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Our daily devotional time is in the morning.This morning I realized that my Bible was not in it’s normal place, so I stated that my Bible , my guide was missing. We often call our Bibles our guides because they are our daily light and our daily strength, throughout all our years!

That spurred me to highlight one of our lessons in a blog today. It answers these questions: Where did it come from?  Why should I read, study and know my Bible? How much and how often do we need God’s Word?

Please check out My Bible My Guide lesson #4, located in the Finding Direction In God’s Word set of lessons.

Just a few weeks ago, our grandson led an elderly lady to the Lord. This Sunday past, she met her Saviour face to face. Oh what a blessing to know that she was saved. But it took someone to reach to her!

While that may not relate directly to Bible To You, it does relate to the goal for Bible To You. Our theme verse is Colossians 1:28 “Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:”

Will you pray for more souls to be saved and put feet to your prayers? You can do that through Bible To You. If you wish to send the message of salvation to someone you cannot get to, please feel free to send their name and address. If it is a child or teen, please give an age so an appropriate lesson may be sent to them from our home office.

We will send a salvation lesson and tract to each individual you ask us to write to.

Are you familiar with Luke 15:10 “Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.”? Our home Bible To You outreach received a Finding Direction In God’s Word, Lesson 1 from a man in Columbia, S. Carolina, a few weeks ago, where the writer said he received Jesus as Saviour while doing the lesson. We were all smiles when we read about it, and there was joy in the presence of the angels of God when that man got saved!

Our 20 year old grandson  works a full time job and also mows for several people. One lady, in her 80’s,  just learned last week that she has stomach cancer .  We had taken the initiative in the past to send her a Bible study and offer to send more, but she did not respond. Our church family has been praying for her salvation for some time.

On his way to church, M. E. Jr. took the time to stop at her house and express his love and concern for her physically, and for her soul. After sharing his own testimony, he asked her if she had ever received Jesus as her Saviour, to which she said that she had not. She allowed him to lead her in a prayer for salvation. He asked her if she had meant it and she assured him she had. At church, we were all happy, and, just a short time before, there was joy in the presence of the angels of God!!!

Yes, we all have summer “busyness”, like 4th of July picnics, church picnics, vacation weeks, etc.  For those who are in nursing homes, shut-in situations and jails or prisons, there are no such things.  Do you minister the wonderful Words of God to some of these folks?  If you do, please be careful to stay up to date with their contacts, either by asking someone to take your place, or by letting the folks know that you will be absent a bit.  Be sure to pray for them, at least some, and always give them a special update on how God blessed your time away.

Do rest and get renewed.  Jesus called his apostles aside to rest.  Reassure them that you prayed for them.  One thing we do, is pray that God will be with our people, even if we rest and pull aside for a while.

Our home church is small and filled with capable singers and teachers which leaves Mrs. Earley without a place of ministry within the church building. We love serving, teaching and being a blessing to others. After much entreaty to the Lord, He opened a door of opportunity at Countryside Baptist to help with VBS. They had lost one dear lady to Covid this past year, a servant who was a faithful worker during past  VBS weeks. Mrs. Earley was able to teach the Junior class Bible lesson each night. Mr. Earley was a general helper, ministry Rep, and an assistant penny counter.

Not only did we find an opportunity to help another church, God had already led their church to feature The Earleys and  Bible To You as the ministry set before the children to bring pennies for.

Here are three wonderful results of the week. First and foremost, two children accepted the Lord as their Saviour. Second, as for those pennies, well there were so many that Brother Pendley got choked up as he declared that he had never in all his years of ministry seen such a large amount brought in during a VBS. Third, the peace and joy of the week of special service gave us a longing to step out again, travel to churches, and urge people to either do BTY studies, minister to others using BTY studies, or support BTY so the work may continue.

David experience the same kinds of blessings which caused him to cry out, “Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name!”  Our hearts sing within “Bless the Lord, O my soul!”

“Bible To You” helps you get the Bible into people and to get people into the Bible! Here at the Home office, we are finding that some our dear students cannot read cursive and have been asking others to read our notes to them. While most books and articles are printed, the hand printing is much slower than writing in cursive.

We are now aiding a student in learning the art of cursive. She wrote recently and said this: I don’t know if you remember me…last time you showed me how to write in cursive, I’ve been practicing. Please pray for her to be able to achieve it.

Another lady wrote to let us know that she attended a Baptist Church as a child.   So, to ensure that she not be misled by other religions, we sent her back a brief history lesson of the Fundamental Baptists, and how they can be traced back to the saints in the book of Acts in faith and practice.

We are reaching and teaching them; are you?

A phone call came in one Monday morning from a man who contacted us to say that he was holding our (prayer) card in his hands and he just wanted to say, you are doing a good work and keep going. That phone call really encouraged us!

