Breakfast for the Soul (B4S): Listen for GOD’s Voice and Live!
Bible Study
The B4S Bible Study “VOICE Journal” can be used individually or in small groups. It is encouraging and motivating to join others in order to share and build each other up in the faith. Perhaps GOD is calling you to get a Bible Study group together?
Remember the Holy Spirit is our teacher!
Group Agenda:
Opening prayer
Individual Bible Reading – 20 minutes (See Reading Schedule)
Individual Journaling using “VOICE” Acrostic – 20 minutes
*Start by praying within yourself: “My LORD, please speak to me and reveal what you have for me from your Word today.
Small Group Sharing – 20 minutes
*Share with each other what the LORD has revealed and what you have recorded in your journal.
Closing Prayer
Journaling with “V.O.I.C.E.” acrostic:
This life changing process will help you understand what GOD is saying to you and what you should do in response to HIS Voice. You will also be able to look back and remember the things GOD taught you.
V– Verse or Verses: main point illuminated to you through your reading today.
O- Observation: your observation about GOD’s Word today.
I- Instructions or Information: you received from our reading today.
C- Commitment or Correction: What am I going to do with the instructions or information received?
E- Entreaty: Appeal to the LORD for HIS strength, forgiveness, mercy, provision, or whatever is needed for you to make your commitment or correction.
Remember that you are being taught by GOD for a reason. HE is looking for you to grow in strength and character and is looking for you to act on what you have learned.
Reference:
James 1:22-25: “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself; goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
Breakfast for the Soul (B4S): Listen for GOD’s Voice and Live!
“VOICE Journal” Example:
Verse- Luke 6:35 Jesus said: ..”and lend hoping for nothing in return.”
Observation- If we are to be like our Father in heaven we need to be merciful and generous, and as the LORD allows a need to be met by us, we are lending to the LORD and if we are not paid back by other men, we will be paid back in heaven (rewarded by GOD!) This reminds me of
Proverbs 19:17 which says: “he who gives to the poor lends to the LORD and HE will repay him for what he has given.”
Also; “Lay up your treasures in heaven where rust and moth do not destroy”
Information/Instruction- I must keep giving/lending with every opportunity I can – hoping I don’t get paid back on earth – but in heaven.
Commitment/Correction- I will give/lend and be sensitive to the spirit’s leading to do it even though my income is small compared to what it has been.
Entreaty- LORD, help my faith stay in YOU and YOUR ways and YOUR commandments even when my logic says otherwise. I trust YOU – not my sight and logic! Forgive me for not being sensitive to your leading and for missing opportunities to give to others.
I entitled this: Lend to the LORD
With titles and dates for each day’s journal, you can create a table of contents at the front of your journal to help you find a lesson from the LORD.
We have also included some pages in the back of the journal for you to write down and remember prayer requests.
Now that you have seen and read about the V.O.I.C.E. Journaling, would you like to Try It Yourself? Open this Word Document (Click Here) and give it a try. Don't be concern about the quantity of what you write, but that it is exactly what you believe your sensing from the readings. Remember Pray First, asking for Wisdom from the Word.
30 day Challenge:
If you follow this discipline of listening for GOD’s Voice on a daily basis and then write in your journal what you have learned for 30 days - you will not want to stop and it will change your life for good!
Important: Follow the reading schedule and journaling everyday; even when you cannot come to the Bible study group.
If you start a B4S Bible study group or have taken the 30 day challenge we would love to hear from you.
Please pray for this ministry and if you feel so led you can help get GOD’s Word into others hands by making a tax deductable donation to our address or online @ http://www.churchatthemall.com/onlinegiving/ . Please specify “Breakfast for the Soul” as the ministry you want your donations to be applied to. May our God bless you richly, according to His riches. Phil. 4:19
Our mailing address is:
Breakfast for the Soul
1010 E. Memorial Blvd.
Lakeland FL. 33801
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Bless the LORD for HE is good and HIS mercy endures forever!