Quarter 2: Week 7: Friday: 1 Samuel 8:1-5:

                 Quarter 2: Week 7: Friday: 1 Samuel 8:1-5:
                              As Samuel got old he appointed his sons as the leaders of Israel. His first son being Joel, and his second being Abijah. His sons didn't follow his ways, because they were dishonest and took bribes. The elderly came together to tell Samuel he is getting old. They also tell him his sons do not follow his ways, so he must pick a new leader. I don't like being greedy and unfair. Most of the time I find myself being greedy, thinking of myself before others. That must stop, because that was not how Jesus acted. He put others before himself. One way to stop the greed from coming is by to stop looking at other's belongings and lusting them.

Quarter 2: Week 7: Thursday: 1 Samuel 3:1-21:

              Quarter 2: Week 7: Thursday: 1 Samuel 3:1-21:
                          Samuel preached before the Lord, and back then visions of the Lord were rare. When Samuel was sitting by his faher the Lord called him, he replies, but his father told him he did not call him. The Lord calls to him once more, and once more his father said he did not call him. At this point Samuel was clueless that it was God. It happend again, and Eli knew it was God and told him if he calls again he is to answer him. He spoke to the Lord, and everyone soon noticed he had the Lord in him. When I read God's word I expect him to give me something to help me get throught the day. Every morning I randomly open to a page and see what God has to say

Quarter 2: Week 7: Wednesday: 1 Samuel 1:1-28 :

             Quarter 2: Week 7: Wednesday: 1 Samuel 1:1-28 :
                          Elkanah had two wives named Peninnah and Hannah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none. He goes and sacrifices to the Lord, but he gives whatever is left over to his two wives. He always gives Hannah more because he loved her. One day Hannah prays and asks that if God gives her an baby that she would give it to the Lord and no razor will ever touch it's head. Eli only thinks she is drunk and told her to put her wine away. She then told him she hadn't had a lick of alcohol. A few weeks later she was pregnant and nine months later she had a son named Samuel. She nursed him and rose him to the Lord. Lately a promise I have keep to God was praying. Not only do I pray before a test, but every night and morning!

Quarter 2: Week 7: Tuesday: Ruth 4:1-22:

                 Quarter 2: Week 7: Tuesday: Ruth 4:1-22:
                         Boaz gather the elderly and tells them that Naomi is back and selling relatives land. One man offers to buy it, but Boaz also says with the land comes Ruth. The man said no, and that he, Boaz, should buy it. The earlier way to make transitions final, back then, was to take your sandal off, and give it to the other person. The said for him to buy it himself and he took his sandals off. Boaz tells the elders they are all witnesses to him buying the land from Naomi, and to have the responsibility of Ruth. Then all the elderly and people at the gate agreed to be witness. So Boaz and Ruth married, and the Lord blessed them with a bundle of joy, aka a baby. He was a son, and they named him Obed. Obed was the father of Jesse, who was the father of David. A future reason for obeying God is so He can clear your future. If you don't go along with what God says, He won't be able to do much with your life. If I obey God, read my Bible, praise Him, and give my future to Him, then He can do something with my life.

Quarter 2: Week 7: Monday: Ruth 3:1-18 :

                   Quarter 2: Week 7: Monday: Ruth 3:1-18 :
                              Ruth's mother-in-law, Naomi, told her she must find a home where she will be well provided for. She told her that Boaz was a relative and she was to get dressed up real nice with perfumes and such.  She went on to say to go to the threshold when he was eating, and when he was done and sat down to go by his legs and he would tell her what to do. She did as she said, and when she went Boaz asked who she was and she told him. He tells her the Lord has blessed him, that he know her good characters, and offered her a place to stay. He gave her something to take back to Naomi, because he did not want her to go back empty handed. She went back, Naomi asked her how it went, and she told her everything about Boaz. Surprising methods God has used in my life was sending me to Bethany. I didn't want to go at first, because i had gone to my school for seven years, but now I am glad I did, because I've learned so much.

