Sunday School - July 10, 2011

Affirmation: There is no adverse circumstance in my life that I cannot overcome with the God-kind of faith.

The whole of the New Testament, after the Gospels, has this one object: to get Christians to go on, and to go on to full growth -- into their eternal vocation -- their heavenly calling (the purpose of God for their lives). - T. Austin Sparks

We should pray because prayer is the most realistic thing in the world to do. It is our acknowledgment of reality, our right response to reality, our honesty with reality. - Peter Kreeft

With God's power working in us, God can do much, much more than anything we can ask or imagine. - Ephesians 3:20

You may have a strong impression that you simply know is from the Lord. When this happens you begin to experience a new realm of God's glory and manifest presence. From that, you have a new revelation of God. He is glory, and His presence causes the atmosphere around you to begin to change. It is like experiencing a little bit of heaven. - Chuck Pierce

How can we be sad, or hang our heads, or be distressed? Oh, if we only knew how rich we are! - Smith Wigglesworth

The church condemns violence, but it condemns indifference more harshly, Violence can be the expression of love, indifference never. - Graham Greene

Affirmation: I am dead to sin, dead to my former lusts, dead to this world, but alive unto God.

Acting in love when others are not acting in love toward you -- this is of the highest value to your soul. It is worth more than all the other works of faith you may have done, no matter how great they appear. - John of the Cross

In the meditative state rivers of living water will flow spontaneously from within us just as a natural river flows spontaneously from a spring. Characteristics of spontaneous flow include a sensitivity to and willingness to follow inner promptings, awareness of creative expression flowing within, and being uncomfortable living in "boxes". - Mark Virkler

"He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water." - John 7:38

We will never fully unite with Jesus unless we face the same disillusionment process as the disciples -- one of longing and disappointment in this world. If believers who profess love for God have never been through this inward longing, their love probably has not progressed very much. - Shawn Bolz

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. - C. S. Lewis

Affirmation: My highest purpose for this day is to walk with Him.

Jesus Christ operates through you. He does not operate independently of you. Man and God become united. Unless the spirit of man is truly joined to God, there is no such thing as real Christian manifestation. - John Lake

We must love Him with total disregard to dry spells and to times of spiritual abundance, otherwise we are built on sifting sand. - Jeanne Guyon

The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever. - 1 John 2:17

We must experience a breaking out of old mind-sets and blindness in order to break into the revelation of what is to be ours (2 Cor4:3,4). Barbara Yoder

Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will for us. - Billy Graham

Albert Finch
http://afministry.ning.com

Wednesday Night Bible Study - July 6, 2011

1. Deeds, Claims, and Promises of Jesus
Read John Chapter 15

1. _______________the vine, you are the____________.
He that________in Me, and I in Him, the same bringeth
forth much_________; for without me you can do ______.


2. If you____________in me, and my_______________
abide in you, you shall ______________what you will, and
it shall be done unto you.


3. These things I have spoken to you that my__________
might remain in you, and that your_______________might
be full.


4. I have chosen you out of the world, therefore, the world
______________you.


5. When the ________________is come, whom I will send
unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of Truth, which
proceedeth from the Father, He shall testify of __________.



2. Inheritance In Christ
Read Matthew Chapter 11

Matthew 11:12 - Until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.

THE PEOPLE JESUS MINISTERED TO WERE HEALED OR DELIVERED BECAUSE OF THEIR FAITH. FAITH MAY QUIETLY PRESS IN, OR IT MAY CRY OUT VERY LOUDLY, BUT IT IS ALWAYS VIOLENT IN THE SPIRIT WORLD. IT GRABS HOLD OF AN INVISIBLE REALITY AND WON'T LET GO. TAKING THE KINGDOM BY FAITH IS THE VIOLENT ACT THAT IS NECESSARY TO COME INTO WHAT GOD HAS MADE AVAILABLE.
EVERY BELIEVER HAS THE POWER OF HEAVEN BEHIND THEM. BUT IT IS OUR FAITH THAT CONNECTS WHAT IS AVAILABLE TO THE CIRCUMSTANCES AT HAND. FAITH TAKES WHAT IS AVAILABLE AND MAKES IT ACTUAL.

Hebrews 4:12 - For the Word of God is living and powerful..........

For one who has faith in the Word of God, there is nothing impossible. There are no impossibilites when there is faith..........and there are no exceptions.......


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

MY FAITH IN GOD'S WORD IS NOT JUST AN ABIDING FAITH; IT IS ACTIVE - IT IS AGRESSIVE BY NATURE. IT HAS FOCUS AND PURPOSE.

MY FAITH GRABS HOLD OF THE REALITY OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN AND FORCEFULLY AND VIOLENTLY BRINGS IT INTO A COLLISION WITH THIS NATURAL ONE.



3. Dunamis Life

THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR

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

As a title deed enables me to lay claim to property that belongs to me, so my faith enables me to lay claim to God's promises that belong to me.

Observation

If I build my faith -- my title deed -- on God's word, it won't matter if the devil hits my body, attacks my finances, or tries to steal my peace. I can kick him off my property because my faith will be the proof of ownership I need.

Nothing can stand in my way!
I build my house of faith and move in!

Into Action

What are you having faith for God to accomplish in your life today?

Write out 2 scriptures that will be giving you the required revelation to bring this to pass.


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


5. Quiz Answers - John Chapter 15

1. I am, branches, abideth, fruit, nothing
2. Abide, words, ask
3. Joy, joy
4. Hateth
5. Comforter, Me


Albert Finch
www.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