Saturday, January 29, 2011

Sunday School - January 30, 2011

Sunday School - January 30, 2011


Affirmation: I press into a renewed hunger for things yet to be seen. I pursue Jesus with reckless abandon.

If we would pray more for others, promote what God is doing though others rather than ourselves, then the Lord would begin to promote us. - Rick Joyner

God's not trying to make you into something. He's trying to expose the real you He already sees. - Myles Munroe

It takes a lot of time, effort and diligence to be a fruitful Christian. Its quicker and easier to raise weeds than it is to raise tomatoes or corn. - Andrew Wommack

"And some seeds fell into rich soil and grew and produced its crop a hundred-fold..." - Luke 8:8.

Guard your eyes, since they are the windows through which sin enters into the soul. Never look curiously on those things which are contrary to modesty, even slightly. - John Bosco

Affirmation: As I am moved with the love of God, I seek His face until I am "clothed with power from on High!"

In order to possess and enjoy an inheritance, the inheritor must take two steps: first, he must believe that there is such an inheritance; second, he must singularly arise to take possession of this inheritance. - Watchman Nee

The best warfare to engage in against the devil is to magnify the Lord Jesus in your life. The Bible declares, "Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered..." Psalm 68:1 - Joseph Prince

The way we tap into the source of inner life, peace, strength, and confidence is by learning to quiet ourselves and wait on the Lord. - James Goll

"In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength." - Isaiah 30:15

Make your one aim in life the doing of the will of Jesus in every circumstance, however unimportant or trifling it may seem. - Ignatii Brianchaninov

Affirmation: I release love every moment into every situation, every prayer and every thought until it totally consumes my life.

If you expect a glass of water from God, He will provide it for you! If you expect a healing from God, He will provide it for you. - Norvel Hayes

The devil doesn't mind our worshiping God if it doesn't require change. - Bill Johnson

Just as Jesus Christ was the human body through which the living Spirit was ministered to mankind, so God has arranged that the believer who is alive with the Spirit of the living God, should minister that quickening life to another and thereby become a co-partner, a co-laborer together with God, - John Lake

"And no one can be my disciple who does not carry his own cross and follow me." - Luke 14:27

Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God. - William Carey


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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Wednesday Night Bible Study - January 26, 2011

Wednesday Night Bible Study - January 26, 2011

1. Deeds, Claims and Promises of Jesus
Read Matthew Chapter 3

1. What did Isaiah prophecy about John the Baptist in
Isaiah 40:3 ?
Answer: The voice of him that __________________
in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make
straight in the________a highway for our God.

2. What did John the Baptist say was present?
Answer:________________is at hand.

3. What did John the Baptist instruct the religious leaders as
well as the people to do?
Answer: ___________for the________is at hand.

4. What is going to be cut down and cast into the fire?
Answer: ___________which bringeth not forth good fruit is
cut down and cast into the fire.

5. Who will baptise with the holy ghost and with fire?
Answer:_______________.

6. What power did Jesus receive at Baptism?
Answer: The power of The_________________.

7. What realm was penetrated at the Baptism of Jesus?
Answer: The_______________.


2, Inheritance in Christ
Read Galatians Chapters 4-6

Main Themes:
A defense of the Doctrine of Justification by Faith, warnings against Reversion to Jewish ceremonial laws, and a vindication of Paul's Apostleship.

Chapter 4:
Paul's criticism of the Galatian Christians for observing "days, and months, and times, and years" is a reflection of the influence of false teachers. He calls these false teachers "dogs" and "evil workers" for undermining the true gospel. (Philippians 3:2)

Chapter 5:
Freedom in Christ is not a license to live as one pleases. We are saved to a life of love and service toward others. Believers are compelled by God's grace to follow only one law -- the royal law of love. When they lapse into legalism (making keeping the law a requirement for salvation) they lose their spiritual liberty and make Christ's sacrifice of no avail. The fruit of the Spirit in the believers life is a natural result of God's grace and love in the human heart.

Chapter 6:
Paul reminds the Galatians that Jesus and His death on the cross are the central focus of the salvation story--not whether a person should be circumcised.

Affirmations (Repeat and Meditate on These as You Go Throughout the Day)

Galatians 4:7 - I am a Son and heir of God through Christ.

Galatians 4:19 - Christ is formed in me.

