Women's Weekly Bible Challenge

Hello and welcome to THE PRUDENT WOMAN RETREAT 2023. My name is Lisa Ann Spencer.  In January of 2023 I was invited for a  2 nd  time to participate in the Prudent Woman Retreat.  This is an online interactive retreat that features several speakers over the course of two days. This year’s theme was REST.  I am always thankful to have an opportunity to share the word of God with women. I study the Bible doctrinally and dispensationally, rather than by life application only.  It’s not that I am against life-application, but I know it is important to first understand the doctrine of a passage before making application to ourselves. By using the retreat theme of “REST”, I am going to demonstrate for you how I study the scriptures in order to get a solid, biblical understanding of all that the Bible has to say about the topic of REST.   USING A CONCORDANCE There was a time when carrying around this huge and heavy book, Strong's Exhaustive Concordance , was the only way to find e

Hello and Welcome to the Women’s Weekly Bible Challenge! I’m Lisa Ann Spencer. Today is the final session, Part 9, of this series titled, When the Holy Spirit Speaks to Women . We will finish our study of all the women in the book of Acts.   REVIEW Our last lesson in Acts chapter 19 was a separate study on “Goddess, Devils & Evil Spirits” to show that Diana was the same goddess found in the Old Testament.   You can find that study by clicking here: Shortly after the uproar concerning Diana, the Apostle Paul departed Ephesus with the intent of arriving in JERUSALEM for the day of Pentecost.   Keep in mind that this is many years, perhaps two decades, after the first notable day of Pentecost in Acts chapter 2, when the Holy Spirit came down upon the children of Israel. Much had changed since then.   The nation of Israel had fallen from their exalted position as God’s chosen nation, and they were brought low like the Gentile nations.   Romans 11:32 tells us that God concl