1 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: Life Audio. 2 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:08,479 Speaker 2: Hi thereon, Welcome to another episode of the Praying Christian 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 2: Women podcast. I am Jamie Hampton, and today I get 4 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 2: to be back with good friend of the podcast, Mary 5 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 2: El Davenport. She's a Bible study teacher who helps women 6 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 2: connect with God through his word. She absolutely loves the 7 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:25,800 Speaker 2: Bible and it oozes out of everything she does and says, 8 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 2: which is why I love talking to her on this podcast. 9 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 2: And she developed the tend method of Bible study, which 10 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:33,919 Speaker 2: we talked about in September with her Ruth Study. It's 11 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 2: a four step approach to studying the Bible, and it 12 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:42,240 Speaker 2: emphasizes intimacy with God and really tending and cultivating that relationship, 13 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 2: which is awesome. And she has a brand new study 14 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 2: coming out tomorrow. As of the time when this episode airs, 15 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 2: it's first Peter Sustained by a Living Hope. 16 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 1: So I just can't wait to get into this Mary Elle. 17 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 2: And you also have a community online that you're going 18 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 2: to be going through this study with, so I just 19 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 2: can't wait to. 20 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 3: Talk about all of these things with you. Thanks for 21 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 3: joining us again. Thank you so much for having me Jamie. 22 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:08,679 Speaker 3: This is really fun. I loved being here last time 23 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 3: and I'm so excited to be here again. 24 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 1: Yeah. 25 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:14,480 Speaker 2: Well, I was thinking since you were here last September 26 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 2: and we already kind of talked about your prayer closet, 27 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 2: which I think, is it your prayer chair? 28 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:19,959 Speaker 1: Is that the one? 29 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,040 Speaker 3: Okay, you've got a prayer chair and you're like able 30 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:26,119 Speaker 3: to look out and see like your garden and stuff. Yes, okay, 31 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,840 Speaker 3: so I remember that. But I want to ask you. 32 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 2: This is Alana, and I love like horticulture analogies for 33 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 2: our spiritual life. So I want to ask you what 34 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 2: is your favorite spiritual analogy that pertains to plants or gardening. 35 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 3: Yeah. You know, it's really funny because I thought this 36 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 3: is such my favorite. 37 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 4: Question because I love gardening. 38 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: Stuff, and I know you did. 39 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 3: I garden my salsa garden, and even though I don't 40 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 3: really have a green thumb persone, I really love growing 41 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 3: the ingredients of salsae. So one of the things I 42 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 3: learned several years ago with salsa gardening and salta planting 43 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 3: and stuff is that there's a thing called companion planting, 44 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 3: and it's where you plant together plants that benefit one another, 45 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,359 Speaker 3: kind of a mutual you know, relationship. And so if 46 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 3: you plant tomato plants with halapinos, the tomatoes get really large, 47 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 3: and so they provide shade for the little halapino plants 48 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 3: from you know, the harsh sun parts. 49 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 4: Of the day. 50 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 3: And at the same time, the jlapino plant keeps different 51 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 3: kinds of beetles and worms and stuff off of the 52 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 3: tomato plant because of the spice and the you know, 53 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 3: scent of the halapino plant. And so I just I 54 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 3: feel like that is such a beautiful picture of just 55 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 3: the body of Christ and having community together and how 56 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:53,919 Speaker 3: we need one another, you know in our own growing 57 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,800 Speaker 3: and flourishing and God's word and so and really that's 58 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,920 Speaker 3: why I started my community on that you mentioned tending together, 59 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:05,639 Speaker 3: because I feel like there these women come together and 60 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 3: we are mutually benefiting from one another in a sense, 61 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 3: you know, we pray for one another. We somebody will 62 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 3: share something in Bible study that really serves another lady 63 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 3: and she'll be like, wow, that's exactly the word I needed, 64 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:21,800 Speaker 3: you know, or just encouragement with each other, and so 65 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:25,639 Speaker 3: I just companion planting is such a it's just such 66 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 3: a beautiful picture of that that I'm like, yes, that 67 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 3: is every time I plant my plants together, you know, 68 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 3: which is recently as with spraying and stuff, I've been 69 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 3: doing that and I just keep thinking about this companion 70 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 3: planting and how it really is community for us. So yeah, 71 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 3: I love this. I'm picturing my garden. So we lived 72 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 3: in Alaska before two years ago. So last summer was 73 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 3: our first summer that I was able to have a garden. 74 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 3: Not I'm sorry, I had a garden in Alaska, but 75 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 3: we just tomatoes didn't do super well. Peppers really didn't flourish. 