Read through the Bible 2010”
July

1. Ps 130-134 It is good and pleasant for brethren to dwell together in what? ________

2. Ps 135-137 How many times in Psalm 136 do we find the statement “bless the Lord”? ________

3. Ps 138-140 Write out Psalm 139:17 ______________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________

4. Ps 141-143 If the righteous smite you, it shall be what characteristic? _____________

5. Ps 144-146 Happy is that people whose God is who? _________________

6. Ps 147-150 In Psalm 150:4 there are 4 types of instruments listed, name all four? _____ _______________________________________________________________________

7. Pro 1-3 Whose understanding should we not lean unto? _________________________

8. Pro 4-6 The “Principal” thing that a person should get is what? ___________________

9. Pro 7-9 The fear of the Lord is to hate what? ________________________

10. Pro 10-12 “A righteous man regardeth the life of his” what? _____________________

11. Pro 13-15 “The heart of the righteous studieth to answer, but the mouth of the wicked poureth out” what? ____________________________

12. Pro 16-18 A fool hath no delight in what? ___________________________________

13. Pro 19-21 Write out Proverbs 21:23. ________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________

14. Pro 22-24 Who should we not make friendship with? ____________________________

15. Pro 25-27 Faithful are the wounds of who? _________________________

16. Pro 28-31 What is it that a faithful man shall abound with? _______________________

17. Eccle 1-3 For in much wisdom is much what? _________________________________

18. Ec 4-6 Keep thy foot when thou goest where? _________________________________

19. Ec 7-9 Why is it that the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil? ______ _______________________________________________________________________
20. Ec 10-12 According to Solomon what is the conclusion to the whole matter of life? ___ _______________________________________________________________________

21. SS 1-4 What is it that spoils the vines? ______________________________________

22. SS 5-8 Write out SS 5:12. _______________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

23. Isa 1-3 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the what? ____________

24. Isa 4-6 How many wings do the seraphims have? _______________________

25. Isa 7-9 Unto us a child is born, list the 5 names he shall be called? ________________ ______________________________________________________________________

26. Isa 10-12 Who is it that is believed to be a rod out of the stem of Jesse? ___________

27. Isa 13-15 Who is Isaiah’s father? ______________________

28. Isa 16-18 “We have heard of the pride of” who? ________________________

29. Isa 19-21 The Lord rideth upon a swift cloud and shall come into where? __________

30. Isa 22-24 The Lord maketh the earth empty and waste and turneth it how? __________ _____________________________

31. Isa 25-27 Write Out Isaiah 25:8 ____________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________

This blog I want to write about Laziness (slothfulness). First, I want to define these words.
Lazy:adj. la•zi•er, la•zi•est
1. Resistant to work or exertion; disposed to idleness
2. Slow-moving; sluggish:
3. Conducive to idleness or indolence:
Slothful – Disinclined to work or exertion: lazy
These two words basically mean the same thing. So I am going to use the word slothful. The Bible uses this word a lot, especially in the book of Proverbs. You can see slothfulness in a lot of places you go. People do just what they have to get by and not a bit more. You can especially see this in the work place. I can tell you an example that I had happen this past week. We went to a pizza buffet and it was to have the buffet at 5:00. We got there a little after. They had the salad bar up. 1 pizza done, mash potatoes, and carrots. I go for the chicken. Anyway, we sat there for a bit. Do you know what the workers were doing, standing by the cash register talking about their day. It was almost 5:30 before the buffet had stuff on it. What was bad is one of the people chatting was the manager. People learn from example.

Pr.6:6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Pr 6:7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
Pr 6:8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Sluggard is define as slothful or lazy.
Another way that I think people get lazy in is planning for the future. I know that Christ can come at any moment. But I don’t think he meant for us to just sit around and not provide for your future. Otherwise I don’t think He would have given us scriptures on providing for our future. Look at the verse Pro. 6:8.
People tend to want things handed to them. I think why my children have a good work ethic is because they had to work for the things they want. Nowadays it seems like children want the parents to hand them the stuff.
Pr 13:4 ¶ The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat
Oh, the excuses you hear from people as to why they don’t work.
Pro 20:4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Also, it is just irritating to others when they are working hard and the other is just standing around. People tend to only do enough to get by.
Pr 10:26 ¶ As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
Next blog I will take a look at the diligent person. Also, I am aware that there are a lot of people that can’t work or do things because of illness. To them I know that they are not lazy. I know that they are probably so wishing that they can do things. But to them I say you can. You can be an encourager, a prayer warrior. Lots of things you can do. So until next time!

