On this final day of the year, reflect on the last five weeks of reading, remembering Jesus’s first coming and anticipating His promised return. Take time today to pause from the busyness of the season to catch up on your reading, make space for prayer, and rest in the presence of the Lord.
So that at the name of Jesus
every knee will bow—
in heaven and on earth
and under the earth—
and every tongue will confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
—Philippians 2:10–11
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Awesome study!!!
Thank you Rebecca W!
@JM- It”s titled the Life of Jesus. The ones that get the books monthly are in the know. :) Glad to have you! Stick with us and you will continue study after study. That’s one thing I love, that you get in the habit to come to the website daily (or opening your book), but reading the comments is so valuable as well to become part of the community in sharing insights, wisdom, prayer requests, praises….it’s a virtual small group!
@Victoria- How was your apt? Been thinking about you since Wed!
@GramsieSue and @Lynn many prayers for your husband’s health, that would be so challenging worrisome.
@Lehua So glad you are with us!
@Kimberly Z- you kinda put mildy your year! I remember gasping at your first post about your dad, and to hear how far you all have come is so wonderful! You are such a strong lady, and I know good things are coming your way!
The Next Study is the Life of Jesus and starts January 2nd. Go to shopshereadstruth.com and sign up for the subscription box and you’ll get the study book in the mail every month. And then they’ll start one right after another. They’re phenomenal!
As I reflect on the upcoming new year, I am so touched by reading your comments and stories! This community has become a lifeline, a prayer circle, part of my morning routine (most days… I’m still working on it! lol). I feel so much love, connection, and community as we gather together each day. ❤️
This has been a really tough year but I rejoice in the highlights and thank God for them:
-Left a really toxic job and started a new one
-Started going to church again (thanks to a coworker friend who invited me to a Bible study her sister was doing, then she never showed up lol… but God still told me to go, to a group of strangers.. I’m so glad I obeyed ❤️)
-My husband and I have grown closer in talking about God together and His Word (as we watch the Chosen, the Jesus Revolution special screening, The Bible Project, and attend church together)
Looking forward to walking with God more and with all of you as we open His Word everyday. ❤️ Happy New Year!!
How do I know what the next group study is?
I didn’t get to finish my thought before accidentally sending it. I’m so very grateful for this community. Happy New Year ❤️
I’ve felt quite melancholy this week. And finishing this study is bittersweet because I enjoyed it so much and I don’t want it to end but I’m excited for the next study and all the new studies for this coming year.
Blessings, truth and freedom to you all for another year we have been blessed with. May we see God’s hand in the hard times and lean into him fiercely even when our feelings don’t align.
So many amazing things happened this last year. I gave birth to my second baby girl, and we grew to a family of four. ❤️
Amen!
Happy New Year to all my sisters in Christ! I don’t post on here often, but I read the comments every day. I lift up the She Reads Truth community every day in prayer. Please know that each of you is thought of and loved. Prayers for a safe, healthy, and happy new year praising our Lord and Savior!
Come lord Jesus.
Oh and I also wonder…. Who here did any of the crafts presented in the study book? I made the room spray and gave them as gifts at work ☺️ I still have the supplies for the scarf… order
LIBBY – the next study is The Life of Jesus
On this Grace Day of the SRT community I find I have much to wonder about. I wonder at the way prayers are requested and honored here, behind screens. I wonder at the unwritten comments of pleas, goodness, hardship, struggles, and prayers we know nothing about. I know that most will never know mine. But God knows. Such holy wonder. I wonder… at God’s presence, at the Holy Spirit, and I am filled with wonder at the coming of Jesus, the Word Incarnate. Miracles and wonders given to draw our hearts to God. Beauty to ponder. Awe inspiring wonder. Such holy comfort that He knows. He sees us. And He loves us. He helps us. He guides us as we seek Him. Every knee shall bow and confess that Jesus is Lord. He is above all other kingdoms. Every one. And we who know Him as our Lord are blessed beyond comprehension. So here is my last day to ponder my 2022 word ‘until’ only to be pushed into more unending praise to the One worth wondering at until… Maranatha. So for 2023, I settle on wonder. Wonder. As a noun it means extraordinary, hard to be understood. The word miracle is derived from miror, to wonder. So I think to myself what a wonderful God we serve, He Who created space for me to wonder in. The more time I spend in the ancient scriptures of the Bible, the more I wonder at what was different in the Church during the first thousand years of its existence. After Christmas. After Pentecost. After the Ascension. What was church like then? When the disciples of Jesus were without His physical teaching. I wonder why there is so much confusion within all the different denominations of today. I wonder at the Reformation, and before that the Great Schism. I wonder what Jesus would say today? How would He worship? There must be one way, how could he choose which denomination was the way today? I wonder if the truth can set us free and truly bring unity and one holy catholic church on this side of eternity? Without all the division. I wonder what would happen if one holy revelation could open our eyes to see in the middle of the multitude of different churches. If now would have been the time and Jesus were in the flesh today, where would we find Him? I wonder… Maranatha.