76 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 3: And if you had a greenhouse, even like I had 77 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 3: greenhouse tomatoes in Alaska, and I'm sorry Alaskans, they're not 78 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 3: the same. It's not the same in the greenhouse as 79 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 3: it is there's even though there's sun for a long 80 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 3: time and they can grow gigantic produce there, it's not 81 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 3: the same quality of sun and so the I'm sure 82 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 3: there's a spiritual lesson in there too. But the tomatoes 83 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:24,920 Speaker 3: were lacking in my opinion, as in you know East 84 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 3: Coaster that grew up in Maryland with cousins that had 85 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 3: like a farm, and you know, it just it was 86 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 3: not the same. So here, I was so excited about 87 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 3: my tomatoes and they're gorgeous they came, they were so good, 88 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 3: but I planted them separately from the Halapanos. So now 89 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 3: this year, I am gonna, I'm gonna and I'm going 90 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:45,159 Speaker 3: to think about that analogy every time. And you know, 91 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:48,599 Speaker 3: praying Christian women did an Ephesian study a few years ago, 92 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 3: and we kind of did a similar thing where we 93 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 3: kind of had a community that we went through stuff with. 94 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 3: And I had never seen so clearly like I had thought, oh, 95 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 3: we'll do Ephesians because oh yeah, armor of God, that's 96 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 3: so relevant to prayer. And when I think of the 97 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:05,039 Speaker 3: Armor of God, I think of an individual putting on 98 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 3: the different pieces of armor to be a prayer warrior. 99 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 3: But the Lord like impressed on me, chapter after chapter 100 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 3: after chapter the importance of the Body of Christ collectively, 101 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 3: and how even the shields that are used I think 102 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:23,359 Speaker 3: it's called a scutum. It was like the Roman shield 103 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:27,159 Speaker 3: was designed to interlock with other shields and it could 104 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 3: be used individually and was very effective that way, but 105 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 3: it was designed to be used in this collective sense. 106 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 3: And so when you talk about that intermingling of plants 107 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 3: to mutually benefit from each other's strengths and. 108 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 2: To not like Alana and I talk all the time 109 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:48,160 Speaker 2: about like it's so easy to envy the strengths of others. Like, 110 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 2: for instance, I see you and your love for God's Word, 111 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,159 Speaker 2: and I'm like, I want that, and that's a good thing. 112 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 1: But when it turns into envying. 113 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 2: Your passion for the Bible and God's Word and your 114 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:04,799 Speaker 2: testimony of how God like completely turned you around from 115 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:08,840 Speaker 2: not believing at all to being this just force of 116 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 2: you know, just loving God's word and sharing it. 117 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: If I look at. 118 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 3: That and I envy that and in a way that 119 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 3: disparages my strengths, then I mean the enemy can get 120 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 3: a foothold there. 121 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 4: Yeah. 122 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:24,159 Speaker 2: So that little picture of the plants, the tomatoes and 123 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:26,840 Speaker 2: the peppers, just it says it all in just one 124 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 2: little picture. So I'm going to think of that every 125 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 2: time a garden from Dallas. 126 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, it really is such a great picture of 127 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:38,680 Speaker 3: community and just how we it's good for a halopina 128 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 3: plant to really be a halopena plant, you know, and 129 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 3: yet it offers things that benefit the tomato plant. So yeah, 130 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 3: embracing who we are, how God made us, and then 131 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:51,719 Speaker 3: how he brings this community together to you know, grow 132 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 3: us even stronger. So yeah, and I love that you 133 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:57,719 Speaker 3: grew tomatoes in Alaska, Jamie. 134 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 4: That cracks me up. 135 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I could only grow the one. 136 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 2: The only ones that really flourished and fruited without a 137 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 2: greenhouse were the cherry tomatoes and they were okay. But yeah, 138 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 2: but he I gave up after the first year trying, 139 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 2: and I stuck with zucchini. And you know, like kale, 140 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 2: oh cale, you could grow some kale. 141 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: It loved Alaska. 142 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, oh I bet, I bet that's so good. 143 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 2: Well, So, for those who didn't see episode four oh 144 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 2: nine in September when you talked about your Ruth Bible 145 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 2: study and gave your testimony, go back and listen to 146 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 2: that because Mary Elle gives this amazing testimony of just why. 147 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 2: It kind of illustrates why she's so passionate about God's 148 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 2: word and God's word literally changed her life. But for 149 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 2: those who had not, can you you kind of refresh 150 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 2: our memory about what the tend method of Bible study 151 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:08,240 Speaker 2: is that you've developed. It's an acronym, and you know, 152 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 2: what are those steps and how how did you come 153 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:11,440 Speaker 2: up with that method? 