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Devotions:Prayer Attitudes

2010-01-18T19:55:00.002+11:00

Regarding healing; think especially of the part of the body that most needs to be well.
See it well and perfect and shining with God’s light.
Now give thanks that this is being accomplished.

To receive God’s life in the body, we must be able to forget the body so that we can quiet the mind and concentrate on the spiritual energies of God.

We receive God by forgetting ourselves and thinking about Him.
We begin our prayer not by clamoring for this or that, but by thinking about him in a way that makes Him real to us.

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Devotions: Prayer Attitudes

2010-01-17T14:32:00.003+11:00

Attitudes for a faith prayer:
1. Choose the same time and the
same place each day, make your
self comfortable and relax.

2. Remind yourself of the reality of
God’s life outside yourself.

3. Ask that life to come in and
increase life in your body.

4. Make a picture in your mind of
the answer to your prayer.

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Devotions: Personal Spirit

2010-01-16T15:08:00.002+11:00

The Spirit in the Gospels
The Greek word for spirit (pneuma) in the
New Testament means both a powerful wind
and a personal spirit.
John said that Jesus would ‘baptize with the
Holy Spirit and with fire’
recorded in Matthew 3: 1-12; Mark 1:1-8 and Luke 3:1-18

John says that this baptism of the Holy Spirit is Jesus’ single most important task
Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world..
….is he who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.
(John 1:29-34)
In the O.T. fire was understood to have
purifying qualities
(Isaiah 1:25; Zech. 13:9 and Malachi 3:2-3)
or to make holy (Isaiah 4:3-6)

The baptism of Jesus’ Holy Spirit
to his followers is to provide both
hurricane power and holy purity.

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Sunday School: Attitude

2010-01-15T10:29:00.003+11:00

We don’t see things clearly.
We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist.

But it won’t be long
before the weather clears and the sun shines bright!

We’ll see it all then,
see it all as clearly as
God sees us,
knowing him directly just as he knows us!

But for right now, until that completeness,
we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation:
Trust steadily in God,
hope unswervingly,
love extravagantly.
And the best of the three is love.
1 Corinthians 13:12-13
From The Message –
New Testament in Contemporary Language

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Devotions: Important Truths

2010-01-14T10:14:00.002+11:00

The Christian is to partner with the Holy Spirit to be ready to receive new power and vitality; to submit to the Holy Spirit.

Without God’s direction no amount of effort from us will work.1

He directs and enables. We cannot control or manipulate God. He uses us. Yet He does not mechanically over-ride our free will.

The degree to which we submit is the degree to which the Spirit can be effective in us.

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Bible Study: Light

2010-01-13T21:13:00.002+11:00

“You are the light of the world,” said Jesus whose light still shines down the centuries.
We are the electric light bulbs through
which the light of God reaches the world.
Thus we are “part God”. This does not belittle God anymore than it belittles the sun to know that a square of sunlight on the floor is part of its
infinite and eternal shining.
Knowing then that we are part of God,
that His life within us is an active energy and
that He works through the laws of our bodies,
let us study to adjust to those laws
and speed His work.
adapted from Healing Light by A Sanford

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Sunday School: Prayer for the Baby

2010-01-12T22:17:00.002+11:00

Once I was called to pray for a baby girl ill with pneumonia. I knelt beside the cot in silence, laid one hand upon the small congested chest and slipped the other one beneath her back, and asked God to come into her. Soon the baby was filled with a visible inrushing of new life. Even the hands and feet vibrated, as if an electric current were entering her. A look of tension on the tiny face was smoothed away and she passed from a semi-conscious condition into a natural sleep.

He stopped at the threshold, eyes staring, jaw dropped in surprise. The small patient was bright eyed and cheerful, sitting up in bed.
“My God!” exclaimed the doctor, startled out of his bedside manner. “What’s happened to her?”
He was right.
It was his God who had intervened – that’s what happened to her.
The spiritual force that flows through us is the “breath of God” breathed into the “dust of the earth” of which our frames are made.

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Devotions:Energy

2010-01-11T15:43:00.003+11:00

Turn on the light of God’s creative energy
Paul advised the Christians in Ephesus to “walk as children of light”
God is described as light and He created first of all light.
Scientists know that light is a form of energy.

All created things are made of energy. God is primal energy and light, so it is not strange that when we establish a closer connection with God in prayer we receive more abundant life – an increased flow of energy.

The creative force that sustains us is
increased within our bodies.
Some adults and many children feel heat when receiving prayer or healing.

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Sunday School: Specific Prayer

2010-01-09T20:25:00.002+11:00

Be specific in prayer
Agnes Sanford’s experience
There was a small boy who had a leaky heart.
I had prayed for his healing with slight success. The heart was better but not well. So I questioned him concerning his knowledge of God.
“I know all about God,” he replied serenely. “God is in this room, only you can’t see Him ‘cause He’s ‘visible. And Jesus is in this room, only you can’t see Him ‘cause He’s ‘visible.
“Yes. Isn’t that funny?”
“Not to me, it isn’t.”

So I was reproved. Billy, I decided, knew about God with more profound simplicity than I did. His theology was quite sufficient for his seven years. It remained only for me to teach him how to make his knowledge of God work for the healing of the heart.

