Hey girls! I hope you all have your books, or will soon! I thought I would go ahead and post the questions for week 1. Again these are directly copied and pasted from Beth Moore's blog. Lets try to have these questions done and chapter 1 and 2 read by May 9th! Love ya'll! Have a great week!
I am ecstatic that you guys have joined us for this journey! You are our particularly welcome guests if this is the first time you’ve participated on this blog. There’s just nothing like doing something healthy TOGETHER. When we go solo, the temptation to set a goal aside when it gets confrontational or challenging can be almost too much to resist. The accountability and community you can experience in a group with a common objective like this can make the difference between really doing the thing or wishing you had.
So, what’s our goal? As a matter of fact, a cameraman from a local television station asked me that very question today. I’ll tell you what I told him: the goal is for an insecure woman to open the book and a secure woman to close it. Nothing less than that. Humanly speaking, fat chance. But, if somewhere in these pages, we hear God speaking instead? Ah, then, for those willing to believe what He says, fat chances lose their weight and real changes takes their place. We’re not just looking to read a book here, Sisters. We’re looking to discover the kind of soul-deep security that stands fast in the floodwaters of this image-saturated society. It is time for a change.
OK, let’s quit talking about it and start doing it! Here are your assignments for Week One:
1. Write a journal-type entry on the inside cover of your book describing this present season of your life and why you’ve chosen to read a book like this. If you already have a relationship with God, write it in the form of a prayer. I do this almost every time I begin a book that I think could have a considerable impact on my life. When I finish the book, I always go back and read it and it ends up meaning so much to me. Listen, Sister, if you expect little, that’s probably what you’ll get. But if you expect something big from God when you start a journey and you posture yourself to receive from Him, even when frail human beings are thrown in the mix, you’ll end up with something huge. Something life altering.
2. Read the Introduction, Chapter One, and Chapter Two. Our first question is based on Chapter One: When was the last time you came face-to-face with our gender’s massive struggle with insecurity? Describe the setting.
3. This question is based on Chapter Two: what part of the definition or description of insecurity resonated most with you and why?
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Hello Steph. I am going to try to keep up with your bible study as well. I have not bought the book but will try to get it this week. Have a blessed week. Thanks for inviting me.
ReplyDeleteBeen watching several friends struggle with their marriage. I have always had a really strong marriage (14 yrs). But I had to stop and ask my husband how things are because I started to feel insecure and wonder if I have been just deluding myself into thinking my marriage was great. Fear started creeping in, and I honestly believe it's Satan just trying to jack with me, but it's been weird.
ReplyDeleteI come face to face with insecurity daily I think. But lately, it seems that I am putting others in charge of my security. I am a classic "words of affirmation" when it comes to love languages, and I have almost become to dependent on these words. The real challenge for me is getting those words of affirmation from God, and letting them fill me up, and then the rest is overflow, but not necessary. I guess I have come face to face with the fact that God is blatantly telling me, find your security in ME!!!
ReplyDeleteQuestion 3 - The part of the definition that resonates with me the most is "Chronic self-conciousness", as well as the part that says "Insecurity's best cover is perfectionism". I am constantly consumed with myself, and then I beat myself up for being constantly consumed with myself, thinking about myself again!!! Insecurity can so push us into being "posers", acting like what we think others want us to act like, so that they will think we have it all together, when deep down inside we are screaming for someone to just accept us for who we really are. It's kind of a viscious cycle, and one I want God to break, no matter how hard it is!!!
ReplyDeleteQuestions 3 - The part of the definition that resonated with me was the deep uncertainty about whether my own feelings are legitimate. I have battled with insecurity for so long that I no longer can identify my own feelings. I am so dependent on others to define my feelings. In the description of insecurity I see myself as the person who never expects relationships to last. I am guilty of sabotaging some great relationships because it was easier to end them before the person decided to leave me. I agree with Stephanie, insecurity is a vicious cycle and only God can break it.
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