“The Real” Happy Hour… Bible Study
Isaiah 53:3-5, 35:5-6; Matthew 11:2-6, 4:23-25, 9:22, 27-29; Luke 4:40; James 4:2, 5:13-16; Matthew; John 5:3-8; 2 Corinthians 12:7-10; Hebrews 10: 23
- We cannot stay in the position where we need spiritual milk,, we need to have meat.
- Meat of the Word will help us to grow.
Why doesn't God always heal, if He is a healer?
- Sometimes God doesn't heal because we don't ask Him. (We have not, because we ask not).
- We need to always ask, and ask quickly.
- Because of sin or disobedience in our life.
Blessing blockers, unforgiveness, not walking in love.
- The absence or lack of faith.
- Our faith could be displaced.
- We don't want the healing.
- God is sovereign.
- Regardless of how God is moving or not, we need to keep praying.
-We must persevere in prayer and hold on to our faith.
- Jan 20, 2021Living By Faith, Part 3 “Faith For Healing”
Jan 20, 2021Living By Faith, Part 3 “Faith For Healing”Series: Bible Study
Isaiah 53:3-5, 35:5-6; Matthew 11:2-6, 4:23-25, 9:22, 27-29; Luke 4:40; James 4:2, 5:13-16; Matthew; John 5:3-8; 2 Corinthians 12:7-10; Hebrews 10: 23
- We cannot stay in the position where we need spiritual milk,, we need to have meat.
- Meat of the Word will help us to grow.
Why doesn't God always heal, if He is a healer?
- Sometimes God doesn't heal because we don't ask Him. (We have not, because we ask not).
- We need to always ask, and ask quickly.
- Because of sin or disobedience in our life.
Blessing blockers, unforgiveness, not walking in love.
- The absence or lack of faith.
- Our faith could be displaced.
- We don't want the healing.
- God is sovereign.
- Regardless of how God is moving or not, we need to keep praying.
-We must persevere in prayer and hold on to our faith.
- Jan 13, 2021Living By Faith, Part 2
Jan 13, 2021Living By Faith, Part 2Series: Bible Study
Mark 4:35-41; Galatians 2:20; Matthew 3:17, 10:29-31; Ephesians 1:6; Psalm 121:3-4, 55:22, 139:17; 1 Peter 5:6-7; Isaiah 49:16
- Living by faith is living in the power of God.
- Our faith is growing stronger.
- We will live by faith more than ever before.
- Faith is a fruit of the Spirit. It is God-given.
- Just as the storm came quickly on the disciples, the storm comes quickly upon us.
- The storms of life can make us panic.
- There are times when we are so fearful.
- There is a level of fear that can totally negate faith and make it of no effect.
- If we doubt or question whether God cares for us, it is going to be outright impossible to have faith in God.
- The enemy wants us to get to the place where we are questioning God.
- We have to know that we know that we know that God loves and cares for us.
- God is pleased with you before you even do anything.
- God's love toward us is not based on anything that we can do.
- We have to rest in the love of God.
- Living by faith is bringing God into every situation.
- God thinks great things toward us.
- God values us.
- God inscribes us on the palm of His hand.
- Jan 6, 2021Living By Faith
Jan 6, 2021Living By FaithSeries: Bible Study
Matthew 9:27-31, 8:10,13, 15:28; Habakkuk 2:4; Romans 1:17, Galatians 3:11; Hebrews 10:38; 2 Corinthians 5:7; Luke 8:11-18
- Faith is for day to day living.
- Faith is not an occasional thing. It’s not for special occasions.
- Living by faith means we stay in close contact with Jesus.
- We will start making better decisions if we live our life by faith.
- We have to be careful to how we hear the Word of God.
- Faith is not automatic, we have to take heed to what we hear.
- When it comes to faith we are either getting stronger or weaker.
- We need to stop and answer as if Jesus was asking us, "Do You believe that what you have prayed for, God is able to do?"
- Our life will speak the Truth of what we believe.
- As how we believe it will be done. According to our faith.
- Dec 30, 2020Valley Praise
Dec 30, 2020Valley PraiseSeries: Bible Study
Psalm 62:1-2; 63:1-8; 34:1
- It's easy to praise God when we're on the mountaintop. It emanates from a place of joy.
- Valley praise is different. There are shadows of death in the valley. Disappointments sorrow, troubles.
- If the God of the mountaintop is worthy of praise so is the God of the valley.
- A valley praise is more authentic than a mountaintop praise. A valley praise comes in spite of.
- David wrote Psalm 63 when he was in the wilderness.
- When we are in the wilderness, what do we say?
- Valleys are a part of our walk.
- Valley praise is not about the external.
