Sunday School - August 14, 2011

Affirmation: The Word says I can hear God's voice and I believe it - I do hear the voice of God!

Has it ever dawned on you that you are responsible for other souls spiritually before God? - Oswald Chambers

Jesus wore the crown of thorns on His head so that you can have a sound mind free from fears, guilt, depression, anxieties and stress. - Joseph Prince

>"He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? - Romans 8:32


Who do you need Jesus to be at this time in your life? Do you need Him as your physical healer? Then define Him as Jesus, My Healer. Do you need Him to be your provider? Then call Him Jesus, My Provider. If you need Him to restore a relationship then call Him Jesus, My Restorer. Invite a well-defined Jesus into your circumstance and your circumstance will begin to yield to His presence. - Garris Elkins

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility. - Jonathan Edwards

Affirmation: Nothing's wrong with God, nothing's wrong with the Word and nothing's wrong with me! I am going to receive my miracle!

How and what we communicate has the potential to change the atmosphere, creating the context for people to be released to their destiny. Therefore our communication skills must come under the influence of the Holy Spirit. Done correctly, our words are able to release the presence of God. - Bill Johnson

Our pride and self-confidence keep us from God's help; the clamor of our many ideas and desires drown the whisper of the still small voice of God. Indeed, in God's eyes, the best of human successes are still "wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked." - Francis Frangipane

"For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing; not knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked." Revelation 3:17

Remember that all the things of this world are transitory. All things are passing, and yourself with them. See that you do not cling to them, lest you become entangled and perish with them. - Thomas a Kempis

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. - Charles Spurgeon

Affirmation: Extravagant worship is my lifestyle.

God is looking for a people of faith. Jesus asked the question, "Will the Son of Man find faith on the earth when He returns in His glory?" We want to be found with a faith in God that is active and living. Passivity has no value in the Kingdom of God. God calls us to be actively engaging our faith by taking steps out into the unknown. - John Belt

Spiritual discontentment is the nature of a truly Holy Spirit-governed life. It will always be pressing on to something more of the Lord. - T. Austin-Sparks

"Not that I have obtained, or am already made perfect...but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind... I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." - Philippians 3:12-14


A dead man or woman does not react to an offense. The truth is that the person who is offended by the words of others only proves that death to self has not been finished. - Alice Smith

Lord, I desire to be crucified to self so that I may live totally for You. Amen - William J. Seymour


Albert Finch
http://afministry.ning.com (New Studies Every Day)

Sunday School - August 7, 2011

Affirmation: I minister others into Christ, disciple them, and equip them to disciple others.

Each of us has a promised land for our lives. God's promises are key to us entering into the vision that God has given us. If you are in a desert God is ready to take you out! Time to move on from eating manna to eating the food that God freely gives in the promised land of your destiny! - John Belt

If you don't keep your mind renewed with the Word of God, you will serve anything that comes along that disturbs you, especially your body. - Norvel Hayes

"Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind...." - Romans 12:2

Praise that flows from thanksgiving is described in Hebrews 13:15 as a "sacrifice." Praise should cost us something. Only then is it a proper response to the God who has given us the costly gift of His Son. - Bill Johnson

It is a stroke of satanic genius, and one of his most ancient devices, to persuade you piously to dedicate to God all that you presume to find good in the flesh, which God has condemned. -Ian Thomas

Affirmation: As I sit at the feet of Jesus I labor for the meat that He gives me which endures unto everlasting life.


One of the greatest mysteries is the wonder of Christ in us, the hope of glory. Believers who walk in the revelation of this reality walk in the fullness of truth with great power and authority and radiate the nature and character of Christ through His manifested glory. - Paul Keith Davis

In your daily routine, be sure to include a time for being quiet before the Lord and listening for Him to reveal His will for your life. - Jack Hayford

"The Lord is my light and my salvation....Psalm 27:1


Worship Him without having to know and see everything. Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need. - Francois Fenelon

I do not want merely to possess a faith; I want a faith that possesses me. - Charles Kingsley

Affirmation: I am becoming a passenger in the vehicle of His will, a vehicle in which He Himself is both captain and navigator.

What self-deception to expect to be in His heavenly kingdom in eternity, when we have resisted His claim to reign as Lord in our hearts here and now! - William Law

We are to labor every day to enter His rest. We are to rest inwardly and believe that the work is done because it is a finished work, and trust in God's undeserved favor toward us. We are to rest in Jesus our true ark who will carry us through tempestuous waters. - Joseph Prince

"...he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest..." - Hebrews 4:10,11

Any prayer that does not move us cannot move God. It is all a matter of power. Furthermore, as power is determined by pressure, all pressure comes with a purpose. - Watchman Nee

It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ. - Lucretia Mott

Albert Finch
http://afministry.ning.com