Discussion Questions: How would your walk with Jesus be different if you were in a country that was very hostile towards Christianity?
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Scripture: Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. (John 15:13)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, I ask that you will prepare me in advance if you call me to lay down my life. Thank you Jesus for laying down your life for me. In your name I pray.
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Inspiration: One leader said “Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice before someone has heard it once.” Too many churches are so inwardly focused they never share the good news with new people. I am blessed to see how God has used missionaries in places like South Korea that was mostly Buddhist and now has some of the largest Christian churches in the world.
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Discussion Questions: This scripture is considered the great commission. What part do you play in the great commission?
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Scripture: Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen (Matthew 28:19-20)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, I would like to go to teach nations, baptize them, and instruct them in the Bible. But If I can’t go, let me help send someone else who can share the Word of God with them. In Jesus’ name I pray.
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Inspiration: I love to talk about heaven. Although the Bible does not have much explanation about the details of heaven, this scripture does give us some insight. When people talk about heaven I find everyone’s faith is ignited. Why should we wait until we are dying to talk about heaven?
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Discussion Questions: Describe your thoughts of what heaven is like?
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Scripture: In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. (John 14:2-3)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, Thank you for your dwelling place in heaven. Thank you Jesus for preparing a place for me and coming to receive me. Wow! What joy graduation day will be from this earth to your heaven. Let me be so obedient that you are pleased to reward me abundantly in heaven. In your name I pray.
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Inspiration: I was so blessed to hear the headquarters of one Christian denomination was going over to the headquarters of another Christian denomination to build unity and show humility. Most people do not understand this scripture, but when it is accomplished, pride is destroyed and a new friendship is born out of servanthood.
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Discussion Questions: What humbling task can you do to serve another Christian and build unity?
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Scripture: If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. (John 13:14)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, Let me remember this act, the lowest humbling job, that you did for others. Teach me love and humility and submission to you Lord. In Jesus’ name I pray.
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Inspiration: In today’s fast paced society, our prayer life can be ineffective as our minds race around with different thoughts. I have to pray for a long while before my thoughts quiet down and I can be still before God. I have made the mistake of answering my phone in the middle of my prayer time and find distractions can stir up my mind and I have to spend a while getting my mind quiet before the Lord again.
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Discussion Questions: How long do you have to pray before your mind becomes quiet? How do you sense God’s presence during prayer?
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Scripture: Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth! (Psalms 46:10)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, After I study your Word and pray, let me be still and know your peace. Give me discernment of your thoughts, for I want to be a good follower that listens to you, Jesus, my Good Shepherd. In your name I pray.
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Inspiration: A worship leader wrote a song about Jesus giving His life for us. These lyrics revealed: Jesus being spat upon, struck in the face, mocked and crowned with thorns. The song goes on to tell about the lashes ripping open His back, the nails driven through His hands and feet, and the agony of hanging on the cross, in humility, pain, and suffering while taking on our sins. The song ends with a triumphant phrase that the tomb is empty and that Jesus has resurrected from the dead! People need to visualize the price Jesus paid in laying down His life for us as well as the joy that He is alive today ready to talk to us!
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Discussion Questions: When you take communion, do you think of all the pain that Jesus suffered for you? How does the crucifixion affect your walk with God? How does the resurrection of Jesus bring you comfort and joy?
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Scripture: I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. (John 10:11)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, Thank you for Jesus the Good Shepherd, that even if I was the only one in the whole world, Jesus would still have laid down His life for me. Let me think how powerful your love is for me Jesus. Thank you so much for your sacrifice for me. In your name I pray.
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Inspiration: One Christian had a vision of unity. The vision had each member of the Christian team coming from a different Catholic and Protestant denomination. The denomination name was on the back of each sweater. Jesus was the captain of the Christian team and said “I have already won the victory for you on the cross, so go out and claim your victory.” Devils made up the opposing team. Each member of the Christian team appreciated each other as they needed to work together to claim the victory against the opposition. Each Christian team member knew they were like soldiers on the same side. They were God’s army.
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Discussion Questions: Do you get caught in inter-denominational arguments? How can you appreciate the different Christian denominations more and build unity with your teammates?
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Scripture: Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. (1 Corinthians 1:10)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, The devil’s trick is to destroy and divide, whether it be churches, denominations, governments, nations, families, marriages and yet we keep falling for this old trick. Let us start appreciating others for their differences, submitting to each other in love. In Jesus’ name I pray.
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Inspiration: One Bible teacher spoke on the gift of tongues, interpretation and prophecy. The teacher explained that these words from God are not generated in your head but are from the Spirit of God talking to your spirit. Young Christians often can not distinguish between their own thoughts and God’s thoughts as they have not studied enough of God’s Word (the Bible) and have not been taught on the discerning of spirits. Mature Christians hear from their heart and are not swayed by wrong emotions.
