Bible Study: Our God Connection

If your spiritual battery is flat, you may have been ignoring your relationship with the Holy Spirit.
Our relationship to the Holy Spirit is our connection to God.

If it is broken we have no ability beyond ourselves – spiritual
emotional or physical.
Our faith connection makes the difference.

The Israelites in the desert learned to look to the serpent on the pole in faith and they were healed.
Jesus likened this to his sacrifice on the cross . (John 3;14-15).

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Bible Study: Spiritual Batteries

Our relationship to the Holy Spirit is our connection to God.
It is as vital as a car engines connection to the battery
If the connection is broken there is no spark of energy and the car stops.

So is our connection to God.
If it is broken we have no ability beyond ourselves – spiritual
emotional or physical.
Our faith connection makes the difference.

Important spiritual understanding for your Bible Study, Devotions and Sunday School class.
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Bible Study: Your Spiritual Battery

Charging our Spiritual Batteries
If your spiritual
battery is flat, you may have been ignoring your relationship with the Holy Spirit.

Sometimes we give a higher priority to doing God’s work than we give to God himself.

Spiritual understanding for your Bible Study, Devotions and Sunday School.

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Sunday School: Mother's Answer

A Sociology professor in the
American mid-west was to address a college speech night to emphasize the colleges religious connections.
During the evening lecture a woman came down the isle carrying her child in her arms.
The child was crippled and in callipers.
“What do you want?” he asked.
“God told me to come,” she replied, you are supposed to heal my child.”
......
Three years later the Professor was guest speaker in a church in St Louis when a lady came forward, saying “I wanted you to see my son.”
This was the same child standing tall and straight.
“How is this?” he asked.
“Don’t you remember, we prayed, she said, Each morning he would wake up crying because his callipers were too tight and I would have to adjust them until finally his legs were quite straight!.

This example of healing is for your Sunday School, Devotions and Bible Study members.

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Sunday School: The Mother Asked

A Sociology professor in the American mid-west was to address a college speech night to emphasize the colleges religious connections.

During the evening lecture a woman came down the isle carrying her child in her arms. The child was crippled and in callipers.

“What do you want?” he asked.
“God told me to come,” she replied, you are supposed to heal my child.”

At the professor’s obvious dismay the college chaplain volunteered
assistance, announcing to the audience that those without faith for the child’s healing should leave.

The professor was greatly relieved when he was left with only the chaplain and five “faith” kids who proceeded to pray with enthusiasm.

In the midst of the prayers an Awesome presence touched the Group and they stopped praying.

It was disappointing that there was no change in the child. He was not healed.

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Bible Study: God's Ability

All life is tainted
by evil -
our sin or the
sin of others.

This brings
emotional and physical pain,
even death.

Yet God’s ability
to heal and
restore is a
continuing
miracle which
often delights us with startling
reality……

The following story taken from Tony Campolo's book "It's Friday but Sunday's Coming" is for the Sunday School, Devotions and Bible Study that you reach

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Devotions: God in Healing

God’s original plan for man was
wholeness.

The extent of His love is shown in the perfection of his plan in the life of Jesus.

Christ’s blood not only covers our sin but His stripes release a
resource of healing at every dimension of our need.
Spiritual
Emotional
Physical

He was wounded for our
transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities,
the chastisement (necessary) for our peace was upon Him and
by His stripes
we are healed.
Isaiah 53:4-5

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Bible Study: God in Healing

God’s original plan for man was
wholeness.

Sickness was only introduced when mankind disobeyed God’s command in the
garden.

By following Satan’s advice man made Satan his leader or god.

Then sin, sickness and aging came and dying began.

Man had deliberately turned from God but now God deliberately sought to restore his bond with people.

The extent of God's love is shown in the perfection of his plan in the life of Jesus

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Devotions:God in Healing

God
forgives all your sins

heals all your diseases

redeems your life from the pit.
Psalm 103

Make this your prayer today.

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Devotions: God's Power

Paul White's Jungle Doctor story says porridge in a cloth around one's neck will not satisfy hunger.
The porridge must be inside our bodies to satisfy us.

The Bible also will not benefit our lives by leaving it on the coffee table.
Just as we need food in our bodies, we need God's Word in our hearts to bring power into our lives.
Mark 4: 23-24
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Devotions: Say So

Prayer releases God’s power into the world

He (God) is able…..according to the power working in us

Let the redeemed of the Lord say so.
Psalm 107: 2
In a changing world
you can trust
God’s unchanging word.

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Devotions: The People Prayed

It began February 4th 1998 on the Gold Coast.
Riding his bike home from work one evening, John crashed into a car reversing onto the road.

He received serious head injuries as he was thrown over the top of the vehicle. John was dying as he arrived at the hospital.
Medical staff felt it best to let him die.
It seemed
impossible for him to live throughout the night but doctors operated and damaged brain removed.

It was 2 a.m. when John’s boss suggested prayer.
So prayer for John’s full recovery began in Wangi Morisset, across denominations, and the Internet.
After ten days there were no special results but a prayer for the dying
began a change. John’s healing was now surprising everyone.