Spilled Apples.-- Author Unknown

A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in Chicago. They had assured their families that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night's dinner.

In their rush, with tickets and briefcases, one of these salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table which held a display of baskets of apples. Apples flew everywhere. Without stopping or looking back, they all managed to reach the plane in time for their nearly missed boarding. All but one. He paused, took a deep breath, got in touch with his feelings, and experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had been overturned.

He told his buddies to go on without him, waved goodbye, told one of them to call his wife when they arrived at their home destination and explain his taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal where the apples were all over the terminal floor. He was glad he did.

The 16 year old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time helplessly groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled about her, no one stopping, and no one to care for her plight. The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them into the baskets, and helped set the display up once more. As he did this, he
noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised; these he set aside in another basket. When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl, "Here, please take this $20 for the damage we did. Are you okay?"

She nodded through her tears. He continued on with, "I hope we didn't spoil your day too badly."

As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out to him, "Mister..." He paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued, "Are you Jesus?"

He stopped in mid-stride, and he wondered. Then slowly he made his way to catch the later flight with that question burning and bouncing about in his soul: "Are you Jesus?"

Do people mistake you for Jesus?

That's our destiny, is it not? To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact with a world that is blind to His love, life and grace.

If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk and act as He would. Knowing Him is more than simply quoting Scripture and going to church. It's actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day. You are the apple of His eye even though we, too, have been bruised by a fall. He stopped what He was doing and picked you and me up on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit.

Let us live like we are worth the price He paid. Think about it.

The other day my husband was reminiscing about things. So I thought that is what I will blog about. I have been married a number of years and all of our kids are out on their own now. Believe me when I say that is just bizarre! How did the time just go so fast! Seems like only yesterday that my oldest was a baby. Now my baby is having a baby! I remember when Kendra was little (Sorry Kendra I am telling on you) and I took her for swimming lessons. The first lesson the parents could not watch so we were in the lobby waiting. It wasn’t too much time and the instructor came out and said I need to speak to the parent whose child thinks if they get in the water they will turn blue! Everyone chuckled! I knew right away it was Kendra. She loves the cartoon smurfs. I said Kendra and she grinned. Or how about the time we moved into a new home I didn’t have furniture yet in the living room and had fresh white walls. Kendra took a black crayon and made circles on the walls because after all Big Bird told her to do it! I could go on and on with stories on her. Kayla my middle child loved Batman. We had batman cars, capes, figures. In preschool the bus would pick her up last and then she would be the first to get dropped off. One time I was waiting and waiting wondering where the bus is. Called the school no answer. Pat the driver takes the bus home, she lived in the country. Pulled in at her home looked and there is Kayla sitting just looking out the window. She was just enjoying the riding of the bus. Caleb always calls me buddy. When he was a toddler we lived in a house with no basement. We had a room that had the water heater in it. We were watching tv and Caleb comes out with a pair of boots in his hands. Sits down and says better put my boots on. That was it. At commercial I walked into my kitchen and I had water on the floor. The water heater had broke. So the room which Caleb had to get his boots from that housed the water heater and the kitchen were flooded. Here he thought enough about getting his boots on but not saying anything to us! Learned I need to make sure I ask questions! Children are so very special. Sometimes I wish we could keep them that size. I wish that I would have had a house full of children but that wasn’t in God’s plan for our family. Guess I just have to hope that God gives me lots and lots of grandchildren!

