What Did You Learn At Church Today?

Heb. 10:24 & 25
"And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching."

Enjoy Church today. Seek to do something special for someone. . . perhaps, even a warm handshake and an assuring smile could go a long way to encourage someone.

lol,  was to lazy to type so i just quoted u

@ topic; In church yesterday learnt about God's Gift and 1 of his gifts might b him callin u 2 do his work. He could actually use d things dat r most irrelevant to the eyes of men and make it very significant in other 2 Glorify his "Name".
Besides dat the love of God is so overwhelming dat if we put our whole trust in him hewould neither leave us nor forsake us although we might b chastised because its still d process of our growth in Christ.

I learnt the concluding part of our expository study of God's Word (this week) from Matthew 6:9-13

9 Pray, therefore, like this: Our Father Who is in heaven, hallowed (kept holy) be Your name.

    10 Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

    11 Give us this day our daily bread.

    12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven (left, remitted, and let go of the debts, and have given up resentment against) our debtors.

    13 And lead (bring) us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

The study was on the Divine Guidance and Protection Through Prayer vs. 13

   

I missed that broadcast yesterday.  The channel must have been on "sky" satellite channel 765 Revelation TV showing from 20:00 on Wednesdays. 

Nevertheless, this is the summary of what I learnt at this week's bible study.  Matthew 6:13

"And lead us not into temptation"  Jesus was here cautioning us against self-confidence and over confidence as He teaches us to pray like this.  If He had to pray who are we not to.  He teaches us to pray that God will prevent us and protect us from the path and power of temptation.   Matthew 6:13; 26:41; 1 Cor. 10:13; Jas. 1:13-16

"deliver us from evil"  He teaches us that our safety and security is in our God who has all power to deliver us from evil.  He is able and willing to deliver us from evil.  This petition is a prayer of deliverance from all evil of whatever kind, not only from sin but from all its consequences- fully and finally.  Ps 121:7; Jer.15:21; Jn 17:15; Gal 1:4; Heb 2:14,15; Job 28:28; Prov 4:23-27; Deut 13:1-5. 

"For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.  Amen".   This doxology gives us unshakeable assurance to expect the answer to our prayer, and this can be summed up in the words of Adam Clarke; "God is the eternal, independent, and self-existed Being whose purposes and actions spring from Himself.  He is absolute in dominion; the most pure, the most mighty and powerful, infinitely benevolent, beneficent, true and holy, the Creator and upholder of all things; infinitely perfect and eternally self-sufficient; illimitable in His immensity and indescribable in His essence; known fully only to Himself.  He is infinite in wisdom; He cannot err or be deceived and from His infinite goodness, can do nothing but what is eternally just, and right and kind".  This God is our Father and to Him we pray.  From eternity past till eternity future with the present time in between our God is the King of power and glory.  Matt.6:13; Ps.10:16;47:2,7-9;145:10-13; 72:18,19.

Let us always pray that the word of the Lord will always be available.  If His word is available, then those seeking Him in truth and in truth will be edified.

Pray for preachers also, that they will be useful in His Hands. 

Men ought always to pray and not to faint says the Master.

God bless you.

On the recent Bible study i attended, the topic was on Christ's Teaching on Prayer and Fasting. I learnt that we experience supernatural power when we pray with fasting. Our fasting throws a challenge to God to answer our prayers!!

The Scripture reading was from the book of Matthew 6:19

16Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

 17But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;

 18That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

The study was summarized into 3 sub-topics

1. SCRIPTURAL PATTERN OF PERSONAL PRAYER AND FASTING
Matthew 6:16-18; Psalms  35:13,14; 69:9,10; 109:21-27; Nehemiah 1:4-6; Jeremiah 36:6,7; Daniel 9:3,4,20-23; Acts 9:8,9,15-20; 10:1-6,30-33,44


2. SUPERNATURAL POWER THROUGH PURPOSEFUL PRAYER AND FASTING
Matthew 17:19-21; Luke 4:1,2,14-21,32; Deuteronomy 9:18-20; 34:10-12; Psalm 68:35; Acts 13:1-12; 14:23; 2 Corinthians 6:1-7; 1 Corinthians 2:4,5; Isaiah 40:28-31.

and lastly,

3. SURPASSING POSSIBILITIES OF PREVAILING PRAYER OF FAITH
Mark 11:22-24; James 5:15-18; Ephesians 2:8-10; Acts 15:9; 26:18; 3:16; Ephesians 6:16; Matthew 9:29; Mark 9:23; Romans 4:17-21; John 14:12-14; Hebrews 11:5,11,17-19,29.30,32-34.

There's power when we as Christians Fast and Pray, we shouldn't just fast for the sake of it, but purposefully and prayerfully, It shouldn't be a dry fasting, wherein NO FOOD, NO SCRIPTURE READING, NO DRINK etc. Cos, Reading of the Scripture while fasting makes a whole lot of difference, _{we hear Him speak to Us}.

Jol 2: 28-29 with reference to Prov. 29:18. to emphasize the import of VISION in the journy of a christain.

That i shuold not see my God via the eyes of people but with my own eyes, and the seasons of blessing is near.

THANKS FOR THIS QUESTION!
       we read psm 65 vrs 11. the word of god said:  HE CROWNETH THE YEAR WITH GOODNESS AND ITS PATH TO DROP FATNESS! meaning that this remaining months ''ber'' is going o be for the beliver months of remember. not month of calamity as pple use to say. halleluyah.

pls how can i raise  question to pple in these forum? thanks

Since you're a registered member, all you've got to do is to locate the section wherein your question'd be appreciated, _{Religion, Education, Career, Job etc} click on the "New Topic" Button found on the Page, you might need to scroll down to the end of the page to get this button _{or rightly above you!}, it's beside the "Mark as read" and "Notify" button. Give the question an appropriate title   thereafter, you move into the "editable" column and write your full question. _{Do i really make sense to u?! I hope so}

All the best.

Walking in Dominion over Sicknesses and Diseases   1

To pay my tithes and sow seeds

Church is boring! Used to go there when i was a kid. Slept all through. The same belloni every sunday and they could not just explain the most important thing. Does God exist? Everytime, some wise guy would come and start quoting things from the bible to prove god exists, but the main question, where is he? Some would say in my heart, but all i see are arteries and ventricles. Some would say in my soul, but yet again, what is a soul? some would say is around me, but all i see are tables, chairs and objects. Others would go a lil bit far and say am spiritually blind but yet again, what is a spirit? Have you seen one? and if they is, why does it choose to roam about in a lifeless form which then begs the question, where is god?

So if you can't answer this simple question of how he exists, then you shouldn't say you learnt anything in church because what you dont see, you dont profess and you don't expansiate on

sorry guys for going a little bit off topic. . . . . .please may i use this opportunity to raise the awareness that there is an inhuman but man made disaster going on in the world in a place called darfur. please let us call on God to intervene as it is getting more obvious that human beings are not able to stop that disaster

remember, when you hear that 200,000 are dead. . . they are 200,000 human beings, just like you and me, created in the image and likeness of God and also loved by God, let us take 2 seconds or more to ask God to help out in that region and restore peace and humanity in Jesus name . . .AMEN.