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WHEN THE RABBI SAYS COME Bible Study Verses: Amos 8:11-12, John 14:6, John 3:16, Luke 9:57, Luke 9:59, Luke 9:61, Acts 8:18-19, Ephesians 5:1-2, Colossians 3:12-13, Philippians 2:5-8, 1Peter 2:19-23, Matthew 4:19, Luke 9:23, Matthew 29:19, Revelation 3:20, Matthew 19:27-30, Revelation 3:12.   Follow our Creator, the Lord Christ Jesus, who spoke all the galaxies &...

A MATTER OF THE HEART Bible Study Verses: I Samuel 16:7, I Samuel 9:2, I Sam.16:17, Acts 13:22, I Chronicles 28:9, II Chronicles 16:9, Mark 12:30, Eccles. 12:13, Ephesians 6:5-7, 1 Corinthians 9:19, Jeremiah 17:9, Romans 12:1, Genesis 6:5, Luke 6:45, Deut. 30:6, Isaiah 29:13, 2 Chron. 25:1-2, Proverbs 23:7. “God the Searcher of Hearts, and Found of Them that Seek Him...If thou seek Him,...

WALKING IN GOD’S WILL  Bible Study Verses: Eph. 5.17, 1 Sam.10.19, Psalm 91, Jer. 33.2+, 1 Sam.1.13, Matt.3.16, Proverbs 28.1, 2 Kings 6.17, Acts 10.5. Thus says the Lord... “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know” Jer.33.3 NKJV   “...do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that...

WHO CAN STAND BEFORE KINGS?   Bible Study Verses: Genesis 39:1-6, Genesis 41:39-41, I Samuel 16:17-18, Acts 9:13-15, Proverbs 22:29, Psalm 78:70-72, Psalm 78:70-72.   “As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.”― C.S. Lewis, Mere...

WHO CAN SPEAK TO DRY BONES? Bible Study Verses: 2 Timothy 3:1-7, Amos 8:11, Ezekiel 37:1-4, Ezekiel 2:7, Ezekiel 3:16-21, Romans 8:38-39, Acts 13:2, Isaiah 42:8, 2 Corinthians 1:5, Luke 2:46-51, Luke 2:49, Luke 2:51.   "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks [to us] in our conscience, but shouts [to us] in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."― C.S. Lewis, The Probl...

WHO CAN CLAIM GOD’S BLESSINGS?   Bible Study Verses: Psalm 35:27, JAMES 4:1-4, Joshua 1:8, Deut. 30:19, Luke 6:38, Exodus 32:29, Genesis 22:2 , 15-17, Psalm 148:13, Genesis 12:1-10, Romans 6:1.    “Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can...

THE FIRST FRUIT PRINCIPLE   Bible Study Verses: Genesis 4: 3-5, Joshua 6:18-19, Romans 3:31, Exodus 20: 2-3, Matthew 6:33, Deuteronomy 26:2-5, Proverbs 3: 9-10, Isaiah 60:10, Malachi 3:10, Matthew 6:20-21, Luke 16:38, Numbers 18:12, Proverbs 3:9.   “Prosperity it the best protectorof principle” Mark Twain   “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth,...

THE PRINCIPLE OF TITHE AND OFFERING   Bible Study Verses: Malachi 3:8-11, Romans 3:31, Leviticus 27:30, Genesis 14:20, Deuteronomy 14:22, II Chronicles 31:5, Nehemiah 10:37, Matthew 23:23, Hebrews 7:5-9, II Corinthians 9:7, Romans 12:1, Mark 10:21.   “Prosperity is the best protector of principle” Mark Twain   “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mout...

THE SEED PRINCIPLE The Covenant Blessing of Prosperity Part-3 Bible Study Verses: Genesis 1:11-12, Genesis 8:22, John 12:24. ““Prosperity is the best protector of principle” Mark Twain   “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way pros...

THE PRINCIPLE OF STEWARDSHIP   The Covenant Blessing of Prosperity Part-2 Bible Study Verses: 3 John 1:2, Proverbs 23:4, Proverbs 16:16, Proverbs 23: 7, Matthew 25:14-30, Proverbs 11:24, Proverbs 22:4, James 5:16, Proverbs 10:16, Proverbs 15:16, Matthew 10:16, Luke 6:38, Proverbs 10:22, Psalm 5:12, Luke 6:38, Malachi 3:11, Proverbs 13:22.   “Prosperity is the best protector of...

THE COVENANT BLESSING OF PROSPERITY   Bible Study Verses: 3 John 2, Psalm 35:27, Deuteronomy 28:1-2, 3 John 1:2, Proverbs 23:4, Proverbs 16:16 , Mark 8:36, Exodus 20:9-11, Genesis 2:15, 2 Thessalonians 3:10, I Corinthian 4:1-2, Genesis 1:11, John 12:24, 2 Corinthians 9:6, Malachi 3:10, Proverbs 3: 9, Deuteronomy 28: 1-2, Luke 6:38, Romans 4:21, Galatians 6:9. “Prosperity is the best...

