Women Who Kept Going
Twelve women of the Bible, three days each. Thirty-six days, ten minutes a day.
You have a lot of people to hold up and not many people holding you up. Somewhere along the way the days started running together, and you are doing all of it on less sleep than you would admit out loud. If that is your life right now, you are in the right place. This is quiet time with God, made for the woman who carries everything. Not a highlight reel of perfect Bible women. Not a list of ways you should be more like them. Twelve real women, three days each, in the actual words of the Bible, and a close look at who God was in the middle of their lives.
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What this study is, and what it is not
This study will not promise that your story turns out like theirs. Hannah got a son. Naomi got a grandson. The widow's flour jar held out. Those things happened to those women, and the Bible tells us so. It does not tell us that the same thing is coming for you, and this study is not going to pretend it does.
What this study will do is put you inside the text with them, slowly, and show you what is really there about God: what He noticed, what He said, who He spoke to, and what He did not explain. That is sturdier than a promise nobody can keep.
It is also not a character-study checklist. There is nothing in it about becoming more like any of these women. They are not tidy women in tidy seasons. Their stories are in the Bible with the hard parts left in.
What's inside
There are four parts. Each part holds three women, and each woman gets three days. Day 1 of each woman is her story, the scene she is actually in. Day 2 goes deeper into that story, usually at the moment it turns. Day 3 follows her thread out, either to the end of her own account or to the place the Bible itself picks her up again. At the end of each part there is a connect the thread page. No new passage. You look back across the three women, keep one verse, and rest.
| Part | Where the part takes you | Days |
|---|---|---|
| One | What Is Left When It Is Gone. Naomi, Ruth, and the widow of Zarephath | Days 1 to 9 |
| Two | The Long Wait. Hannah, Elizabeth, and Anna | Days 10 to 18 |
| Three | The Weight of an Ordinary Day. Mary of Nazareth, Martha of Bethany, and Lydia | Days 19 to 27 |
| Four | More Than the Story They Tell. Rahab, the woman at the well, and Esther | Days 28 to 36 |
Every study day follows the same four moves: Read the passage, Notice what is actually in the text with three questions, Respond in the writing space, and Pray from a starting line you finish in your own words. You do not need to be a Bible expert. You do not need a free hour. You need about ten minutes, a Bible or a Bible app, and something to write with. That is all.
The twelve women, and the season each one is in
You will meet a widow who told a stranger she was cooking her last meal. A woman who prayed so hard the priest thought she was drunk. A mother who treasured things up and turned them over in her heart. A Samaritan woman who came to draw water at about noon and found Jesus already at the well.
| Woman | The season she is in | Days |
|---|---|---|
| Naomi | grief that did not get explained | Days 1 to 3 |
| Ruth | starting over with nothing of your own | Days 4 to 6 |
| The Widow of Zarephath | scarcity, down to the last of it | Days 7 to 9 |
| Hannah | waiting for a child, year after year | Days 10 to 12 |
| Elizabeth | waiting into old age | Days 13 to 15 |
| Anna | showing up year after year | Days 16 to 18 |
| Mary of Nazareth | carrying what you did not plan for | Days 19 to 21 |
| Martha of Bethany | the tired one who does the work | Days 22 to 24 |
| Lydia | work, money, and a house that gets used | Days 25 to 27 |
| Rahab | a description that follows you | Days 28 to 30 |
| The Woman at the Well | when someone names the thing you did not bring up | Days 31 to 33 |
| Esther | a place you did not choose and a thing only you can say | Days 34 to 36 |
Mary of Nazareth, who carried what she did not plan for. Rahab, who is introduced as a prostitute and is still described that way in later passages, while Matthew names her simply as Rahab.
Hannah's three days, exactly as they print. One woman, three days, every time.
The connect-the-thread pages
These are the pages that make this a study rather than twelve separate profiles. Each one assigns no new passage. It looks back across the three women you have just read, names what their three passages actually have in common, hands you one verse to carry, and gives you room to write.
- What Is Left When It Is Gone. After Naomi, Ruth, and the widow of Zarephath.
- The Long Wait. After Hannah, Elizabeth, and Anna.
- The Weight of an Ordinary Day. After Mary of Nazareth, Martha of Bethany, and Lydia.
- More Than the Story They Tell. After Rahab, the woman at the well, and Esther.
The four verses those pages hand you are also the scripture card sheet in the $23.99 edition, on one page, meant to be cut up.
Hannah's Song Is Mostly About God
If someone finally got the thing they waited years for, you would expect the celebration to be about the thing. Read Hannah's song and count how many times her son comes up.
Go through all ten verses and look for Samuel's name. Then verse 2 lands on who God is...