Quarter 2: Week 6: Friday: Ruth 2:1-23:

                                 Quarter 2: Week 6: Friday: Ruth 2:1-23:
                             Naomi has a relative on her husband's side named Boaz. Ruth asks Naomi if she can go take left over grain from anyone she finds in her favor. So she went out to a field and it turned out to be Boaz's field. He came out and said, the Lord be with you, and they answered by saying, "The Lord bless you!" He tells them to follow the women and when they get thirsty ask the men for drink, because he told the men not to lay a hand on her. She asks why he finds her in favor, and he tells her he heard what she did for her mother-in-law after her child died. When it was meal time Boaz blessed her with a meal. When Ruth came back to Naomi, Naomi asked where she went. Naomi told her it would be best if she stayed with the woman of Boaz, and glen with them, so she did. When Boaz heard of the kind things Ruth had done he blessed her. When my aunt Winter saw I was responsible she started letting me watch her kids while she watched a movie, and letting me change little Autumn and stuff.

Quarter 2: Week 6: Thursday: Ruth 1:1-22:

                 Quarter 2: Week 6: Thursday: Ruth 1:1-22:
                            When the Judges ruled their was a famine. Since there was a famine a family had to go and move to Moab. Naomi's husband died, and she left with her two sons. They lived there for ten years, and her sons had married Moabite woman. Then her sons also died and she was left all alone with no kids or husband. She heard about God and got her two daughter-in-laws and they made their way back to Judah. After a while Naomi told them to go back to their mothers, and that she pray the Lord may grant them with new husbands. Orpha gave her a kiss on the cheek goodbye, but Ruth clung on to her. So Naomi said yes, and they both went on.  Naomi said that God had changed her life forever, and saved her. Difficulties, like fighting, effect my relationship with my best friend Mallory, not the Malori that goes here. The longest she and I have fought was about three days. When someone fights with a best friend, like over stupid things, it can effect it.

Quarter 2: Week 6: Wednesday: Judges 16:22-31 :

            Quarter 2: Week 6: Wednesday: Judges 16:22-31 :
                                  The hair on his head is beginning to grow again. The Philistines began to praise their god for letting their enemy, Samson, come into their hands. While they cheered they asked Samson to come out and entertain them. They got Samson out of jail and he preformed for them. He asked if they could move him to the front pillars, and they do. He asked God to give him strength for the last time so he could get revenge. When he pushed the pillars he said let me die with the Philistines. When the roof came down he did so. Thus, he killed more people than he did when he was alive. Then his family came back to get him and buried him. God has patience with us all, and gives us many chances. I have the patience of my dad, so I'm glad God has the patience to put up with me. I know God's patience, and I try not to push it.

Quarter 2: Week 6: Tuesday: Judges 16:1-21 :

              Quarter 2: Week 6: Tuesday: Judges 16:1-21 :
                              Samson went to Gaza, and the Gaza people were told he was staying the night there. They all agreed they would kill him in the morning. Some time later he fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who was told by the Philistines  to get Samson to share his secret of his strength. At first she disagreed, but when they pt money on the table she agreed. Delilah asked him how he could be tied up, and he replied with seven fresh bowstrings I'll become as weak as any other man. She got him tied up, but he snapped them off. He told her that if somone tied him up with new rope he would become weak. She tied him once again, and once again he got away. This happens once more and he finally cracked, and told her about how he can't save his head. When he went to sleep the Philistines came and guarged his eyes out. One time I was passing by a gas station with my mom. I asked her id we could go in, but she keept saying no. When she finally said yes something told me to wait and get  something to eat at home, and we did. Later I saw that the gas station had been robed.

Quarter 2: Week 6: Monday: Judges 15: 1-20:

               Quarter 2: Week 6: Monday: Judges 15: 1-20:
                              Samson got a goat and went to his wife's house, and when he went to her bedroom door her father wouldn't let him in. The father said he thought he hated her, and that her little sister is more attracted, and he should go for her. When the father still wouldn't let him in, he got foxes and tied them tail and tail together. He put a torch in their tails, and sent them lose and burned their grain. When they found out who he was they burned his future wife and husband, and he replied with more revenge. He went to war with them and killed many. The people of Judah came to take him back to the Philistines. Mistakes hardly ever correct themselves, unless you correct them yourself. Like not writing your name on the right place on a paper. I always messed that up, but Mrs. Perkins points it out to help me.