154 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 4: Yeah? 155 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, so really because of my salsa garden, the Lord 156 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 3: really showed me there that He tends our souls in 157 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 3: so much the same way as we tend a garden. 158 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 3: And you see it all throughout scripture, you know, the 159 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 3: pictures of you know, God's word being a seed and 160 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 3: planting it in our hearts and tending to it. 161 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 4: And so that's how I came up with the method. 162 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 3: And it really is just an acronym of an inductive 163 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 3: way to study scripture. So it's it's simple. It helps 164 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 3: guide you through the steps. Tea is take time to pray, 165 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:50,200 Speaker 3: and that's where we just reorient our heart back to 166 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 3: the Lord. And you know, when we get into his word, 167 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 3: we want to start with prayers so we are reminded 168 00:08:56,360 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 3: who we're talking to, and then he is examined the scripture. 169 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:04,439 Speaker 3: And that's where you write down the verses with your hand, 170 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 3: which is just I mean, it's a lost art now 171 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:10,439 Speaker 3: often it is, you know, are on our screens and 172 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,839 Speaker 3: doing our thumb on our phone and stuff, and there's 173 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 3: just such a benefit to us mentally and even spiritually 174 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 3: to slow down enough to actually write it out. So 175 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 3: I really only look at one to three verses a day, 176 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 3: and I will go through an entire book of the 177 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:30,560 Speaker 3: Bible a couple of verses a day. 178 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 4: At a time. 179 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 3: And so I'll examine the scripture, I write it down, 180 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 3: and then in is notice the lesson? And that's where 181 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 3: we want to ask of those verses, you know, what 182 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:42,960 Speaker 3: is here being taught about God? About his character? Because 183 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,959 Speaker 3: scripture is primarily about God and his character and who 184 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,200 Speaker 3: he is. And then we want to consider is there 185 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 3: a promise or an action or command or an example 186 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 3: in these verses that are being taught by the original 187 00:09:56,640 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 3: author to the original hearers of this word? And d 188 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 3: is do what it says. And that's where we just 189 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 3: respond to God's word. And it's just it's so much 190 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 3: like gardening. I mean, I can I come back to 191 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 3: that all the time because it's just this little by little, 192 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 3: you know, you press the seed of the Word into 193 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,440 Speaker 3: the soil of your heart, and it's just little by little, 194 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 3: and then eventually. 195 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 4: You start to see fruit, you start to. 196 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 3: You know, grow, and there's just there's so much there 197 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 3: that when we tend, when we do that something as 198 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 3: small as just a couple of verses a day, it's 199 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 3: amazing how the Lord will just bring about so much 200 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 3: fruit over time as we do respond little by little. 201 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:43,200 Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean it's it has been something that 202 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 3: I've been doing for over twenty years now. Taught my 203 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:47,679 Speaker 3: sons how to do it when they were little, and 204 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 3: now they're grown and. 205 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:50,959 Speaker 4: Just and they're continuing to do that. 206 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 3: So it just the ability to slowly get into God's Word, 207 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 3: you know. I think sometimes we think there's some award 208 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 3: that we get if we, you know, race through God's 209 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 3: word or you know a chapter a day, keeps the 210 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 3: devil away kind of thing. But the reality is if 211 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 3: we slow down and really hear from God, it just 212 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 3: it will change our perspective, our mood, our actions. I 213 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,840 Speaker 3: mean it's really powerful. So yeah, so that's how I 214 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:19,800 Speaker 3: tend and that's what these Bible studies are, you know, 215 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 3: the Root study that we talked about in September and 216 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 3: then the first Peter study that's coming out is using 217 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 3: that method to go through that book. 218 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:31,439 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I love what you said about slowing down 219 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 2: because I think more than any other time in the 220 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:38,319 Speaker 2: history of the world, we need to be intentional about 221 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:44,439 Speaker 2: slowing ourselves down and writing, like actually writing out God's word, 222 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:47,679 Speaker 2: I mean it just or even writing our thoughts out. 223 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 2: I got back into journaling recently after a long time 224 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:54,559 Speaker 2: not having done it, and I loved it because my thoughts. 225 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:58,440 Speaker 2: I mean, I have realized my attention span getting shorter 226 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 2: as a result of social media and just you know, 227 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:07,559 Speaker 2: short form communication texting, you know, instead of letters, and 228 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 2: even email has become too cumbersome sometimes to do right. 