God bless you all as we come unto this New Year.
Looking forward to growing in my relationship with Jesus with you all❤️
What a year! This community is beautiful and I’m so grateful to be a part of it. Thank you SRT for all the powerfully amazing studies this year. I would never have imagined I could be excited by studies in Leviticus or Ezekiel. I loved them. I can lay a lot of that at the feet of the women here…you wonderful, supportive, praying, loving women from around the world. I’m so grateful to get to learn from and with you. Thank you.
I pray that in 2023 we will all come to know that the joy of the Lord is our strength. In Jesus name.
It is bitter sweet to have this study end but I am so grateful to have you all here! The beginning of a new year always brings me a new sense of energy. I love the excitement and potential of the new year. This year has been hard in more ways than one. I pray this next year will be better. Learning to lean into God and surrender control is something I am really striving for. My girl friends and I are going to London next month for the first time! I think it has come at the perfect time. Praying for all you sisters and that this next year will bring you all an abundance of joy and happiness!
Happy New Year Ladies! I enjoy reading all your comments and I’m so thankful for this community of faithful women. Looking forward to the next study.
Praise the Lord! I am so blessed to come here and know that others are growing and learning too. Thank you for sharing, each of you! May our Lord, Jesus Christ, and his Spirit, by the goodness of the Father- be with each of you!
GOOD MORNING and Happy Saturday on this New Years Eve morning! I absolutely loved this Advent Study! Part of me feels sad that we are done with it. I am thankful for all of you here. Please know that you are all such a blessing and can’t wait to meet you someday. It’s another wet day in Northern California, and encourages me to stay inside, next to the lit up Christmas tree one last time before I take it down. I’m SO grateful for these sweet quiet moments I had here. As I’m looking outside I’m so thankful for everything Jesus has done for me.
I’m so grateful for the extended time off work and spend it with my kids, but especially for unhurried quiet times with Jesus.
GOOD MORNING and Happy Saturday on this New Years Eve morning! I absolutely loved this Advent Study! Part of me feels sad that we are done with it. I am thankful for all of you here. Please know that you are all such a blessing and can’t wait to meet you someday. It’s another wet day in Northern California, and encourages me to stay inside, next to the lit up Christmas tree one last time before I take it down. I’m SO grateful for these sweet quiet moments I had here I’m looking outside and says so thankful for everything. Jesus has done for me.
Yes, Ladies, this has been a crazy year.
And what a blessing to have all of you in my life. To be able to join together each day, reading God’s word, studying it, digging deep into it, sharing wisdom.
And sharing our lives with each other. Praying for each other. Offering up advice and caring wisdom for each other. SRT is truly a blessing.
I’m looking forward to 2023 knowing I will be in it with all of you.
Hugs to all ❤️
Dear sister Shes, it has been a sweet journey with y’all since joining last spring. I have learned soooo much through the scriptures, podcasts, and the wisdom of you fellow sisters. I have high hopes for a wonderful year that lies ahead for each of us. No matter what our circumstances, God is right there with us! For that I am eternally grateful!
Lifting all in prayer! Praying for you Lynne from Alabama as you go back to work, that you would feel peace that Jack is being well cared for and see progress in the upcoming weeks. @ Alisa, for renewed health for you sweet child, and protection that the babies stay well. And for you, as a mama that full healing would come quickly.
@Annie- Your circumstances are similar to ones I faced several years ago. It can be so very hard! Continue to lean on Jesus. He WILL see this through. I’m on the other side now and am closer to Him than I ever would have been had I not gone “through the fire”. Prayers for strength, comfort and peace for you and your children! Praying Romans 15:13 “I pray that God, The source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.”
