tag. I had attached it to the bracelets. When you open your camera, you scan the code with your camera and it takes you to a link. By purchasing an upgrade, I will be able to continue making them and not having to re-generate “free” codes every 100-1,000 scans depending on the “free” plan.

Thank you for following along these past two years. I really enjoy hearing from you all and thank you for your encouragement! I pray that we can keep encouraging each other in our own journey and keep digging deeper in the Word.

“May the Lord bless you and protect you;
²⁵ may the Lord make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
²⁶ may the Lord look with favor on you
and give you peace.”’

Numbers 6:24-26

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