Category: Women’s Ministry

LEADERS LEAD WITH PRAYER. Bonus Day: Colossians 1. 2026

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Read the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 38. (Bonus Day: Colossians 1)

This summer our Shelby County TN LifeWise leadership team read Lead with Prayer by Skoog, Greer, and Doolittle. They wrote, “This modern practice of outsourcing prayer to staff or volunteers while we pursue other obligations and opportunities of leadership is largely a deception among Western Christians that keeps us from becoming prayer leaders. Jesus never taught this, the disciples modeled the opposite, and there is no historic church leader who endorsed the idea of delegating prayer only to those deemed most fit for the role of intercessor.” Amen.

And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy; giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

Colossians 1:9-12 ESV

Friends, Paul didn’t delegate prayer to someone else. Paul LEAD with prayer. So did Jesus. Let’s follow their example.

Please pray for your family and for your own walk with the Lord. Please pray for your church and your community. Please pray for me, for LifeWise Academy chapters across America, and for the gospel to increase and bear fruit.

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Leaders Lead with Prayer – FormerAtheist58
The Lord’s Prayer – Grace Community Church
LifeWise Academy Clark County Ohio

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BLESSED is the Man who TRUSTS in the LORD. Jeremiah 16-17. 2026

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Read the Bible in 2 Years: Psalm 13, Jeremiah 16-17

Thus says the LORD:
“Cursed is the man who trusts in man
and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD.

He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.

Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD.

He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

Jeremiah 17:5-8

BLESSED is the Man who TRUSTS in the LORD – FormerAtheist58
Like a Tree – Caroline Cobb

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Christ Jesus Came into the World to Save Sinners Like Me. 1 Timothy 1. 2026

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Read the Bible in 2 Years: Proverbs 15, 1 Timothy 1

I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service, though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.

To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.”

1 Timothy 1:12-17


Maybe you’ve never been an atheist like me.

Neither was Paul.

Maybe you’ve never said ugly, blasphemous, hateful things against the name of God like I did.

Paul didn’t either.

But Paul saw his own sin for what it was – offense against a perfect, righteous, holy, Almighty God.

And he saw himself for who he was – a great sinner saved by an even greater God.

Praise God for His boundless mercy and grace toward sinners like me and you.

Christ Jesus Came into the World to Save Sinners Like Me – FormerAtheist58
Thank You Jesus for the Blood – Charity Gayle

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All These Things My Hand has Made, Declares the Lord – Isaiah 65-66. 2026

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Read the Bible in 2 Years: Proverbs 14, Isaiah 65-66

Thus says the LORD:
“Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool;
what is the house that you would build for me,
and what is the place of my rest?
All these things my hand has made,
and so all these things came to be,
declares the LORD.
But this is the one to whom I will look:
he who is humble and contrite in spirit
and trembles at my word.”

Isaiah 66:1-2 ESV

All These Things My Hand Has Made, Declares the Lord – FormerAtheist58
All Things – Sovereign Grace

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God is the Potter and I am the Clay – Isaiah 63-64. 2026

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Read the Bible in 2 Years: Proverbs 13, Isaiah 63-64

But now, O LORD, you are our Father;
we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we are all the work of your hand.

Isaiah 64:8 ESV

God is the Potter and I am the Clay – FormerAtheist58
You are the Potter and I am the Clay

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Making the Choice to Rejoice – Isaiah 60-62. 2026

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Read the Bible in 2 Years: Proverbs 12, Isaiah 60-62

I will greatly rejoice in the LORD; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Isaiah 61:10 ESV

Making the Choice to Rejoice – FormerAtheist58
Rejoice – Getty

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The High and Holy God is with the Lowly – Isaiah 57-59. 2026

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Read the Bible in 2 Years: Proverbs 11, Isaiah 57-59

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.”

Isaiah 57:15 ESV

The High and Holy God is with the Lowly – FormerAtheist58
Worthy – Cece Winans

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My Life is an Offering to Jesus – Isaiah 54-56. 2026

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Read the Bible in 2 Years: Proverbs 10, Isaiah 54-56

And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant— these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.

Isaiah 56:6-7 ESV

My Life is an Offering to Jesus – FormerAtheist58
Take my Life and Let it Be – Norton Hall Band

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Why are you Afraid of Man? Have you Forgotten the Lord, Your Maker? Isaiah 51-53. 2026

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Read the Bible in 2 Years: Proverbs 9, Isaiah 51-53

I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass, and have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth.

Isaiah 51:12-13a ESV

Afraid of Man? Have you Forgotten your Maker? FormerAtheist58
Christ our Hope in Life and Death – Getty

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Being Willing to Suffer Shame for the Name of Jesus. Isaiah 49-50. 2026

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Read the Bible in 2 Years: Proverbs 8, Isaiah 49-50

I gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard; I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting. But the Lord GOD helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame.

Isaiah 50:6-7 ESV

Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Matthew 5:11-12 ESV

As a Former Atheist, I’m Willing to Suffer Shane for the Name of Jesus. Are you?- FormerAtheist58
Unashamed – Matthew West

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