Why not be an encourager to a missionary you know of, or your pastor, or deacon, or perhaps a Christian home-school mom. A text, a letter, a card or even a small gift can lift the fellow Christian worker up and help him or her to go on a bit easier.

By the way, Christian home-school moms are seldom noticed as sacrificial servants, but they are!  If you know of one or more, give them some special encouragement today!

Thank God you contacted me as I love the studies.” Randy from Arkansas

“… I’m so grateful that you decided to do a computer search and notice that one of your sheep was missing in action, and went out of your way to contact that lost sheep.” Manuel from CA

“Thank you for recontacting me….Here’s a list of four people …who would like to study the Great Word of God…help guide them as you do me.” Kenneth from Illinois

“What an exquisite delight it was to hear from BTY!…Thank you so much for reaching out to me with the truth!” Michael from Pennsylvania

Thank you so much for getting back with me. I prayed for us to get back in touch so I could continue the word of God. I cried when I got your mail.” Michelle from W. Virginia

“You guys at “BTY” have been so wonderful and helpful to me and have helped me to grow into the man that I am today so thank you with all my heart. Keep doing what you are doing…” Michael from Texas

“…I truly am thankful for your obedience and service to the Lord… you give me much hope in my walk with Christ as well as my marriage.” Tiffany from W. Virginia

Our flesh is not, by nature, apt to be a blessing to the Wonderful Creator God. Why, because sin came in and humans lost their sinless nature. Though the saved have been redeemed from eternal Hell, they can grieve the Holy Spirit of God. The sin of grieving the Holy Spirit is strictly warned against! New Christians need to be instructed in this area. Older Christians ought to be reminded.

Use New Life Series lesson 6; it’s a real wake-up call! Even when we correct an in-coming New Life Series lesson 6, we are newly reminded of our own need to remember and heed God’s Word to grieve not the Holy Spirit of God!

The following are headings from the New Life Series lesson 6

God’s Word makes it clear that some of our actions after salvation can cause Him grief.  He warns us not to walk as other Gentiles (The term Gentile speaks generally of the unsaved). 

Sinning in your heart and mind grieves the Spirit.

Sinning with your body grieves the Spirit.       

The following things will prevent you from grieving the Spirit:

Living in the Spirit of God will have very definite effects such as those found in the following scriptures:

Why not check the lesson out now. You may find yourself being reminded of your own need to remember and heed God’s Word to grieve not the Holy Spirit of God!

Years ago we recognized that the Church was sadly lacking in an understanding of God’s expectation for holiness. In an effort to teach others of the need to be holy as God is holy, we wrote New Life Series, Lesson 2, Holy God-Holy People. Here are some highlights from the lesson’s answer key:

  Intro:  Many believe they may do anything they wish…. They do not understand that we were made by a holy God who cannot have anything to do with unholiness or unrighteousness.  He calls us to holy living…  The word holy could be understood as being sacred.  ….separated from all that is sinful, impure, or morally imperfect.  

God is holy.                                                                                                                            This verse asks a question.  Exodus 15:11.  “Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods?  Who is like thee, GLORIOUS in HOLINESS,  fearful in praises, doing wonders?”                                                                                                                                                                       In Psalm 99:9 we are told, “Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at his holy hill;  for   THE   LORD   OUR  GOD  IS   HOLY.”  …We lift him up as the one who is all holy.  We worship a holy God.

God’s name is holy                                                                                                     .… Isaiah 57:15 Says “For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity,    WHOSE   NAME   is  HOLY  ;  I dwell in the high and HOLY   PLACE     …”

God is called holy and he is praised for being holy.      …In Revelation 6:10 the souls of them that were killed for the Word of God and their testimony cried out with a loud voice “…How long, O Lord,  HOLY  and  TRUE…”

 God dwells in holiness and all that he does is holy.      Read Exodus 3:1-6.  Even the GROUND  was holy because God was there.                        Psalm 145:17 says, “The Lord is RIGHTEOUS  in  ALL   his  WAYS   , and   HOLY   in  ALL   his   WORKS.”

Holy living for the Christian is not…to keep our salvation.  It is the way to please God and… fellowship.                                                                                                                             God wants His people to be holy. Finish the following  verses  to see just how important our holiness is to God.  Leviticus 20:7 Sanctify yourselves…   BE  YE  HOLY:    FOR    I     AM    THE     LORD    YOUR     GOD. (The word  sanctify means set apart to holiness.)      … I Thessalonians  4:7 says,  “For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but  UNTO      HOLINESS .” … I Peter 1: 15&16 …“But as He which hath called you is Holy,  SO    BE    YE    HOLY   in all manner of conversation (in all you do, your behavior); …

God chose the saved to be holy before Him.                           Ephesians 1:4 … chosen that we should be  HOLY   and WITHOUT     BLAME   before Him in love…                                                                                                                                                Read Colossians 1:21 & 22…  Ephesians 2:21 & 22  compare Christians to a      HOLY    TEMPLE    in the Lord.