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Discussion Questions: How do you distinguish between your thoughts and God’s leading? Can strong emotions, selfishness or sin distort the way you hear God?
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Scripture: He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. (John 7:38)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, I now let the Holy Spirit flow out of my inner being as rivers of living water. Let me pray to you in this heavenly language you have given me, for when I pray this way I know I am praying your perfect will on earth. Thank you Jesus for baptizing me in the Holy Spirit. In your precious and awesome name I pray.
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Inspiration: In recent days there has been more teaching on prayer and intercession as people are learning to pray in the Holy Spirit. This type of prayer is very powerful as some churches started to pray and intercede for their city to stop the gang violence and crime and to bring the power of God to their city. A drug dealer was on his way to kill someone, and as he was going by one of these churchs, he felt compelled to pull into the parking lot. He didn’t know what was overcoming him and he went inside the church while the service was on and he gave his life to Jesus. This drug dealer then confessed his sins to the police.
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Discussion Questions: How do you receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit with tongues as a prayer language? How often should you pray in the Spirit?
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Scripture: Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. (Romans 8:26)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, Let me learn to pray in the spirit and feel the power of intercession. Prayer can accomplish so much if only I believe. In Jesus’ name I pray.
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Inspiration: God spoke to a salesman and called him to Bible College. He had been with a big firm for seven years and was one of the company’s top salesmen. This man wanted God’s work and witness to be continued at this company. He set up a meeting with five other Christians where he worked, and told them that he was leaving for Bible College. He passed on the torch to them and said to them that they were to carry on being Jesus’ light in the workplace.
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Discussion Questions: When you leave a place, did you feel you accomplished all God wanted you to do there? What unfinished work do you feel you can still do? What work for God can you do in your current location?
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Scripture: Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. (John 4:34)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, Let me do the work that you have called me to do and say ‘It is finished’ at each stage of my life. I want to complete your work and not leave things undone. In Jesus’ name I pray.
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Inspiration: This scripture is helpful for choirs and musicians as many of them get over anxious, making sure every note is in tune and played correctly. This self centeredness makes it hard for people to spontaneously bow their knee to Jesus during worship because they are more concerned what other think than what Jesus thinks. On the other hand, I have been in a service where everyone was humbly and passionately worshipping Jesus when a glory cloud (similar to what is described in the Old Testament) appeared in the church and was seen by all. We all knew this was from God as His power was evident.
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Discussion Questions: How can you worship God in your home more? What does it mean to worship God in spirit and in truth?
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Scripture: But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. (John 4:23)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, You are seeking all over this world for true worshippers. Let your search find me, worshipping you in spirit and in truth not in vain repetition. In Jesus’ name I pray.
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Inspiration: The Bible says that Christians are the sons and daughters of God. Then when a Christian man marries a Christian woman, he is to look after one of God’s daughters. Likewise the wife is to look after one of God’s sons. This brings in a new depth to their marriage.
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Discussion Questions: How does your relationship with God get better if Jesus calls you His beloved son or His beloved daughter?
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Scripture: Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. (Galatians 5:7)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, Although I always want to have a servant’s heart and a servant attitude towards you, I am your child and I thank you for all the privileges that gives me. I love you Heavenly Father. In Jesus’ name I pray.
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Inspiration: This scripture says Jesus came full of grace and truth. The Holy Spirit came on Jesus and also on people in the book of Acts where it is written that some of the disciples were full of the Holy Spirit. Today I find all Christians, including myself, need refilling. We need to attend a strong church that can refill us with God’s power.
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Discussion Questions: Do you ask God to refill you with His love and power? Are you so full of God’s anointing of the Holy Spirit that it spills out over others? How often do you need God’s power or do you feel self sufficient?
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Scripture: And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, Your son Jesus is the Word of God and Jesus, you came to this earth full of glory, grace and truth. Let me also be full of your grace and truth so that I can accomplish more for you. In Jesus’ name I pray.
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Inspiration: The Bible explains to us in this scripture and in John 1:14 that Jesus is the Word of God. One Bible teacher likes to say that the Bible is the expressed image of Jesus, for every time you meet up with the Bible, you meet up with Jesus. This is how God speaks to you through the scriptures.
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Discussion Questions: Do you rush through your Bible reading? How can you let the Holy Spirit teach you as you read the Bible more slowly?
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Scripture: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (1 John 1:1)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, Thank you that Jesus is the Word who was with you from the beginning. Now I know that the Bible is the expressed Word of Jesus and that when I read the Bible, it is like Jesus talking. Wow, I know my faith is increasing. In Jesus’ name I pray.
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Inspiration: Many women have a problem with the word ‘submit’ in this scripture and many men have a problem with loving their wives as Jesus loves the church. However Christian counselors help explain that submitting does not mean for the wife to be a doormat but to submit to the husband’s role of priest in the home. If the husband takes this role and loves and cherishes his wife, couples can flow together in their God given roles.
