Sunday School - January 22, 2012
Sunday School - January 22, 2012
Affirmation: God is asking me to bring Him His Word, to plead my covenant rights. I do not pray to God in ignorance but as a partner in His purposes.
You were created to serve God. You were placed on this planet for a special assignment. (Ephesians 2:10) Rick Warren
Spend time in prayer so that you can get your spirit in shape. You were made to worship God. Jarius was a man who was desperate to worship God, and he was willing to fall on his face and worship God, even though a crowd of people were standing around, He wasn't ashamed. - Norvel Hayes
"And behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw Him (Jesus), he fell at his feet." - Mark 5:22
If we are concerned about what people think in an attempt to gain their approval (or honor), we will never take a stand in faith for anything that might be criticized. - Andrew Wommack
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words, than words without a heart. - John Bunyan
Affirmation: The Holy Spirit works mightily in me, giving me all the power I need to resist every assault the devil tries to bring against me.
A man, while thoroughly grounded in the letter of scripture, must remain just as empty of the reality of the gospel, unless he knows in his own experience the immediate inspiration and quickening power of the Holy Spirit. - William Law
The fear of the Lord manifested in the spirit of a person will always produce meekness, which is simply the willingness to be molded into the image of Christ. It is characterized in gentleness of spirit and mildness of disposition. - Paul Keith Davis
"Blessed are the meek (gentle, mild), for they shall inherit the earth." - Matthew 5:5
The inward journey of proceeding into His presence and the quietness of the soul in waiting before Him are not complete unless they result in the outward journey to carry the fire of His love to people who are shivering in the dark. - Andrew Murray
Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt - St. Francis of Assisi
Affirmation: I confess that I walk in forgiveness! Offense, bitterness, strife, and unforgiveness have no place in my life. I am full of mercy, longsuffering, and slow to anger.
Many people have joined a church and even prayed a prayer. Some have been baptized, ordained, even confirmed, but were never born again. The Bible says the reason this occurs is that satan has veiled the mind. - Alice Smith
"And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God." - 2 Corinthians 4:3,4
There is indeed a holy radiance surrounding a true Spirit-filled Christian. But when you harbor sin, "your light" becomes "darkness". The devil can traffic in any area of darkness, even the darkness that still exists in a Christian's heart. - Francis Frangipane
"So be very careful that your light never becomes darkness." - Luke 11:35
Let your soul relax and let the Spirit of God find vent. Oh, you have the capacity to love. All the action of the Spirit of God has its secret there -- He gives our soul the sense of that tenderness that was in Jesus. - John Lake
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Sunday School - January 15, 2011
Affirmation: I have the exact Word I need for every situation - a specific, quickened word from the scriptures. Because this Rhema from God is in my heart, I have real sword power to use against the enemy!
It is very possible that your first message from Jesus will not be words but an urgency you feel. You are starting to care about something beyond your own life. You are being influenced by the yearnings of God. He is depositing in you His grief and His love so you can respond to a specific need. - Mario Murillo
Your spirit does not feel in the same way that the emotions feel. That which goes on inside the spirit is not outwardly perceptible as are those things which go on in the more outward portion of your being. - Michael Molinos
"We all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image." - 2 Corinthians 3:18
The severest discipline of a Christian's life is to learn how to keep "beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord." - Oswald Chambers
You cant just dream.You must DO. "It's not enough to stare up the steps, you must step up the stairs." - Vance Havner
Affirmation: I confess that I have taken my place in God's plan. It will take unbelievable strength and energy to move that vision from the realm of dreams to the realm of reality. Because of the Holy Spirit in me, I have the strength.
God intends each soul touched by Pentecost to be a live wire - not a monument, but a movement. - Smith Wigglesworth
The gospel can be preached by an archbishop in a cathedral or by a converted drug dealer in a tent. The gospel itself is the greatness, the power, the majesty and the wonder of God on any occasion. - Reinhard Bonnke
Paul said his objective was "by all means to save some" -- 1 Corinthians 9:22
True faith walks and believes in what Jesus has already accomplished and will not be discouraged by the appearances of the temporary realm. - Rick Joyner
We cannot afford to have a moment in our lives when circumstances distract us from tending the fire of His presence in our heart. - Bill Johnson
Affirmation: I confess that in Jesus Christ I am fully empowered to enforce Satan's defeat.