“How about playing a little pretend game with me?” I said. “Pretend you’re a big guy going to high school and you’re on the football squad. Shut your eyes and see yourself holding the ball and running ahead of the others. ‘Look at that guy!’ the other kids will say. ‘Just look at him run!
Boy, he’s strong! I bet he’s got a strong heart!” Then you say ‘Thank you God, because that’s the way it’s going to be.’ Will you play that game every night, right after you say your going to bed prayer?”
I left Billy grinning but noncommittal.

A month later I returned. The mother had taken Billy to the doctor.
The doctor knew of the patient’s experiment with faith and was
delighted to pronounce the heart perfect.

“Have you been playing my pretend-game, Billy?” I asked the small seeker after truth.
The little boy’s face lit up with a delighted grin. “Sure have!” he cried.
He had played the game and found a profound reality. He had wrestled with God as his partner against the powers of destruction and had prevailed.
The will of God for him was not a
leaky heart, but health.

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Sunday School: Bury the Old Life

2010-01-08T20:26:00.003+11:00

When God lives and breathes in you
(and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus),
you are delivered from that dead life.
With his Spirit living in you
you’ll be as alive as Christ’s.

So don’t you see that we don’t owe this old
do- it –yourself life one ..cent.
There’s nothing in it for us, nothing at all.
The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new life.
God’s Spirit beckons.
There are things to do and places to go.

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Bible Study: New Power

2010-01-07T17:57:00.003+11:00

Romans 8:1-17
A new power is in operation.
The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death.

God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He didn’t deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mass of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all.

Those who trust God’s action in them
find that God’s Spirit is in them—
living and breathing God.

It stands to reason that if the alive -and -present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he’ll do the same thing that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself.

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Bible Study: Images of the Spirit

2010-01-06T19:04:00.002+11:00

Old Testament images of the Spirit
show power and purity.
As a company’s chief operates the
policies, programs, decisions
and vision of the company
so the Holy Spirit acts to implement
the Father’s will.

He moulds and animates creation
Genesis 1:1-2 God creates. Holy Spirit hovers over the waters as a hen broods over her eggs bringing them to life. Gen 2:7
H.S. sustains life. Ps 33:6, 104:29-30; Is. 34:16, 40:7 Job 33:4
He reveals Gods truth
Ezekiel 37:1-2 Spirit reveals God’s truth through the
vision of the valley of dry bones. Also Is 61:1-4, 48:16
Joel 2:28 Spirit will bring prophetic speech
He awakens people to God
He convicts of sin and encourages to faith and praise
Psalm 51:10-12; Isaiah 44:3-5; Ezekiel 39:29; 36:25-27; 11:19

He equips some men and women for service
Joseph -Genesis 41:33-42
Moses -Num. 11:16-29
The kings-Saul and David helped to rule
1 Samuel 10:10; 11:6; 16:13;
He is God, the Holy Spirit.
Equal to God-third person of the Trinity.

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Sunday School: Our Potential

2010-01-05T22:38:00.003+11:00

The Holy Spirit fulfills our potential
in God but
the Christian is to partner with the Holy Spirit
- ready to receive new power and vitality;

The Christian is to submit to the Holy Spirit as
a conscious act of the will. We decide and
continue to submit every day of our life.

The degree to which we submit is the degree to which the Spirit can be effective through us.

He who comes to God must believe that God is (God) and He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. Hebrews 11:6

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Bible Study: Successful Prayer

2010-01-04T19:52:00.002+11:00

What prayers of ours have been successful?
Realize that if our experiment fails it is not
due to a lack in God but a natural lack in
ourselves. What scientist would be
discouraged if his first experiment failed?

We intend with God’s help to heal our
shortcomings, to repair our ‘spiritual’ wiring.
We need not fear to test His power by prayer.
We must be in accordance with God’s will.

So a wise seeker after God
had better study the laws of God
and adapt his prayers to them.
God’s nature is love so we pray in love.
When our electric lights fail, we know that the fault is not a lack of electricity in the universe but in the wiring. Edison tried hundreds of times to get electricity to flow continuously until finally he succeeded – that is faith.

God’s activity can also be blocked; by fear,
no trust…. or operating out of His will.
Your examples?
God’s plans are always good. John 10:10

Praise and thanks keep a continuous flow
of His power. 1 Thessalonians 5:17

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Devotions: Prayer

2010-01-03T21:48:00.002+11:00

Extracts from The Healing Light
by A. Sanford
God is both within and without us. He is the source of all life: the creator of the universe.
He is also the indwelling life of our own
little selves. And just as a whole world full of electricity will not light a house unless the house itself is prepared to receive that
electricity, so the infinite and eternal life of God cannot help us unless we are prepared to receive that life within ourselves.
Only the amount of God
that we can get in us will work for us.
“The kingdom of God is within you,” Jesus said.
Luke 17:21

God does things through us (not for us).
God is omnipotent.
He can do as He likes but He has made a world that runs by law, and He does not like to break those laws.
Roses will bloom in winter if we adapt our greenhouses to His laws of heat and light that the rose needs.

He can also produce a full-blown answer
to prayer ….if….
we adapt to His laws of love and faith.

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Sunday School: Baby's Ears

2010-01-02T11:20:00.002+11:00

My baby had been ill for six weeks with abscessed ears.

I prayed desperately that God would heal the child.
My mind was filled with thoughts of fear and of bitterness, and these are not of God, God is love, and perfect love casts out fear.