229 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 2: And so I have felt my attention span shortening my 230 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:19,719 Speaker 2: depth of thought. I'm doing more skimming thought than in 231 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 2: depth thought. And if we're not intentional about that, it's 232 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:24,080 Speaker 2: not going to happen. 233 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,000 Speaker 3: So I love that part of your study because it 234 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 3: does bring us back, and the simplicity and the purity 235 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 3: of doing that is in itself connects us, I think 236 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 3: in a way that. 237 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 2: We can't when we're just running so fast. I think 238 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:41,560 Speaker 2: it just helps that connection. 239 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 4: Absolutely, Yeah, and so much. There's so much in God's word. 240 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:48,080 Speaker 4: There's such depth. 241 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 3: There that when we slow down, I mean, just something 242 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 3: as simple as you know Psalm twenty three that feels 243 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:58,560 Speaker 3: so familiar and you slow down, it really transforms you 244 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 3: to really hear God through each of those verses and 245 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 3: what he's revealing about himself. It's so powerful, it is, 246 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:08,680 Speaker 3: I think, so I worked in laboratory research, right out 247 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 3: of college and used a lot of microscopes and you know, 248 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 3: diagnostic tools and stuff, and it just makes me think 249 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 3: that you can look at things on a surface level, 250 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 3: then you can look at it a little bit more 251 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 3: deeply and you can just keep basically like ratcheting in 252 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:30,079 Speaker 3: smaller and smaller and smaller, and it reveals these entire 253 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:35,320 Speaker 3: worlds within like within a cell. There's this entire like 254 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:39,920 Speaker 3: city within a cell that's working. And I mean, and 255 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:41,959 Speaker 3: it goes so much deeper than that you know with 256 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 3: scientists that look at smaller and smaller levels. But God's 257 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:48,360 Speaker 3: word can be like that where you just ratchet in 258 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 3: more and more and more and you uncover different layers 259 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 3: of meaning, you uncover word use and just I mean, 260 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:59,200 Speaker 3: it's just incredible. And then you can say, oh, I 261 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 3: remember this is here also and you can flip back 262 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 3: to where that's in the Old Testament, and I mean, 263 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:07,719 Speaker 3: it's just it's amazing when you slow down and when 264 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:12,560 Speaker 3: you look that there's literally an endless amount of information 265 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 3: and wisdom in God's Word. 266 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 4: Yeah. 267 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that analogy too, because it really is 268 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,920 Speaker 3: it's simple enough for a child to understand and for 269 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 3: a child to be changed by it. But it is 270 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 3: deep enough that, you know, the wisest scholar could spend 271 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 3: years on writing books on one verse. I mean, it 272 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 3: just it's so powerful. So yeah, that is a great picture. 273 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 3: It's a great analogy. 274 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 2: Well, I have a question for you, because I remember 275 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 2: talking to someone once that said, I don't really understand 276 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 2: the point of studying and studying and studying God's word, Like, 277 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 2: I know what the Bible says. The disciples, all they 278 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 2: had to know was just kind of the basic things. 279 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 2: Jesus said, like why do we Why is it important 280 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 2: for us as Christians? What good is it to just 281 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 2: continue studying the Bible when we got the idea already? 282 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 2: Why don't we just go live our lives and love people? 283 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 3: Like Jesus said, that is such a good question, you know, 284 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 3: I think the best response I can think of is 285 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 3: the fact that God's word is not an academic achievement. 286 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 3: It's not for our academic knowledge. It's for intimacy and 287 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 3: a relationship with a living God. And in the same 288 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 3: way that we would not just talk to our husband 289 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:34,360 Speaker 3: on our wedding day and never speak to him again, 290 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 3: we want to not just know about God, but we 291 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 3: want to know God and his word is how he 292 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 3: reveals himself to us all the time. 293 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 4: Through our whole life. 294 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 3: And you know, it makes me think of two Timothy 295 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 3: in chapter three. He's talking about the end times and 296 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 3: just godless people and how they creep their way into 297 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 3: households and capture or what he calls weak willed women. 298 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 3: And it's because of these women are gaining a learning 299 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 3: of facts rather than a knowledge of truth. And so 300 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 3: I feel like that is such a so connected to 301 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,040 Speaker 3: us because we live in the day and age where 302 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 3: you know, through our phones and screens and all these godlessness, 303 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 3: godless people and godless ideas creep their way into our 304 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 3: households and capture us with our. 305 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 4: Own burdens and sins. 306 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 3: If we aren't knowing God and growing in relationship with him, 307 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 3: if we just know facts about God, there's no life there. 