Happy New Year to all! May the presence of God be vivid in our lives! Blessings to all ❤️
@Libby It is about Jesus. I forget the name of it. @ Alisa I am so glad you are bonding with your precious girls. I am praying healing for your son and protection for the girls and yourself. She’s I can’t wait to see how we all grow and learn in 2023. Blessing to you all. Happy New Year.
ANNIE – praying!
Learning to live by what we know, not by what we see. Like the farmer that sows his seeds with trust and knowledge of what is to come…
Show me your Glory Lord, show me your gifts, show me your love, show me your grace. I know this to be true, He gives me these and exceedingly more. He is a good, good Father, showing me He is with me every step of the way in this thing called life. Out with the old, into the New Year! I can’t imagine a year of more growth in the knowledge of the Lord than this past! The Lord did something fresh and anew last year as I stepped out in service, in leading, in humbleness in my marriage, giving selfishly to those around me…Oh He is good! All things for His good. I pray this coming year, as my goal is to memorize scripture, that He continues to grow me, and all of us She’s as we dive into more fabulous studies with SRT and grow closer together lifting each other up, and most importantly growing in our relationship with the Lord. Which funny, now that I say that, that years ago I remember saying I didn’t really get “having a relationship with Jesus,” and now I have come to rely on that! God is so good! Draw close to Him, and He draws close to you! Also I have really learned to draw close to the Holy Spirit to allow Him to be my compass, my leader, my mouth (boy is that still needed!), and my prayer coach, and more.
I hope each of you gains insight and wisdom as you focus on all God has blessed you with the past year and where He wants you to go in the year ahead. We can never know what will come, and most we don’t have control over anyway, so we give up the unknown to you Lord, because you will hold our hand, and what a reassurance that is, it releases any anxiety or fear I could have, for I am casting any cares on your Lord, and You will not forsake me.
If you don’t have anything to do tonight, might I suggest you start the show The Chosen, and binge into the evening! The newest episode is on tomorrow night! I also meant to tell you all after reading Ruth together, that there is a show on Prime about the life of Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz that depicts it really good! See you all next year! ;)
Happy New Year’s Eve to my sisters around the world! For those that go out to celebrate, praying for safety and wisdom.
It has been another amazing year to study and pray with/for you all.
As RHONDA J ❤️ & TINA ❤️ mentioned, what a wonderful sisterhood has formed between us all online. These studies are the closest I’ve ever come to social media, and they are a cherished blessing. Looking forward to studying and praying with each of you in the new year.
LYNNE FROM AL – continuing to pray for you, Jack and his sitters. Love you ❤️
GRAMSIESUE – praying for you and Steve ❤️
MARTHA HIX – ❤️
ALISA W – thankful for your healing and bonding, praying for healing for your 4 year old
LEHUA K – praise for sorting things out
DOROTHY – praying today for your encounter with sister and nephew today
LISA – welcome and looking forward to our studies in the new year
RHONDA J – I second your advice to KIMBERLY Z & CASSIDY, also thinking about SARAH TAYLOR & others (including in my own circle) and agree that many of us could tell some stories! Waiting on the Lord is the best path for life and relationships – took me a long time to learn and accept that truth. Praying for patience ❤️
MICHELLE PATIRE – continuing to pray for you and your family
Praying for so many here this morning. Alyssa W, praying for your little boy to get well very soon (and also your housing needs). I am meditating on Colossians 3:23 and Romans 12:2 and making these verses a plan for me to strive for in 2023. Happy New Year everyone and thank you SRT ❤️
May I PRAISE THE LORD MY FATHER, Creator of ALL things. May I SHOUT THE NAME OF CHRIST from the rooftops for dying for my sins and BEING RESURRECTED so I might have eternal life. May I SHOW I HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT in my with everything I do and do it FOR God and Christ. I’m not perfect but I try to do my best at what I know how to do, I seek guidance when I don’t know how to do it. And when troubled I try to remember to call on God, Christ and the Holy Spirit to get me through. I may be in my 60’s but I still feel I can continue to learn; learn more about about myself, my family, my friends, the world around me, the medical/nursing field, but most of all THE TRIUNE. This last year I embarked, with a minister friend of mine, on a chronological Bible study and loved it. She and I meet every Friday, it started out to discuss what we read but it through the year hasn’t been that all the time. We will be doing it again but a different plan this year — she found one on line — plus I have a book titled, “All the Women of the Bible” by Edith Deen and it contains 316 concise biographies of the women of the Bible. We are going to read about the women — from this book — as we get to them.
