In today’s episode I am joined by my friend, Bible Teacher, author of Girlfriends in the Word and host of the Girlfriends in the Word podcast, Natalia Drumm.

I am so excited to share this discussion with you today as Natalia and I take on the lie: I’m Just Too Busy To Read the Bible!

Natalia’s passion is to help make Bible study encouraging, understandable and sustainable for every woman in every season of life.

As busy moms, it is a given that it is a battle to find time to spend in God’s Word and yet we know, as Christians, that time in God’s Word is the single most important use of our time next to prayer.

Each season of life presents new challenges that compete for our time and attention that can draw us away from reading our Bibles on a daily basis. Add in the expectations set by both ourselves and Christian culture and you will find some pretty discouraged Mamas feeling shame and condemnation when those expectations are not met.

Natalia and I are here today to talk openly and honestly about the struggle...because, yes Mama, it is real. We’re going to give practical tips to free you of those expectations leading to condemnation and encourage you to get back to the most important reason we read God’s Word - relationship.

Connect with Natalia on Instagram and at www.nataliadrumm.com to check out her Bible study resources mentioned today.

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FAVORITE TAKEAWAYS:

The enemy knows that if we are in our Bibles and we are getting God’s Word, God’s Word is getting into us and it will absolutely transform everything we touch.

God’s Word is power and the enemy doesn't want us to have power.

Satan is crafty, not creative.

The enemy gives us just enough truth to discourage us but not enough truth to get us where we need to be.

In the race to be best we’ve lost what’s good.

As Christian women, we are getting a lot of noise from all different directions and somewhere in that we’ve lost wisdom.

Church and our relationship with God has essentially become something we check off a list and we wonder why we struggle on Monday through Saturday.

We’ve given up responsibility of fueling our souls to the pastors in the pulpit.

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 - when you want to know what God wants from you, read this passage

As you are out doing the things, that’s how you make disciples.

Whether you are sitting in a laundry room or a board room, God is calling us to love Him with everything that we have and that works out in our day to day, mundane everyday life.

We all have the same 24 hours. How we choose to steward that time is a different story.

​​Let’s not lose sight of the fact that it’s simple… but it’s hard to accomplish

We get scared when things get hard, but we have to remember that God made us to do these hard and holy things

We are not too weak a women that we can’t accomplish this.

When God calls us to abide in Him and He calls us to spend time with Him and He wants to build this relationship with us, He’s not asking for something we can’t do. It just becomes an issue of prioritizing what we want to do.

Christianity is not for the faint in heart and it is not for the weak in spirit.

I am not responsible to multiply what God is doing. I am just responsible to show up.

God has assigned me this season, this period of time, because I am the girl for the job. He’s given it to me. He trusts me with it. So how can I give it back to the Master?