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Discussion Questions: How can you encourage couples to go on marriage enhancement courses? How can you encourage couples to keep dating regularly after they are married?
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Scripture: Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her (Ephesians 5:22,25)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, I pray for all Christian marriages to be strong. Let couples submit to each other and let the husband be willing to give his life for his wife as in the example Jesus showed us. In Jesus’ name I pray.
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Inspiration: Many models were asked the question “Is there any part of you that you are unhappy with?” and most of these beautiful women said, “Yes, there is.” Even though everyone thought they were gorgeous, these models were still not happy since they did not have Jesus in their hearts. In the Bible, Esther saw that her gift of beauty was from the Lord and was to be used for God’s plan to deliver Israel. Esther was obedient to God and the Israelites were rescued.
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Discussion Questions: Will more money or beauty make you eternally successful? What does it mean to surrender or lose one’s life for Jesus’ sake?
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Scripture: For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. (Matthew 16:25)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, If I choose to live for myself and rebel against you I will lose eternal life. But I choose to be dead to the world and alive unto you to live for ever with you. In Jesus’ name I pray.
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Inspiration: A church leader was sharing about the problem of child kidnapping in the Philippines. One day one man’s young daughter was kidnapped. The church prayed for two weeks and the father was so stressed out that he was ready to admit himself into hospital. Just then the kidnappers released the daughter and no harm had been done to her. There was great joy in this answer to prayer, as the daughter was returned home.
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Discussion Questions: This kidnapping shows the heartaches of a father over a lost child. Do you feel for God over His lost children? Does His joy over a repentant sinner motivate you to bring God’s lost children home to Him?
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Scripture: I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance. (Luke 15:7)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, Let me realize your priorities that you look for 1 lost person over 99 Christians that are not lost. Let me seek the lost too. In Jesus’ name I pray.
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Inspiration: One Bible teacher told us the difference between Christianity and other world religions. He said the world religions are based on doing certain rituals or believing in some leader who is dead and buried. Christianity is very different. Jesus Christ is God’s only Son sent beacuse God loved the world so much. Jesus lived life without sin, and laid down His life to be the sacrificial offering to redeem all man’s sins. Jesus’s resurrection from the dead proved eternal life. Christianity is not a set of rituals but a personal relationship with God where Jesus loves us constantly and unconditionally and sins are forgiven.
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Discussion Questions: What is conscience? How are people convicted of sin? How can you tell non-Christians the reasons why some have a guilty conscience? Why is Jesus different than any person that has ever lived on the earth? How does Jesus set people free from a guilty conscience?
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Scripture: and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. (Luke 24:47)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, Help me to tell others that Jesus can forgive them and save them too. Let this message go to all the nations and let me do my part. In Jesus’ name I pray.
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Inspiration: I had just sat down at my friend’s dinner table when two drunks pulled up in the driveway. They knocked on the door and asked to use the restroom. We saw this as a opportunity to witness to them so my friend took one of them outside to share Jesus with him and I took the other into the kitchen. As I prayed with the one in the kitchen, God sobered him up and he started to cry. I led him in prayer to ask Jesus into his life. We got their phone number to follow up with them and I was able to take one of them to church. We praised God to hear that that the other man had given up drinking after that very night.
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Discussion Questions: Are there times when people are in danger and you feel compelled to tell them about Jesus? How can you encourage more of the lost to come to church?
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Scripture: Then the master said to the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. (Luke 14:23)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, I ask forgiveness for being afraid to share the gospel with people in the streets. Let me not be fooled by fear, or inferiority or excuses for that is the devil trying to stop people from hearing about you. It is a command, Lord, to fill your house, so let me do my part. In Jesus’ name I pray.
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Inspiration: This is a great scripture for those who think that they can earn their way into heaven by their good works. Today’s society is so performance orientated that people assume that this is God’s way also. One lady had been heading up organizations in her church for decades and thought she could earn entrance into heaven by all her church work. After she saw that she had to respond to Jesus Christ by faith, she came into a new personal relationship with Jesus committing her life totally to Him.
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Discussion Questions: Are you trying to earn God’s blessing? How did people in the Bible receive from God?
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Scripture: For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, I realize from this scripture that I could never earn my way into your love or blessings. I just need simple child-like faith to believe I am in good standing with you. I accept this salvation freely Lord. Free me from trying to please you by deeds without faith. In Jesus’ name I pray.
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Inspiration: Perception is reality for most people. Some see only the negative side of life. Their glass is half empty while another’s glass is half full. Negative people often are prejudiced against everyone in every situation. I was in a business meeting where everyone heard an inspired message but this negative person did not hear or see anything hopeful at all. It is these people that especially need the light of Jesus Christ to change their vision and let them see things clearly, the way God sees them.
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