308 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 3: That's just you know, book knowledge. That's just an academic 309 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 3: practice as opposed to developing an intimate relationship with God 310 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 3: that brings stability and peace and joy and just grows us. 311 00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 3: That's truly where we bear fruit, you know, is in 312 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 3: that intimacy with God as opposed to I just know 313 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 3: a lot of things, and I can pass a trivia test. 314 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:09,399 Speaker 3: There's not any growth in that, you know. 315 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:10,880 Speaker 4: So yeah, I. 316 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:16,360 Speaker 3: Would say there's always space for us to go deeper 317 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:19,919 Speaker 3: in our relationship with God. But it doesn't have to 318 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 3: look like you know, the three hour quiet time or 319 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 3: you know, the Instagram ready kind of thing. It really 320 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 3: is a relationship. So it's this ongoing conversation. He speaks 321 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:32,479 Speaker 3: to me through his word, I speak to him through prayer, 322 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:37,680 Speaker 3: and we just do life together with a living God. 323 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 3: It's a living relationship. 324 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:53,879 Speaker 1: That's so good. I love that. 325 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:57,200 Speaker 2: Thank you for explaining that, because I think that really 326 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 2: clarifies that question. I wish I had that answer when 327 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 2: I talk to that person. 328 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 4: I did not. 329 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 2: How you do now I do. I'm going to go 330 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 2: back yet, So tell us about your newest study. First, Peter, 331 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:15,119 Speaker 2: Sustained by a Living Hope are what are some of 332 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:17,359 Speaker 2: the big takeaways, What are some of the big themes 333 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:20,959 Speaker 2: and how are they relevant to us today? When I 334 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 2: see Sustained by a Living Hope and I read the 335 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 2: news and I see the world around us and I 336 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:28,919 Speaker 2: look on social media, I think, thank you Jesus, we 337 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:29,400 Speaker 2: need this. 338 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:34,879 Speaker 3: So yeah, absolutely, you know, this whole Bible study is 339 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:39,200 Speaker 3: this whole book of Scripture is about standing firm in 340 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:43,119 Speaker 3: a world that feels unstable. And just like for Peter 341 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:46,200 Speaker 3: and for the believers in the early Church, the world 342 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:51,440 Speaker 3: felt unstable and their their hope felt so shifting that 343 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:55,440 Speaker 3: Peter brings them back with this letter to shift their 344 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 3: perspective back to focus on who God is and anchor 345 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 3: their identity and cry and just that gives them this 346 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:07,560 Speaker 3: living hope that is eternal. And man, you are exactly right, 347 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 3: and we need this message in our day right now. 348 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 3: I mean, we cannot turn on the news that we 349 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:17,360 Speaker 3: don't hear of wars and rumors of wars and just 350 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 3: depravity and pain and loss and so many things to 351 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 3: shake us and steal our confidence and God's word. Through 352 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:32,440 Speaker 3: First Peter, I mean, he is all about getting this 353 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:38,159 Speaker 3: anchor into standing firm in a place while everything's unstable, 354 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 3: in a place that's really stable, and that is our 355 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 3: eternal salvation in Christ. First Peter reminds us that hope 356 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 3: is not tied to our circumstances, which is so easy 357 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:53,400 Speaker 3: to say and hard to do, but that really it's 358 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:56,200 Speaker 3: anchored in what Christ has already done and what he 359 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 3: has coming, what he's promised for us, and so it 360 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 3: is such a timely reminder of what we have in Christ. 361 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 3: And it just so much of Scripture really feels like 362 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:08,920 Speaker 3: it could really be. 363 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 4: Written written today, you know. I mean, we just we. 364 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 3: Need that same reminder that Peer is telling his audience 365 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:19,679 Speaker 3: and telling us that our hope is sustained, our hope 366 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,479 Speaker 3: is a living hope, and we can anchor it in 367 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:25,919 Speaker 3: Christ and what He's done. So yeah, it's just an 368 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 3: invitation to know that first Peter, and then to live 369 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 3: it out, because first Peter is here's who you are, 370 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 3: and then let's live it out in this hard and 371 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:38,120 Speaker 3: trying culture. 