Sunday School - April 3, 2011

Affirmation: I realize that I am put here to do the will of God on earth as it is in Heaven.

We must be a burning and shining people who know where we are headed, fixing our eyes on our destiny, if we are going to awaken broken and disillusioned hearts! - Sean Feucht

When God give us less than we desire, it is not because He is teaching us poverty; He is teaching us thankfulness. - Francis Frangipane

You must develop an attitude where praise becomes your protection all the time as you bring God around you.Sometimes you are making melody to the Lord. Sometimes you may need to praise God in your mind. Whatever you are doing, you are just going through the whole day with God. - Myles Munroe

"I will praise thee forever...- Psalm 52:9

Silence is the simple stillness of the individual under the Word of God. We are silent after hearing the Word because the Word is still speaking and dwelling within us. We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is love that causes us to rise up from spiritual sleep and open ourselves to God. Love is the call; and love is the transforming power. - John of the Cross

Affirmation: My assignment as a believer on earth is to destroy the works of the devil.

It generally takes about five exposures to the Gospel message before a person accepts Christ; this is most easily done in the context of a friendship. - Che Ahn

At times there seems to be a stone wall in front of us. Everything seems as black as midnight, and there is nothing left but confidence in God; fidelity and confidence to believe that He will not fail, indeed cannot fail. - Smith Wigglesworth

"He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure." - Psalm 40:2

The heart of abiding faith "leans into God," anticipating His voice, looking for His next move. Like Jesus, we are to be able to say, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me." (John 4:34) - Bill Johnson

If I am to experience God's presence, I must engage in more definite and persevering prayer. - Andrew Murray

Affirmation: I mind the things of the spirit and do not walk after the flesh.

"A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized that prayer is listening. - Soren Kierkegaard

Silence those negative voices. Forget the cutting remarks of relatives. Dismiss the crippling theories of misguided counselors. Rebuke your self-doubt and turn off the broken record of your past failures. Let God redefine you. He alone decides your true potential. - Mario Murillo

"Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come. - 2 Corinthians 5:17

How different would most of us be if we just spent as much time cleaning up, beautifying, and feeding our heart as we did our body? Rick Joyner

Tomorrow God isn't going to ask: What did you dream, think, plan, or preach? -- He's going to ask -- What did you do? - Michel Quoist


Albert Finch
http://afministry.ning.com

Sunday School - March 20, 2011

Affirmation: When I thank Him I am honoring Him. I am thankful, regardless of what my life seems to be.

Praise is that element of celebration that can transport us into the throne room of God. Once we are in the throne room at His feet, we need to worship and adore Him. As we worship Him in that intimate place, He begins to reveal His glory to us. - Chuck Pierce

What action steps can you begin, right now, to move toward reaching your vision and destiny in Christ? - Steve Munsey

"The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me." - Acts 20:24

When "crazy love" is upon an individual he will be uninhibited in his expression of faith. Crazy love allows you to stand and flow in the Spirit. - Sean Smith

He creates in you the desire to find Him and run after Him - to follow wherever He leads you, and to press peacefully against His heart. - John of the Cross

Affirmation: I walk in the spirit, I shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation, and despair. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God's will for us it to "pray without ceasing." He did not say "accept the difficulties." He said to pray, continue to rejoice, and remain vocally thankful. As you do, your circumstances will be established in victory! - Francis Frangipane

"Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you." - 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

We think we have to have something great in our life before we can praise the Lord. David praised the Lord day in and day out. - even when things were boring and mundane. - Myles Munroe

The cry for more is a belittlement of what we must be and do and undermines the grace and providence of God in our lives. - Henri Nouwen

Affirmation: I dwell in Him and He is in me because He has given me of His Spirit.

Thank God, "It is finished", and I know that because it is finished , everything is mine -- things in heaven, things on earth, things under the earth. Jesus Christ is all power over all. He is in all. He is through all. Thank God, He is for all. - Smith Wigglesworth

Embrace the value of being a servant. Contrary to the world's view, we need to understand the high honor of servanthood. If you are called to any level of leadership, you especially need to embrace the call of being a servant first. - Che Ahn

"Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last." - Luke:13:30

A yielded imagination becomes a sanctified imagination; and it's the sanctified imagination that is positioned for visions and dreams. - Bill Johnson

Dwell in me, Oh, glory of the Living Spirit. Sanctify and cleanse my spirit and make me holy. Amen. - William J. Seymour (December 1906)


Albert Finch
http://afministry.ning.com

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






Albert Finch
http://afministry.ning.com