She Reads Truth thanks for a great year where I learn so much, I learn more about the books Psalms, Hebrews, Leviticus (I was so wanting that one and wondering if they were ever going to do one on it), Ruth, Exodus (I learned even more and second time around), 1 & 2 Timothy, Ezekiel (had to use several versions to get through that one but WOW I made it) and John. I learned how to used the scripture to pray, how the Gospels and the Church go hand in hand, what exactly the Armor of God is and how to use it, and lastly but I most importantly are trusting in God, Christ and the Holy Spirit and the joy that trust can give me. WOW!!! a lot to learn in one year but I/we did it. Have a safe and happy new year’s eve.
Be blessed and keep on PRAISING THE LORD, SHOUTING THE NAME OF CHRIST, SHOWING THE HOLY SPIRIT BUT MOST OF ALL LEARNING about all of them sisters — you’re never to old to learn something.
(Sorry for the rambling but it was something I was felt to share).
Thank you for this study. It has blessed me more than I can say. I’ve returned to the SRT community after some time away and am realizing how much I am fed through this wonderful community. 2022 was a difficult year for my family as I decided to finally walk away from a 21 year marriage that has been emotionally abusive from the first day, to me, and then to my children who are now 15 and 16. My husband has not only continued the abuse but is manipulating my children and slandering me to my extended family and the community (Just before I left the marriage, we had recently moved back to my home town after being a Navy family for 20 year). The children and I have been living with family since June. It has been the most difficult journey that has made me question my decision many times. Because at times I have felt it would be easier to stay in the toxic situation that had become so familiar to me than to try and break free. But the Lord has been near me every step and one of the biggest blessings that has come out of this nightmare is how the Holy Spirit has taught me what it really means to surrender all to Jesus and depend on Him to sustain the children and me hour to hour. And He has been so good! I’m so glad I decided to return to the SRT community for this Advent study. The writers really encourage a dig deep into the Word, and I love reading the comments and seeing how you all share and support each other. I ask that you would pray for my children and me, and my husband (who suffers from a personality disorder)- particularly in January. We have to move out of the place where we have been living at the end of the month and I’m having to petition the court for temporary relief as my husband refuses to give us money for a rental. Then at the end of the month we will go to mediation to try and settle and finalize the divorce. My husband has been resistant to any kind of settlement so far and has used every tactic to delay the legal process and keep us in this “purgatory” for 9 months now. Please pray that his heart will be softened and he will see what is best for his children, instead of hurting them in his attempt to take his anger out on me. I know this was a lot. I appreciate you reading to the end, lol! Happy New Year! I pray the best for you all in 2023!
Can I just say what a blessing you have all been to me?! And my goodness, the Advent series was amazing! I love you all here in Maryland – be blessed and filled with the Holy Spirit today and in the coming new year! ✨✨✨
Happy New Years to all! Praying Gods best and His blessings over you all!!
Jesus about His life i believe they said on their podcast.
(Oops) And @Lynn for the year to come and decisions that will need to be made. May God be each of our hearts and minds as we walk through 2023
Happy New Year She’s. Praying for @Alisa, thank you @Tina for the beautiful prayer @Dorothy
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It’s just about time to put 2022 in the history books. 2023 is up next. We don’t know what it holds but we do know WHO holds it. Lessons learned from 2022 will be pondered and stored for future reference. Even the hard things God allows can be blessings down the road. Let’s turn the worship up and put our praise dancing shoes on! God is with us. God is for us. He will never leave us. The Holy Spirit comforts, counsels and corrects us. Whatever comes in 2023 we are well equipped to handle it. Praise God!
Alisa W. Praying that your family, you, not get sick and that your little boy feels better soon.
SHES, it has been such a blessing to have joined last spring. My walk and faith has been strengthened. It’s a beautiful community. Thank you Jesus! Happy New Year!!
Alisa W. Praying that your family, you, not get sick and that your little boy feels better soon.
