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