Session 5 - Praise & Prayer Request

Praise:
Kim - Greatful for the wonderful women of God who blessed my heart through class!

Prayer Request:
Joanne B. - Please pray for her husband, Mark, whose medical issues have been challenging. That they would be cleared up and give him the ability to do just the simple things we take for granted like sleeping and eating. Please pray for spiritual and emotional healing.

Cynthia N. - Please pray for Cynthia's daughter, Carey, who is going through a divorce. Pray for her soon to be ex, Jack, & their children.

Cynthia N. - Please pray for Merl & Cynthia's business - they currently have none. Pray for a project for them!!! Also, wisdom in leasing their land.

Kim - Please pray for me that I would reflect Christ the way He would want me to through my actions, words & deeds.

Lisa - Millie's (our owner) daughter, Leah, (our receptionist) is very sick and in intensive care in the hospital. She was due to have her baby last week, but fell ill about 12 days ago. They thought is was a sinus infection. It turned into a serious case of pneumonia, along with some kind of infection. She was getting worse by the day. They took the baby on Sunday, she is doing fine and now at home with her father.

Today, Leah's lungs were full, her heart is failing, her kidneys shut down and her liver is not good. She is on a ventilator. They put her on several strong antibiotics because they still don't know what they are treating. They put her through dialysis hoping to remove all of the fluid that is building up.

She is clinging to life.


I am asking everyone for prayer. She needs a miracle.

Thank you,
Lisa

Session 5 - Unity of the Body

Ezekiel 37:1-14 OT connection to NT Eph. 4:14 - from Him the whole body is held together. Bridge the gap.

Eph 4:10 Speak the truth in LOVE

Spine vs. Rib Issues
Spine - Foundation to our Faith
1. Jesus is THE way, THE truth, & THE life - no one comes to the FATHER but by HIM.
2. Trinity - God the Father, Jesus Christ the son & the Holy Spirit are three in ONE.
3. Jesus Christ was FULLY GOD & FULLY MAN when he was here on earth.
4. Jesus Christ was bodily resurrected from the dead.

Rib Issues
1. Spiritual gifts
2. View of end times - eschatology
3. View on spiritual warfare
4. Pre-destination - Armenian, Calvinist
5. Church involvement

There are herectics and herectical teachings - check the scripture - What does God's word say.

We are called to LOVE one another

We should be women of GOD - go where we are called. Have courage enough to go with GOD.

John 13:34,35
New Commandment - that you LOVE one another as I have loved you.

Our testimony "hinges" on LOVE

We are siblings in the body of Chirst - strive to become like Jesus Christ.

Heb. 10:24,25 Spur one another on to good works.
I Cor 12:21 We need each other

Remember Rev. 12:12 - The devil is furious become his time is short!

A divided house falls.

Ask God for a fresh anointing of the Holy Spirit.

We need a fresh inhale & exhale of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The body of Christ would most please him - that they would be one!

LOVE ONE ANOTHER!!!

Session 4 Praise & prayer requests

PRAYER REQUESTS:
Heather B - A young man (15 years old) hit by a car. Doctor's will be taking him off life support soon. Please pray for strength and healing for the family.

Joanne B - Please pray for husband's health and that he can start having the little things we have taken for granted. Being able to sleep and eat and that his new treatment works.

Joanne B - Please pray for my best friend's aunt who has brain cancer.

Becky - Please pray for her husband, Joe, who has had back and neck surgery and is in the hospital.

Session 4 - The Mercy Seat

I Peter 1:18,19 - Precious blood of Christ without blemish or defect

John 20:9 - Jesus had to rise from the dead

John 17:5 Jesus longed for the glory before the earth was.

Luke 24:44 Everything MUST be (absolute) fulfilled that is written about me.

John 20:10,11 Disciples went back but Mary stayed where she had seen her Savior last.

John 20:12 Angels in white - one at the head the other at the foot of where Christ had laid.

Exodus 25: 10-16 (Construction of the ark of the covenant)

Exodus 25:17 You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. vs. 18 2 cherubim - at each end of the covenant. vs. 22 I will meet with you

Heb. 8:5 Copy - a shadow of what is in heaven

Rom 3:25 Sacrifice of atonement=propitiation=mercy seat

Eph 6:17 Sword of the spirit, you ask whatever is in His will and he'll give it to you.

My sheep "Know" my voice.

Jesus = My Father, your father, My God, your God.

Session 3 - Praise & Prayer requests

Deut 10:34 - He's for us not against us!

Session 3

Psalms 40:1-8
Three ways to get find yourself in a pit:
A. Get thrown into a pit
B. We can slip into a pit
C. We can jump right into a pit

Get thrown into a pit - Gen. 37:4 - Joseph he was thrown into a pit not of his own doing.
Jeremiah 35:6 - Jeremiah was thrown in even after he obeyed God.
Psalms 40:11,12

We can slip into a pit - it's not what we planned but we find ourselves in one nevertheless. Gen. 50:20 - . . he meant it for evil but God meant it for good.

A pit is an early grave the enemy digs for us. Your enemy, Satan, wants to bury you alive.

We can jump into a pit. Psalms 19:12,13 - Who can discern their own junk? We need to pursue full throttle Godliness. Blamelessness - freedom from willful sin. A place where no area of sin is ruling over us.

God's word is true - our experience is not the plumbline. God's word is the plumbline!

Difference between reacting badly vs. proactive sin. Reacting badly you don't plan on sinning you react out of the sinful nature response. Proactive sin - you plan the thing out.

2 things all the pits have in common:
1. We can't get ourselves out of the pit
2. We can get out of it!

The ways we can get out of a pit:
1. A person can pull us out of it - caution the person who pulls us out can become in a person's mind their Savior. There's only one Savior! Ps. 40:2-4
2. God can pull us out of it!

A result of trusting in the Lord - Happiness! Ps. 40:2-4