“There is no one holy like the LORD. Indeed, there is no one besides You! And there is no Rock like our God.”
1 Samuel 2:2 (BSB)
Hannah is describing the God of Israel as she knows Him, in the prayer Scripture records from her, after He answered her. It is not a formula that says every barren woman will bear seven, or that every humbled person is on their way up.
Notice the text, question 1. Read verse 1. What does Hannah say her heart rejoices in? Now look through all ten verses for her son's name. How many times does it appear?
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Who this is for
It is for the woman whose waiting, loss or shame has not resolved. Not the version of her who has come out the other side with a story to tell, and not a woman who needs to be told the ending is coming. The one who is still in it.
This study will not promise that your story turns out like theirs. Hannah got a son. Naomi got a grandson. The widow's flour jar held out. Those things happened to those women, and the Bible tells us so. It does not tell us that the same thing is coming for you, and this study is not going to pretend it does.
Several of the twelve are in a season that had not turned yet inside the passage you read. Hannah is still taunted. Elizabeth is still childless and well along in years. Anna is still at the temple. The widow is still counting what is in the jar. The study stays in the passage with them instead of skipping ahead to what happened next.
They are not tidy women in tidy seasons. Their stories are in the Bible with the hard parts left in. If you miss a day, nothing breaks. Pick up where you left off. A missed day is not a failed study, and this is not one more thing to be behind on. You have enough of those.
One habit this study builds on every page, and it is the reason it can be honest with you. Every time the Bible records a promise, watch who it is spoken to. Some of these promises were said to one woman, in one house, on one day. Some were said to a whole nation. Some are open to anyone who comes. They are not all the same kind of sentence, and reading them carefully is not cold. It is how you end up trusting the ones that are yours.
This is a Bible study. It is not counseling, medical care, or treatment of any kind. Several of these women are in seasons that leave a mark, and the front matter says plainly where to get real help if you are in one of them.
About the Scripture in it
Every Bible verse in this study is quoted word for word from the Berean Standard Bible. Nothing is summarized, smoothed over, or rewritten. Every quoted verse is machine-checked word for word against the published text before it prints, and nothing is AI-written. The $23.99 edition prints every assigned passage in full so you never need a second book open.
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Questions women ask
Do I need any Bible background?
No. Every day tells you exactly what to read, and the three questions only ever ask you to notice what is on the page in front of you. Nothing assumes you have done a study before.
How much time does it take each day?
About ten minutes. Thirty-six study days in all, three per woman, plus a connect-the-thread page at the end of each part that has no new passage and is mostly writing.
Does this promise that my story turns out like theirs?
No, and the front matter says so in the first paragraph you read. Hannah got a son. Naomi got a grandson. The widow's flour jar held out. Those things happened to those women, and the Bible tells us so. It does not tell us the same thing is coming for you, and this study does not pretend it does. What it does is put you inside the text with them and show you what is really there about God.
I am still in the waiting. Is this going to make that worse?
It is written for you rather than around you. Several of these women are in a season that had not resolved yet in the passage you read, and the study stays in the passage rather than skipping to the ending. Where a text records a promise, the study says out loud who it was spoken to, because some of these were said to one woman, in one house, on one day.
How are the twelve women organized?
Four parts, three women each, three days each. Day 1 is her story. Day 2 goes deeper, usually at the moment it turns. Day 3 follows her thread out, either to the end of her own account or to the place the Bible itself picks her up again. Then the part closes with a connect-the-thread page.
What does the $23.99 edition add?
Every assigned passage printed in full, in the Berean Standard Bible, right under the Read line, so you never need a second book open. It also carries the scripture card sheet: the four verses the connect pages hand you, one per part, on one cuttable page.
How does the study handle Mary?
The same way it handles the other eleven. Mary of Nazareth is in part three as a young woman who carried what she did not plan for, and her three days stay inside Luke 1 and Luke 2: what the angel said to her, what she sang afterwards, and the night she treasured things up and turned them over in her heart. The study makes no claim about her beyond what Luke writes, and it asks nothing of you toward her.
What Bible translation does it use?
The Berean Standard Bible. Every quote is machine-checked word for word against the published text. Nothing is paraphrased and nothing is AI-written.
Do I need to print it?
No. You get a print-friendly PDF (light on ink) and a color screen edition for phone or tablet. The writing space works in GoodNotes and similar apps.
What if I fall behind?
Nothing breaks. Pick up where you left off. A missed day is not a failed study. Doing one woman on a Saturday morning is a perfectly good way to run this one.
Is there a version for a small group?
Not yet. This study ships in two editions for your own use, and there is no leader kit for it at launch. Our four-week studies do have one, and they are linked at the bottom of this page.
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