Happy New Year! Thankful for this community to read God’s Word with daily. You have all blessed me so much in 2022, and this Advent season. Looking forward to what’s to come in 2023!
My sweet SRT sisters—I cannot tell you how much you are loved and appreciated! You have stood with me and lifted me and my precious hubby up this whole year. 2022 was long and very hard. 2023 is starting with many unanswered questions regarding Jack’s care long term and for a “planner” like me that is tough. I am going back to work Tuesday with sitters staying with Jack. Please continue to pray for his peace and healing and peace and wisdom for me. There are many hard decisions to be made. Thank you all! Happy New Year! I am praying for all of you!
Philippians is one of my favorite books and I love this passage in particular. Jesus has power and dominion over everything. At the very mention of his name, even those “below the earth” are brought to their knees. And yet this is the king who cares for our every need and wants a relationship with us. Thank you Lord!
@Alisa W praying for your son and protection for your twins.
Thank you for the prayers yesterday, she’s! I truly felt the peace of God flooding into our circumstances.
I loved This series! Does anyone know what the next community read is?
Sending prayers.
May I declare with my mouth at all times that Jesus is Lord.
DOROTHY – may your encounter with your sister today be peaceful.
Just sent a prayer your way!! Happy New Year!
That I remember His presence, power, Lordship and peace in the coming year. Amen
ALISA W, prayers offered up here for your dear family xx
My reflection on this year and prayer for the coming one echoes yours TINA, however you make it much more eloquently!
“He who is faithful in what is the least is faithful also in the much” Luke 16:10
How faithful am I with the small things? Time, money, responsibilities, gifts, keeping my word? Time is my nemesis- too much time and I procrastinate and then so busy that the important small things get pushed out.
But God…
Doing His will is obedience. Being a servant of God is not about what we do, it’s who we are.
So, will He see me being faithful in the small things? My prayer for this coming year is that He does.
Thank you, dear SHE’S, it has been a privilege to walk with you all this last year. I am so thankful to the Lord for all of you and look forward to seeing His wonderful hand at work in you all next year ❤️
Amen
@Alis W.. PRAYING! God is near dear mama heart. He is near…❤
Sitting at my desk, reading the verse, my eyes move towards a plague given to me some years ago… A plaque that has my name in bold in the centre and words around it that describe me( apparently).. Humble. Generous. Determined. Selfless. Reaches out. Faithful friend. She opens her hands to the poor and needy. Encourager. Servanthearted.
Really..?
Tears fall down my face as these words pop up at me, do I recognise this person?
Am I still that person?
As the year 2022 ends and we soon herald in the new and next year, Lord God, I pray that my attitude be the same as Jesus Christ. That I humble myself, without complaint ‘taking the very nature of a servant( that I am)..’ be obedient to your prompting, and that I will be an instrument of your love, peace, grace and hope. Lord God, as I aspire to bring you glory in all I do, may I also ‘ bend my knee, at the name of Jesus, and confess Him Lord of all.. Afterall, Lord God, it is He, Jesus, who gave for me, that I might pay it forward to your glory..
In the Mighty name of JESUS, Lord, I pray.
BUT GOD..
AMEN..
We’ve done it, SHES. Another year, together, sharing and growing. Loving and encouraging. Weeping with the broken hearted, and rejoicing with the glad tidings. Covering each other in prayer as requested. Welcoming to new SHES.
WHAT A COMMUNITY, WHAT A FAMILY!
Thank you again for everything SHES. For the comments, prsyers, encouraging words and all the love.❤
See you here at the virtual table in the New year to journey some more in the Word of God.
HAPPY AND GOD MOST BLESSED NEW YEAR wrapped in love, hugs, and prayers covered in hope.❤
HE IS LORD, INDEED!❤
Happy New Year everyone! So thankful we have a God who is all powerful and all knowing and loves us more than we’ll ever know.
My 4 year old son has been sick and his fever was very high last night. Would appreciate prayers for him and that my 8 week old twins won’t catch it. I almost feel it’s impossible as my son was helping with them yesterday.
Also, I want to say thanks again for your prayers for me after my c-section. I am healing. I still have a ways to go, I still hobble when I walk, still have some pain, but I am healing. Also, thanks for your encouragement about bonding with my daughters. The bond is there. ❤️
Again, happy new year. So thankful for She Reads Truth.