In times of peril, what do you do? Today's lesson shows Jehoshaphat's reaction to an impending threat to the children of Israel. Their response was to stand before the Lord.
In times of peril, what do you do? Today's lesson shows Jehoshaphat's reaction to an impending threat to the children of Israel. Their response was to stand before the Lord.
How do we respond in that moment when we feel we tried God and sensed His move, but now we are right back deep in the problem trying to battle it with little or no strength? An incident in the life of King Jehoshaphat and David provides us with helpful instruction on the subject of strengthening ourselves in the Lord so we are prepared to face severe trials and problems.
A verse by verse commentary on Joshua 8 dealing with the clever plot that led Israel to outwit the army of Ai and destroy the entire city and take all the plunder.
A verse by verse commentary on DEUTERONOMY 8 dealing with God teaching His people that "man does not live by bread alone," and that they will only live and prosper by living in obedience to His laws.
Brokeness Before Breakthrough Getz Pharma DevotionAverell Gaspar
This was the slides that summarized the content of the Getz Pharma Devotion last Jan 18, 2009 at the Boracay Regency in the Philippines, during the National COnference of Getz Pharma Phils. Inc. Getz Pharma faces a great challenge in 2009.
Have you ever intended to do good, but the consequences were devastating? Where did you go wrong? How can you prevent, or at least limit, the negative consequences of good intentions?
Deuteronomy Chapters 8-9, Remember The Lord Your God And Don't Forget Your Sinful Rebellion Against Him, The Word of God is food; manna; the Fathers Discipline; shema; Christ’s righteousness and and our righteousness; today; stubborn people
The book of Proverbs reveals much of the direction God wants us to go in this life. God directs us through wisdom and rejection of His directions brings condemnation and destruction.
How do we respond in that moment when we feel we tried God and sensed His move, but now we are right back deep in the problem trying to battle it with little or no strength? An incident in the life of King Jehoshaphat and David provides us with helpful instruction on the subject of strengthening ourselves in the Lord so we are prepared to face severe trials and problems.
A verse by verse commentary on Joshua 8 dealing with the clever plot that led Israel to outwit the army of Ai and destroy the entire city and take all the plunder.
A verse by verse commentary on DEUTERONOMY 8 dealing with God teaching His people that "man does not live by bread alone," and that they will only live and prosper by living in obedience to His laws.
Brokeness Before Breakthrough Getz Pharma DevotionAverell Gaspar
This was the slides that summarized the content of the Getz Pharma Devotion last Jan 18, 2009 at the Boracay Regency in the Philippines, during the National COnference of Getz Pharma Phils. Inc. Getz Pharma faces a great challenge in 2009.
Have you ever intended to do good, but the consequences were devastating? Where did you go wrong? How can you prevent, or at least limit, the negative consequences of good intentions?
Deuteronomy Chapters 8-9, Remember The Lord Your God And Don't Forget Your Sinful Rebellion Against Him, The Word of God is food; manna; the Fathers Discipline; shema; Christ’s righteousness and and our righteousness; today; stubborn people
The book of Proverbs reveals much of the direction God wants us to go in this life. God directs us through wisdom and rejection of His directions brings condemnation and destruction.
Pastor Elio Marrocco's "Developing Faithfulness" sermon at New Life Christian Church on June 2, 2013. You can learn more about New Life Christian Church here: http://www.newlifecc.ca
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What’s the difference between “faith” and “hope”? What’s the difference between the Christian “hope” and wishful thinking? In this section of Hebrews we find a foundation for spiritual motivation, direction and courage that endures.
For Moses, leading the people of Israel was a great burden as he faced constant challenges to his authority and motives. In this lesson we examine our own tendency to tear down those whom our God has chosen to lead us, and contrast that with the instruction to respect, esteem, obey and submit to them.
Slides supporting a message by Mike Popovich, Freedom Ministries, Church, Colorado Springs, CO.
