Hey Friends 🙂

Can I let you in on a little secret??

You may remember when I hinted a few months ago about my new “office” and my Tues & Thurs “work days” ~ but yes, I am working on writing my very first Bible study. Woo Hoo!!

It’s title?? “Red hot!” I’m so excited I can hardly stand it!! 🙂

However, the truth be told, I feel like a big, sloppy fish out of water!

What in the world do I know about writing a Bible study?? I didn’t even grow up in church, led an embarassingly rebellious life, and still get confused about the books of the Bible. What am I thinking?

I mean, I love working through Bible studies, selecting Bible studies for women and I am so passionate about the Word I can barely sleep at night, but write a Bible study, really??

But then I read words like this from Erwin McManus….

To set up the quote…In his book “Wide Awake”, Erwin challenges us to put an end to all the “sleepwalking and settling”, and reminds us that each one of us was created by God for a reason. Living “wide awake” (or in my paraphrase, red hot!) is about realizing that the world desperately needs us to live up to our God-given potential.

Erwin shares…

“We need to live wide awake because there are
diseases killing millions and we need to find a cure,
famines leaving multitudes starving and we need to provide food,
economies leaving families homeless and we need to create opportunities for work and wealth,
genocide that must be stopped,
slavery that must be ended,
water wells that must be dug,
children who need to be loved,
relationships that need to be healed,
elderly who need to be cared for,
beauty that needs to be created,
futures that need to be saved, and
dreams that we must not let die or go unfulfilled..”

Oh sign me up, Erwin!! I WANT TO LIVE “WIDE AWAKE”! I want to live a RED HOT, passionate, effective, fruitful, purposeful life in Christ!! You too??

I don’t want my life to be so focused on me or my comfort or what’s for dinner or what’s on sale at Walgreen’s or whether I’m a size 8 or a 10 or, for crying out loud, what size Jennifer Hudson is this week.

How easily I can get distracted from what really matters. What matters to God. What is important to Him and to His heart.

Let’s live our lives Red Hot! Let’s ask God to use us to make a difference in this lost and hurting world. To reflect His goodness and His grace wherever He might have us…whether it’s at Starbucks, or in an office, or on a missions trip, or in our own neighborhood.

Let’s live our lives Red Hot and look for those divine opportunities to be His hands and His feet. Let’s live our lives looking for a child that needs love, a friend that needs a hug or an encouraging word, a co-worker that could use a listening ear.

Let’s live our lives Red Hot ~ and allow Him to do immeasurably more in and through us than we could even ask or imagine. There is a future that needs to be created, and it is waiting for us all to wake up and get out of bed.

As Erwin says…”The alarm has sounded, and it is time to shake off the slumber.” It’s time to live, to create, to imagine, to dream . . . . Anyone with me??? Woo Hoo???

I am so FIRED UP about what I am learning!! Have you ever studied Rev 3 and the church in Laodecia?? Watch out if you are with me, if you ask me about it, I will start spewing everything I am learning, my arms will start gesturing, and you will get a 15 minute sermonette if you wanted it or not.

The Bible is so brilliant I just can’t help it!!!

If you are interested, I would love your insight, wisdom, and prayer support on this “writing a Bible study” journey! 🙂

For starters, I’m curious….what are the biggest obstacles for living a “red hot” life that you encounter??

Do you know someone who you would describe lives “red hot” for the Kingdom?

If you were going to work through a study on Red Hot living, what would you hope to take away from your time in the Word??

Thanks, dear bloggy friends, for allowing me to share my little secret today with you today. I’m off to “work”!! Yippee!! 🙂

God’s richest blessings to you today!!

P.S. A HUGE thank you to my awesome friends, “prayer posse”, and the amazing Monday night gals for journeying with me!!

I love when I get little care packages, like this from dear April in Virginia….

What a blessing!! Thank you!! I’m so glad God didn’t intend for us to journey alone!! Love you guys!! 🙂

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