I\u2019m planning to change my Bible reading schedule for a few months, which will impact my SOAP devotional. Since some of you may be reading with me, I thought I should alert you to the change.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll still be using the SOAP format, I just won\u2019t be using the Bible in a Year reading plan for awhile.<\/p>\n
I will be taking my Bible reading and verses from The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian. I\u2019m not following a set scripture schedule, I\u2019m just going to do my best to listen as I work through the book.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what is going on:<\/p>\n
I host a small women\u2019s discussion\/dinner\/ prayer group in my home twice a month (most months) and until the end of September we are going to be working through this book together. I want to really delve into what the author has to say, and what the Holy Spirit wants me to hear, really spending time on the scriptures and praying through each chapter slowly.<\/p>\n
I cannot tell you exactly how this will go. I just know that God will tell me what He wants me to hear and I will report on it.<\/p>\n
I will journal here to share and more privately (and completely) in my own spiral notebook.<\/p>\n
If you are interested, I\u2019d love to encourage you to get a copy of the book and join me in this journey.<\/strong><\/p>\n The book is more serious than I had expected. I bought it years ago on the suggestion of a neighbor. We thought we might go through it together. But we never did. I finally opened it up a few weeks ago after deciding to give it a go and invited my regular group and a few others to join me.<\/p>\n (Btw… if you are reading this and we are nearby face-to-face friends IRL and you\u2019d like to come for the meetings, drop me a note. You\u2019re invited!)<\/p>\n And for all my cyber sisters\u2026 if you\u2019d like to follow the discussion online, I\u2019ll likely post more than my SOAP posts about it, and I\u2019d love to hear your input.<\/p>\n Here is our group reading schedule:<\/strong><\/p>\n Each deadline\/ discussion time covers about 50 pages of the book.<\/em><\/p>\n By July 21, we will have read the foreward through the end of chapter 2.<\/p>\n By August 18, we will have read chapters 3-10<\/p>\n By September 8, we will have read chapters 11-20<\/p>\n By September 22, we will have read chapters 21-30.<\/p>\n Starting September 23, I will be back on the Bible in a Year reading schedule<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n As I mentioned, I am going to be using the scriptures in the book as a guideline for my SOAP. However, I am not making any guarantees for anything. My devotional time is not up to me. It\u2019s up to me to show up, listen and let Him take me where He wants us to go.<\/p>\n And, like I said, I plan to discuss other observations through this process periodically. I wish I had the discipline to say I would post on a certain day each week, but past history has shown that I\u2019m not too good at sticking to a blogging schedule. I do Tweet about my blog posts (among other things), so if you don\u2019t check here daily, you could always follow me on Twitter<\/a> to get alerts as to when and what I\u2019ve posted.<\/p>\n I hope you\u2019ll pray about it and consider joining me in this journey\u2026 either by reading the book on your own and commenting about it on my posts, or just by following along with my SOAP posts.<\/p>\n And thanks for your understanding as I change things up a bit. It\u2019s hard to believe I\u2019ve already journaled (and posted) through one pass at the entire Bible in a year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m planning to change my Bible reading schedule for a few months, which will impact my SOAP devotional. Since some of you may be reading with me, I thought I should alert you to the change. I\u2019ll still be using the SOAP format, I just won\u2019t be using the Bible in a Year reading plan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-praying-wife","category-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}