372 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 4: And so same for us. We just we definitely need that. 373 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:45,159 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, the Bible points to the fact that 374 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:49,240 Speaker 2: things will get worse before they get better, and at 375 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 2: this point in our lives, if we take this opportunity 376 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:57,439 Speaker 2: to internalize that hope, to internalize that knowledge of truth, 377 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,919 Speaker 2: it's going to sustain us. And I think of my kids, 378 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:03,960 Speaker 2: I think, oh, they need this, they need I need 379 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 2: to be intentional about helping them to connect with God 380 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 2: in this way. So yeah, that's it's so needed. Did 381 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 2: you find anything surprising so as you did your research, 382 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 2: as you kind of prepared this study. Did anything surprise 383 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:22,879 Speaker 2: you or was there anything new about First Peter that 384 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:25,600 Speaker 2: you had not previously understood or that you saw in 385 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:26,160 Speaker 2: a new way? 386 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, one of the things that I don't 387 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:31,879 Speaker 3: know if it was necessarily a new way, I feel like, 388 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 3: but it was a incredible reminder just going through because 389 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 3: I tended through the Book of First Peter as I'm 390 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:44,120 Speaker 3: writing it, you know, as I'm writing this study, and 391 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:50,480 Speaker 3: it just was so poignant to me. How Peter spends 392 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:55,879 Speaker 3: a significant amount of time in this letter reminding believers. 393 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 1: Who they are. 394 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 3: Before he says, here's how you live it out. So 395 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:04,080 Speaker 3: he's reminding them you are chosen, you are holy, you 396 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 3: are people. 397 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 4: Belonging to God. 398 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:08,920 Speaker 3: And then he says, now you can go live it out, 399 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 3: because who we think we are matters. I mean, we 400 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 3: are going to live we do live out of who 401 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:18,760 Speaker 3: we think we are. And God says, you are mine, 402 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 3: you are chosen, you are holy, you are you know, 403 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 3: a people belonging to God in order to proclaim His 404 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 3: goodness into the world, and so who we think we 405 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 3: are matters, and Peter says, here's who you are. 406 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 4: Now go live like it. 407 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:39,960 Speaker 3: And it just it felt like, again such a reminder 408 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:42,879 Speaker 3: that is a good place to anchor our soul in 409 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,840 Speaker 3: this culture, in this world, in this day and age, 410 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,360 Speaker 3: you know, of just not hearing what the world says 411 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:52,879 Speaker 3: about me or the lies that I've internalized, but to 412 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:56,880 Speaker 3: really reorient my heart back to who does God say 413 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:00,760 Speaker 3: I am? And then how do I live and overflow 414 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 3: from that? And yeah, and I agree, I think our 415 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:07,679 Speaker 3: kids are this next generation that's just coming up. You know, 416 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:11,440 Speaker 3: they really have to be anchored and who Christ says 417 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 3: they are because the world is shouting at them so 418 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:19,879 Speaker 3: many lies, and so in order to bear fruit that overflows, 419 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 3: you know, and shows God's goodness into the world, it 420 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:26,199 Speaker 3: starts with who am I? 421 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:26,879 Speaker 4: Who am I? 422 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:27,359 Speaker 1: In Christ? 423 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,879 Speaker 3: And so yeah, fir'st Peter really he really lays it 424 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 3: out there and he's very clear with that and giving 425 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:37,280 Speaker 3: them that hope to just remember who you are and 426 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 3: whose you are. 427 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: And that's spiritual warfare. 428 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,520 Speaker 2: I mean, you think a spiritual warfare as you know, 429 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,760 Speaker 2: praying out declarations or whatever. But the enemy is a liar. 430 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:51,360 Speaker 2: That's one of his primary characteristics is he's a deceiver. 431 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:57,440 Speaker 2: He's a twister of truth and spiritual warfare is knowing, 432 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:02,160 Speaker 2: I guess learning based on script sure knowing and internalizing 433 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:05,560 Speaker 2: and just declaring like who we are. That's spiritual warfare, 434 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 2: because otherwise, I mean, we rely on behavior modification and 435 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 2: a set of rules and pharasical standards that end up 436 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 2: being a house of cards and empty and void, you know, 437 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:21,119 Speaker 2: like the clanging gong. If there's no love and if 438 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 2: there's no connection with the vine, and we have these 439 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 2: empty righteous acts like filthy rags, you know, that's that's 440 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:33,160 Speaker 2: a deception. And so I love I love that focus. 441 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:33,920 Speaker 1: That's so good. 442 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:36,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got to be rooted in the right thing, 443 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 3: you know, and and the fruit that comes from that 444 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 3: it can't just be plastic out here, you know. 445 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 4: It's really it's really where we're rooted. 446 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,719 Speaker 3: And so just knowing who God is and knowing who 447 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:51,680 Speaker 3: we are in him, it's just makes such a difference. 448 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:52,879 Speaker 1: That is great. 