- LAST WEEK STARTED A SERIES EVERY DAY FAITH
- DAILY TOOLS TO HELP US IN OUR FAITH JOURNEY
- TWO WEEKS AGO EASTER- NOW WHAT?
- LAST WEEK WE CELEBRATED BAPTISM
- FIRST SERVICE OPENED SERIES TOOL BOX
- SCREW DRIVER AND HAMMER- MOST POPULAR
I ASKED THE QUESTION: ARE YOU TIRED OF PRAYING THE SAME BORING- LAME- POWERLESS PRAYERS?
GOD BLESS MY FOOD- WATCH OVER US AS WE TRAVEL
WE KNOW PRAYER IS IMPORTANT- JESUS MODELED IT
- JESUS GAVE US WORDS TO PRAY
- ONLY THING DISCIPLES ASKED HIM TO TEACH THEM
- EARLY CHURCH STARTED BECAUSE PEOPLE PRAYED
- MY HOUSE WILL BE CALLED HOUSE OF PRAYER
- NOT WORSHIP/FELLOWSHIP/PREACHING
- JESUS PRAYS FOR PETER- HE PRAYS FOR YOU
SLIDE 5: BIBLE STATISTICS UNITED STATES
- 50 BIBLES SOLD EVERY MINUTE
- 72,000 SOLD DAILY
- 26 MILLION SOLD EACH YEAR
JUST IN OUR COUNTRY.
GIDEONS ALONE HAVE DISTRIBUTED 1.6 BILLION COPIES OF GODS WORDS IN MORE THAN 190 COUNTRIES (100 YRS)
SLIDE 6: SCRIPTURE 2 TIMOTHY 3:14
14. BUT AS FOR YOU, CONTINUE IN WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED AND HAVE BECOME CONVINCED OF, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THOSE FROM WHO YOU LEARNED IT,
SLIDE 7: SCRIPTURE 2 TIMOTHY 3:15
15. AND HOW FROM INFANCY YOU HAVE KNOWN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, WHICH ARE ABLE TO MAKE YOU WISE FOR SALVATION THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS.
SLIDE 8: SCRIPTURE 2 TIMOTHY 3:16
16. ALL SCRIPTURE IS GOD-BREATHED AND IS USEFUL FOR TEACHING, REBUKING, CORRECTING AND TRAINIG IN RIGHTEOUSNESS.
SO WHY DON’T PEOPLE READ THEIR BIBLE MORE?
1.IT MAKES US UNCOMFORTABLE
2. ITS TOO HARD 3. WE ARE UNDISCIPLINED
4. WE THINK ITS STALE 5. LACK TIME
6. WHERE TO START ? 7. LACK MOTIVATION
THE CENTER FOR BIBLE ENGAGEMENT
STATUTES. COMMANDS. LAWS. WORDS. PRECEPTS
INSTRUCTIONS.
FINDINGS
- FEELING LONLEY DROPS 30%
- ANGER ISSUES DROP 32 %
- BITTERNESS IN RELATIONSHIPS DROPS 40%
- ALCOHOLISM DROPS 57 %
- SEX OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE DROPS 68 %
- FEELING SPIRITUALLY STAGNANT DROPS 60%
- 40 % MORE LIKLEY TO MEMORIZE SCRIPTURE
- 59 % LESS LIKELY TO VIEW PORN
- 38 % LESS LIKELY TO STRUGGLE W/ LONELINESS
- SHARING YOUR FAITH JUMPS 200 %
- DISCIPLING OTHERS JUMPS 230 %
Job said,“I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread”(Job 23:12). Is the Bible this important to you?
DEUTERONOMY 6:4-9
4Hear, O Israel: TheLordour God, theLordis one.5LovetheLordyour God with all your heartand with all your soul and with all your strength.6These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.7Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.8Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.9Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
THIS IS HOW SERIOUS THE HEBREWS ARE
DEVOUT HEBREW
- TOOK LITERALLY BIND ON THE ARM
- BIND ON THE FOREHEAD
PUT THEM ON THE DOOR FRAME
- MEZUZAH
JANETTE AND BRIAN
- WRITING SCRIPTURE ON THE FRAME OF HOUSE
- PEOPLE JOINED THEM WRITING GODS WORD ALL OVER THE HOUSE
MATTHEW 22:29
29. “JESUS REPLIED, YOUR MISTAKE IS THAT YOU DON’T KNOW THE SCRIPTURES AND YOU DON’T KNOW THE POWER OF GOD.”
- JESUS IS RESPONDING TO RELIGIOUS LEADERS
- THEY ARE TESTING HIM ON SCRIPTURE
MATTHEW 4:1
- THEN JESUS WAS LED BY THE SPIRIT INTO THE WILDERNESS TO BE TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL. AFTER FASTING FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS, HE WAS HUNGRY.
WHEN IS THE LAST MEAL YOU ATE?
MATTHEW 4:3-4
THE TEMPTER CAME TO HIM AND SAID, “IF YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD, TELL THESE STONES TO BECOME BREAD. JESUS ANSWERED, “IT IS WRITTEN; MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT COMES FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD.”
IMAGE OF A DOOR
- PERHAPS YOU HAVE A DOOR LIKE THIS ?
- SPECIFIC FRAMES CREATED TO SEND A MESSAGE.
- CROSS IS AT THE TOP
- THE OPEN BIBLE IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DOOR
CAPITOL ONE GUYS COMMERCIAL
ATOMIC HABITS BOOK
- BOOK WRITTEN BY A FORMER BASEBALL PLAYER
- HARD LOOK AT TINY HABITS THAT CHANGE
- THEY MAKE HUGE IMPACT ON OUR LIVES
- BUSINESS OWNER/LEADER TROUBLED $
- DECIDED TO TRY SOMETHING
- THERE IS SO MUCH NOISE- VYING FOR OUR EARS
- CAN WE QUOTE IT- USE IT-MEDITATE ON IT
MATTHEW 6:33
33. “SEEK THE KINMGDOM OF GOD ABOVE ALL ELSE, AND LIVE RIGHTEOUSLY, AND HE WILL GIVE YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED.” (NOT WANT)
TOOLS:
PRAYER– PRAYER JOURNALS
BIBLE STUDY NOT JUST RANDOM READ
- APPS
- BIBLES HERE TODAY
PSALM 119
“YOUR WORD IS A LAMP UNTO MY FEET AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH”
WHEN I FEEL AFRAID
THINK I’VE LOST MY WAY
STILL YOURE THERE RIGHT BESIDE ME
AND NOTHING WILL I FEAR
AS LONG AS YOU ARE NEAR
PLEASE BE NEAR ME TO THE END
- What does it look like for someone to study the Scriptures, literally every day?
- How do you personally incorporate the Scriptures into your life each day? How are you teaching your children to do the same?
- Talk about the various tools you use to read and understand Scripture.
- Talk about what you do when you come to a text that isn’t clear.
- How much time in bible study each day is “enough”?