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This is the final lesson of our series on testing. The world is looking for Jesus. Oftentimes, the tests of life pass into our lives so that the world, through our responses, can see Him. With our lives as His stage, He can demonstrate Himself in a way that, like Rahab, others will cry out "We have heard about your God. Where is He? What will He do next?" Tests give us an opportunity to...

This is part two of our look at angels. In this lesson, we will see how angels minister to believers. However, the crux of this lesson is about how you and I minister to angels. Have you ever thought about what you can teach an angel? There are at least five things that angels have never experienced and by seeing our response as we experience those things, they learn marvelous things about God. So...

Did you know we have a ministry to angels? Our response to testing plays a major part in the instruction and growth of the angels. In the next two lessons we will explore six areas in the lives of angels. This lesson will deal with the nature and character of angels and the ministry of angels to God. Have you ever thought about what they do in heaven? You might be surprised. Read lesson: 525B

This is the third in a series of lessons on the sower and the seed. We will look at the "weeds and thorns" of the world. Jesus divided them into three categories: The cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lust of other things entering in. If the seed of the Word cannot be snatched by the enemy and the roots can't be stopped from going down into the soil, he is goi...

In this second lesson on the parable of the sower and the seed, we will see how Satan seeks to destroy the seed of the Word. Satan's attacks through affliction are four-fold: Two are from without, and two are from within. Two are to our personal body, and two are to the corporate body of Christ. Find out how we can thrive under the heat of affliction instead of being destroyed by it. Read less...

Jesus loved to speak in parables. One such parable was that of the sower and the seed. In this lesson, we will see how Satan attempts to steal the seed that the sower has sown. There are several different methods he uses for doing this. Our responsibility is to deal with the enemy at the point of keeping intact the seed we have received. This lesson will give us practical steps for seeing that the...

In this life we are faced with spiritual warfare on a daily basis. Are we prepared for the attacks of Satan? Just what are tactics he uses? Once we know his tactics we will be able to resist him properly. God never intended for us to live compromised Christian experiences, because greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world. There is a way of escape from Satan's attack; the questi...

Every test we face is accompanied by spiritual warfare. Satan's battlefield is in the mind of a believer. Ever so subtly he speaks to the believer causing him to question God or the Word of God. How do we know when we are listening to "the voice of the stranger"? It is of the utmost importance that we know whose thoughts are taking our minds captive. As the enemy begins to knock on t...

Every circumstance, every decision, and every response in our lives has deep spiritual significance attached to it. Nothing is outside of the realm of the Spirit in the Christian's life. God is engaged in an intense struggle with Satan for the control of our lives. There are six principles we will learn in this lesson concerning testing and spiritual warfare. We do not want to take spiritual w...

One of the reasons God brings tests into our lives is experientially to teach us how to pray. We can learn to pray by reading books and hearing others, but we cannot really learn to pray until we experience the valley of need. In the Psalms, we hear David crying out in times of distress to the Lord, and the Lord is faithful to hear his cry. Join us, as we see David learning of God's heart and...

Every test we pass through is for a purpose. Part of the purpose is to equip us to minister to those who are going through similar difficulties. Isn't it uncanny how God places in our lives those who are going through similar experiences that we have just had. It isn't surprising to God; He placed them there. Consider what message God is placing in your life through the tests He is bringin...

God often tests us to enlarge our vision of Who He is. Looking at the life of Job, we can see how God tested Job in order to show Himself more clearly to Job. How big is your God? He will test you proportionately to how big He is in your life, and, with each test, He should end up bigger. We will come to see His perfect grace, His mercy, and His faithfulness. When all is completed, we will be able...

What are God's purposes in testing? The major goal of God through testing is to create in us the mind of Jesus. He does this in many ways — by displaying our weaknesses, humbling us and drawing us closer to His Word. The Scripture says, "Count it all joy, my brethren..." As we learn more of God's purposes in testing, we can learn to rest in the midst of the test and know God is w...

How does God get our attention? Oftentimes, it is through tests, and the response He is looking for is obedience. However, there are numerous ways to be tested. Just as in school we faced various kinds of tests, so too in the spiritual realm, testing can fall under six different categories. The response to these tests can also produce varied results. For those of us who have been wondering about t...

After looking for several weeks at the principles of obedience, our lesson contains a portrait of obedience. As we walk with Abraham up the mountain to the place of sacrifice, we will see how God often uses the mountains of trials as places of testing our obedience. It is at the mountain that the principles of God are put to the test, and it is there that we learn of God's faithfulness and His...

We have searched the Scriptures to find out what they say about themselves. They say they are everything, and they are waiting to change lives. What now? We need to choose to obey, to get the tools and helps we need to be faithful, to find someone with which we can be accountable, and most importantly, pray. Now it is up to us to obey. Read lesson: 1322B

Only two things are eternal, beloved: the Word of God and people. We are to pour our lives into loving one another with a pure heart, fervently, pouring this eternal book into their lives as we do, with the intent that men and women be born again through the incorruptible seed of the Word of God. Just like the grass in your yard, this world is going to wither and die. Your dreams of greatness will...

We can memorize and meditate on the Word, but until we "observe to do" the Word, it will make no real difference in our lives. God has called us to obey His Word. It is time we take inventory and find those areas of our lives that are continuing to plague us. As the commercial says, we need to "just do it". Read lesson: 1321B

We need to bring the Word into focus. We need to bring our lives into focus. We need to reevaluate what’s really important, and what’s not. And no matter who gets offended, we need to refocus the lens of our spirits on what will change our lives and change our worlds. We don’t have time to win the race against the clock and lose the battle or control of our hearts. Read lesson: 1321A

The Word of God. We must engrave it on our hearts by memorizing and reviewing it and personalizing it. In this study, we begin to look at how to do that. We intend to get incredibly practical. We are no longer looking at the doctrinal reason for doing it, we accept that as a command. This is a lesson of “how-to" guidelines. Read lesson: 1320B

God is saying that the real you apart from some form of divine intervention is the most deceitful thing in all the world. Nothing else and no one else is more likely to sell you a lie than your own heart. God said it. It is not only deceitful above all things, it is desperately wicked. That means, that left to itself, you, apart from God, would do anything that would satisfy your own desires. Read...

The more you meditate, the more respect you have for God’s Word, God’s ways, and God’s works. As God exalts His name through His Word, you honor His Word in your heart. It is a natural byproduct. Don’t wait until you “feel” like it. Once it begins to take hold of you, you’ll feel like it. Until you do, Satan will try to tell you it’s not working. Read lesson: 1319B

Comfort and renewal. Strength and redirection. Encouragement and power. They are ours for the taking when we get desperate enough to fall down before God and cry out for His Word to be our comfort and our guide. The problem is, most of us don’t tremble at His Word until we have been afflicted. Like Job, most of us, once afflicted, will begin to squirm and justify and lash out at both man and God b...

The word of God is food, too. It, however, feeds that portion of the nature of man that edifies, sustains, and transforms in the spirit realm. Given a choice, it is better to feast on God’s Word even at the expense of our “necessary” food; food or things that seem essential to the natural man, but compared to things eternal are expendable. Read lesson: 1318B

One source of truth is the Word of God. Whether we are reading, studying, or memorizing it for ourselves, or listening to someone else preaching or teaching it, we cannot learn anything apart from God’s Spirit. That dependent relationship on our Interpreter is so crucial to the process of transformation that God has reminded us over and over in His word that understanding His Word is the result of...