BECOMING SALT AND LIGHT TO THIS WORLD Bible Study Verses: Mat. 5:13-16, Heb. 11:23-29, Mark 8:36, Romans 6:1-2, Galatians 1:13, Luke 15:12-19, Ezekiel 22:30.   “...suppose a person who knew nothing about salt. You give him a pinch to taste and he experiences a particular strong, sharp taste. You then tell him that in your country people use salt in all their cookery. Might he not reply ‘...

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SALT AND LIGHT?      Bible Study Verses: Matthew 5:13-16, Hosea 4:6, Amos 8:11-13, Matthew 5:13-16, James 2:19, I Corinthians 14:8, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Matthew 1:21, 2 Cor. 5:11, John 14:1-3. “Imagine a lot of people who have always lived in the dark. You come and try to describe to them what light is like. You might tell them that if they come into the light th...

You Have Not Many Fathers   Bible Study Verses: Deuteronomy 5:9, Jeremiah 31:29, I Corinthians 4:10-21, I Cor 5:5-6, I Cor. 6:1-8, Malachi 4:5-6.   “You asked for a loving God: you have one... The consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for his work and despotic as a man's love for a dog, provident and venerable as a father's...

God’s Better Covenant   Bible Study Verses: John 3:16, Hebrews 8.6-12, Genesis 6:13, Genesis 18:20, I Samuel 16:1, John 21:15, Deuteronomy 28:1-14, 2 Corinthians 6: 14-18.   "Hebrews 8:6 refers to Jesus Christ as the “Mediator of a better covenant.” Is that covenant based on better laws (as many today assume)? No. It “was established on better promises. ” These promises include...

When Bad Things Happen (to good people) Bible Study Verses: John 9 "The good and the bad things are part of life. Accept it. The bad is a learning process, you will surpass it. If you do you will be happy and it will be a good thing.”  Ann Marie Aguilar   “And passing by, he saw a man blind from birth, and his disciples asked him, saying, ‘Rabbi, who did sin, this one or his pa...

Living Under The Enemy’s Radar   Bible Study Verses: Job 1.1-12, James 4.7, Job 3.1-3-40, Job 42.5, Isaiah 6.   "[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centeredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that.” C.S.Lewis “ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a...

THE LIFE BATTLES OF JOSHUA   Bible Study Verses: Joshua 1, Exodus, Matthew 14.29.   “Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your territory. No man...

The Commandment With A Blessing   Bible Study Verses: Deuteronomy 5:16, 1 Samuel 1.9.   “Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and so that you may prosper in the land the LORD your God is giving you” HCSB   "The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only, and that...

Winning The Battles of Life   Bible Study Verses: Job 14.1   “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6.12  NASB   “We’re in a battle in this world. We may not see it, we might...

AFTER EASTER WHAT NEXT? Bible Study Verses: 1 Corinthians 15:17, 1 Corinthians 15:18-20 , Matthew 28:1-20, John 12:24, Luke 24:49, I Samuel 2:9, Isaiah 40:31, Habakkuk 2:3.   “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God” 1 Corinthians 1:18 NKJV   After Easter What next?   W...

EXPERIENCING THE GLORY OF THE RESURRECTED LIFE: THE NEED FOR THE CROSS PART-3 ••• Bible Study Verses: 1 Corinthians 15:12-19, Matthew 26, Matthew 27:27-35, 2 Timothy 3:12, John 10:17-18, Matthew 26:42, Philippians 1:29, Galatians 2:20, 1 Corinthians 10:12, Philippians 2:5-11, Ephesians 2:6.   "To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the...

KEYS TO THE TRIUMPHANT LIFE   Bible Study Verses: John 10, Matthew 21, Luke 4:18, Hebrews 10:4-5, Matthew 21:2,6, Isaiah 42:8, Amos 3:3, Acts 2:12-13, Romans 8:35-39.   For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 1 Corinthians 1:18 NKJV   What is one of the central theme’s of t...

THE NEED FOR THE CROSS Bible Study Verses: Heb. 4:13, Ps. 62:11, Ps. 139:7, I John 4:8, 1 Peter 1:16, Psalm 89:14, Gen. 1:27, Gen. 2:7, Romans 3:23, Gen. 6:5, Ps. 51:5, Jer. 17:9, Rom. 5:12, Gen. 3:9-10, Rom. 6:23, Isa. 59:2, Ps. 34:21, Ezekiel 18: 4, Habakkuk 1:13, Hebrews 9:22, Heb. 10:4, Isa 53: 10, Matthew 11:28.   "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are pe...

TEACH US TO PRAY   Bible Study Verses: Luke 11:1-4, Proverbs 19:21, Genesis 1: 26-28, Psalm 8: 4-6, Psalm 115: 15-16.   “What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us...