So God could not go through me to heal my baby for there was a break in the pipeline that connected me with Him; Yet He sent one of His own ministers. –a young man, ruddy faced and clear eyed. “I’ll go and have a prayer with him,” he said. “I don’t think that will do any good,” I replied wearily. He’s only a baby. He won’t understand.”
“Oh, that won’t matter,” he replied,
disregarding my feeble protests. He went upstairs. Light shone in his eyes. I saw his joyfulness, and I believed. For joy is the heavenly “O.K.” on the inner life of power.
Joy called forth my faith.

The minister placed his hands upon the baby’s ears and said, “Now you close your eyes and go to sleep I’m going to ask God to come into your ears and make them well, and when you wake up you’ll be all right.”
Within hours, it happened! He was well!

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Devotions: Holy Spirit's Work

2010-01-01T20:52:00.002+11:00

Ever since the Holy Spirit came to the
disciples of Jesus in the upper room on the
day of Pentecost, God’s spirit has been
active in the world to bring God’s life to
Jesus followers who welcome Him.
That’s us!

He is not limited by time, power or place
He operates at any time, in any part of the world, to any person.
That’s for us!

The Bible says God does not discriminate
between people (Acts 10:34 )
He responds to our faith in Jesus, God’s son (not our good works)
We can have faith!

He knows all about us but we need to
communicate because he works through our faith and trust in Him.
We can communicate.

God has laws. If we obey them, His laws
work for us. His Holy Spirit is Jesus
representative in the world today.
He works for us!

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Devotions: Relating to the Holy Spirit

2009-12-31T18:49:00.002+11:00

The Holy Spirit is mentioned twice in the Old Testament.

1) Psalm 51:10-12
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right, persevering and steadfast spirit within me.
Cast me not away from Your presence, and
take not Your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and
uphold me with a willing spirit.
The Holy Spirit is associated with
repentant lives. His presence brings a
new attitude clothed in joy.

2) The Holy Spirit can be grieved at our
rebellion. Isaiah 63:10.
He is associated with powerful signs and special direction.1 Isaiah 63:11-14

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Bible Study: The Spirit in the Old Testament

2009-12-30T20:54:00.002+11:00

Many examples of the Spirit’s activity are found in the Old Testament.
He is described in a series of unusual images which help us begin to grasp his character and appreciate his activities.

Water
Ezekiel 47:1-12 Water flowing from the heart of God’s temple (as flow of God’s blessing)
Be deeper and deeper in it.
Jeremiah 2:13 & 17:13 John 7:37-39
God is a ‘fountain of living water’
Ezekiel 36:25-28 As water cleanses and
maintains life, so does the Spirit.

Fire
Exodus 3:2; Deut 4:11-12, 24; Isaiah 4:2-6
Fire purifies and refines. We are to be cleansed by the Spirit’s fire to become holy.

Oil
1 Samuel 10:1-9; 16:13; Isaiah 61:1-3
As oil anoints people for service, so God’s Spirit equips us for His service.

Dove
The dove (Genesis 8: 1-12) announced a new creation. A sacrifice for sins of the poor. (Leviticus 5:7-10). Jesus brought new life and was a sacrifice for us.

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Bible Study: Spirit Expressions

2009-12-29T21:04:00.002+11:00

Many examples of the Spirit’s activity are found in the Old Testament.
He is described in a series of unusual images which help us begin to grasp his character and appreciate his activities.

Wind
Genesis 8:1; Exodus 10:13; Job 21:18;
Ps. 35:5; Ezekiel 37:9; Amos 4:13
The Spirit is a hurricane whom we cannot
control or predict. He is an invading force who transforms wherever he blows.
He is God’s power in action.

Breath
Ezekiel 37:1-14
The Spirit is the breath without which men and women are spiritually dead.

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Devotions: God's Gifts

2009-12-28T15:20:00.003+11:00

Jesus lives and acts and heals today through His body on earth.

The Holy Spirit has been poured onto the church to enable Christians to share
Jesus’ power and authority.

The Spirit’s presence makes a dynamic difference to people around us.

The Spirit of God is mentioned throughout the Bible.

The Holy Spirit is a person who is dynamically alive.

He existed with God and Jesus from the beginning
Genesis 1: 2 “and God’s spirit moved over the face of the water”.

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Bible Study: God's Word Does It

2009-12-27T18:00:00.003+11:00

God’s word defeats the
devil Matthew 4:1-11
…….produces a hundred
fold. Mark 4:20
…….is the power of God
Romans 1:16
…….upholds all things
Hebrews 1:3

Practice the authority God has given you—speak His words,believe them and live them.
God will be “as good as His word” and will honour those who honour Him.

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Bible Study: Impossible?

2009-12-26T14:12:00.002+11:00

Your God is a god of the impossible.
Expect God’s best.

Hold to your faith in Him and speak His words in your prayer with faith.
This releases his energies and power.
Hebrews 1:3
God upholds all things by the word of his power.

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Devotions: A Winter Harvest

2009-12-24T20:08:00.004+11:00

Notice the broken dam in the drought and the repaired ,full dam.

The small African village of Rungai was thirsty, in the grip of a severe drought. It’s tall grasses grew dustier with every passing day
The reservoir lay empty and dry.

The brook that once filled it had only a trickle towards the high stone wall dam. Two years earlier it had been damaged by a flash flood-and with little rain since the people had left it a broken down reminder of better days.
While the villagers turned to witchcraft a young farmer turned preacher gathered a group of Bible believers to study and pray.

