Sunday School

CENTRAL THOUGHT: Healing is the children’s bread.   TEXT: Isaiah 53: 4-5; Mark 7:24-30; James 5:13-18.   INTRODUCTION God revealed Himself to Israel as their Healer from the beginning, one of the divine names revealing God’s character and name is YAWEH (Jehovah) Repheka ‘the Lord your physician;’   which is translated in Exodus 15:26, ‘the Lord that health thee’ [Jehovah-Rapha]. The psalmist David saw Him as the One who as part of His benefits heals all our diseases, or more literally, the physician for all thy diseases(Psalm103:3). David first proclaimed the Lord the forgiver of all our iniquities and then the healer of all our diseases. Therefore, if we expect the Lord to meet our physical needs we must first permit Him to cure our spiritual ills. In the ministry of the Lord Jesus, we see Him bringing both God’s forgiveness and God’s healing to all who came to Him believing. In fact, His ministry as savior and Healer are very closely tied together in the New Testament. At Calvary He fulfilled the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah which says he bore our griefs (literally, our sicknesses) and our sorrows (literally our physical pain). At the same time, He was wounded (pierced) for our transgressions (rebellious sins) and bruised for our...

  Central Thought: God’s unlimited resources are for His children today.   TEXT: 1Kings 17:1-16; 19:5-8   INTRODUCTION: A miracle could simply be defined as a supernatural act, intervention of God to the course of nature. Miracles do not follow natural laws and tendency rather they operate at much higher levels. Therefore, a miraculous provision meets the various needs of his people. Miracles are not magical Acts. Whereas magical acts are tricks of the enemy with the intent to confound the heart of depraved men, miracles are acts of God designed to assist men beyond the limits of the human resources and abilities. Miracle always happens for a purpose. To take an individual Beyond his human limitations so that the name of the Lord is glorified. Miracles are never designed to bring to Limelight the vehicle by which the Miracles come but to direct the hearts of men and women to the Lord- the very source of all miracles. Some individuals claim miracles are over because the circumstances that gave rise to miraculous events in biblical days are non-existent today. To infer that Miracles cannot take place today is to deny the limitation of man and acknowledge that man does not have need for God today. We must acknowledge...

CENTRAL THOUGHT The believer who inquire from the Lord enjoys the benefit of being guided by God.   TEXT: 1 Samuel 23:1-12, 30:7-8; Numbers 27:1-7; Joshua 9:3-15   INTRODUCTION God has made provision for His children to be properly guided in making choices, decisions and taking necessary actions.  However, it is the believer who seeks such guidance that will enjoy the benefits of being guided by the Lord.  It is therefore needful for the children of God to always inquire from Him.   LESSON OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study are: Examining what hinders believers from inquiring from the Lord. Considering some examples of people who inquired from the Lord. Learning from the consequences of not inquiring from the Lord. Appropriating the benefits of inquiring from the Lord.   BIBLE TRUTH Q1. What are some of the things that hinder us from inquiring from the Lord? Some of the things that hinder the believer from seeking GOD’s counsel (or inquiring from HIM) on specific matters include: Love of the world, John 2:15-17. When a believer has hidden love in his heart for the things of the world, the tendency will be for such a believer to do things to please and satisfy himself.  Such a mindset will hinder the believer from inquiring from...