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JANUARY Read Through the Bible Old Testament / New Testament Tue 1 Gen. 1-3 / Matt. 1 Wed 2 Gen. 4-7 / Matt. 2 Thu 3 Gen. 8-10 / Matt. 3 Fri 4 Gen. 11-15 / Matt. 4 Sat 5 Gen. 16-18 Sun 6 Ps. 1-5; Prov. 1:1-19 Mon 7 Gen. 19-22 / Matt. 5 Tue 8 Gen. 23-25 / Matt. 6 Wed 9 Gen. 26-28 / Matt. 7 Thu 10 Gen. 29-30 / Matt. 8 Fri 11 Gen. 31-33 / Matt. 9 Sat 12 Gen. 34-36 Sun 13 Ps. 6-9; Prov. 1:20-33 Mon 14 Gen. 37-39 / Matt. 10 Tues 15 Gen. 40-41 / Matt. 11 Wed 16 Gen. 42-44 / Matt. 12 Thu 17 Gen. 45-47 / Matt. 13 Fri 18 Gen. 48-50 / Matt. 14 Sat 19 Ex. 1-2 Sun 20 Ps. 10-13; Prov. 2 Mon 21 Ex. 3-4 / Matt. 15 Tue 22 Ex. 5-6 / Matt. 16 Wed 23 Ex. 7-8 / Matt. 17 Thu 24 Ex. 9-10 / Matt. 18 Fri 25 Ex. 11-12 / Matt. 19 Sat 26 Ex. 13-14 Sun 27 Ps. 14-17; Prov. 3:1-18 Mon 28 Ex. 15-16 / Matt. 20 Tue 29 Ex. 17-18 / Matt. 21 Wed 30 Ex. 19-20 / Matt. 22 Thu 31 Ex. 21-22 / Matt. 23 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * article from p. 16 continues * * * * Seven months earlier, Jenny had been introduced to the problem of human trafficking. The Lord had told her to join a group of women who ministered in strip clubs. Raised in a family with a metaphorical picket fence, Jenny had had no frame of reference for the life of a stripper. The first time she had gone to a club with the women’s group, she kept her eyes on the floor. Yet she knew without a doubt that this was the call of God on her life. No question. Since then, she’d spent most Monday nights at a strip club. After six months, the Lord told her to start a new group. Two other women joined her. Their primary goal was to befriend the dancers, never judge, and always be cheerful and interested. And cookies. They took chocolate chunk cookies. They were already known as The Cookie Ladies. Jenny finished painting the side of the townhouse, and had climbed down the ladder when she noticed she had missed a spot. Stepping back on the ladder, she began her ascent to the top. Standing atop the ladder, Jenny reached out to paint the spot when suddenly the ladder shifted, and Jenny began to fall. Not wanting to land directly on the ladder, she kicked the ladder out of her way. She landed hard on some landscaping. Catching her breath, she lay there for a minute. “Are you all right?” her friends shouted, running to her side. “It’s OK,” Jenny said. “Just give me a minute.” She tried sitting up, but couldn’t. It felt like someone was holding her down. “Do you want us to call 911?” “No, give me a minute, and I’ll get up.” She tried again, but couldn’t get up. “You’d better call,” Jenny said. Firemen, paramedics and police arrived. Put in a neck brace and on a backboard, Jenny was rushed to the hospital. Because she could move her arms and legs, she was considered a low priority, and waited four hours while the emergency room staff tended to a patient with a gunshot wound and another who had been stabbed. Following an X-ray, the doctor came in to discuss her injuries. “Your neck is broken,” he said, “and your back is broken in two places.” Angelic Help “I was stunned,” Jenny recalls. “They did a CT scan and an MRI, then they called in a surgeon. He admitted me to the hospital and described the damage in more detail. My back had two compression fractures. The worst damage was to my neck: My C7 vertebra had fractures all the way around the outside. The inside had burst, the explosion protruding out the back of my neck. I could run my finger up the back of my neck and feel it sticking out. “I realized that when I had tried to get up, angels held me down. If I’d sat up, it probably would have severed my spinal cord. That first night in the hospital the Lord gave me Luke 8:48 in the "Amplified Bible." ‘He said to her, “Daughter, your faith [your personal trust and confidence in Me] has made you well. Go in peace (untroubled, undisturbed well-being).”’ “He also told me, 'I have a mission for you and I can’t have you doing it in a wheelchair. I need you healthy and whole.' I started confessing, ‘I am healed and whole from the top of my head to the soles of my feet. Inside and out.’ “My surgeon was a great guy. He said that to repair my C7, he would have to fuse all the vertebrae in my neck. He wanted to wait and see how I did. He put me in neck and back braces, and after two days discharged me. I went back every week for an X-ray. Each week when I returned, nothing had changed.” A Step of Faith Two weeks after the fall, Jenny said, “Devil, you’re not stopping me.” Wearing her neck and back braces, she and the other ladies took cookies to a strip club. “What happened to you?” people asked. 18 : BVOV

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