9 Things That Bible Demands From The Believers

1. Read it

When all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God at the place he will choose, you shall read this law before them in their hearing (Deut. 31:11).

He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: (Luke 4:16, 17).

Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your heart (Col 3:16).

Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near (Rev 1:3).

2. Heed it

How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word (Ps 119:9).

Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers (1 Tim 4:16).

3. Seed it

Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age (Matt 28:19-20).

4. Desire it

Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation (1 Peter 2:2).

5. Preach it

Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction (2 Tim 4:2).

6. Correctly understand it

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth (2 Tim 2:15).

7. Live by it

Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God (Matt 4:4).

8. Use it in spiritual warfare

Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God (Eph 6:17).

9. Suffer and even die for it

I, John, your brother and companion in the suffering and kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus (Rev.1:9). 

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained (Rev. 6:9). 

I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They^[a] had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years (Rev. 20:4).

17 Things That Bible Does For The Believers

1. Bible Upholds The Believers

Sustain me, my God, according to your promise, and I will live; do not let my hopes be dashed (Ps. 119:116).

2. Bible Guides The Believers

Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me (Ps. 119:133).

3. Bible Produces Joy for The Believers

I rejoice in your promise like one who finds great spoil (Ps. 119:162).

4. Bible Strengthens The Believers

My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word (Ps. 119:28). I write to you, dear children, because you know the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one. (1 John 2:14)

5. Bible Gives Hope for The Believers

May those who fear you rejoice when they see me, for I have put my hope in your word. My soul faints with longing for your salvation, but I have put my hope in your word (Ps. 119:74, 81)

6. Bible Gives Light to The Believers

Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path. The unfolding of your words gives light;  it gives understanding to the simple (Ps 119:105,130).

7. Bible Gives Understanding for The Believers

May my cry come before you, Lord; give me understanding according to your word (Ps 119:169).

8. Bible Shows God's Will for The Believers

Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth (John 7:17; 17:17).

9. Bible Builds Up The Believers

Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified (Acts 20:32).

10. Bible Produces Fruit in The Believers

If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples (John 15:7-8).

11. Bible Convicts of Sin 

For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart (Heb 4:12).

12. Bible Converts the Soul

But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name (John 20:31). He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruits of all he created (James 1:18). For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God (1 Peter 1:23).

13. Bible Cleanses the Conscience of The Believers

You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you (John 15:3).

14. Bible Consecrates The Believers

Sanctify them by^[a] the truth; your word is truth (John 17:17).

15. Bible Corrects the Wrong of The Believers

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work (2 Tim 3:16, 17).

16. Bible Confirms the Right for The Believers

To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples (John 8:31). All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness (2 Tim 3:16).

17. Bible Comforts the Heart of The Believers

My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life. Your decrees are the theme of my song wherever I lodge (Ps. 119:50, 54).

How To Recognize God's Blessings In Our Life?

                                     

Key Verse Ephesians 1:3

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Praise to be the God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.

Let‘s praise our God who has blessed us with ALL Blessings IN Jesus Christ

1. Normally We Consider These Things As Blessing:

            a. Most often, we think of blessings as being those things that are physical and material in                    nature.

            b. If everyone in our household is well, we consider ourselves blessed.

            c. If there is money in the bank and the bills are paid, we say we are blessed.

            d. If we are living in a nice home, we equate that with blessing

2. Can We Say We Are Blessed, When:

            a. someone is sick at the home?

            b. not having good or our own house?

            c. there is no money in pocket?

            d. there is dept

            e. What we fail to remember is that these kinds of blessings are temporary.

3. On The Other Side: When People Comment On Us

            1. Most people say; what did you received when you became a Christian or say how much                    money you got to change your religion.

            2. If I become a Christian, what I will get?

            3. What I have to do to become a Christian?

4. Questions for you

1. How you will response these kinds of people?

2. Can you tell me, what are the blessings you received from God?

Things to note:

1. God is a perfect God; He does only perfect work, imperfection is not his work

2. Imperfection or unblessed in our life is absolutely not from God

5. Where Unblessedness comes from?

            1. We are the reason that what we are today-what I am today is result of my past acts, and my              present actions  will determined my future.     

2. Because of our wrong decisions: because of the lusty desires of the men, they follow the false and suppress the truth, and thus by knowing even the right action take wrong for a momentary pleasure which causes them to suffer bigger and longer. Man’s wrong decisions absolutely affect person’s personal life (mentally, physically, socially, emotionally, and spiritually), as well they effect the family, friends, relationship, society, community, government, generation, economy, ethics, education, and country. Man’s one wrong decision makes to suffer every citizen of the country eventually.

            3. Because of our wrong Choices: what are the wrong choices? How many times we have chosen them. Why people mostly make wrong choices? Answer is very simple the humankind is a selfish being. He desires always that the situation must be in his favor weather it is right or wrong until and unless his flesh nail on the cross. 

4. Because of some time our family problems and ambitions

            5. Because of Satan angerness 

6. Because of our Disobedience

            7. Because our lustful heart

            8. Because of our ignorance

6.  Kinds of blessing from God

As the most believers think that material growth are the great blessings, but according to word of God that not true. As we know that God is the God of perfection and therefore His works are always for perfection. The human being try finds every meaning of life in material things whereas God knows what are real needs of human being and how they will be truly met, satisfy and complete their journey of life. Therefore, in the God’s word we find five fold definite blessing for human being, which provide to everyone in Lord Jesus Christ. The negation of any God’s blessing will result in dissatisfaction and persuasion of them will make you a complete person.         

