Richard Adair's - Bible Study Lessons

There is so much unbelief in our lives today when it comes to our own prayers. We are so confident that God will NOT answer our prayers we get a little arrogant about it. Somehow the idea is we want to argue with God over this when we get to Heaven. Some will even fight you over the right tobelieve that God will NOT answer their prayers. You can't blame them or even yourself IF YOU WON'T READ YOUR BIBLE FOR YOURSELF. It's only natural to believe the worst. Ah! Good news! Take time to study the promises of God yourself and finally figure out all the promises of God are YES AND AMEN!

This is so basic! We are not supposed to be effective witnesses for Jesus is we can't even know for sure if we will even make it to heaven! Stop the bleeding! Read the Bible for your own sanity! The Scriptures will calm you down and you'll KNOW the simplicity of going to Heaven and not Hell!!!! This is one of the most dominating themes throughout the Bible is having a calm assurance that you will be with the Lord FOREVER. Why on earth (literally) did He come to SEEK and SAVE the lost if it was so IMPOSSIBLE? Get rid of your doubts and start being happy again KNOWING "Jesus Saves" and He "SAVES YOU"!!!!!!

So many Christians stay so secretly upset over this basic truth. We have all in our minds scared the living daylights out of our selves because we stop reading our Bibles for our selves. Let me ask you. Would you ask someone to go to the doctor for you or would you go yourself? Of course not! You would go yourself. Well go yourself to the Bible and find out if there's a way for you to go to Heaven. Of course there is! See if you can discover for to be sure you can GO! You will find out quickly and become the happiest person you've ever been! If this is not true then it should NOT be called THE GOSPEL meaning "Good News". It is GOOD NEWS and youre going to Heaven because of Jesus!

The simple truth is fear! We are so afraid of tomorrow. This world as Jesus said is full of tribulation (problems what have you), but remember He said for us to be of good cheer meaning be happy. Well its impossible to just say you'll be happy when trouble comes and not have any way out, but that's the silly things we believe about God sometimes and it could not be further from the truth. Jesus is a Savior not a consoler. He wants to save you from all your worries. We simply can't believe it. Nevertheless its true or the Bible is a very misleading book. Well, we know its not misleading so the problem lies with us daring to believe the Bible is true. We waste our time asking each other whether or not we believe the Bible is literal or not. This should not even be up for debate. Just read the Bible and act like the people and stories in it and you'll see your own miracles daily.

Our own unbelief is staggaring to say the least. We are no different than the persons in stories mentioned in the Bible. From Elijah's silly depression claiming he was the only Christian left all the way to Martha at the tomb of Lazarus telling Jesus that by this time Lazarus stinks. We are constantly fed a storyline in America that there is no God or if there is then Jesus is NOT the only one. We worship trees, animals and practically anything that our highly intellectual minds will conger up. The truth is the Bible has been around longer than any of us have ever been and it is historical in nature if one would but check the facts. The Bible being true should makes us wonder about all we read about Angels. Why are they there? Do I have Angels with me? Why do I need them? Stop beleiving that the Bible is just writtten by a bunch of philosophers. Stop questioning the honesty of the Bible at every turn. These things only delay you from reading the Bible for yourself. You should be questioning yourself as to why you are NOT reading your Bible. Jesus said, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free". The Bible is the only explanation about your life and you should find out today why Angels are mentioned as being around you today. Why does the Bible even tell us these stories about Angels if they are not for us today? When you read a story in the Bible about Angels you should say to your heart "That's for me, too". Why else were all the details given?

We are so ignorant of the Bible at times in our lives. We gladly give up simple truths of the scriptures just because someone says that it is not forus today. This is so embarrassing to be so ignorant. Do we not take time to research something a doctor may have said? Do we blindly believe anything our news media says today? I don't think so. We research what we hear all the time but when it comes to the Bible we never look for ourselves to be sure. This is one of the main reasons I enjoy preaching the Bible so much because there is so much we all have not heard. You can get your miracle. Everyone in the Bible that asked for one or two or however many they asked for got them. We need to get ours too. Stop complaining and start praying and believing. The Christian life is truly the happiest life on earth. James chapter 5 says "is anyone afflicted let him pray". That's our signal to get help when you feel sad or hurt then PRAY! Watch Jesus get you out of trouble!

Its amazing to find out for yourself why all the stories about Abraham are in YOUR BIBLE. Some think it's only historical but that's only half the story. You don't have to be a preacher to figure this one out. If Galatians chapter 3 says you are blessed with faithful Abraham then it only makes sense to find out how he was blessed. Genesis 12 is where it all begins so see for yourself what the first thing God said He would do for Abraham. He promised to bless him and that meant financially too. Ask yourself why Abraham lifted his hand to God when the King of Sodom tried to pay Abraham some money in Genesis chapter 14. Why do we even have this information in our Bibles? We are supposed to believe it. Stop listening to every excuse people give about how God won't do for you what's in your Bible. Be like a child and just believe what you read out of God's book He gave to you. This could not be more simple. You wouldn't dare say Jesus was not your Lord and Savior and you learned that from your Bible. So begin to learn the rest of what Jesus says is yours. If God didn't want you to have it He would have said so. You never want Jesus to say to you "Have you not read?"

Why were the multitudes following Jesus everywhere? Jesus was always making them glad. We have such a pessimistic view of the bible sometimes. For all we know, sometimes we believe God is just an unhappy God. That's so not right. When is the last time you heard children quit laughing. When is the last times you heard parents don't laugh at the funny things their little children and even older children say? For us to lose our happiness is directly related to NOT reading our bibles or not paying attention to what we read. God wants you happy and if your NOT then God wants you to do something about it! It's called PRAYER! James 5 says is anyone among you AFFLICTED let him PRAY. If you pray you can STOP the pain! 1 Chronicles 4:10 LOOK IT UP! WHAT A SELFISH PRAYER!!! IS it selfish or was Jabez just smarter than the rest of us? Wake up believer and start getting happy because GOD WANTS YOU HAPPY. Why on earth would God say "Well done thou good and faithful servant ENTER THOU INTO THE JOY OF THY LORD" if He wanted you SAD? We are so silly to be acting so sad with Jesus is in our hearts. Wake up and start walking on the water!

Why not? What part of reading your bible taught you to NOT expect a miracle? As you will learn the bible NEVER said you couldn't have a miracle. Miracles are for you! John chapter 1 Jesus told Nathaniel "You'll see greater things than this". The very last verse in John's Gospel says that if everything Jesus ever did was written down the world itself couldn't contain the books! Where have we been? We have been so embarrassed by our powerless Jesus but its entirely our fault. We tell ourselves subconsciously He is powerless because we believed He will not help us anymore. These beliefs are in directly conflict with those in the bible who simply asked for a miracle and got one. Where in the bible do you read about the people who asked God for a miracle and they were denied? Wipe the dust off your bible and read and do what they did. Its ok to copy what they did. Why on earth was it written down for us? The greatest book on earth! Taste and see that the Lord is good!