Postponed

Hi everyone...I'm going to have to temporarily postpone this Bible Study....I absolutely HATE doing this, but there is a family "em-urgency" that I must tend to. This is requring me to be gone for about a month...

I'm praying for you and will be in touch after the new year. Thank you for your faithfulness to seek out God in your lives...he will honor and bless you and will forever be faithful to you.

In HIM
Tiffany

Happy Thanksgiving!

I just realized I never communicated with you about this holiday week! Have a GREAT Turkey day and we will resume our study next week!

Many Blessings to each of you!

lots of love

Tiffany

S2S

When thinking of God's goodness think:

Mercy
Grace
Patience
Kindness
Giving


Mark 10:18
Exodus 34:6-7
Deut. 30:5
II Corinthians 1:3
Hebrews 4:16
Isaiah 54:7
Exodus 33:19
Titus 2:11
Epheisans 1:7
Matthew 5:45
Romans 2:4
Psalm 5:4
Psalm 9:9-10
Psalm 25:8-10
Psalm 31:19
Psalm 32:8
Psalm 100:5
Psalm 103:8
Psalm 120:1
Psalm 130:3-4

God's Goodness

God's goodness. He is only good. He does only good. He is only capable of doing good. There is nothing evil about God--there never has been and never will be. This is a concept that is sometimes difficult for us to wrap our minds around. When we read the book of Job or think of God destroying the earth with floods...saving only Noah and his family--how can that be good?

God's goodness incorporates his kindness and good will toward you and me. He is so good that "he gives all and receives nothing."

This goodness of God is reflected in his actions toward us...we look at Noah and see the destruction, but God's goodness is what provoked him to save one family so that human nature could continue. His mercy is an eternal quality rooted in His Goodness--and HE is the one who choses when to exercise that mercy. Through that goodness, God exercises patience with us, to grow and learn. He meets us where we are at...through his goodness. It is out of his goodness we are saved by grace through faith.

God also cares for the welfare of people. His goodness is sufficient for the needs of all of us. It is his goodness that provides our shelter and clothing, our food and heat and a/c. God cares.

God is good...all the time...all the time...God is good.

God's Goodness

We are living in a world filled with Bad things. Bad things happen to us, to people who are "good". Even when we try our hardest, do our best, seek God, stay focused, bad things still happen. Sometimes we take part in the responsibility unknowingly... and we know that God is in control, so he has the power to do whatever he chooses.

So when bad things happen to you, how do you not blame God? How do you focus on God's goodness?? The word is clear--God is only good and can do no bad. So if God is only good, and bad things happen--but God has the power to change things...how do you KNOW that God is good? Give examples....

question to answer

If we truly believe that God loves us---and we accept that love...here is a question that I challenge you to answer:

HOW DO I LIVE OUT THE TRUTH THAT GOD LOVES ME?

WHAT ARE THE THINGS I DO, THE THOUGHTS I HAVE, THE FEELINGS I HAVE THAT SHOW THAT I TRULY BELIEVE THAT GOD LOVES ME?

WHAT ARE THE WAYS IN MY LIFE I DON'T LIVE OUT THAT GOD LOVES ME?


We can all say we know the truth, and we can even say we believe the truth that God loves us...but do we live it?????????

S2S

Psalm 25:6-7,10
Psalm 35:5-6
Psalm 103
Psalm 139
John 13:34-35
John 19:28-30
John 15:9-17
Romans 8:31-39
Romans 12:9-10
Romans 13:8-10
I Corinthians 8:1-3
I Corinthians 13
One of my favorite things to do: Take verses 4-7 and rewrite them with God's name in place of Love and your name...so it would read something like this:
God is patient with Tiffany and Kind to Tiffany. God is not jealous of me, or boastful toward me or proud toward me. God isn't demanding of me--to do what HE wants me to do.
Galatians 5:22-24
Ephesians 3:14-21
Philippians 2:1-4
All of I John

What's your favorite? Is there another verse not here that talks about God's love that you want others to read?