449 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:55,640 Speaker 2: Well, can you tell us a little bit about your 450 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 2: online community and how like our listeners are like right 451 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 2: now the perfect time to learn about this because you've 452 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:04,639 Speaker 2: got this coming up what next week where you're going 453 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 2: to actually like start going through this study. So talk 454 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,199 Speaker 2: about your online community and what that involves and what 455 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 2: that's going to look like. 456 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, So the online community is just a place where 457 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,560 Speaker 3: women gather from all over the world. It's called tending together, 458 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,640 Speaker 3: and that's what we do. We are just tending our 459 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 3: souls together. And we have prayer prompts each week where 460 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,120 Speaker 3: we're praying scripture in there and pray for one another. 461 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 3: We do our tend Bible studies and gather together on 462 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:40,120 Speaker 3: Zoom each week to do this the Bible studies, and 463 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 3: it is just such a beautiful gathering of women. And 464 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:47,720 Speaker 3: so next week May twelfth, we will start with First Peter. 465 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 3: And so for everybody who orders the book, they can 466 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 3: grab the free for a month in the community can 467 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:57,680 Speaker 3: come join us and tend through First Peter with us 468 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:00,320 Speaker 3: and kind of get a taste of how this canmunity 469 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,719 Speaker 3: works and if it's something that might benefit them and 470 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 3: you know, help them in their walk with the Lord. 471 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 3: And so I have grown the most in my seasons 472 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 3: where I have had accountability and other women that support 473 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,200 Speaker 3: me and come alongside me and are like, you know, hey, 474 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,760 Speaker 3: I'm praying for you, or just hold me accountable, and 475 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 3: so we kind of hold space for that. And my 476 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 3: hope is that women would come together to be able 477 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,119 Speaker 3: to link arms, and like you said with the shields 478 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,160 Speaker 3: in Ephesians, that's exactly it. 479 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 4: You know, we we. 480 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 3: Are stronger together, and so this is a place for that. 481 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,960 Speaker 3: And I'm really excited to get to do First Peter 482 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,880 Speaker 3: in there because we did it with Ruth and it 483 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 3: was just a really sweet time. And we are always 484 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,879 Speaker 3: every four to six weeks we're doing another ten Bible study. 485 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,199 Speaker 3: So some of them are the published studies and some 486 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 3: are exclusively for the community. So yeah, I would love 487 00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 3: your listeners to come join me. 488 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all. Its wonderful. 489 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:02,760 Speaker 2: Where can they go to find out more about that 490 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,720 Speaker 2: and find your other books and your everything. 491 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they can go to Mariel Davenport dot com. 492 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,399 Speaker 3: I've got links there and you can find about the 493 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 3: community and the podcast and and then the Bible studies. 494 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 3: You can also buy the Bible Cities anywhere books are 495 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 3: sold Amazon and Baker Books and Our Daily Bread, who 496 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 3: is the publisher of the studies, and so they have 497 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 3: them as well. And yeah, and now is the time 498 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,359 Speaker 3: to get First Peter because you know, if you order 499 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 3: it in the next week or so, then you can 500 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 3: hop and get this free coupon to join us in 501 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:37,639 Speaker 3: the community. 502 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:41,160 Speaker 4: So yeah, go to Mariel Davenport dot com. Perfect. 503 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:42,120 Speaker 1: That's awesome. 504 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 3: Well and where are you on social media? Is that 505 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:47,320 Speaker 3: all on your website as well? 506 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:49,040 Speaker 4: That is on my website. 507 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,359 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm also you know, you can find me in 508 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 3: substack Mariel Davenport. You can find me in Instagram at 509 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 3: Mariel Davenport. So yeah, all the places under my name, 510 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:01,760 Speaker 3: my pot cast links in there and stuff too. 511 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:02,400 Speaker 1: Yeah. 512 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 2: I didn't even mention your podcast, which you want to 513 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:06,120 Speaker 2: tell us about that too. 514 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:06,920 Speaker 4: Yeah. 515 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,919 Speaker 3: Sure, It's just it's a less than ten minute little 516 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:13,880 Speaker 3: podcast time that we just tend through a couple verses. 517 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,680 Speaker 3: We do that once a week and it's whatever I'm 518 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,239 Speaker 3: tending through in my own time with the Lord, and 519 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,280 Speaker 3: I just have a heart to share it with people, 520 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,240 Speaker 3: and so anybody that'll listen, you know, it will serve 521 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 3: you to just put it in your ears and let 522 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,960 Speaker 3: God's words speak to you. We just go through the 523 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,879 Speaker 3: tend method and do that each week. So yeah, I 524 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,880 Speaker 3: do that in the community as well, so kind of 525 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 3: get it both places. And yeah, hopefully that would serve 526 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 3: somebody to be able to listen to it if you can't, 527 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 3: you know, grab your Bible and you're driving to work or. 528 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 4: Something like that. 529 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 3: It's just a place that you can feel like my 530 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 3: soul's being tended, even though I haven't had time to 531 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 3: sit down with an open Bible today, you know. 532 00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,240 Speaker 1: So that's great. I love it. 533 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 2: Well, Maryelle, thank you for being here again. 