1. Physical: Health, wealth, and life > sick, poor, and death

2. Emotional: Love, Joy, and peace > Hate, discouraged, and disturb and angry

3. Cognitive: Wisdom, knowledge, guidance, sharpness, active, useful, skillful

4. Social: Relationship, responsibilities, honest, justice lover, progressive, unity, finds good                        for community, and grow together.     

5. Spiritual: Forgiveness, new birth, eternal life, fellowship with God 

Recognize the God's Blessing in your life and response to those to who ask to you what Jesus has given to you from these five fold God’s blessing which God has given.

God has blessed Us Immensely In Jesus Christ....

How Does the Christian Influence This World?

Key Verse: Matt 5:16

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I. The World Can Be Divided into Two Kinds of People

A. First, there are the believers who in the Beatitudes are called blessed, indwelt by God because of Christ (Matt 5:3-12). They are the people who realize their spiritual helplessness, show sorrow over sin, and who are meek (or balanced between extremes), hungry for God's righteousness, merciful, pure in heart, peacemakers, ridiculed, persecuted, or slandered because of Christ. Jesus compares them to salt and light.

B. The other group consists of the unbelievers of this world. They are proud, self-sufficient, and do not understand their own unrighteousness before a Holy God.

II. The Believer Influences the Unbeliever by What He Is, Not by What He Has

A. Christ did not say, "You have salt and light to dispense," but rather "Ye are the salt. . . . Ye are the light of the world" (Matt 5:13,14). The believer's very presence in the world acts as salt and light, preventing corruption and exposing error.

B. Being blessed means having God's nature within (2 Peter 1:4). Because of Christ, the believers are no longer "fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners" (1 Cor. 6:9,10). Rather, they "are washed . . . sanctified . . . justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God" (1 Cor. 6:11). Indeed, they are "a peculiar people" (Titus 2:14) who are observed by unbelievers. The word translated "peculiar" which means "who constitute His possession." It is the difference in their character which distinguishes them.

C. The adjective (blessed) means not only indwelt by God because of Christ, but also being fully satisfied. Having obtained peace with God through Christ, the believer is more fulfilled than if he had all the world as his possession (Matt 16:26; Mark 8:36; Luke 9:25). Seeing the believers' contentment despite poverty and physical suffering, the unbelievers are amazed (2 Cor. 6:10). It may even cause them to see their own lack of spiritual security in spite of worldly goods (Rev 3:17).

III. The Believer Must Interact with This World of Corruption and Darkness in Order to Act as Salt and Light

A. Just as salt is derived from the earth, so every believer is to remember that he is earthly, (2 Cor. 5:1). However, in Christ he becomes "free from the law of sin and death" (Rom 8:2). Thereby, he acts as a preservative in the decaying world around him. Should he lose his Christ-likeness, "his savor" (Matt 5:13), he would no longer be of any use.

B. Likewise, the believer is light because Christ is the "light of the world" (John 8:12). He can only reflect Christ's light. Therefore, Jesus admonishes him, "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven" (Matt 5:16). One day the total universe, (John 8:12), will be completely transformed by Christ. The believer's life should manifest the beginning of that transformation.

Act in Prayer to Make a Change in Your Life: Hannah

Text: 1 Sam. 1:27

Introduction

Prayer is a communication process that allows us to talk to God! Prayer is the practice of the presence of God.  It is the place where pride is abandoned, hope is lifted, and supplication is made. Prayer is the place of admitting our need, of adopting humility, and claiming dependence upon God. Prayer is the needful practice of the Christian. Prayer is the exercise of faith and hope.  Prayer is the privilege of touching the heart of the Father through the Son of God, Jesus our Lord. Prayer terns impossibility into possibility.The one who acts who in prayer lacks nothing.  

1.  Who is this Hannah?

Hannah was one of the wives of Elkanah. In fact, Elkanah had two wives; Hannah and Peninnah. Hannah was barren; therefore, she was the woman of sorrow and many pains. In addition, she was persecuted emotionally, suppressed, mocked, rejected, insulted, and abused by the another wife of Hannah, because of her childless condition. On the other hands, she did not give up her in God and stop from praying. When everyone was enjoying the gathering at Shiloh, Hannah was crying in the house of God for a child. When the crowd could not hear the voice and crying of Hannah God was interested in her prayer and saw her tears and broken heart even in the multi voices and crowds. If you are crying today in your hopeless situation there is God of Hannah can help you when there is no wants to stand with you and for you.

2. How Hannah Prayed?

i. She prayed with tears- God will wipe out your each tear from your eyes.

ii. She prayed with broken heart- God is always very close to a broken heart.

iii. She prayed to God- when man is helpless to help you God is there.

How we are praying for our needs, to whom we are praying? Let’s bring all our requests before God.

3. She Prayed for the Glory of God

Hannah determines that God, if you give me a son I will give him back for Lord’s glory for all the days of his life.

i. What is your motive in prayer?

Hannah said God give me a son so I may give him for glory.

4. She prayed until She Received

Hannah prayed regularly for her request. She prayed every time when she visited the temple. Do not stop from praying even when you do not receive the answer at very first prayer. Keep on praying!

 In our prayer the primary motive must be glorify the name of God not our own name and gain. 
She brought a change in her life through prayer.