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Time of Prayer

Oh God, how wonderful and magnificent is Your name. You are the Creator of all things, holy and righteous, excellent, King, of Kings and Lord of Lords. The Blessed One, Sovereign, Lily of the Valley, Bright and Morning Star, the Just One. IAM, Mighty God we bow before You in our hearts, asking You to reveal our sins, then forgive us of our sins, and deliver us from our sins. We pray for fresh oil, fresh anointing, restore our prayer life, restore our days of fasting submitting ourselves to You in concentration. Read More

Sunday School Lesson May 7, 2017 God’s Disciplinary Love

To follow along, visit your local Christian bookstore, and ask for the Bible Expositor and Illuminator

Time:  about 780 B.C.    Time:  Joppa

Golden Text:  “Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights (Jonah 1:17).

Lesson Outline:  I. A Huge Problem – Jonah 1:7-9, II. A Frightening Prospect – Jonah 1:10-12, III. A Shocking Resolution – Jonah 1:13-17

Lesson Outline:  I. A Huge Problem – Jonah 1:7-9

Introduction

Jonah, son of Amittai, the 5th of the minor prophets, were born at Gath Hepher in Galilee. He is generally considered as the most ancient of the prophets. Nineveh was an ancient capital city of the Assyrian Empire and was founded by Nimrod. Nineveh was over five hundred miles from Gath Hepher Jonah’s home near Nazareth in Israel. The city was wicked, their wickedness refers to Nineveh’s pride, greed, brutality, and adultery. Their wickedness had gotten the attention of God and He instructed Jonah to go to Nineveh and preach repentance.  Jonah didn’t want to do it so he detoured from the instructions given him and went to Tarshish, his disobedience caused God to discipline him. Sometimes God’s will is difficult, either because of something we have done wrong or because of a new direction of life. When God’s will is easy and pleasant, we are eager to fulfill it but when it demands something difficult we try to run from it or ignore it. Jonah tried to run but God’s love for him was too great to escape, and he sought him out and gave him another chance to obey. Jonah’s disobedient caused others to be in danger so he was thrown into the sea and ended up in the belly of a whale. Read More

Bible Study John Chapter 4:21-32

John 4:21 – Jesus saith unto her, Woman believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain nor yet Jerusalem, worship the Father. After hearing the woman’s thoughts of how the Father should be worshiped, Jesus explained to her what the true worship would be. By her mentioning the two different sites, the woman perhaps was trying to shift the conversation away from the subject of her own sins. The woman probably assumed that because Jesus was a Jew, He would insist that the sacrifice is offered in the temple of Jerusalem. Like the woman, many have suggested there is a certain day or a certain place we should worship as Christians, the Father nor the Son is concerned about what day we worship but how we worship. Read More