As the drought persisted so did their faith.
Cuthbert Farai decided to apply his faith by repairing the dam.
The drought showed no sign of ending but they put their faith in God’s promises and continued their work
When the work was completed unseasonal rains fell right into the newly repaired reservoir
As the planting season arrived all the villagers were given a 30 by 20 ft plot to cultivate.
The plots were seeded and the yields a welcome relief.

As the dry winter season approached the crops of the unbelievers died off as normal.
But the crops of those Christians who had believed in God’s word continued to produce.

There was no natural explanation.
Until the time for planting came again these people willingly shared their faith and their crops with their neighbours.
The winter harvest of 1985 was a result of people hearing and applying God’s word.

God is still turning droughts of every kind into downpours of blessing.
He still does the impossible.
from Believers Voice of Victory 1990

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Devotions: Glory!

2009-12-23T21:05:00.002+11:00

We beheld His glory full of grace and truth

Arise, shine
For your light has come!
And the glory of the Lord has risen upon you,
For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,
And deep darkness the people;

But the Lord will arise upon you,
And His glory will be seen upon you,
The Gentiles shall come to your light,
And kings to the brightness of your rising.
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Sunday School: Cornelius Acts 10

2009-12-22T21:14:00.002+11:00

He should have missed out!
but instead he came into the realm of God’s blessings

Cornelius was a wealthy Roman centurion who was appreciated by God for his prayers and generous gifts.

God sent an angel to tell him to ask Peter to visit.

God also told Peter in a dream that people of all nationalities are welcome
to receive God‘s blessings.

When Peter came to give the message of Jesus, to Cornelius and his family the anointing of the Holy Spirit fell upon all of them.

The gospel for "non-Jews"!
This same offer is for us today.
Move into the realm of God's blessings.

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Devotions:: Rahab's blessings

2009-12-21T19:46:00.002+11:00

They should have missed out!
but instead they came into the realm of God’s blessings
Rahab Joshua 2,6
Joshua was entering the promised land and ready to kill all the people.

Rahab the Canaanite prostitute recognized the supremacy of Joshua’s God when he and his men were spies in her town. She saved their lives by hiding them under flax during a search.

Rahab trusted the spies and their God and as a result she and her family were saved from death when Joshua invaded.

Later marrying a Jew, her son Boaz married Ruth and their grandson Jesse
became the father of King David, the ancestor of Jesus.

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Bible Study: Live by the Word

2009-12-20T20:51:00.004+11:00

Man does not llive by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Matthew 4:4

Give attention to my words;
Incline your ear to my sayings.
Do not let them depart from your eyes;
Keep them in the midst of your heart; for they are life to those who find them and health to all their flesh.
Proverbs 4:20

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Sunday School: We Bring Christ Here

2009-12-19T13:08:00.002+11:00

Into this world we bring Christ here. His life His words in us.

We speak His words in faith to release His ministry
“The word is near you in your mouth and in your heart (that is the word of
faith which we preach)” Romans 10:8

Jesus the anointed of God has a ministry to the total man.

He speaks only God’s words
His words are alive and
active, resisting evil,
releasing life,
bringing change.
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Sunday School: So Jesus Came

2009-12-18T11:36:00.002+11:00

So Jesus came..
the Word expressed
in human form
that we might see
the way, the walk
before our eyes;
and we might know
that God is real.

So knowing him within
an atmosphere of love
we can be like him
to speak his words
and so extend His cause,
His work, His kingdom,
His love within the circle of our experience.

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Bible Study: The Word Among Us

2009-12-16T20:50:00.003+11:00

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God….

In him was life and that life was the light of men.

The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it….

The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.
John 1:1-14

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Devotions:Who's the Boss

2009-12-15T20:15:00.004+11:00

Body or Spirit? who is boss?

Our body contacts the world

Our spirit contacts God and
releases God’s power into our life.

Let God empower your life.

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Bible Study: The Word Works

2009-12-14T11:51:00.003+11:00

As the rain and snow come down from heaven and stay upon the ground to water the earth, and cause the grain to grow and to produce seed for the farmer and bread for the hungry,

So also is my Word.
I send it out and it always produces fruit.
It shall accomplish all I want it to, and prosper everywhere I send it.
Isaiah 55:10-11
Living Bible

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Sunday School: The Crisis

2009-12-12T08:46:00.002+11:00

A Nursing Sister’s Crisis
Janet Cohen
My son Matthew was bitten by a white tail spider during his visit to Hobart in January 1998.
With my medical background, I knew what was going to happen as over the years I have seen amputated limbs and even death resulting from these spider bites.
The absolute horror of it all hit me when the physician looking after Matthew told me to stay away as my concern could cause panic and he could lose his arm within two weeks if the treatment he was proposing failed.
The flesh eating wound had grown to 5 cms diameter in 4 days and was growing at the rate of 1 cm per day. He was 13 at the time.
Never before had the physicians at the Royal Hobart Hospital had the opportunity to treat a spider bite so early and without the surgeons having a go at cutting it out first.

I had one option,- to pray.
My prayers are basic but I knew that they would be good enough as they were from the heart. As an added bonus, I had the entire congregation praying with me.
The fear left my heart and after 6 long sessions in the hyperbaric chamber, Matthew’s arm started to heal.
There’s power in prayer. Miracles still happen. I know.

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Sunday School:The Word: an indispensable weapon

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The Word: an indispensable weapon

…...the weapons...are mighty... for the destruction of strongholds.
Inasmuch as we refute
arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself against the knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Jesus Christ the Messiah, the Anointed One.
2 Corinthians 10:4-5

Teaching for your Devotions, Sunday School and Bible Study class.

