7/26/2023 0 Comments Quick word with beth moore![]() ![]() Last month, I released my second Bible study, Determined: Living Like Jesus in Every Moment, a six-week study of Luke. Not long after Mary Ann invited me to Bible study, I would build this website, start this online ministry which you are a part of, and begin writing my first Bible study for my fellow Turtle Sisters. Here’s the part of this story that I want to encourage you with today: Our choice to obey God helps to advance His will for the world around us. What are the Turtle Sisters? We’re a group of girls wanting to dive into God’s Word together, but we love and pray and support each other through the ups and downs of life. She knew He was asking her to invite the housebound neighbor next door.įrom that conversation, along with a few other similar ones Mary Ann had with other friends, the Turtle Sisters were born. What I didn’t know was that Mary Ann was nervous about inviting a stranger to Bible study, but she was determined to obey Jesus anyway. What Mary Ann didn’t know is that I had spent that cold morning in January asking God to give me direction from His Word on my next steps. Mary Ann: Well okay then, I’ll see you next Tuesday! Mary Ann: Yes, but don’t you want to know what day we are meeting or what we are studying or what time? You were going to say Bible study, right? Mary Ann: Hey! I don’t know if you’d be interested in this or not, but I was wondering if you would like to come over for Bible st. Mary Ann had just moved to the neighborhood and she didn’t know me from Adam. But she could have been Beth Moore – she was little and blond and feisty and I was about to see that she couldn’t keep her love for Jesus just to herself. And there stood Beth Moore on my front porch. ![]() I heard a knock on the door and slowly made my way to answer it. If you’ve ever heard me tell the story about the months where I had to set an alarm on my phone every hour to pray because sixty minutes was as long as I would last before I felt another panic attack coming on – this is that season. Yes, I did have Vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder that makes my insides prone to spontaneous rupture. I wasn’t doing much of anything except trying to process the ramifications of the diagnosis I had just received. My carotid artery had ruptured two months prior and I was still recovering from the surgeries that repaired it. ![]()
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