Where self or the natural man is become great in religious learning, the more firmly will he be fixed in the religion of proving himself to be right, rather than in surrendering to the will of God. - William Law
Have you been impoverishing the ministry of Jesus so that He cannot do anything? - Oswald Chambers
"How can you give me "living water?" - John 4:11
Holiness is not "Clean yourself up then come to Jesus" but rather "Come to Jesus just as you are then He will clean you up." - Rick Warren
Flow out of me, Oh, well, with living water from the river of God. Amen - William J. Seymour (November 1906)
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Sunday School - January 8, 2012
Affirmation: I remember that when Jesus arose, I arose. When He came out of hell and defeated the enemy, I came out of hell and defeated the enemy. His victory is my victory because I am in Him.
If you only knew what you had, your bodies would scarcely be able to contain it. That God shall so bring us into divine attractiveness by His almightiness that the whole of our bodes shall wake up to resurrection force, to the divine, inward flow of eternal power coursing through the human frame. - Smith Wigglesworth
Why did God create you? What is your purpose here on earth? God knew your calling before the foundations of the earth. It is not His intention to keep that calling a secret from you and watch you flounder through life -- He is willing to answer if you will draw apart and hear what He is saying. - Chuck Pierce
"....before you were born I consecrated you" - Jeremiah 1:5
The awareness of deep personal need is the setting where extraordinary faith grows. When there is no awareness of need, the opportunity to respond to God remains out of reach. - Bill Johnson
Do we really think we can experience integration of heart and mind and spirit with an erratic prayer life? - Richard Foster
Affirmation: I refuse to relinquish any of my God-promised territory! My faith is tough, resistant, persistent, obstinate, and stubborn.
Moving into a faith and miracle-filled life means seizing your dreams. You can seize your dreams by thanking God for answers that are coming to you, even when appearances seem to say otherwise. God is looking for people who will have the faith to believe in what's not happening now. He wants us to have ridiculous faith to believe that He can provide for what we can't see. - Steve Munsey
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." - Hebrews 11:1
If Christians were rightly informed of who they are and what they have in Christ, holiness would just naturally flow out of them. It's their nature. - Andrew Wommack
What is meant by resurrection? It means the natural has passed away and the supernatural has come. - Watchman Nee
Affirmation: Nothing that I seek is as satisfying to my soul, no other answer as beneficial, as seeing Christ with the eyes and understanding of my inner man.
God loves to start God-sized projects using "human zeros." From His viewpoint they represent pregnant emptiness and untapped potential waiting for divine touch. - Tommy Tenney
It is often impossible to distinguish professing Christians from the rankest unbelievers, until they once again unite to sing of their love and devotion to Jesus. - William Law
As His glory fills us, we act as conduits of the substance of Heaven influencing other believers and setting an example for the world. - John Belt
Start with small amounts of time talking with Jesus. As you get to know Him, you will want to be with Him more and more. - Alice Smith
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Sunday School - January 1, 2012
Affirmation: That same Power that raised Jesus from the dead, enables me to rise out of my adverse circumstances and step into the purposes of God for my life.
Get ready to go to a new level of walking more deeply with Him. Spirit to spirit, deep to deep, and let Him refresh you now with His rain knowing that He who made and formed you will establish you in your destiny and calling! -- Keith Miller
As we lay down our own plans and yield completely to Him day by day, the Scriptures promise that we will receive power from on high to be witnesses "to the end of the earth." - Steve Munsey
This is what our hope longs for eternally - to be fully united with Jesus. - Shawn Bolz
The letter of the Law leads to the death of the soul; the Spirit of God alone can give life to the soul." - 2 Corinthians 3:6
I resolved that I would succeed better this year with filling every minute full of the thought of God than I succeeded last year. - Frank Laubach
Affirmation: As I speak the Word to my spirit, I am strengthened and encouraged by God.
Knowing how He views us in Christ will strengthen the inner man and demolish satan's strongholds. - Mike Bickle
For the weapons of our warfare are not worldly but have divine power to destroy strongholds. - 2 Corinthians 10:4
It was not the ministry that made life worthwhile. It was my journey of watching the faithfulness of God all my days. - Corrie ten Boom
If you do not know that life is war, you will not know what prayer is for. In the Christian life, life is war, a spiritual battle that happens to us from the day we are born to the day we die. - John Piper
Affirmation: As I take one step beyond my own limits, God will give me victory and success as I tap into his mighty power.
Let us never stop praying what has become one of the great prophetic prayers of our times -- MORE LORD! - Rick Joyner
Whatever our concern with the fabric of moral life and the issues of society, the call of Christ to preach the gospel to all creatures must still be our ultimate objective. - Reinhard Bonnke
"....Until Christ be formed in you." - Galatians 4:19
All Christians, without exception, have roles that parallel most of the gifts. For example, not all Christians have the gift of an evangelist, but all have the role of being witnesses for Christ and leading people to the Lord. - Peter Wagner
Settle yourself in solitude and you will come upon Him in yourself. - Teresa of Avila
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A friend grows in favor by embracing a life of obedience, motivated by passion for Him and Him alone. - Bill Johnson
Sunday School - December 25, 2011
Affirmation: I speak God's words continually, and then watch the Holy Spirit blast the mountains of obstacles out of my way.