Quarter 2: Week 5: Friday: Judges 14:1-20:

                        Quarter 2: Week 5: Friday: Judges 14:1-20:
                                                                     (sorry it is late, i forgot to post it)             

Samson saw a Philistine woman in Timnah and wants his parents to get her as a wife for him. His parents ask if there is anyone else he wants to marry, anyone they know or are related to. But Samson only replied that she was the woman for him. When he and his parents went down to Timnah Samson went to the vineyard. In the vineyards there was a lion and the spirt of the Lord came on him and he tore the lion up, but didn't tell his parents. He got to know the girl and loved her. On his way to his parents he came to the dead lion saw bees and honey around it, and he grabed the honey and ate it. He gave some honey to his parents, but didnt tell them where he got it from. He gave them a riddle and seven days to find it out. He told his wife, she told the people, and they got it. When Samson left his wife was given to someone else.Wisdom from my parents is a good thing. They know what they are saying, most of the time, becase they learned from their parents, who learned from their parents, and so on. When my parents give me wisdom I try my best to listen.

                                      

Quarter 2: Week 5: Thursday: Judges 13: 1-25

              Quarter 2: Week 5: Thursday: Judges 13: 1-25:
                         Yet again the Israelites did evil, since they haven't learned yet, so the Lord gave them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years. Forty years! A man named Manoah has a wife who is childless, and an angel of the Lord appears before her. The angel tells her not to drink alcohol of such, for she will become pregnant, and the child is not to cut his hair. She had a son that she named Samson, and as he grew God blessed him. At first Manoah didn't think an angel of the Lord really came before his wife. When he sent the offering, he then knew. In my discipline I think I need help most with obeying my mom like I should. Sometimes I can be mean to her, but I love her.

Quarter 2: Week 5: Wednesday: Judges 7:1-25:

            Quarter 2: Week 5: Wednesday: Judges 7:1-25:
                       Early in the morning Gideon and all his men camped near the spring of Harod. God told him they have too many men, and with so many men they can't over take Midian. He told Gideon to say if anyone is in fear, they may leave, and twenty two thousand left, with ten thousand at the remains. He again tells him there are too many men, and that He will say who stays and who goes. After that there was only three hundred men left. Gideon tells everyone to follow his lead, and they did and over took them. I need to help in trusting God with my future. If I worry about my future, and not give it to God, then God won't do anything with it.

Quarter 2: Week 5: Tuesday: Judges 6:1-40:

      Quarter 2: Week 5: Tuesday: Judges 6:1-40:
                  It says that the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so He gave them into the hands of the Midianites. Whenever the Israelites planted crops, they where invaded, and they began to cry out to the Lord. The Lord sends a prophet and he tells them what Gods says, which is, that He brought you out of Egypt, and you still have not listened to me. God sent an angel to Gideon, and the angel told him to fear not mighty warrior, for the Lord is with you. He asks if the Lord is with us, then why has he done this, and the angel replied by saying, that he can go save Israel. Examples of obedience in my life is the way I listen to my teachers. Ever since  was little, I was scared to get in trouble. Which proves my obedience in that area of my life.

Quarter 2: Week 5: Monday: Judges 4:4-24:

    Quarter 2: Week 5: Monday: Judges 4:4-24:
             God told Deborah, who was leading Israel at the time, to go to the top of the mountain and the land would be theirs. She got the ten thousand men like God told her, along with her husband. They go nine hundred charriots made of iron, and  Deborah said go. She said go because she also said this was the day the Lord has made. A man went into a womans tent and told him who he was looking for was dead. There are many ways to show people you care about them.  You can show God you care about Him by respecting Him and His creations. You can show your teachers you care for them by following the rules. You can even show your parents you care, by hugging, thanking them, and getting good grades.