Galatians 5:25 - I live and walk in the Spirit.

Galatians 6:15 - Since I am in Christ Jesus, I am a new creature.


3. Dunamis Life

Christ In Me
Matthew 15:32 -- And Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, "I feel compassion for the multitude, because they have remained with Me now three days and have nothing to eat."

Observation

People saw in Jesus meekness, unlimited power and perfect love. If I would win souls, people must see in me this same Jesus.

If I would draw men to Christ in heaven, they must be eyewitnesses of Christ in me. But, if I have flagrant sin or self-righteousness, my witness is non-effective.

Into Action

What am I doing in my life that is keeping Christ from being manifested in me? (Make a list)

What is my plan of action to correct this?


4. The Deeper Life
Read, pray and meditate on the following: http://mltp.ly/4XUeLnq


5. Matthew Chapter 3 Answers
1. Crieth, desert

2. The Kingdom of God

3. Repent, Kingdom of God

4. Every tree

5. Jesus

6. Holy Spirit

7. Heavenly Realm


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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Sunday School - January 23, 2011

Sunday School - January 23, 2011


Affirmation: My season of harvest awaits me! I don't allow discouragement to destroy all I've sown. God's promise is sure and backed by His character.

The heart sings because it is overflowing with Christ. Where the heart is not singing there is no melody, there is only the dreadful medley of human self-praise. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If you have an extra lot of testing and of suffering in your relationship with Christ, remember that He is seeking to have us as His closest companions, in fellowship with Himself not only in His glory, but in His sufferings. - T. Austin-Sparks

For we are made companions of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end. - Hebrews 3:14

Satan does not have a legal right to devour the believer, but because he is an outlaw, he will "break the law" and function as he wills until someone exercises authority over him, - Markus Bishop

When you meditate, imagine that Jesus Christ in person is about to talk to you about the most important thing in the world, Give Him your complete attention. - Francois Fenelon

Affirmation: I am fully armed with everything I need to be a super-conqueror in this life.

The ultimate Christian experience is intimate union with God. Intimacy satisfies our need for relationship and compels us to intercede in order that His Kingdom be established on earth. - Alice Smith

We can repeat doctrines at an intellecual level without imparting life. If we're content with a small measure of intimacy, then that's all we will experience. If we are willing to pay a price for deeper intimacy we will experience it. - Mike Bickle

Intercessors are acquainted with travail - they are acquainted with death. "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends" (John 15:13).

Prayer is a form of crucifixion, of our fellowship with Christ's cross, of our giving up our flesh to the death. - Andrew Murray

"I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death." - Phipliipans 3:10

Affirmation: I don't cave in, I don't faint - instead, I go the throne of grace - I go boldly in the name of Jesus and get the help I need.

Without true intimacy, prayer is reduced to mere liturgy and mechanical discourse. To call prayer a discipline is to relegate the Lover of our souls to just another obligation we must tend to. - Don Milam

Many in the body of Christ simply hear their emotions when they pray, and are unable to discern the difference between the enthusiasm of their feelings and the mind of the Spirit. - Steve Sampson

Isn't it incredible how man, blinded by his self-efforts, can turn something so beautiful, like spend quality time with Jesus, into a work? - Joseph Prince

I will fear no evil for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. - Psalm 23:4

Outward silence is indispensable for the cultivation and improvement of inner silence. - Jeanne Guyon



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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Wednesday Night Bible Study - January 19, 2011



I. Deeds, Claims and Promises of Jesus.
Read Luke Chapter 4


1. How did Jesus answer satan?
Answer: With the_______________of God.


2. What power was Jesus operating under?
Answer: And Jesus returned in the power of the
_________________.




3. What was Jesus anointed to do?
Answer: ______________the gospel to the poor,
______________the brokenhearted,
______________deliverance to the captives
______________to the blind,
______________them that are bruised.




4. Of the ones that came to Him, how many people did
Jesus Heal?
Answer: And he laid his hands on_______________
of them and healed them.




5. What did God send Jesus to preach?
Answer: I must preach____________to other cities
also: for therefore I am sent.




2. Inheritance in Christ
Read Galatians Chapters 1-3


Main Themes:
A defense of the Doctrine of Justification by Faith, warnings against Reversion to Jewish ceremonial laws, and a vindication of Paul's Apostleship.