Topic: The-Doorway-to-God-and-His-Grace
Date: 9/22/2013
Link to Full Message: http://freedomministries.tv/media-library/2013-messages/praise-opens-the-door-to-god-and-his-grace/praise2/
WHEN THE DRILL BECOMES REAL
I. SIGHT
EX 14:10 … LIFTED UP THEIR EYES…
2Cor 5:7
Josh 3:4
Gen 31:2
Exod 4:10
II. FRIGHT
EX 14:10…AND THEY WERE SORE AFRAID…
Ps 53:4-5
Isa 7:2
Isa 8:12
Isa 8:13
Isa 51:12
Matt 8:26
III. HALF RIGHT
EX 14:10…CRIED OUT UNTO THE LORD…
Ps 56:3-4
2Cor 1:8-10
2Cor 7:5-6
IV. SPITE
EX 4:11…AND THEY SAID UNTO MOSES…
Exod 14:12
Jonah 4:2
Ps 78:40-41
Deut 28:20
Isa 63:9-10
Acts 5:16
Ps 37:1-2
Ps 37:8
Ps 106:24
Ps 106:25
Ps 106:32-33
V. DELIGHT
EXOD 14:29-30
Behold, I will return
the days are coming says YHWH: that the ploughman will overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him who sows seed; and the mountains will drop sweet wine, and all the hills will melt. And I will bring back the captives of My people Y’shra ’uwl, and they will rebuild the waste cities and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them; they will also make gardens, and eat the produce from them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they will no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, says YHWH your Father.
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
Our monthly newsletter is available to read online. We hope you will join us each Sunday in person for our worship service. Make sure to subscribe and follow us on YouTube and social media.
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way
SBs – Sunday Bible School
Adult Bible Lessons 2nd quarter 2024 CPAD
MAGAZINE: THE CAREER THAT IS PROPOSED TO US: The Path of Salvation, Holiness and Perseverance to Reach Heaven
Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
Presentation: Missionary Celso Napoleon
Renewed in Grace
The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2g_43NEa0
Homily: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday 2024.docxJames Knipper
Countless volumes have been written trying to explain the mystery of three persons in one true God, leaving us to resort to metaphors such as the three-leaf clover to try to comprehend the Divinity. Many of us grew up with the quintessential pyramidal Trinity structure of God at the top and Son and Spirit in opposite corners. But what if we looked at this ‘mystery’ from a different perspective? What if we shifted our language of God as a being towards the concept of God as love? What if we focused more on the relationship within the Trinity versus the persons of the Trinity? What if stopped looking at God as a noun…and instead considered God as a verb? Check it out…
1. Growing in the likeness of Christ.
Fruit of the Spirit.
Lesson 7 – Faithfulness
2 Chronicles 20:1-30
1
It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them other
beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle. 2Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying,
There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in
Hazazontamar, which is Engedi. 3And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast
throughout all Judah. 4And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the LORD: even out of all the cities
of Judah they came to seek the LORD. 5And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the
house of the LORD, before the new court, 6And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and
rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is
able to withstand thee? 7Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people
Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever? 8And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a
sanctuary therein for thy name, saying, 9If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or
famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our
affliction, then thou wilt hear and help. 10And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom
thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and
destroyed them not; 11Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast
given us to inherit. 12O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that
cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee. 13And all Judah stood before the LORD,
with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
14
Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of
the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation; 15And he said, Hearken ye, all
Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor
dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s. 16To morrow go ye down against
them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness
of Jeruel. 17Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD
with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be
with you. 18And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD. 19And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of
the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high.
20
And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth,
Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so
shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper. 21And when he had consulted with the people, he
appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army,
and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever. 22And when they began to sing and to praise, the
LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah;
and they were smitten. 23For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir,
utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to
destroy another. 24And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude,
and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped. 25And when Jehoshaphat and his people
came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and
precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days
in gathering of the spoil, it was so much. 26And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of
Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of
Berachah, unto this day. 27Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront
of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies. 28And they
came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD. 29And the fear of God was on
all the kingdoms of those countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel. 30So
the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about.
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Our society is becoming increasingly self-centered. People quickly discard spouses, friends and
promises if they outlive their usefulness. Faithfulness applies only to one person – me! But when
the Spirit develops this fruit in our lives, the results are quite different.
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2. Discussion Questions
1. Are there any areas of your life that you don’t want to turn over to God? Why do you hold on to these?
2. Examine Jehoshaphat’s prayer (vv. 6-12). On what basis does he appeal to God for help?
3. How would Jehoshaphat’s view of God encourage him and the people to trust God in this crisis?
4. Think about what you mentioned in Q1 – those areas hard to hand over to God.
How can God’s power and his faithfulness in the past encourage you to trust him in these areas?
5. Now, consider God’s response to Jehoshaphat’s prayer (vv. 14-17).
How would the prophet’s words have required faith from the people?
6. What evidence is there that they believed his message (vv. 18-21)?
7. Do you ever praise God right in the middle of a problem – before the answer comes? Explain why or why not.
8. How would you have felt as you “came to the place that overlooks the desert and looked toward the vast army:
(v. 24)?
9. Describe the effects God’s faithfulness had on the people (vv. 25-30).
10. What can we learn about faithfulness from the example of Jehoshaphat and the people of Judah in this passage?.
11. To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved – Are you trusted by anyone? Why? Why not?