Quarter 2: Week 4: Friday: Joshua 24:1-31:

                Quarter 2: Week 4: Friday: Joshua 24:1-31:

                   Joshua summoned all the people, and the elders, to tell them of how God promised their ancestors the land of Canaan.God spoke threw him and reminded them of Moses and Aaron. He reminds them of the land he gave them, and how they won every battle they let God help them with. He reminds them of how they lost every battle they did NOT include God in. He reminds them of splitting the red sea, and coming threw the Jordan. He tells them to fear the Lord threw faithfulness. He tells them to throw away the God you and your ancestors worshiped, and tells them to chose to this day who you will serve. They reply by telling him they will not forsake God, but serve him all the days of their lives. He tells them you are witnesses to yourselves for taking God.Then Joshua dismissed the people died and they burried him. I can get hope from history that we will one day join the Lord. In history Jesus said He will one day return, and threw history many have keep their faith in that. I can keep my hope that one day my pain will be gone.

                    

Quarter 2: Week 4: Thursday: Joshua 23:1-16

               Quarter 2: Week 4: Thursday: Joshua 23:1-16:


                God has let them rest from their enemies, and now Joshua is a very old man. He summons Israel to tell them that it was He, your God, who found you, don't forget that. He tells them of the miracles God has done, that God is with them, and they need to be strong. He tells them that to this day no one has been able to with stand them. He reminds them that not one of God's promises have failed. He finishes by telling them if they break the Lord's covenant, then they will surly die. The warning I need to obey is to not go against the covenant. I always break number 5, honor thy father and mother. I think I should work on that one.....allot!

Quarter 2: Week 4: Wednesday:Joshua 10:1-15

   Quarter 2: Week 4: Wednesday: Joshua 10:1-15:

                   They are going to attack  Gibeon. With God's help they over threw them, and won. They took them by suprise. The sun came out in the middle of the sky. Joshua said that there had never been a day like that again. So they went back to  Gibeon, and camped there for the night. Letting them over take  Gibeon, showed God's power. God showed his power to the Israelites many many many many times. I know God is powerfull through His crteations. When I look around and see all He has created, I see his strength, power, and love over us.

Quarter 2: Week 4: Tuesday: Joshua 7:1-26:

              Quarter 2: Week 4: Tuesday: Joshua 7:1-26

              Joshua is telling some men to go spy on Ali. They came back and told Joshua he doesn't need to worry about the war, but only send a few thousand men to fight. Ali killed about thirty six of them and sent them back out. After this Joshua began to cry out to the Lord asking why he saved them just to gets them killed by the Alis. He tells him to stand up, for the Israelites have sinned, and He tells him to tell the Israelites they can't move until the sin is gone from the camp. When he finds the people who sinned he tells them to confess what they have done and they tell him they stole the silver, robe, and gold. He told them they where in his tent hidden. After this the Israelites stoned them, and burned their remains. When I was little I stole a pack of gum from my friend, lol, and when she found it was missing I told her I didn't know where it was. She found it in my bag, and we never talked since. I know it is stupid, but that was one bad consequence of one silly little action.

















                     

Quarter 2: Week 4: Monday: Joshua 5:13- 6:27

                     Quarter 2: Week 4: Monday: Joshua 5:13- 6:27

                    Someone came to Joshua and Joshua asked them if they where for them or the enemy and the man save neither. He said he had come because he was in the army of the Lord. He told Joshua to take of his shoes, because he was only Holy ground, adn he did so. The Lord is telling Joshua to march around Jericho, and giving him details at what to do and how to do it, including he must march around it for six days, once each day. Joshua tells them not to sing a war cry and not to shout till the day he tells them to shout. On the last day, on the last time around the city he tells them to shout for the Lord has victory. When they began to shout, the walls started to come down. They saved the lasy and her family that they promised to save, then burrned the city down. I think it would be the most amazing thing to go back and see the walls of Jericho fall to the ground, and have the reasurence that God is with you. In fact, if I could go back in time I would like to go back and see this happen. When I think God needs to use me I get serious. I like to think God has something important for me to do, and He does, and when I find out what it is, I will be serious about it.