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Bible Study: End Temptation

2009-12-10T14:02:00.002+11:00

The sword or Word of God is an aggressive spiritual force.

Hebrews 4:12 says God’s word is alive and active sharper than any two edged sword.

We can speak the word as Jesus did to resist Satan.
We fight off Satan and end temptation with a statement of faith in God’s word.

The Holy Spirit fulfils God’s desires that we have set in motion by speaking God’s words.

Teaching for your Sunday school, Devotions and Bible Study group.

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Devotions: Fighting Evil

2009-12-09T17:29:00.003+11:00

God has given us the
ability to fight evil in the world.

We do not fight people but evil. The weapon God gives us is His word.

The word is called a sword and is the only offensive part of the Christian soldier’s
armour.

The helmet and shield (salvation-faith) protect and defend the soldier

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2009-12-09T17:27:00.001+11:00

Sunday School: What to do about the Devil

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James 4:7

So then…submit to God

resist the Devil

and he will flee from you.
Teaching principle for your Sunday School, Bible Study and Devotions group.

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Devotions: Ganster for Christ

2009-12-07T20:02:00.002+11:00

Jim Vaus was a new Christian.
Before his conversion he had been a wire tapper for the underworld gang in Los Angeles.
He was converted at a Billy Graham Crusade.

The next morning his story was newspaper headlines –
Gangster for Christ.
Jim Vaus was concerned.
What would the gangsters do?
They would consider him a traitor and arrange a speedy execution
As he lay the morning paper down, two of the most ruthless gangsters
arrived in a large car.
Twenty four hours earlier Jim would have fled but now he didn’t run.
When he had opened his bible that morning God had strengthened him with a verse from Proverbs 16:7
When a man‘s ways please the Lord he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him

So Jim opened the door and the gunmen gave him a wiretapping job in St Louis.
Jim told them that the Lord had changed his heart.
He couldn’t do this job.
At first his visitors looked bewildered and then ... without further comment they turned and left.

Saved!.
Jim knew that God had been true to His word.

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Sunday School: Alive and Active

2009-12-06T20:50:00.002+11:00

God’s word is our spiritual food planned by God to make us
spiritually strong.

We wonder at our spiritual ineffectiveness while
all the time we are spiritually starved.

God’s Word is alive and active
Hebrews 4:12

My word.…
that goes forth from my mouth ...shall not return to me void but will accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which
I sent it.
Isaiah 55:11

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Bible Study: What Jesus Says

2009-12-05T23:58:00.002+11:00

God’s word really is alive and active to bring about results.

Jesus quoted the O. T. scripture 64 times
During the terrible 40 day temptation or battle with Satan in the wilderness
Jesus quoted scripture to defeat Satan.
(Luke 4:3)

He settled the issue and resisted three times
Satan’s persuasion: -
To test God’s protection and jump from the
pinnacle of the temple
(Deut. 6:16)
To receive the kingdoms of the world as a gift from Satan in return for
worshipping him.
(Deut. 6:13 10;20)
To turn the stones of the wilderness into bread to which Jesus replied, Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
(Deut 8:3)

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Devotions: God's Provision

2009-11-20T08:51:00.002+11:00

Bill works afternoon shift at the Munmorah mine. He says, “I had forgotten the time, talking about the bible with Christian friends and found I was very late for work. No time now for lunch and not even time to buy anything. I’m
notoriously late.
I have asked God’s help before but this was even worse. Embarrassed, I asked God to somehow provide for me again because I would have nothing to eat from breakfast until 11.20 pm

The journey to work was five minutes less than is normally possible and miraculously I was just in time to catch my ride underground.
I was saved by God! Lateness corrected. But by seven o’clock I was starving.
I felt the Lord was prompting me to speak to my work mate. He said ‘Sure come and eat.’ Mick had 4 pies, 6 slices of bread, salami and salad - then cake. Plenty for two and food left over. Like the loaves and fishes. God had done it again!”

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Devotions: A Foundation

2009-11-19T10:27:00.003+11:00

God’s Word is a Foundation for Life
Luke 6:46-49

So often we are like the foolish builder who acted on the convenience of the moment without worrying about the house foundations.
The main problem was not the storm which hit both houses but the foundations.
Base your lives on foundations of God’s Word.

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Sunday School: God's Word

2009-11-18T19:32:00.003+11:00

God’s Word is a Foundation for Life
Luke 6:46-49

Are we like the wise builder who built his house on a foundation laid upon rock?
When the storm came it could not be shaken.
Jesus likened this to basing our life on His word. Then as storms come into our lives we will remain strong.

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Devotions: Spiritual Hunger

2009-11-17T22:17:00.003+11:00

Only Christ the bread of life can satisfy our spiritual hunger

God's Word is a lamp to guide me and a light to m path
Psalm 119:105

God’s Promise for you to claim in your prayers.

Fear not, for I am with you;
Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you,
Yes, I will help you,
I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41:10

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Bible Study: Stop

2009-11-16T20:58:00.004+11:00

Let’s heed the danger sign

Jesus said….
“You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures
or the power of God”.
Matthew 22:29

You nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have
handed down.
Mark 7:13

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Devotions:God’s Word Directs

2009-11-13T21:46:00.002+11:00

God’s word within us is a guiding and teaching medium that is ever
reminding us and prompting us with God’s direction.

