Bible study

I'm doing a Bible study this summer at home called Me Myself and Lies. It is about transforming our "thought closet" to what God says about us in the Word vs. what we/others speak/think. It is a great thing to have a slew of scriptures to remind us who we are in Christs eyes vs. what/who others/ourselves tell us we are.

Today I'm wrapping up week 2 starting on week 3. Beth Moore is doing this study online with all her siestas....

This is time well spent for me...I will be returning to work in 5 weeks, most of this summer has been literally pumping the Word into me by various avenues as I recover at home. It is good sweet time, and it was needed. When we find ourselves depleted by life/pour health we need almost an IV infusion of the Word to keep our perspective. This study shows us how to take every thought captive and it shows us how to redress our thoughts...

I changed how I lived a few months ago. Last September I poured myself into scripture in a new way, I turned off my TV and started to listen to tape series every day...in 9 months I had gone through every one of Andrew Wommack's teachings online and had watched all his videos. When I figured that up it was equivalent to about 20 years of church at an hour a week. God has put some great teaching in my hand, heart, mind, and soul and in doing that the weeds chocking out the truth of the Word have been rooted out by the hand of God. That is the month I got miraculously healed and my healing has progressed, I was given a word from a friend that confirmed one given to me it would be a process of a year for full body restoration, I got healed instantly, but my body has taken some time to come around. This surgery evidently was part of that healing...

I'm grateful for health like never before, I'm grateful for my children, I'm grateful for friends who stick closer than a brother, I'm grateful for my job in this economy, and most of all I'm grateful for the new perspective I have of who I am according to the Word. This Bible study is showing me the progress I have made over this past year and it shows me where I still have issues...

Through this past year time and time again, over and over, God has been dealing with me on the power of my words, said in secret, whispered in my heart, and voiced out loud...If there is one thing I could do it would be to encourage everyone to have an arsenal of personal scriptures that encourage you to look up and find God...we take every thought captive by substituting what scripture says about us with the half truths or outright lies Satan is constantly whispering to us...

Here are some of my favorites...that help me in those many beaten down moments...and I'm going to be very candid here in a way I usually am not...



When I am told (and I am often) "Your never going to find real love, your not lovable" Now I have this...

1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. So the one who fears has not reached perfection in love.

1 John 3:1 Consider this: The Father has given us his love. He loves us so much that we are actually called God's dear children. And that's what we are. For this reason the world doesn't recognize us, and it didn't recognize him either.


My personal booster shot is the very first part of this verse...it is very simple and very wise and profound all at once....

1 Corinthians 13:8 Love never fails.


When I am told, "Your not attractive anymore, your beauty is fading, no man will want you" I fight back with this...


Isaiah 40:31 Yet, the strength of those who wait with hope in the LORD will be renewed. They will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and won't become weary. They will walk and won't grow tired.

Job 33:25 then his flesh will be healthier than in his youth, and he will return to the days of his youthful vigor.


Ecclesiastes 3:11 Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end.



When I am told, "You life is over, there is nothing noteworthy left for you to do, you may as well give up, you have no purpose" I fight back with this...


Psalm 103:17 But from everlasting to everlasting, the LORD's mercy is on those who fear him. His righteousness belongs to their children and grandchildren


Isaiah 55:3 "Come to me with your ears wide open. Listen, and you will find life. I will make an everlasting covenant with you. I will give you all the unfailing love I promised to David.

Jeremiah 31:3 the LORD appeared to him from afar. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.



I will readily admit when I was undergoing treatment I was closer to death than I realized until I passed through that moment. I was ready to give up, I was just about to lie down in a few inches of water and simply drown. Now I don't mean that literally but I was treading in water that barely covered my ankles, I had no strenght left, and my hope had all but faded and my heart was sick...the reality of the Word pulled me out of that desperate pit...


There is a very real truth in the Word...and we should pay attention to it...our words are reflections of our hearts, what we say makes a difference, what we say to ourselves when no one is looking, when no one is listening and when no one cares to even know sometimes are the most important times...

Luke 6:45 A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. What you say flows from what is in your heart.

Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

This very first verse is very clear what we voice produces "things" I have noticed that things are changing in my life with combating the 1/2 truths and mostly lies of the devil with the solid foundation and truth of the Word, I encourage each of you to think about the words you say, with your mouth and even silently to yourself. Think about the words that are produced out of your heart when angry, tired, depleted, late at night, when your alone...do you say/accept/listen to mean, hurtful things or does your mouth testify that you have no evil in your heart but that you know who you are in Christ....these are all things to think on and I hope this post was encouraging to you...as it from my heart...In Him, Lori