It had seemed medically impossible but steadily John improved and has now tested normal, surprising even the doctors.

Twelve months later John is racing bikes in Germany, and
Holland and doing well..
All because, as John in an interview told prime TV,
“It was the people that prayed for me.”

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Bible Study : Third Heaven

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Bible Study: About God's Victory

God has
conquered Satan
Colossians 2:15
God has disarmed principalities and powers ranged against us and made a bold display, and public example triumphing over them.
Hebrews 2:14
Jesus brought to nothing and made of no
effect the one who had the power of death – the DEVIL.

We maintain the victory –the battlefield is our mind
2 Corinthians 10:5
...bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.
Hebrews 3:1
Consider Jesus, the High Priest of our confession
We enforce the victory by our faith confession; agreeing with God’s word.
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BibleStudy: About Satan

World is under control of Satan
2 Corinthians 4:4
god of this world blinds minds...

Satan is in
opposition to God John 10:10
The thief comes….to steal, kill and destroy.

Satan is Prince of the Air Ephesians 6:12
we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
(Satan directs evil forces).

Important Christian truth for your Sunday School, Devotions and Bible Study group.
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Bible Study: Prayer

Prayer releases God’s power into the world


He is able to do
exceeding abundantly above all you ask or think
according to the power that works in you.
Ephesians 3:20
Pray for His power
to release strength and resources for your needs.

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Sunday School: Trust and Obey

Jennifer was an outgoing friendly thirteen year old; helpful at home, friendly at school. Everybody liked her.
One day whilst riding her bike to the shop for her mother she fell and grazed her hand.
Three days later Jennifer was in hospital with tetanus.

The school teacher suggested that all the class should pray for her at 8 p.m.
That night at three minutes to eight o’clock Jennifer died.
Her school friends, unaware of the disaster and waiting for the eight o’clock time earnestly prayed.
Away in the hospital at that time exactly, Jennifer revived without medical reason.
To day Jennifer is near age forty with children of her own.
She has a bent small finger to remind her of the power of prayer from loving school friends.

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Sunday School: Trust and Obey

A retired school teacher’s story of his student’s trust and obedience.
Jennifer was an outgoing friendly thirteen year old; helpful at home, friendly at school. Everybody liked her.
One day whilst riding her bike to the shop for her mother she fell and grazed her hand.
Three days later Jennifer was in hospital with tetanus.
Unable to move or speak her
condition became very serious.
Although Jennifer’s school friends wanted to help, they were not allowed to visit her.
The school teacher suggested that all the class should pray for her at 8 p.m.

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Devotions: How?

When It Feels Like This?

How Do We Maintain This?

Teachig for your Sunday School, Devvotions and Bible Study.
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Devotions: Our Thermostat

A thermometer or a thermostat?

A thermometer exists to tell the temperature.
A thermostat exists to change it.
Thermostats don’t merely register that it’s hot or cold; they respond to our touch and actually alter the environment.
The whole mechanism of my heating system will fight the cold because I made a decision:
I decided how warm it should be and the
thermostat responded by changing the temperature.

As Christians we must be thermostats.
We respond to the Holy Spirit’s touch by causing change.
God has placed in our hands the power and authority to do that.

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Bible Study: Knowledge

These two important Bible verses are important for serious Christians.

The problem
My people are
destroyed for lack of
knowledge.
(Hosea 4:6)

The answer
May grace (God’s favour) and peace
be multiplied to you in the
knowledge of God and of
Jesus our Lord.
(2 Peter 1:2)

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Bible Study: Prayer Answer

Unexpectedly an Earthquake in the night hours caught every one by surprise.
I heard my children praying a blood covering over my business . My subway shop! I hadn’t even thought about it.
Stuart didn’t know that his subway shop at Northridge was situated over the epicentre nor that the science building across the road was half destroyed.

On the way to work parts of the expressway
were missing and squad cars surrounded the area.

All windows were missing in the shopping centre. Doors next door were tilted and broken.
At the subway shop every window and door was intact. Bread racks had moved and food fallen off shelves. Yet Stuart says, “Nothing was broken. Not a mirror, not a dish. I didn’t even lose one light bulb.”
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Devotions: The Earthquake in the Night

Stuart awoke to the shaking and rolling that could only mean one thing –earthquake!
“My first thought was that we had nothing to worry about because the night at church before we’d prayed a blood line (Jesus protection) around our house.
But as I bolted out of bed, I heard my children praying a blood covering over my business .
My subway shop! I hadn’t even thought about it.

Stuart didn’t know that his subway shop was situated over the epicentre nor that the science building across the road was half destroyed.

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Sunday School: An Earthquake in the NIght

Unexpectedly an Earthquake in the night hours caught every one by surprise.
The South Californian earthquake occurred January 17 1994 at 6.8 on the Richter scale.
Sixty one people died and destruction
cost over $15 billion.

Stuart Schlosser awoke to the shaking and rolling that could only mean one thing –earthquake!
“My first thought was that we had nothing to worry about because the night at church before we’d prayed a blood line (Jesus protection) around our house.

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