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Discover the deep and lasting fulfillment that comes when you make the decision to follow God in every area of your life.A Woman After God's Own Heart(R) Growth & Study Guide will help you take the scriptural guidance found in Elizabeth George's bestselling book A Woman After God's Own Heart(R) and apply it to your own season of life. Perfect for women's Bible study groups or individual study, this fun and challenging resource will give you the necessary tools for living out God's priorities when it comes to your husband, your children, your home, your walk with the Lord, and your ministry.With thought-provoking discussion questions, practical exercises, and a quiet time calendar, this guide will nurture you toward greater spiritual maturitythe kind that makes you a woman after God's own heart.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	01 février 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736959650
Langue	English

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HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the New King James Version . Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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Acknowledgment
As always, thank you to my dear husband, Jim George, M.Div., Th.M., for your able assistance, guidance, suggestions, and loving encouragement on this project.
A WOMAN AFTER GOD S OWN HEART GROWTH STUDY GUIDE
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Contents
A Word of Welcome
Part 1: The Pursuit of God
1. A Heart Devoted to God
2. A Heart Abiding in God s Word
3. A Heart Committed to Prayer
4. A Heart That Obeys
Part 2: The Pursuit of God s Priorities
Her Husband
5. A Heart That Serves
6. A Heart That Follows
7. A Heart That Loves, Part 1
8. A Heart That Loves, Part 2
Her Children
9. A Heart That Values Being a Mother
10. A Heart That Prays Faithfully
11. A Heart Overflowing with Motherly Affection, Part 1
12. A Heart Overflowing with Motherly Affection, Part 2
Her Home
13. A Heart That Makes a House a Home
14. A Heart That Watches Over the Home
15. A Heart That Creates Order from Chaos
16. A Heart That Weaves a Tapestry of Beauty
Herself
17. A Heart Strengthened by Spiritual Growth
18. A Heart Enriched by Joy in the Lord
Her Ministry
19. A Heart That Shows It Cares
20. A Heart That Encourages
Part 3: The Practice of God s Priorities
21. A Heart That Seeks First Things First
22. Following After God s Heart
Part 4: In Praise of God s Priorities
23. A Trip Through Time
24. Through It All
From My Heart to Yours
Group Discussion Questions
Leading a Bible Study Discussion Group
Notes
A Word of Welcome
Please let me welcome you to this fun-and stretching!-updated and expanded growth and study guide for women like you who want to live out God s priorities. And please let me commend you for taking your journey toward becoming a woman after God s own heart one step further.
A Word of Instruction
The exercises in this study guide should be easy to follow and to work. You ll need your copy of the updated and expanded book A Woman After God s Own Heart 1 and your Bible, a pen, a dictionary, and a heart ready to grow. In each lesson you ll be asked to:
Read the corresponding chapter from A Woman After God s Own Heart .
Answer the questions designed to guide you to greater growth.
Select a verse or two that relate to the exercises to memorize and to hide in your heart.
Pray about and put into action the priority discussed.
Write out a brief paragraph of how this chapter influenced your actions in choosing God s priorities.
A Word for Your Group
Of course, you can grow (volumes!) as you work your way, alone, through these truths from God s Word and apply them to your heart and home. But I urge you to share the journey with other women. A group, no matter how small or large, offers personal care and interest. There is sharing. There are sisters-in-Christ to pray for you. There is the mutual exchange of experiences. There is accountability. And, yes, there is peer pressure which always helps us get our lessons done! And there is sweet, sweet encouragement as together you stimulate one another to greater love and greater works of love (Hebrews 10:24).
To aid the woman who is guided by God to lead a group, I ve included two sections in the back of this growth and study book:
Discussion questions written for your group
Instructions on how to lead a group discussion
A Word of Encouragement
What is it worth, dear one, to have a heart and a home that honor God and are pleasing in His eyes? Is it worth spending a few minutes a day or a few hours in a week internalizing the principles found in A Woman After God s Own Heart and in this growth and study guide?
What I m offering you is the opportunity to take what you re learning to a deeper level and to work it out in your home and family, to live out what you know you want to do and be-a woman after God s own heart.
If you will use the insights, tools, and how-tos gained from the book A Woman After God s Own Heart and from this study guide, by God s grace and with His help, people who know you will begin to describe you as a woman after God s own heart. Your ways will bring glory to Him. It s work, I know that. But it s also joy-the deep joy of knowing God s will and doing God s will. So please, enjoy the journey for the rest of your life!
THE PURSUIT OF GOD
1
A Heart Devoted to God
In your personal copy of A Woman After God s Own Heart , read chapter 1, A Heart Devoted to God. What meant the most to you from this chapter or offered you the greatest challenge or inspired you to change?

Did you enjoy observing the contrast between the two sisters, Mary and Martha? I know that carefully considering their lives touched mine (in more ways than one!). Read their story in your Bible in Luke 10:38-42. Try to imagine the scene yourself. For instance
Where did the story take place?
And what was going on?
Who were the people present?
How did Martha act and why?
And how did Mary act?
What were Jesus words to Martha?
And His words to Mary?
Martha was so busy doing things for the Lord that she failed to spend time with Him. Mary, however, put worship at the top of her to-do list. As a woman after God s own heart, Mary made a choice that indicated a heart of devotion . She knew it was important to cease her busyness, stop all activity, and set aside secondary things in order to focus wholly on the Lord. List at least five actions you can take to put worship at the top of your to-do list.
Write out what you will do daily - just for this next week - to
cease your busyness,
stop all activity, and
set aside secondary things
in order to focus wholly on the Lord. Then give thought to this quote:
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again. 2

Do you have a dictionary nearby? Look up the definition of the word priority and write it out as simply as you can.
Now, purpose to choose God as your first and ultimate priority by having a daily time with Him. I ve provided a sample Quiet Times Calendar at the back of the A Woman After God s Own Heart book. Just fill in the squares for each day that you have a quiet time. Remember that the goal is solid lines like a thermometer - not a Morse code measurement (dot-dot-dash) or a measles measurement (here a dot, there a dot)! I know you ll be blessed, just as the woman who wrote this was:
I have been attempting to have daily quiet times for awhile now. This past week, however, I found that having to actually record the days I had my quiet time has encouraged me to be more faithful with them. Instead of brushing it aside in the morning, I chose to have it, even if it couldn t be as long as I hoped for.

And while you ve got the dictionary out, go ahead and look up the definition of the word worship and, again, write it out as simply as you can.
Now, make a schedule for next week that includes a scheduled quiet time with God in His Word and in prayer. (And don t forget - something is better than nothing! Aim for consistency. Begin with even a brief time each day. Great lives are made up of many little disciplines! Begin the little discipline of meeting with the Lord daily and then filling in your Quiet Times Calendar.)

Another help discussed on page 21 was Proverbs 3:6. Read this verse in your Bible and write it out.
Now, purpose to actively choose God and His ways at every decision, word, moment, thought, and step - today and every day of the week. This is what it means to make God your ultimate priority, to walk with Him moment by moment and step-by-step. Your heart s desire should be to prefer God and His ways in all things. Ask God these questions before you speak or act:
What do You want me to say? Lord, what do You want me to do?

Another valuable principle in the Yes, But How? section of your book was:
Good, better, best,
never let it rest,
until your good is better,