Friday.
I was about to type good morning but it’s beyond morning now! 
Good afternoon this fine day of Friday from LA.

Friends. Sisters (or Brothers) by JESUS.
If you have friends who are family by JESUS who you can talk with for hours and pray with for hours too, you are blessed and highly favored. 

As the days grow darker give attention to your family and your friends. Make time for them. 

Let me sketch for you an experience that I covet for the Body of CHRIST.
A group (3, 4, 6 or so) seated at a table round or tucked feet in comfy chairs or temples scattered near on a pillowed floor — sharing, talking, laughing, crying as the need may be.
Then with opened Bibles in every pair of hands, READING.
One reading aloud, the others watching each word, and as Holy Spirit prompts insights, questions, answers are spoken all around.
Each expressing, learning, teaching, and basking in GOD our Savior. 
It’s the sweetest family communion on earth. 
I want this for the CHURCH.
It’s the sure way to maturing in Trust and learning JESUS and His ways. 

Again, I urge you to read the Scripture – at least a chapter a day. And if you can find a sister (or brothers, find a brother) to read with you, do it.
Read and share with each other what Holy Spirit reveals to you as you read GOD’s WORD.
It works via phone, email, text, and face-to-face at that table round.

You need this my Friends. You need it more than you know you need it. 
I’m not kidding. 

 ¹¹ And the people of Berea were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, and they listened eagerly to Paul’s message. They searched the Scriptures day after day to see if Paul and Silas were teaching the truth. 
¹² As a result, many Jews believed, as did many of the prominent Greek women and men.  source Acts 17