Richard Adair's - Bible Study Lessons

Yes He does! Jesus, His very Name means Savior! We have so limited our Lord. We've estimated Him today to be practically ineffective in our lives to save us from anything except HELL. Thank God we've not lost our faith in THAT, but oh there is so much more that Christ has made available for us. Our problem lies in our complete ignorance of the Bible. We claim we've heard every story but somehow we insist God is NOT WILLING to help us like those He helped in the Bible. Something is wrong with that thinking. Since when did God want you to read the Bible and NOT believe it was for you just the same as it was for anyone written in the Bible itself? Unbelief is so ridiculous. Realize you are simply denying yourself one of God's basic promises and stop the worrying about the dangers life throws at all of us. Learn that you have God's protection about you as a SHIELD!!!!

Naaman was a leper in 2 Kings chapter 5 until he turned his worry into a MIRACLE. You can do the same thing. My suggestion is to read that story and realize for yourself you can have a miracle, too! How is it that Naaman's wife could have a little Israelite slave girl that KNEW Naaman could have a miracle and yet today we believe we CANNOT? See how far we've gotten ourselves from the Bible? We've got to stop the bleeding! We're losing the battle here with this kind of UNBELIEF. Start praying! Turn your worries into MIRACLES! You think you love Jesus now? When you start treating Him like He's the same YESTERDAY, TODAY and FOREVER you'll love Him more and more! He's just that incredible! Read the Bible and see for yourself!

The Bible plainly states YOU have angels with YOU! It would do us good to stop complaining about being so helpless down here in all our problems as though God does not care. He cares more than you'll ever dream. Our trouble is unbelief. We grow up knowing more about the Religion of Evolution and the Religion of Atheist than we do about our Bible. How is that? Simple! We quit reading our Bible. You cannot help but be the happiest person on earth when you read YOUR very own Bible! Its a book about You and God and He has special Angels assigned to you all your life.

The Bible is on our side here concerning Heaven and getting there! We wind up continually condemning ourselves and coming up with all kinds of excuses as to why we should never be allowed to go there. Truth is Heaven is a gift and you're not going to earn it in the first place. Read the book for yourself and KNOW you're going! You'll have so much more joy in your heart KNOWING the truth.

The easiest thing to do is believe God is NOT going to help you. It takes work to believe He is on your side and that He will actually HELP you. Ask yourself why you are so tempted to quit. Why aren't you just as easily tempted to "Hang in there"? See this is not a game. There are real forces out there trying to get YOU to just roll over and quit. The forces are trying to get you to stop acting like Jesus is so real and just go back to accepting every little bad thing that happens to you and then make you face the fact there's nothing you can do about it. No! Don't act that way! Fight the good fight of faith! When things hurt you, PRAY! Ask God to get involved and get you OUT of trouble. When you do that then you STAND THERE til you get the answer you ask for! Don't quit! The result is you'll get out of your problems and you'll be so happy you can't wait to tell someone about Jesus!

This is NOT some new thing. Learning Jesus will heal you NOW is easily understood when you Search The Scriptures for yourself. If you just took the book of Matthew alone and read all 28 chapters which would probably take you only a couple of hours you would convince yourself of this fact as well. Trouble is... will we read the book of Matthew and find out? Unfortunately, many will NOT. Thats about as smart as saying "if I take that medicine my doctor gave me I will get better, but I'm NOT going to take it". That would be so stupid, right? Well is the same thing when we don't search the Bible to see if Jesus will heal us. We all have so many reasons why we are so sure we will NOT be healed. Many times we won't read because we condemn ourselves because we think we are too sinful to be healed. Sin will NOT stop you from being healed. It's quite the opposite when you READ the truth. There is no excuse for you NOT to be healed except for our own ignorance of the Mercy and Love of God to everyone of us. Ask yourself this question. "Why is it that I ALWAYS believe God will NOT heal me?" Isn't it interesting that we always start out believing He Will NOT heal us? We have more confidence in Jesus NOT healing us. This should make any thinking person suspicious of why one should believe so negatively. When you read the bible you'll always figure out that YES God wants to heal me and He wants to right NOW! Take the plunge! Jump into God's Word and listen to no one else and let God be God and heal you today! It is that simple! Wouldn't you agree God wants everyone to believe in Jesus and go to heaven someday? Wouldn't you say that promise if for EVERYONE and be willing to argue all day long to prove it? Why is it that you believe this so strongly and won't budge? It's because you KNOW what the BIble says about going to heaven! Its the exact same when it comes to Jesus healing you! Once you learn THIS no one can every take it away from you!

We paralyze ourselves in our own thinking. Continually condemning ourselves for a seemingly major sin or even and occasional slip up is certainly not trusting in the One Who died to take all our sins away. We act as though Jesus will not forgive us for we won't forgive ourselves. Listen, we can't save ourselves. We have to have Jesus do it for us. You couldn't pay for a single sin by running around depressed all the time. David wrote in Psalms 103:2 "And forget not all His benefits; and who forgiveth all thy sins" . See we should use a little more faith and start acting like we have God's Mercy when we blow it. We have God's Mercy! Stop acting so pitiful and start rejoicing that your sins are forgiven no matter what you have done!

Once we get beyond our own unbelief that God wants to help us we discover you cannot out give God. The Bible will encourage you all the time that God will give you gifts. Some people think just the gift of Jesus is all we have but even then they don't understand the gift of Jesus. You can't just have Jesus and not have everything else. Everything came when the gift of Jesus came. No wonder Jesus is all we need!

The Name of Jesus should be such a well known weapon in the life of every believer. Unfortunately it gets overlooked. When we read the Bible ourselves we will find out that the use of the Name of Jesus is literally spoken. Makes sense! Why have a name if you're not going to speak it. Jesus said to use His name in prayer and we would get what we asked for. Why did He spend time telling us this if we were not meant to use it?