It happened for me when I was planning to move from Sydney to Newcastle as a single parent with the care of six children.
Discussing the move with my father-in-law, I said, “You must visit us when we move.” and he replied, “I will.”

Pleased, I commented, “You can live with us if you like.” and Pa immediately
responded, “I would like.”

Well, then arose the problem of buying a house for eight people with my limited finances.
It seemed too difficult so I planned to explain to Pa.
I knew he would understand
However, I kept recalling the scripture, He who puts his hand to the plough and turns back is not fit for the kingdom of God.
I knew God wanted me to share with Pa the house that I could afford.
So I announced my plan. We would do it; in spite of the squeeze.

Then…..Pa also made a decision.
He decided to sell his Sydney home and help with extending the new home.
And so he did.
By this, we were together and greatly blessed.
But first I had to heed God’s word and act on it.

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Sunday School: Growing Up

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Growing Up
All of us have a great potential for spiritual
development
Just as a son has the same potential for strength as his father.
He has just as many muscles in his body although at his age he may not be as strong.
The reason?
His muscles are not
fully developed while
he is still growing.
Yet he has all the physical components of a full grown man – bones,
muscles, organs etc.
How he develops depends on how he treats his body. He can
destroy it or nourish it.
God’s Word is spiritual food. Be nourished.

Important understanding for your students in Sunday School, Devotions and Bible Study.

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Devotions:God's Word Grows

2009-11-09T20:55:00.002+11:00

The Sower is God
The seed - Word of God
The soil – peoples’ lives

Jesus explains:
God (sower) sows the message (seed) into our lives (soil).

On the Path Satan quickly devours it.
On Stony ground the plants with limited roots
wither and die.
So do we when we lack God’s resources Difficulties come and we are defeated.
Thorny soil chokes the life out of the plants similar to worries and desires for other things which chokes the word in our life.
Good soil receives the seed which brings fruit thirty, sixty or hundred fold.

We can be good soil and allow God’s word to make us people of faith and power.

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Bible Study: Growing

2009-11-08T21:02:00.003+11:00

Jesus tells the story of plants sown on
The Path
- Stony ground
- Thorny soil
and Good soil.
He compares the varying results.

Bible Study for your Devotions, Sunday School and Bible Study class.

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Bible Study: Growing

2009-11-06T23:04:00.003+11:00

The sower sows God’s message.
Some people are like the seeds that fall along the path: as soon as they hear the message,
Satan comes and takes it away
…..other people are like the seeds sown in good soil.
They hear the message, accept it and bear fruit:
some thirty,
some sixty
and some a hundred.
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Bible Study: Praise

2009-11-04T20:41:00.002+11:00

All that is in the heaven and in the earth is Yours…
Both riches and honour come from You and You reign over all
In Your hand is power and might;
In Your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.
Now therefore our God we thank You and praise Your glorious name.

1 Chronicles 29: 10-13

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Devotions:Seeking hope from faith in Christ

2009-11-03T20:27:00.002+11:00

In the aftermath of the massacre at Columbine High School, Littleton,
U.S.A. a team of grief counsellors arrived to help the survivors deal with their anguish.
But most young people had turned to the church.
Patrick Simington joined his friends for a memorial service at the Light of the World Roman Catholic Church which had lost four young members.
Patrick’s mother told the Washington Times that what is really helping him get through this crisis “is his faith. “

Columbine student Lauren Johnson was encouraged by her parents to seek out a professional counsellor.
Instead she turned to the staff at West Bowles Community Church
telling reporters, “I just like it better this way.” She added, “It seemed like most of the kids from school were there.”

The action of the kids in Littleton is further proof that we can know no peace until we find it in Christ.
From an article by Brian Pickering

A message to be shared in Sunday School, Devotions and Bible Study.

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Bible Study: Benefits from Praise

2009-11-01T21:02:00.003+11:00

Praise brings glory
2 Chronicles 5:13-14 When David’s priests were in unity of praise, thanksgiving and music the temple was filled with the cloud – they could not continue for the glory of God’s presence.

Praise repels heaviness
Isaiah 61:3 likens praise to a garment which repels and replaces the heavy spirit. When distressed be dressed with praise.

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Bible Study: Pathway of Praise

2009-10-31T21:05:00.003+11:00

Sacrifice of Praise

Hebrews 13: 10-15 refers to
praise as a sacrifice. We
often need to “kill” our pride, fear or laziness, that keeps us away from the Lord. We need to keep our focus on Jesus and His love gift of life to us.
Then…
Praise brings His Presence
Psalm 22:3 God’s rule and
presence may be invited
into the midst of any
situation by means of praise.

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Sunday School : Praise

2009-10-30T21:03:00.004+11:00

Adopt an Attitude of Gratitude

Practice the praising
principle.
Praise is precious.
Praise is powerful.
Praise is personal
Praise pleases God!

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Sunday School: Participants

2009-10-28T20:24:00.002+11:00

The church works
best when we
see ourselves
as participants,
not spectators

This is for the students and leaders of the Sunday School, Devotions and Bible Study.

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Bible Study: Victories in Praise

2009-10-27T20:55:00.002+11:00

The N. T tells how Paul and Silas were beaten and thrown into prison after the healing of the slave girl.

They responded by singing hymns of praise while other prisoners listened.

At midnight there was a great earthquake, doors flew open and chains fell off the prisoners.