Chapter 1:
Paul proclaims the gospel which he preached came directly by revelation from Christ. He expresses his disappointment that the Galatians have turned away from the true gospel he has preached to them and are now following a false gospel preached by a group of Christian Jews.


Chapter 2:
Paul declares that faith alone justifies a person in God's sight. Nothing else is to be added to this basic requirements for salvation. (Romans 3:28)


Chapter 3:
Paul states that anyone who would exchange the grace of Jesus Christ for keeping the Jewish law, as the Galatians were tempted to do, was foolish indeed. The Jewish Christians had been insisting on making Gentiles sons of Abraham through the rite of circumcision. But Paul declares that Gentile Christians are already Abraham's sons because they share the faith that he demonstrated.
He indicates the purpose of the law as a schoolmaster to prepare the way for Christ.


Affirmations (Repeat and Meditate on These
as You Go Throughout the Day)


Galatians 1:16 - Since Christ is in me I have the power to help others with their spiritual needs.


Galatians 1:24 - God is glorified in me.


Galatians 2:20 - I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.


Galatians 3:14 - Through Jesus Christ I receive the blessings of Abraham and the Holy Spirit.


Galatians 3:28 - I am in Christ Jesus


Galatians 3:29 - Since I am in Christ, the promises God made to Abraham are all mine.




3. Dunamis Life


Framing Your World
1 Samuel 17:46 -- "This day will the Lord deliver you into my hands; and I will smite you, and take your head from you; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saves not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord's, and He will give you into our hands."


David framed his world -- before he ever fought Goliath, he called out what the outcome would be. He called things that be not as though they were (Romans 4:17). By faith, David said, "The Lord is going to give you into my hands today, Goliath, and I'm going to cut off your head!"


God wants us to be successful in our praying and in our saying. If he didn't want us to succeed, he wouldn't have given us a pattern by which we could frame our world.


Into Action


Name 2 aspects of your world that you would frame with the Word of God followed by personalized scripture that would support the change you desire.





4. The Deeper Life
Read, pray and meditate on the following: http://mltp.ly/4Ejlq8U



5. Luke Chapter 4 Quiz Answers
1. Word


2. Spirit


3. Preach, heal, preach deliverance, recovering of
sight, set at liberty


4. All


5. The Kingdom of God






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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Sunday School - January 16, 2011

Sunday School - January 16, 2011

Affirmation: I receive the Spirit of Christ into my heart to empower me. Whatever I find in me that is not like Jesus, - I crucify.

Reasonable people try to fit in; unreasonable people try to get other people to fit into God's plan. All progress is dependent upon the crazy lover. - Sean Smith

The harvest is now, and the Spirit Himself is breathing on us with great favor as we go forth in greater wisdom, power and love. (John 4:35) - Che Ahn

Prayer: Jesus, send me the ripe ones. Grant me divine appointments. Lead me to those who are asking, Lord. Amen

God designed you to be a powerful part of His plan, but so much depends upon your willingness to allow Him to unleash the dreams inside you.- Steve Munsey

Get zealous for God to do a miracle in you and through you! So, get passionate, and He will do the rest! - Marilyn Hickey

Affirmation: I view Jesus' words as doors through which I enter God's eternal Kingdom.

Jesus loved us enough to leave His Father in Heaven, and He expects no less from us - asking us to abandon all other loves for Him. - Shawn Bolz

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters - yes, even his own life - he cannot be my disciple." Luke 14:26

Oh, how much of our own human reason we have to get rid of, how much human planning we have to become divorced from. Unbelief is a terrible hindrance. - Smith Wigglesworth

Instead of religious debate, which destroys faith and results in an independent spirit, we are to become dependent totally upon the Lord as a yielded vessel washed in the truth of His Word. - Paul Keith Davis

God, cleanse my heart with Your fire that I may receive the baptism of Your Spirit. Amen. - William J. Seymour (April 1906)

Affirmation: I embrace the life of faith which has its anchor in the unseen realm. I am not limited by my natural sight.