- Our praise is essential if we are going to get through our valley.
- All times means ALL TIMES.
- God is with us in the valley.
- The biggest work in our life is not on the outside, it's the inside.
- Dec 16, 2020The Prayerful Expectancy of Help
Dec 16, 2020The Prayerful Expectancy of HelpSeries: Bible Study
Luke 2:25-38
- Expectancy is thinking or hoping that something good is about to happen.
- God wants to speak to us more than we want to listen.
- We don't have to be in a special category in order for God to share things with us that He is not sharing with anyone else.
- When we are committed to God we recognize Jesus when He comes.
- Jesus is the personification of God's salvation.
- Whoever you say Jesus is, will declare your rise or your fall.
- Our thoughts, our heart is revealed as to how we receive Jesus.
- Dec 9, 2020Christmas Reflections
Dec 9, 2020Christmas ReflectionsSeries: Bible Study
Isaiah 9:6-7; Psalm 68:19; Luke 4:5-8; Philippians 2:5-7; John 1:1-3,14,11-12
- Before things come to be, they are.
- The child that was born is the humanity of God. The Son given is His divinity.
- Whatever God has for us, is ours. We are the ones who give it away.
- A man (Adam) gave things away, a man (Jesus) had to be born to take it back.
- God gives power to those that receive,
- Jesus is given as a gift. But if we do not receive it, it doesn't matter.
- Nov 25, 2020I Need A Blessing, Part 5 (The Blessing)
Nov 25, 2020I Need A Blessing, Part 5 (The Blessing)Series: Bible Study
Matthew 14:19-21; Mark 6:42; Luke 12:13-21; Psalm 91:16; John 10:10, 6:11-13; 2 Samuel 12:7-8
- Jesus takes what we give Him and multiplies it.
- If we hold onto what we have, we give God nothing to work with.
- People would rather hold on to what they have, than giving it to God.
- The way to get from less to more, is to give what you have.
- We need to learn to be rich toward God.
- God wants to do things in the earth, but He needs His people to get in line with
His plan.
- God wants to satisfy us.
- We need to set the bar of hope higher.
- God gives us as much as we want.
- Nov 18, 2020I Need A Blessing, Part 4 (The Surrender)
Nov 18, 2020I Need A Blessing, Part 4 (The Surrender)Series: Bible Study
Matthew 14:16-18; Psalm 116:12; Luke 6:38, Luke 5:1-7; Mark 6:38-39; Exodus 4:1-5
- We need to render unto God. Surrender what we have to Him.
- We can never get to the place of victory without surrendering.
-In order to hold onto something it requires a closed hand.
- A closed hand can't receive.
- The receiving position is the giving position.
- When we let go of stuff, God turns around and gives you more.
- Whatever you plant, you will get back.
- Whatever it is that we need, we need to surrender that to God.
- The key to receiving a blessing is letting go.
- God makes sure we sit on green grass.
- If we would simply let go of what we have, there will be no question that God is with us.
-It doesn't matter what we give to God, it only matters if it is surrendered.
- Nov 11, 2020I Need A Blessing, Part 3 (The Test)
Nov 11, 2020I Need A Blessing, Part 3 (The Test)Series: Bible Study
John 6:5-6,9 Jeremiah 29:11; Matthew 14:16-17; James 2:14-17; Luke 9:13; Mark 6:37-38
- God tests us knowing that He will do something for us. He already knows what He is going to do.
- Sometimes we mistake certainty for faith.
- Faith is active even when we don't know.
- The answer will not be found where we are, that's why Jesus says go.
- The go and see for us is in our heart.
- The disciples had to find the little boy with the fish. They had to go and see.
- In the hands of God, the things that we have found are more than enough.
- Nov 4, 2020I Need A Blessing, Part 2 (The Contrast)
Nov 4, 2020I Need A Blessing, Part 2 (The Contrast)Series: Bible Study
Luke 9:10-12; Proverbs 4:23; Romans 8:29; 1 John 2:6
- Jesus looked beyond His own needs and met the needs of the people. The disciples did the opposite.
- The disciples did not think of helping the people and did not even have the thought of asking Jesus.
- What action did we take in response to the need? Who did we do it for?
- We're not talking about the head, we're talking about the heart.
- We're talking about actions, and not intentions.
- Don't stop at the intention.
- We can help those in need, our loved ones and strangers.
- Undivided attention. Full attention on the task at hand.
- Multi-tasking is divided attention.
- If we are going to get to a place of compassion, we need to have undivided attention.
- The disciples walked with Jesus, yet still weren't walking like Him. We can do the same thing if our attention is divided.
- If we say we abide in Christ, then we need to walk like Him.