The gaoler was converted, his household saved and satanic captivity. overthrown.

Even today, praise will cause chains of bondage to drop away.
Praise triumphs gloriously!

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Devotions: Praise Victories

2009-10-26T21:55:00.002+11:00

The O. T. has a great example of the power of praise.

Judah was surrounded by mortal enemies.

The king and people called to God in prayer
Then came the word of the prophet, ”Do not be afraid... for the battle is not yours but God’s”

As they went out to battle they were lead by a choir praising the Lord with voices loud and high saying “Praise the Lord for His mercy lasts forever.”

At this the enemy attacked itself and the result – Victory
2 Chronicles 20

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Sunday School: Family Praise

2009-10-25T21:53:00.003+11:00

The Lord inhabits our praises. So the mighty God “lives in or dwells in” us – manifests himself as we praise.

A Methodist Army chaplain Merlin Carothers discovered this truth
following World war 2 when telling his men of the reality of God’s presence.

Many were at the end of their resources with alcohol, marriage and
financial problems.

He told of praising God in all situations bringing God’s amazing intervention.
Once his caravan overturned dragging the car and spilling the family possessions down an embankment.

Merlin’s praise response in the midst of the debris shocked the policeman who was amazed that they were not injured.

Merlin’s 20 year old daughter exclaimed “Really, Dad you are too much, but I do love you.”
The blessing?
The next day they were on the road with an identical station wagon and insurance money to cover the caravan costs

This time all the family united to praise God.

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Bible Study: A Praise Intro

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Praise be to you, O Lord God ... from everlasting to everlasting.

Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power
and the glory and the majesty and the splendor,
For everything in heaven and earth is yours…..

Now, our God we give you thanks and praise your glorious name.
1 Chronicles 29 10

For teaching in your Sunday School, Devotions and Bible Study group.

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Devotions: Praise Draws God

2009-10-23T21:57:00.002+11:00

Praise unlocks heaven’s portals;
Praise causes doubts to cease;
Praise brings precious blessings;
Praise leaves the sweetest peace.

Praise breaks all bands asunder;
Praise sets the captives free;
Praise lightens every burden;
Praise is the master key.

Praise changes circumstances;
Praise establishes the heart;
When praise becomes perpetual,
Praise is a Holy Art.

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Bible Study: More Support Scriptures

2009-10-22T22:27:00.003+11:00

Jesus was made sin with our sinfulness
that we might be made
righteous with His
righteousness. Isaiah 53:10

Jesus died our death
that we might receive
His life. 2 Corinthians 5:21

Jesus was made a curse
that we might enter into
the blessing. Hebrews 2:9

These are for leaders teaching A Clean Slate theme in Devotions, Bible Study and Sunday School groups.

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Devotions:The Lion

2009-10-21T22:11:00.003+11:00

Satan alias Lucifer, the Devil
lies, steals, kills,
is god of this world.
goes about as a roaring lion

Jesus known as the Son of God
is our Lord
Saviour,Shepherd,
Brother, Friend,
Counsellor and Way.
He is the Lion

Scriptural understanding for your Sunday School, Devotions and Bible Study students.

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Bible Study: Supporting Scriptures

2009-10-19T23:29:00.003+11:00

Thank you Lord that you set an open door before me that no man can shut.
Revelation 3:8

Jesus was punished that we might be forgiven. Isaiah 53:4-5

Jesus was wounded that we might be healed. Isaiah 53:4-5

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Sunday School: Testimony

2009-10-18T17:53:00.002+11:00

My daughter developed post-natal depression after the birth of her first child.
She phoned, distressed and frightened that she would hurt the baby she loved.
As a new Christian I prayed all the way to her home, “Lord give me the right words.” My husband went to fetch the minister and I held my girl and began to pray.
To my surprise the prayer was the most glorious praise to the Lord, sweet and deep.
This prayer then became strong and forceful and we felt that we were being held safely, as in a cocoon.
We cried and laughed.
My daughter said, “I have never felt any thing like that before Mum.”
Neither had I. Praise God!
The minister then led Jenny quietly to the Lord.
God had answered my prayer.

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Devotions: A God Connection

2009-10-15T22:04:00.002+11:00

Making the God connection
This connection can be broken by doubt, neglect and sin.

Faith, prayer and the reading of God’s word maintains the link.

The Communion Service is also a powerful opportunity
to restate our faith
to establish our direction with Him,
to make a claim on
the Holy Spirit’s
resources for our
spirit, soul and body.

Our spiritual life is meant to grow, enrich and bless our every day life in spirit, soul and body.
The more we grow in faith the more His Presence grows in power in our life.

This teaching is for your Devotioins, Bible Study and Sunday School.

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Sunday School: He Touched Me

2009-10-14T21:43:00.002+11:00

To be real in our faith we need to be deliberate when we invite Jesus into our life.
If you have not done this – now is a good time.

This is a statement of
believing and saying taken from Acts 2:21 and Romans 10:8-10

Heavenly Father, I come to You in the name of Jesus.
I confess that Jesus is Lord and I believe in my heart that God raised Him from the dead.
Come into my heart, Jesus and be Lord over my life.
Now, His life in us has begun.
We make our first step in faith and we grow by faith.

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Devotions: My Troubles

2009-10-12T21:26:00.002+11:00

How
God will transform
my troubles I do not know,

but ...that
He will transform them I know
for sure.

All who teach and lead the Sunday School, Devotions and Bible Study young people must hold this truth for their own lives.

