Focus Text: James 3:1-10

See how great a forest a little fire kindles! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God.  Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so.

Focus Text: Psalm 116:1-2; James 1:19-21;

James 1:19 So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;  for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

Focus Text: Exodus 10:3,9

So Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord God of the Hebrews: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me.…

And Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old; with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we will go, for we must hold a feast to the Lord.”

Focus Text: Deuteronomy 6:4-9

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

“And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Focus Text: Joshua 24:14-15

“Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the Lord! And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Focus Text: Genesis 12:1-4; James 2:23

Now the Lord had said to Abram:

“Get out of your country,

So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot   went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he   departed from Haran.

James 2:23 “…“Abraham believed God,   and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was   called the friend of God.”

Focus Text: Genesis 6:9-13, 18, 22; 7:7

These are the descendants of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God. And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence. And God saw that the earth was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon the earth. And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence because of them; now I am going to destroy them along with the earth.”

“...But I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.”

… 22 Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did.

… 7 So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.

Focus Text: Genesis 4:6-9

The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your   countenance fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do   not do well, sin is lurking at the door; its desire is for you, but you must   master it.”

Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the   field.” And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his   brother Abel, and killed him. Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” He said, “I do   not know; am I my brother’s keeper?”

Fasting Theme: Fortifying the Family

Todays Chapter Reading: Genesis 1 & 2

Focus Text: Genesis 1:26-28

Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image,   according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the   sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the   wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps   upon the earth.”

So God created   humankind in his image,

God blessed them, and God said to them,   “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have   dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over   every living thing that moves upon the earth.”

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;

9 How long will you lie there, you sluggard?

Today we are going to do something a little different,

We are going to talk about my experience in SRS

Throughout the month I learned a lot of things

And I feel privileged I can share.

and we will discuss:

1. Where the Idea came from for SRS?

2. Location, location, location.

3. What would I practice SR at?

4. Education & Learning about preparation?

5. What do I eat?

6. Timing.

7. Miscalculations and loss of food.

8. Canning, and other food storage.

9.  Realizing how much work is needed.

10. Community.

11.  Harvesting.

12.  Energy, emotions, and physical change.

13. Cheating & becoming a scavenger.

14.  Self denial and fasting.

15. Seeing the end.

16.  What happened the day after.