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"Come
to me all you who are weary and burdened, and I will
give you rest." |
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Matthew 11:28
The Message |
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“To
everything there is a season, and a time to every
purpose under the heaven.” |
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Ecclesiastes
3:1, King James Version |
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| By reading your invitation,
you know how much we’d love for you to make
Talk & Tranquility a
daily ritual in your life. You’ll meet a different woman from
the Bible every single week through the
daily devotional
themes outlined below. |
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Every Sunday, we’ll reveal the guest of honor for
the week – a woman from the Bible who you can
expect to get to know better all week long. We’ll
take this day to prepare for her visit by learning
all we can about the place and time in which our
featured woman lived. For the more we know of her
historical background, the better we can
understand the story she has to tell – from her
role at home and status in the community … to the
prevalence of drought, famine and disease … to the
political circumstances that shaped her world.” |
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DAYS 2 & 3: |
A Time to Get Acquainted |
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Once our guest of honor arrives, we’ll spend Monday and
Tuesday listening to her story. From beginning to end we’ll
study every detail we can find of her life in the Bible,
including identifying the reason God shares her particular
story with us today. We’ll look for the purpose of her life,
which will illustrate how her faith, or lack of it, played a
role in the daily challenges she faced. |
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DAYS 4 & 5:
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A Time to
Feast |
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She may have lived more than 2,000 years ago, but as you’ll
discover each week during our study, the Biblical woman you
will meet is much like contemporary women today. She has hopes
and fears for her loved ones, and she has dreams and
insecurities of her own. Many of these women will feel
familiar, as our needs throughout history rarely change. |
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We’ll spend Wednesday and Thursday learning the
lessons God has in store for each of us, as we
feast on His table of abundance and love that will
nourish and enrich the places in our lives where
we are hungry and thirsty for Heavenly
refreshment. |
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With our guest of honor’s story as inspiration,
we’ll spend Friday sharing stories of our own with
questions, quotes and texts from Scripture that
encourage the process. If you have family or
friends close by who also come to Transformation
Garden, it’s the perfect day for you to host a
time for Talk &
Tranquility at your own home. Take turns
sharing with one another the needs in your own
life that mirror those of the Biblical woman you
met this week. Or journal your story individually,
knowing that women all around the world are doing
the same. |
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DAY 7:
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A Time for
Tranquility |
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All week long you’ve listened and studied. Now
it’s time to sit back and let what you’ve learned
soak in – the lessons from the life of a woman in
Biblical times whose hopes and fears belong to us
all. Her story is now yours to keep in your heart
as a constant reminder of the peaceful reassurance
that comes with seeking and sharing a woman’s walk
with God. |
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