Home Study for August 12 through 17, 2013
Monday – Read I Timothy 6:6-10
How is a desire to get rich a temptation and a trap?
How does contentment counteract that temptation?
Why is the love money a root of evil?
How does this passage challenge you? What will you do?
Tuesday – Read John 8:12
What does it mean that Jesus is the “light of the world?”
How does following Him keep us from walking in darkness?
Is there an area where you need more of the light of Jesus shining in you?
Submit that area of your life to Jesus and invite Him to shine.
Wednesday – Read I Corinthians 3:10-15
What happens when we build our lives on temporary things?
What will last when we build our lives on Jesus?
How can we build our lives on Jesus as we live in the world?
What is Jesus saying to you? How will you respond?
Thursday – Read Hebrews 12:28
As we live for Jesus what do we have for which to be thankful?
How does being thankful help us to worship God with reverence and awe?
How does not being thankful as we should be interfere with worshipping God?
What is Jesus saying to you? How will you respond?
Friday – Read I Thessalonians 5:16-18
How do being joyful always, praying continually and always being thankful lead us into experiencing God’s will?
How do those actions and attitudes transform our hearts and minds?
How do they bring glory to God?
What is Jesus saying to you? How will you respond?
Saturday – Read Matthew 6:25-34
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Home Study for August 5 through 10, 2013
Monday – Read Psalm 66:18, Isaiah 59:2 and I John 1:9
What impact does unconfessed and unforgiven sin have on our ability to pray and commune with God?
Why is this true?
When is the best time to confess our sin to God?
How do these passages challenge you? How will you respond?
Tuesday – Read Luke 6:12-16
What did Jesus do before selecting the twelve apostles?
Why?
What does this say to you?
Wednesday – Read Luke 11:1-4
What do you suppose inspired the disciple to ask Jesus to teach them to pray?
What was different about how Jesus prayed verses how the religious leaders prayed?
How do you suppose this changed the prayer lives of the disciples?
How might it change yours?
Thursday – Read Philippians 4:4-7
How does rejoicing, praying and giving God thanks change our anxiety into peace?
Remember a time when this was true for you. How did this increase your faith?
How does this passage challenge or encourage you in these days?
Friday – Read James 4:7 and 8
What does it mean to “submit ourselves to God?”
What does it mean to “resist the devil?”
Which is harder to do? Why?
Submitting ourselves to God, giving as much as we know about ourselves to as much of God as we understand, is the key to living in an intimate, vital, living relationship with Him. How does this passage challenge you? How will you respond?
Saturday – Read Matthew 6:19-24
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Home Study for July 29 through August 3, 2013
Monday – Read Proverbs 19:17 and Psalm 41:1
How does God respond to those who help others?
Why is this important to Him?
How does helping others help us to show the love of Jesus?
How do these passages challenge you? How will you respond?
Tuesday – Read I Corinthians 3:5-9
When God evaluates our lives He looks at how faithful we were to do the things He gifted and called us to do.
How does this give you hope?
How does this challenge you?
What will you do?
Wednesday – Read II Corinthians 9:6-11
With what attitude should we give and serve?
Why should/can we give and serve in that way?
How does this passage challenge your views on giving and service?
How will you respond?
Thursday – Read Galatians 6:7-10
Why does God want us to understand that we will reap what we sow?
What will we reap if we keep doing good and do not give up?
How does this passage challenge you?
How does it encourage you?
Friday – Read Colossians 3:23-24
How are we serving Jesus no matter what we do?
Do you feel that way about all that you do?
How should this truth shape our choices and behavior?
How does this truth challenge you?
How does it encourage you?
How will you respond?
Saturday – Read Matthew 5:5-15
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Home Study for July 22 through 27, 2013
Home Study
Monday – Read Romans 5:8 and Luke 23:33-34
In these verses, how does Jesus show His love to people who didn’t/don’t love Him or were/are hurting Him?
How does His example challenge you?
How will you respond?
Tuesday – Read Romans 12:9-13
Which of these things do you find is the easiest for you to do?
Why?
Which do you find are the hardest to do?
Why?
Ask Jesus to help you to grow in the areas you struggle in.
Wednesday – Read Romans 12:14-16
Which of these things do you find the easiest for you to do?
Which do you find to be the hardest?
Ask Jesus to help you to grow in the areas you struggle in.
Thursday – Read Romans 12:17-21
How does verse 17 challenge you?
Why are we to not take revenge?
Why is leaving our anger and thoughts of revenge in God’s hands a much better choice to make?
What hurts or thoughts of anger or revenge do you need to leave in Jesus’s hands today?
Friday – Read Romans 12:8-10
How does loving fulfill the law?
Who is our example of how to love?
How does this passage challenge you?
How will you respond?
Saturday – Read Matthew 6:1-4
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