We are to become His resting place -- the place from which the exploits of Heaven are accomplished. When we learn to host the presence of the Lord we get more breakthroughs. That is a possibility for every believer every day. Lets commit ourselves to become the resting place for God. - Bill Johnson
The season has started, all the works that you have sown for God's Kingdom through the years will soon be made known to men. Take heart, for as you have sown with tears, you will soon reap with joy. - Ching Co
"May those who sow in tears reap with shouts of joy!" - Psalm 126:5
We stay so spiritually focused in the way that we are going that we miss God's assignment. At times God gives new assignments and new burdens. With a new assignment comes new anointing for that assignment. - Chuck Pierce
Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy
Affirmation: I quit fishing in the same waters I've been fishing in for so long. I go to new territories and get ready to catch mega fish (Luke 5:4).
The "sound" of your Godly calling (destiny) should be nothing less than the driving force behind how you live your entire life. - Dennis Cramer
Faith must be a definite and specific request for the things asked for. It is not to be vague, indefinite, shadowy thing; it must be something more than an abstract belief in God willingness to do for us. - E. M. Bounds
Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen. - Hebrews 11:1
God is waiting for you to cease doing! And once you have done this, He will begin. - Watchman Nee
Live in Christ, live in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death. - John Knox
Affirmation: What I think about the most will grow the strongest in me.
Decree and prophesy your future, this is the first step to living it out right now -- yield to the Holy Spirit, speak a word of life over yourself then take some kind of step into it in the natural. - John Belt
Praise becomes a sacrifice when you offer your praise to God just because He deserves it and asks you to do it. Praise from an obedient heart is the gift that pleases God the most. - Myles Munroe
"Praise Him for His mighty deeds; praise Him according to His exceeding greatness!" - Psalm 150:2
The Holy Spirit dwelling in us is compelling us to a higher place in Him. - Paul Keith Davis
Flood me with Your baptism that Your grace and fruit might be manifested in my life. Amen. - William J. Seymour (May 1908)
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Sunday School - December 18, 2011
Affirmation: I confess that the Holy Spirit is my partner! With Him as my helper I am getting better and better in prayer every day!
Where is the teacher who knows God, knows Him by being in love with Him? The most cynical and rebellious sinner will be silent before such a teacher. - Peter Kreeft
We must be a burning and shining people who know where we are headed, fixing our eyes on our destiny, if we are going to awaken broken and disillusioned hearts! - Sean Feucht
"Be strengthened with might through His Spirit.." Ephesians 3:16
Paul urges us to be so deeply rooted, so in union with Christ, that the impossible becomes possible, and the invisible becomes visible. - Keith Miller
What I know will help me. What I think I know will hurt me. It's the spirit of revelation that helps me know the difference. - Bill Johnson
Affirmation: I confess that I am following the voice of Jesus. I have been given spiritual power, spiritual weapons, and the wonderful word of God. I maintain the attitude that never gives in, never gives up, and never surrenders to defeat.
Jesus is waiting for you to stop struggling in your own attempts to somehow "deserve" His favor, and just depend on Him. - Joseph Prince
When you hear the still, small voice within, it is time to be silent. This voice is not a stranger to your spirit. Deep within you will learn to yield to God and to trust your Lord. - Francois Fenelon
"For God alone my soul waits in silence..." - Psalm 62:1
When traveling on a plane,train or a bus, sitting next to a stranger, how can you approach the subject of salvation? - Ros Rinker
To keep believing, you have to be planted. Plant yourself in a place where the Word is prevalent and the people around you are continually speaking and living it. - Myles Munroe
Affirmation: I confess that my character, attitude, and actions are being refined by the fire of God in my life.
Though we are legal citizens of God's kingdom, the boundary lines that we choose to reside within will, by our choice, define the domain (Gods or satans) which has jurisdiction in our lives. - Markus Bishop
With the weapons of worship and wielding the Word of His authority, we will war in the spirit to accomplish the purposes of God. He gives us all the backing we need to disciple others into a higher knowledge of Christ. - John Belt
"Therefore go and make disciples of all the nations..." - Matthew 28:19
Through a flood of words satan wants to reduce your relationship with God to a hollow religion, void of the reality of Christ's life. - Francis Frangipane
The whole sweep of the Book of Psalms is concerned with nothing more nor less that the petitions of the Lord's Prayer. In all our praying there remains only the prayer of Jesus Christ; this alone has the promise of fulfillment and frees us. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Sunday School - December 11, 2011
Affirmation: I confess that God is filling me with supernatural endurance to abide until I have successfully completed the assignment He asked me to do.