In our place of transition we must become much more focused on the Lord in order to make it through to the place of restoration that God has for us. - Chuck Pierce

To truly know God we must seek Him until we pass through our knowledge into an encounter with the Almighty. - Francis Frangipane

The sacrifice that is pleasing to God is what you give from your heart despite what you are feeling or what your circumstances are. - Myles Munroe

"With a free-will offering I will sacrifice to thee; I will give thanks to thy name, O Lord, for it is good. - Psalm 54:6

God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him. - Martin Luther

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Saturday, January 8, 2011

Sunday School - January 9, 2011

Sunday School - January 9, 2011

Affirmation: That same Power that raised Jesus from the dead, enables me to rise out of my adverse circumstances and step into the purposes of God for my life.

As we lay down our own plans and yield completely to Him day by day, the Scriptures promise that we will receive power from on high to be witnesses "to the end of the earth." - Steve Munsey

This is what our hope longs for eternally - to be fully united with Jesus. - Shawn Bolz

The letter of the Law leads to the death of the soul; the Spirit of God alone can give life to the soul." - 2 Corinthians 3:6

Christian meditation, very simply, is the ability to hear God's voice and obey His word. - Richard Foster

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy

Affirmation: Since God truly rules in my heart and Jesus is Lord of my life, the Kingdom of God continually flows out of me.

Praise becomes a sacrifice when you offer your praise to God just because He deserves it and asks you to do it. Praise from an obedient heart is the gift that pleases God the most. - Myles Munroe

Jesus is waiting for you to stop struggling in your own attempts to somehow "deserve" His favor, and just depend on Him. - Joseph Prince

"For he who finds me (Wisdom) finds life and obtains favor from the Lord. - Proverbs 8:35

A friend grows in favor by embracing a life of obedience, motivated by passion for Him and Him alone. - Bill Johnson

It was not the ministry that made life worthwhile. It was my journey of watching the faithfulness of God all my days. - Corrie ten Boom

Affirmation: As I speak the Word to my spirit, I am strengthened and encouraged by God.

Faith must be a definite and specific request for the things asked for. It is not to be vague, indefinite, shadowy thing; it must be something more than an abstract belief in God willingness to do for us. - E. M. Bounds

Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen. - Hebrews 11:1

God is waiting for you to cease doing! And once you have done this, He will begin. - Watchman Nee

The Holy Spirit dwelling in us is compelling us to a higher place in Him. - Paul Keith Davis

Live in Christ, live in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death. - John Knox


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Saturday, January 1, 2011

Sunday School - January 2, 2011

Sunday School - January 2, 2011


Affirmation: I have the exact word I need for every situation - a specific, quickened word from the scriptures, placed n my heart by the Holy Spirit.

To act on the light one has is almost the only way to more light. - C. S. Lewis

God yearns for those who will yield to Him and accept the grace that awaits anyone who says,"Yes." - Patricia King

We cannot continue to embrace worldly conformity and expect His Holy Spirit to rest in us with His abiding presence.-Paul Keith Davis

Rejoice in the Lord always. - Philippians 4:4


Prayer is the medium through which the human spirit affects and is affected by the will & purpose of the divine Creator. - Myles Munroe

A living faith is not something you have to carry, but something that carries you. - J. H. Oldham

Affirmation: Because of the Holy Spirit in me, I have the strength to achieve the vision in me from the realm of dreams to the realm of reality.


The thoughts, desires, patterns and habits that were in your old sinful nature will begin to diminish as you choose to be dominated by your spirit. - Andrew Wommack

Whenever a man allows himself to have anxieties, fears, or complaints, he is either in denial of the wisdom of God or out of His will. - William Law

You need to stick it out, staying with God's plan so you'll be there for the promised completion. - Hebrews10:36


"Busyness" has become ingrained in us to such a point, that sitting quietly before the Lord seems foreign, so we declare it boring and fruitless. - Steve Sampson

Happiness is never found until we have the grace to stop looking for it. - James I. Packer

Affirmation: I confess that the day I was born again, I received the dynamic,explosive power of God into my life.


God is looking for believers who will release heaven on earth by breaking through the physical realm. - Barbara Yoder

Prayer: Lord, I'm available. Send me where You want to send me. Lord, let my life be a blessing to somebody. Make my life a blessing. - Norvel Hayes

The Lord wants to give new things to the Church now - patterns that come straight down from Heaven that are unique, astonishing and new. - Keith.Miller

Happy is the man who doesn't give in and do wrong when he is tempted. - James 1:12


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