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Sunday School: An Enduring Friendship

2009-10-11T19:26:00.002+11:00

Receiving new life.
- a child did it
aged 2 years 4 months
Child: Mummy I want to give my life to Jesus.

Parent:You are too young when you are older.
Child: But I want to.
Parent: I’ll explain later.

Child leaves, then
reappearing says: It’s too late I asked Jesus into my heart.
Parent:What did you say?
Child putting hands
together prayerfully:
Jesus come into my heart and play with me forever.

Parent was moved to tears by poignant simplicity but this child is still delighting in Jesus at 22 years.

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Bible Study:Life on Three Dimensions

2009-10-10T20:39:00.002+11:00

Life on Three Dimensions

New……………...
Spiritual life
Romans 8:2 The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.

Renewed………..
Emotional life
Philippians 4:7 the peace of God which passes all understanding will guard your hearts and minds

Restored………...
Physical life
1 Peter 2:4 by His (Jesus) stripes you were healed

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Sunday School: Blood .. takes away sins

2009-10-09T18:03:00.003+11:00

Blood...takes away sins...Leviticus 17:11

The message of scripture is also for the present - now.

The celebration of Jesus’ body and blood make claim on His promise of a new life for us.

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Bible Study: Blood... takes away sins

2009-10-08T21:19:00.003+11:00

The New Testament message taken from the life of Jesus teaches ...

Jesus death paid the price for our sins and gave opportunity to
believers to receive new life by His Spirit in spirit, soul and body.

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Devotions:Blood...takes away sins

2009-10-07T19:36:00.003+11:00

Blood...takes away sins...Leviticus 17:11

The Old Testament teaches
Blood sacrifice is the medium for God’s work.
The lamb’s blood on the door posts gave protection from the angel of death.

This is teaching for your Sunday School, Devotions and Bible Study.

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Devotions: Sin Blotted Out

2009-10-06T20:49:00.002+11:00

A Clean Slate! He “blotted it out”

For this is my blood of the new
testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. (Matthew 26:28)

Jesus death and resurrection provided for every
believer freedom from the curse of sin and death.
The O.T. sacrifice of the blood of animals was “to cover over” (atone for) or temporarily hide sin.
Under the New Covenant the blood of Jesus remitted or wiped away our sin as if it never was.
Colossians 2:14 says, “blotted it out.”
The blood of Jesus destroyed it.
Now when we confess our sins, God sees us clean.

These texts and this teaching is the basis of the Salvation message. It is imortant to the understanding of those in your Sunday School, Bible Study and Devotions group.

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Bible Study: Redeemed

2009-10-05T20:57:00.002+11:00

Redeemed means 'buy back.'

You were not redeemed
with corruptible things
(like silver or gold)….
but with the precious blood of Christ,
as a lamb without spot.
1 Peter 1:18-19

A defining text concerning salvation to share with your Sunday School, Devotions and Bible Study.

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Devotions: Soar!

2009-10-03T17:47:00.002+10:00

Those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength,
they will soar on wings like eagles,
they will run and not be weary,
they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:31

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Devotions:Her Best Academic Year

2009-10-02T21:27:00.002+10:00

A Very Good Year
Susan is a Christian who has a real experience of the Lord, and the Holy Spirit, and His power to heal.

At age 19 while finishing first year at University she was diagnosed with Hodgkins Disease, a cancer of the lymph glands.
There were cancers in the lung and chest in a secondary stage.
A lump in the neck was removed and chemotherapy for six months was required.

With a life expectancy measured in percentages and side effects to ‘chemo’ frightening, Susan, her family and church prayed and believed for healing.

Of twenty expected side effects there was almost no evidence with only some hair loss.
Long before the ‘chemo’ treatment finished medical scans were clear.
University and ’chemo’together, yet Susan had her best academic year.
Praise the Lord who did it .

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Bible Study: Receive

2009-10-01T20:44:00.002+10:00

We have only to look to Him in faith to receive His will for us. This begins the energy or life flow.
Don’t limit God by
deciding His limit to your prayers.

He says,I am the God who heals you.

The measure
of God’s love
is that
He loves
without
measure.

Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.
Hebrews 12:2

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Bible Study: Our God Connection

2009-09-30T19:13:00.002+10:00

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

2009-09-29T20:00:00.002+10:00

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

2009-09-28T18:41:00.002+10:00

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

2009-09-27T19:27:00.002+10:00

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!.

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Sunday School: The Mother Asked

2009-09-25T20:06:00.002+10:00

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

2009-09-24T21:48:00.002+10:00

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

2009-09-23T17:57:00.002+10:00

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

2009-09-22T20:41:00.002+10:00

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

This message is for your Bible Study and Devotions group. Also your Sunday School class.

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Devotions:God in Healing

2009-09-21T21:30:00.002+10:00

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

2009-09-20T19:00:00.002+10:00

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

2009-09-19T19:32:00.002+10:00

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

2009-09-18T21:46:00.002+10:00

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

2009-09-17T21:50:00.002+10:00

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Bible Study: About God's Victory

2009-09-15T09:52:00.002+10:00

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

2009-09-13T20:29:00.002+10:00

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

2009-09-12T20:40:00.002+10:00

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

2009-09-11T18:48:00.002+10:00

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

2009-09-10T10:36:00.002+10:00

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?

2009-09-09T21:24:00.005+10:00

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

2009-09-07T18:36:00.002+10:00

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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