Last Blog I talked about our giants. I want to continue with that.
Sa 17:40 ¶ And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.
O.k. could you by reading this verse say Hey, David didn’t have faith that God would take care of Goliath? Do you think David thought he would miss the first time? No, I don’t believe you could say that. David knew that God was going to take care of Goliath with the first stone. The other stones were for Goliath’s four brothers. Just in case they came to seek revenge on David.
See sometimes when we face those giants in our lives they don’t just come one at a time. Sometimes they have brothers. I know in my own life it seems like when one problem comes they all seem to pile up. But, try and remember this God can take care of each problem. Look at David and how he defeated the giant. One stone and if the brothers came each one stone at a time. We just have to give them to God and leave it with God. What we tend to do is give it to God and then take it back. Leave it with God and He will defeat it!

This past week we as a family have had some challenges, or could I say some giants to deal with. I know we have all faced them from time to time. Sometimes these giants tend to make us do one of two things pull us closer to God or pull us away from God. If we don’t face our giants they tend to keep coming back . I think of the book of 1 Samuel 17.
1Sa 17:22 And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
1Sa 17:23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them.
1Sa 17:24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
1Sa 17:25 And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.
1Sa 17:26 And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
1Sa 17:27 And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.
1Sa 17:28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.
1Sa 17:29 And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?
1Sa 17:30 And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.
1Sa 17:31 ¶ And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him.
1Sa 17:32 And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
1Sa 17:33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.
1Sa 17:34 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
1Sa 17:35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
1Sa 17:36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
1Sa 17:37 David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee.
1Sa 17:38 And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.
1Sa 17:39 And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.
1Sa 17:40 ¶ And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.
1Sa 17:41 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him.
1Sa 17:42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.
1Sa 17:43 And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
1Sa 17:44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.
1Sa 17:45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
1Sa 17:46 This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
1Sa 17:47 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD'S, and he will give you into our hands.
1Sa 17:48 ¶ And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.
1Sa 17:49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
1Sa 17:50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.
1Sa 17:51 Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.
David gave the Giant to the Lord. Re-read verse 47. I like that “the battle is the Lord’s”. That is what we need to do also. We see thru out our Bible statements from the Lord letting us know He is with us. So the next time a giant comes and they will, remember we are not facing them alone!
This blog is a little long but that’s o.k.. Next blog I am still going to talk about this also. Just because I have more to say on this passage and topic.

When I taught Sunday school this week. I was telling the kids about my vacation. I told them about the church services that I attended. Also, the messages I heard. I think it is good for them to hear that. Teaches them even though you go on vacation you don’t go on vacation from being in church. Isn’t it something when people plan vacation they don’t plan on going to church. I am thankful God doesn’t take a vacation from me.
Anyway, I talked about the mid-week service that we attended. He talked about How Much of you does God have? Then I did an object lesson with them. We drew a big circle then I had the kids tell me about one of their school days. We broke their day into percentages on the circle. (Hope I explained that o.k.) . Then we took a look at it and I asked them what was wrong or missing with this circle. They could see right away they did not have enough time with God. I think it really a great object lesson.
Then we talked a little more then got to our Sunday school lesson. Sometimes we get off track from the lesson (we are in Exodus). But that’s o.k. because sometimes you just know you are having an impact on talking about something that you did or came up in their week or yours. Use every opportunity to teach them a Bible truth!

I love to read! I like to read fiction and non-fiction. Though I have to say I read more fiction then non-fiction. I read one non-fiction book which is my favorite to read and we know the answer to that, the Bible of course. I just finished a book titled the Christmas Dog. Yes, I know it isn’t Christmas! Anyway, the book had sort of a theme that you could see. At least that is what came across to me.
Now, I just deleted a paragraph. I was telling you the characters of the book. But then if you knew all that you might not read it if you wanted to. So delete I did. What I thought came across in the book was how we judge sometimes to quickly other people. Then when we judge so quickly we sometimes judge wrongly. Then it stays on our minds and we don’t change our judging easy if we are wrong. Then sometimes we share that judging with a friend and then they judge wrongly also. Before you know it everyone is judging that person. In this book that is basically what happened and they were wrong. It took a dog to show that they were so wrong. We need to be careful in our judging of others. I am not saying not to judge because The Bible tells us to judge. But be careful that you judge on facts and not what others say or what you think it might be. Notice I used the word might be. We can all think of situations that appear one way so we judge that and then find out we were wrong.
Now you can also look at a person and make a judgment call right. We can all think of situations with that also. What I am saying is we just have to be careful.