To the girl who is struggling. The girl hurting. The girl hoping for breakthrough and broken chains. The girl stuck in patterns of unbelief. The girl desperate to feel alive. The girl muscling through her days in her own strength.

I do encourage you to make your application personal and practical….otherwise it becomes another broken New Year’s Resolution. The more specific you can be, the more likely you will see change or growth over time.

“What does it mean?” Not “What does it mean to us?” but “What did God mean for the original audience?”

The question we ask here in the Observation stage is, “What does the text say?” During observation, we want to read the text thoughtfully, sit with it, inspect it, and look deeply.

Friend, every piece of Scripture is God breathed and inspired. I don’t want to miss one thing He has to say, but we have to learn how to read it all to gain a better and growing understanding of it.

I only know of one guide that will never lead you to fall or fail. One guide that has perfect direction and instruction every time. If God created this whole place that we call “the world,” I’d say we can trust his navigation on the inter-workings of it. That guide is called his Word.

Would you consider yourself more of a movie buff or a novel reader? Or perhaps, you’ll just take a good Netflix binge sesh when you’re in the mood to be entertained, thankyouverymuch. I get it - one thing I know for sure is that we are all suckers for a good story.

But Why Theology? Can’t we just read the Bible and that be enough? Of course you can! But our theology affects the way we approach Scripture.

My real goal here is to understand God more through what he has revealed in His word, and to allow those foundational (or essential) truths to transform the way I think, feel, and act. Who He is should affect how I live!

Abundance sees more opportunities and more possibilities. It leads to abounding creativity in order to make an impact for Christ.