Week 5. Wednesday: The Right Crowd PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: Philippians 3:17 17 Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do. UNDERSTAND: get a deeper understanding of the key words Begin by underlining nouns with a single line, double underline verbs, and circle descriptive words. Make a list of the key words/phrases and think about what they mean. Snaps

Week 5. Tuesday: Live It Out PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: Philippians 3:16 16 Only let us live up to what we have already attained. UNDERSTAND: get a deeper understanding of the key words Begin by underlining nouns with a single line, double underline verbs, and circle descriptive words. Make a list of the key words/phrases and think about what they mean. Snapshot: Paul has already told us not to put our confidence in religion, which is a futile effor

Week 5. Monday: Those Who Are Mature PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: Philippians 3:15 15 All of us, then, who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. UNDERSTAND: get a deeper understanding of the key words Begin by underlining nouns with a single line, double underline verbs, and circle descriptive words. Make a list of the key words/phrases and think about what they m

Week 4. Friday: Forget the Past PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: Philippians 3:12-14 12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for whi

Week 4. Thursday: Becoming Like Christ PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: Philippians 3:10 10 I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead. UNDERSTAND: get a deeper understanding of the key words Begin by underlining nouns with a single line, double underline verbs, and circle descriptive words. Make a list

Week 4. Wednesday: Knowing Christ PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: Philippians 3:7-9 7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which i

Week 4. Tuesday: False Confidence PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: Philippians 3:4-7 4 though I myself have reasons for such confidence. If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; 6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless. 7 But wh

Week 4. Monday: Watch Out PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: Philippians 3:1-3 1 Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you. 2 Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh. 3 For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh— UNDERSTAND: get

Saturday: Prepare for Sunday REVIEW: Take a few minutes to make a list of what you’ve learned this week. PRAY: Ask God to use this time to help you get familiar with Sunday’s scripture passage. READ: Philippians 3:1-14 1 Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you. 2 Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh. 3 For it is we who are the circum

Week 3. Friday: Be Glad and Rejoice PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: Philippians 2:17-18 17 But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. 18 So you too should be glad and rejoice with me. UNDERSTAND: get a deeper understanding of the key words Begin by underlining nouns with a single line, double underline verbs, and circle descriptive words. Make a list