Study 15 Petitioning 1

I hope you all had a relaxing long weekend despite the weather. This study is just so great!! I am looking forward to the next chapters. So this week let's dive into Study 15: Petitioning 1 with a study of Psalm 28.

Sorrowing IV- Psalm 73

Hello ladies----this week please take a look at Study 14 Sorrowing IV through the study of Psalm 73. This is such a fruitful Psalm and I am sure the Lord is going to "grow" your heart with it.

Psalm 126

Hi ladies---Happy Mother's day!! Isn't it mother's day everyday anyway? We had a couple of weeks to look at Psalm 42 and 43 so this week let's begin the study under "Sorrowing" of Psalm 126.

Week 14

Good Morning All!!!
This week we will be looking at Sorrowing II and learning how to pray through Psalms 42 and 43. With Easter weekend fast approaching try to set aside some time before hand so that you do not get behind.

Week 13

Good Morning everyone: my computer got infected with a virus so I am unable to access the next study. Please just go onto what comes after Repentance IV. Hopefully I can catch up later in the week.

Kathy

Week 12

Week 12 already?!? Where has the time gone? I know that we are all very busy, but this week let's put God first and make Him our priority. Study Number 10 gets into Psalm 106 and a fourth chapter on repentence. Continue to pray for one another!!

Week 11

Hello everyone. Welcome to spring!! This week let us go even further into our study on repentance by doing the Repentence III study along with Pslam 130.

Week Ten

What a beautiful mid-March day---Spring is in the air and just around the corner. With the change in seasons comes more demands on our time. Pray to remain diligent and consistent with your spiritual development. This week we are going to look at Study 8 on Repentance II with a meditation on Psalm 51.

Week 9

Well here it is the first Monday of March and true to Thunder Bay form----the snow is gently falling. What a beautiful morning! Joyce had some difficulties posting her comments from last week because she is adjusting to a new computer system. Too bad, because I love reading her comments---but at the same time God is in control of all of this. I have been discovering Satan's presence as well throughout this blog study---many times I have been tempted to put things off, to not concentrate, to fill my time with other things than God. Then---an old injury reared it's head making it impossible for me to fill my extra hours with piano rehearsal and physical exercise. Although I am in extreme discomfort I thank the Lord for this because once again He has got my attention when otherwise I might put meditating fully on His word on the "back burner".

For week 9 please look at Study 7 Repentance I Psalm 6 and 32. I am excited to get into the next phase after meditation---that of repentence. But I know we are all going to suffer a little as we contemplate our inadequacy. Continue to meditate on Christ as we dive into this.

Week 8

Hello ladies---this week please get into Study 6  Meditation 6 Psalm 103. Enjoy!!

Week 7- Study 5 Meditation 5

This week please take a look at Study 5 Meditation 5 Psalm 56 and 77.

Week Six- Study 4 Meditation 4 Psalm 119 part 2

This week let's take a Study 4 Meditation 4. Psalm 119 is rich and each verse can fill us with many reflections. Take your time and dive into this study prayfully.

Week Five- Study III Meditation III

Hello again everyone---hope you enjoyed the couple of days of warmer weather we just experienced. Isn't it that way with our relationship with Christ at times? Things can feel "frozen" over and dead---bleak, shallow, without life...and then he gives us a few"warm" days to bask in His presence to bring us back to the reality of his continual presence. If He is there for us during the good times, what makes us think (just as the Isrealites did in the wilderness) that He has forgotten us in the dry, harder times? Our sin can blind so easily. We are going to discover that this was also the Psalmist's dilema much of the time. But God always turned the mourning into joy!!!
This week please take time to dive into Study III Meditation III. Hopefully more of us will have opportunity to comment on the blog.

Week four

This week we will be completing Study 2 Meditation 2. Just to let you know, our friend Kimberly will no longer be participating in this group. She is extremely busy with her ministry obligations and has opted out for now.

Post from Laurie

Laurie had trouble with her password this week and asked me to post the following:

"I like TK's method for having us praying through the Psalms. Psalm 133 reminded me again of our church body and being thankful for each of them and how we work together. And in light of what we have been studying in Romans, to be appreciative of them and to tell them that. Not faint praise, but genuine thankfulness for their gifts, how they serve others and how they have impacted my life. So, let me say that I am thankful for each of you!"

Week Three- Psalm 1 (Study 1; Mediation 1)

Hello everyone--- this is week three and now our study is going to really take off!! Please complete Study 1/Meditation 1 on Psalm 1 this week. Post as often as you like throughout the week as you work through this.  Psalm 1 is one that many of us have memorized, but if you haven't yet, I challenge you to do so. Keep one another in prayer this week as we get into study in ernest now. Be sure to look at the participant guide and also the leader's guide for added comments and insight.

Week Two- Monday Jan. 17-Sunday Jan. 23, 2011

I realize that some of you had some difficulties getting logged in this week. For sure, you must type your password in again after the google account asks for your username (which should be your email). Laurie, I will have to check , but I think I have your old Cook Engineering email in the system (perhaps that is one reason why you had difficulties).

Anyway, hopefully things will sort themselves out this week. For this week's assignment please read the Introduction part 2 pages 13-16 and try the exercises associated with it. Blog any time you like during the week.
We should all be checking the comment section daily to keep track of each other's thoughts. As well, I encourage you to pray for all of us in the group with respect to our spiritual development through this study.

from Kimberly

Quite an interesting introduction to a breat body of literature. First and foremost, I would have to say that I am deeply saddened by the fact, that, as the authour points out, we, in the West do not engage the psalms because we avoid the raw reality of the psalms, we try and present a "modern, up to date face" and avoid the mentions of Christ and frankly because the theological illiteracy of the West makes it difficult to understand. I am deeply grieved by this because of what Keller points out later--that prayer is generally answering speech. So, these prayers, however we may read them with modern ears, are actually people's responses to the initiatives of God.
What does this say about my personal walk with God--if my prayers are indeed responses to God. Much to digest---and certainly no time to hurry through prayer. I think the idea that we can go deeply intor ourselves through the psalms and we have to deal with God as God is--are a rebuke to my own heart to spend more time in listening to God. I am hoping that next week as I take a week of retreat with my fellow pastors that I can spend some time listening to myself pray, listening to God, and somehow figuring out how my prayers are a response to God's initiative. I hope this will therfore give me a really accurate view of where my heart is actually at in relation to God. If you remember me, please pray that this will be so for me.

Another test !!!!

Week One

Hello ladies:
This week read through Introduction part one and try the exercises at the end. Throughout the week you are welcome to blog as much as you like, but for sure try to put your thoughts down by Friday or Saturday at the latest so that we can get into discussion before Monday rolls around for the next assignment.