Walking by Faith

"Our Bible Study for young women on the eastern shore"

Some of the girls travelled from Mobile, Pensacola, and even Gulf Shores to be with us on Mon nights in Daphne, AL.

Kelly holding our book that we studied...."Search for Significance"



A couple of months ago I found myself still raising support of course but not involved in any kind of Bible study or fellowship. For me it makes such a difference in my life to have that (People who push me to walk with God). Joanna (in the yellow) lives in lake forrest and graduated from Troy several years ago also felt the same way to we decided to have a bible study and even if it was only me and her that would be ok! When we started to ask around we found that more and more girls in our area are in the same stage of life and really desperate for fellowship and accountability.

Many of us are campus outreach alums from south and troy and that is how we connected but some are fellow co workers and just friends we've made in the area. Joanna picked the book "search for significance" which has a bible study workbook along with it. Each week we would read a chapter and do the bible study with it and meet to discuss it. Our prayer was that "as iron sharpens iron so one man (woman) sharpens another." God blessed this group in each of our lives. One of the girls described it as "water for my soul." Haha we all agreed that it feels that way as we listen to the discussion about the gospel and the things of God it is water for the soul!

The purpose of the study was two fold....first to talk about the things that we put our significance and self worth in including lies from satan that we believe and the second was to talk about the opposite of each of those things and the truth and freedom that God has made us righteous. It was a great book for discussion and bible study and really revealed a lot to each of us in our own hearts about the wrong things we live by and the truth we are called to live by!

Most important to me was in our last meeting last night we discussed God's calling for us to know his word and spend time with him. We talked about how we should be memorizing God's word to hide in our hearts and really none of us are. More than that to get to a place of memorizing we discussed an easy next step to take to grow is just to read some in the Bible every day even if it's just a chapter....it's words of life that transform us and replace the lies that we believe without it! We need God's word to live and breathe and how are we supposed to fight sin and all the lies if we don't know or use our weapon that God has given us?

The group was a gift from God for this season in my life and has really done a lot to prepare me for the next season as I step into full time ministry...I'm so thankful for these girls!