The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God's love for us that He not only gives us His Word but also lends us His ear. So it is His work that we do for our brother when we learn to listen to him. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Faith is spelled R-I-S-K, and it is faith that pleases God. - Che Ahn
And without faith it is impossible to please Him. For whoever would draw near to God must believe that He exists and the he rewards those who seek him. - Hebrews 11:6
There is no greater treasure that our salvation and the fellowship that we can now have with God, which results because He descended all the way to the cross for us. Therefore, let us voluntarily go to the cross every day, willingly offering all that we are and have. - Rick Joyner
Nothing more absurd can be imagined than wise, sublime, heavenly prayers and times of devotion added to a life of vanity and folly. - William Law
Affirmation: I confess that I wear my salvation tightly around my mind like a helmet. It doesn't matter how hard the devil tries to hack away at my mind, I still stand strong because I know what Jesus' death and resurrection purchased for me!
The spiritual life is that life of those who are reborn from above --who have received the Spirit of God. That life allows us to break out of our prison of human entanglements and sets us free for a life in God. - Henri Nouwen
Mary sat at the feet of Jesus until she knew her destiny. Once she knew the purpose of her life, then she could go do the dishes with Martha. - Chuck Pierce
Keep on growing in your knowledge and understanding. - Philippians 1:9
Praise based on faith thanks God for what He will do, before He does it. - Myles Munroe
We must wait for God, long, meekly, in the wind and wet, in the thunder and lightning, in the cold and the dark, Wait, and He will come. He never comes to those who do not wait. -- Frederick William Faber
Affirmation: God unites Himself with my spirit. This is the place where my spirit is completely possessed by God.
Jesus isn't coming for a church that's gritting her teeth, struggling to stay free from sin, secretly wishing she could indulge in a little immorality but abstaining because of being afraid of getting caught. No, Jesus is coming for a church passionately and utterly devoted to Him -- one that is free on the inside. - Mike Bickle
Imagine awakening every morning with the confidence of God's strength in you. And this strength in you according to His wealth, according to the riches of His glory, according to who He is. - Keith Miller
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." - Philippians 4:13
New songs are good because you have to depend on God in order to get one. It will release the Spirit of wisdom and revelation on your life. Ask the Lord for a new song. - John Belt
I have found my heaven on earth, because heaven is God, and God is in my soul. -- Elizabeth of the Trinity
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Sunday School - December 4, 2011
Affirmation: Since Jesus is one with me, He can reach out through my hands and fulfill His purposes in the earth.
You may be experiencing an urging or intense desire that God is stirring within you -- something you know that you need to step into immediately. Each time we respond to His urging it is one more advancement into our destiny. -- Sean Smith
"...that you may show forth the excellencies of Him." - 1 Peter 2:9. We are making a terrible mess of this business of revealing Christ, but He is taking great pains with us. -- T. Austin-Sparks
When a man begins to grow dull and lukewarm in spirit, even the smallest labor distresses him, and he eagerly welcomes any worldly comfort. - Thomas a Kempis
How deep is your longing for God? How would you describe your pursuit of God's fellowship? - Shawn Bolz
Affirmation: God does not want me "normal"; He wants me Christlike.
The greater part of the time we are in ourselves rather than in Him. That evidences that Christ has not yet secured control of our life. We recede, we draw back, we close up, we imprison our Lord. - John Lake
When we are called to follow Christ, we are summoned to an exclusive attachment to His person. When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God wants you to see yourself the way He sees you - 'like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper" - Ps. 1:3. - Joseph Prince
Being in the center of God's purpose for your life is the safest place there is.- Mario Murillo
Crucifixion of the will is not obliteration of the will. Crucifixion always has resurrection tied to it. - Richard Foster
Affirmation: I am taking my eyes off the low road, and I'm headed for the high road of blessing God has planned for me!
Paul desired that they might be strengthened so that they could walk their destiny, meet temptations, and bear up under trial, according to God's glorious power and the exceeding greatness of His power. - Keith Miller
"Strengthened with all might (kratos) according to His glorious power (dunamis), for all patience and longsuffering with joy." - Colossians 1:11
Ahab's passivity (1 Kings 16) actually made room (released authority) for Jezebel's atrocities. When we also are passive, it opens the door to demonic control and persuasion! - Sandie Freed
The natural mind craves information where the spirit of man craves living revelation from God. The natural mind will bypass God and try to accomplish things by its own power - its soul power. This is just the worship of self. - John Belt
Lord, overwhelm me as You will, so that I may receive all that You desire to reveal to me. Amen - William J Seymour (May 1907)
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