534 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:02,880 Speaker 1: This is great. 535 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:06,960 Speaker 2: I can't wait for your first Peter Community group. And 536 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,120 Speaker 2: how can we pray for you today? We'll close in prayer. 537 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, with the Bible study coming out that I 538 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:16,360 Speaker 3: definitely my biggest prayer is just for the Lord to 539 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 3: draw more women to know him through his word, because 540 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,120 Speaker 3: it's how I came to know the Lord. It is 541 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 3: how I am growing in the Lord, and it is everything. 542 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 3: God's Word is everything. So that's my biggest prayer. And 543 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 3: I'm also launching my youngest son, and so on a 544 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,160 Speaker 3: personal level, I would love prayer for, you know, to 545 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 3: just steward this season well of empty nesting and sending 546 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 3: these children out into the world to just be arrows 547 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:43,240 Speaker 3: for Jesus. 548 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 2: All right, we will definitely do that, all right. 549 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,760 Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you so much. Thank you for having me, Jamie. 550 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,880 Speaker 3: This has been really sweet and I really appreciate it. Friend, 551 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:53,880 Speaker 3: I appreciate it. 552 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: Oh, me too. 553 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,160 Speaker 2: All right, well, let's pray God, thank you so much 554 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 2: for Maryelle, for her test stimony, for her love of 555 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 2: your word, and just for the ways that you use 556 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 2: her to reach women with the truth of Scripture. We 557 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 2: just pray that your word would go out through these 558 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,160 Speaker 2: Bible studies and not return empty. We just pray that 559 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 2: they would reach more women than she could ever even 560 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:26,200 Speaker 2: ask or imagine, and men too, that people would just 561 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:31,400 Speaker 2: find a connection with you through slowing down and really 562 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,240 Speaker 2: experiencing your word and taking it into themselves. 563 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:36,760 Speaker 1: And we just thank you so much for that. 564 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,720 Speaker 2: And we just lift up Maryelle that you would continue 565 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 2: to guide her to direct her as she launches this 566 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 2: next tend study in her community. 567 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 1: Through First Peter. 568 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,360 Speaker 3: We just pray that you would bless that that it 569 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 3: would be just a safe space for growth and for 570 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 3: just deepening faith. I just pray that salvations would come 571 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 3: through this new study, and we just pray that those 572 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,239 Speaker 3: who are already believers would deepen their relationships and their 573 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:08,720 Speaker 3: connections with you, and that this book would. 574 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:12,080 Speaker 2: Be a lifeline and a hope for all of us. 575 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,320 Speaker 2: That just desperately need hope during a time when it's 576 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:17,640 Speaker 2: sometimes hard to remember that you're on the throne, and 577 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:22,800 Speaker 2: it's sometimes hard to remember that we are yours and 578 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 2: that if you are for us, no one and nothing 579 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,320 Speaker 2: can be against us. And so we just cling to 580 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:30,360 Speaker 2: that hope and thank you for it, and just pray 581 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 2: for Maryelle as she launches her youngest. We pray for 582 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 2: him that he would flourish and thrive, and for all 583 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 2: of her kids that they would just be drawn to 584 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:46,640 Speaker 2: you even more strongly as they go out on their 585 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 2: own than they even were when they were under her care. 586 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:51,840 Speaker 2: That you would continue to draw them to yourself, that 587 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 2: you would teach them, that you would bless them and 588 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 2: love them, and that you would give her the wisdom 589 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 2: to know how to kind of restructure life as an 590 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:06,200 Speaker 2: empty nester, to steward that well, to just be able 591 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:10,520 Speaker 2: to take your cues and follow your leading into exactly 592 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 2: what you have for her during this season. In Jesus name, 593 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:13,840 Speaker 2: we pray. 594 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 1: Amen, Amen. 595 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:21,720 Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Jamie. We'd like to take just 596 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:23,920 Speaker 3: a quick second to thank the team at life Audio 597 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,840 Speaker 3: for their partnership with us on the podcast. If you 598 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,680 Speaker 3: go to lifeaudio dot com. You will find dozens of 599 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,640 Speaker 3: other faith centered podcasts in their network. They've got shows 600 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 3: about prayer, Bible study, parenting, and so much more. That's 601 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:41,600 Speaker 3: lifeaudio dot com.