Richard Adair's - Bible Study Lessons

This should really be a "no brainer" here, but many times we fall back to the same old UNBIBLICAL belief that God wants us either hit rock bottom or be poor or some other foolish belief. This couldn't be further from the truth of the Bible. How many people in the Bible were used of God and were just dirt poor as a result? That should be an easy question to answer! Zero! I"ve been young and been old David said in Psalm 37:25 and i've never seen the Righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread! Our own ignorance of the Bible keeps us in trouble. Faith is always the answer and concerning finances and especially your own you'll continue to stumble if you never can believe financial miracles are FOR YOU! History teaches us that the Jewish people have always been tremendously rich. Why are all the jokes so funny about the Jews having control of the money if it were not so. How is it then you and I can believe so strongly that God wants us to be poor! It's ridiculous! Just to be God's child is to be RICH if only we would believe His promises. Quit following your feelings. Read the Bible for yourself and you'll walk away from poverty and into tremendous blessings! Genesis 12 the first thing God told Abraham was God would make him rich! Where have we been? We have mental blocks that tell us "if God makes me rich it will ruin me"! This is pathetic! It's also an excuse for not taking the time to find out God never wants you poor! 2 Corinthians 8:9 - look it up! Convince yourself this is not a lie! Ask yourself what it really means. What is the topic of chapter 8 and chapter 9. You'll discover its strickly talking about MONEY. Learn to believe God that He loves you enough to help you financially! Hurry! Stop wasting time today!

Its our responsibility to believe. Things just did not happen to people in the Bible because they sat there and didn't do anything. They believed God. God requires faith. Anyone can believe there's a God but God is requiring more than that. Believing that not only does He exists but that He will help you in your time of need. (Hebrews 11:6) The story of David and Goliath was one of faith. David would have never tangled with Goliath if he didn't have faith. 1 Samuel 17 paints the story completely from beginning to end of David's faith that the Lord would give him victory over Goliath. A very simple story but very explicit one when we compare our own faith today with David's when we encounter difficulties in our lives. Will we run toward Goliath believing as David did to slay him or will we be afraid like the rest of the Israelite soldiers when we face life's difficulties? I just bet you'll act like David if you read your Bible and decide every story was meant for you today!

Yes you do! We all have to set aside our traditions and get real with ourselves and the Bible. Listen to this fantastic message about how Angels are there FOR YOU. Everyone wants to think they are for little children or for someone else but how little we believe they are SENT to PROTECT us. We should be just as confident that Angels are around us as we are about believing that Jesus will take us to heaven someday! The Bible never expected us to NOT believe in Angels. The Bible takes for granted that you KNOW these things. Set aside all the stories and beliefs you've ever had about how rare Angels are in people's lives and step up the TRUTH of God's Word and KNOW today there are Angels encamped (circling) you at all TIMES. What? You think you've been lucky or something all these years? Angels were there and are THERE! You'll see more miracles if you'll do your part and stop worrying and start believing God has Angels there to keep you and your loved ones safe at all times. Start believing the Bible. Start doubting all the tales of people who claim Angels are only for a select few. That's totally unbiblical! The Bible is roughly 1300 pages long. Read it for yourself. It won't take you forever! Quit depending on others to tell you what the Bible says. Find out for yourself. This will stop all the confusion in your own life and you'll know the TRUTH about Angels. God's book the Bible says they are there NOW all around you!

Its true self condemnation will ruin the life of any believer even if its for just moments at a time. We are all so concerned about our heavenly appearance either to others or just to ourselves or even fearing what God may think. Let's step back a minute and think about the obvious from the Bible. How often did Jesus refuse to forgive people? None that we can ever recall, right? He always forgave! Hebrews 13:8 says Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever! Jesus must still be forgiving! Of course He is. We'll then say "yes He forgives, but He's upset with me!" All of this is a vicious cycle designed to discredit what our Lord Jesus did for us! If you self condemn yourself without reminding yourself of the forgiveness Jesus purchased you then you actually are making more of a deal about your mistake then the price Jesus paid to have that sin removed. No where does the Bible tell us to feel so sorry for our sins that we don't accept our forgiveness and move on. We want to punish ourselves in some form or fashion, but we must remember Jesus was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was laid upon Him. It does no good to try to punish yourself. Besides the punishment is "death" anyway! I'd like to see you try to do that to yourself every time you make a mistake! There's no way! We all feel we should at least expect maybe a few days without answered prayer or a few days of everything going wrong then all will be ok with God and me. Wrong! Its only through the blood of Jesus are our sins removed, so all the other hoops we jump through are just a waste of time. The devil wants to make us thing we have to do all kinds of things to win our place back with the Lord and its just wrong. Your place with the Lord is not won by your merits or mine. Its a gift through Jesus Christ. What we fail to recognize is Jesus is actually our Great High Priest that is passed into the heavens for us. Stop worrying about how special your mistakes are to God for they are not. He has forgiven you no matter what you do or will do. If you or I don't pay close attention to the bible where forgiveness is concerned we will come up with all kinds of weird ideas about how to get our lives right again with the Lord. Jesus made all the arrangements for this already. Your place is secure! Learn to believe in forgiveness with full blessings intact! No where did God say He'd take them away for a few days or weeks or anytime length of time. Learn to believe in His mercy! Its forever and its for us all!

It's just interesting to see in the Bible that the very essence of praying is between YOU and God and that He guarantees you to give you what you ask for! See! Exactly the moment you read that statement you even now thought to yourself "No He never said that" or "He won't do that all the time". The truth is when you study the bible you do see promise after promise GRANTING YOU YOUR REQUESTS! However people still do NOT pray because (and I don't blame them) if you are taught all the time "it might not work, probably won't work, we are playing God here, or God just thinks its cute to see His children pray". Hearing those things who would want to pray. Ah, but what says the Scriptures? Oh my gosh! This opens the heavens up and starts the miracles you need! Remember Luke 18:1 (Living Bible) Keep on praying til the answer comes! This means what you asked for! Quit giving up and making excuses just because you didn't see the answer in 5 minutes or 5 days or whenever! If you think about it, we are dealing with God and He is on our side, so don't ever give up. Count on God getting it to you! Name yourself one prayer promise that says "He won't"! There's not any so dust yourself off and begin to believe God's Word and do not take "No" for an answer EVER! Stick with your request and don't give up! Your life will change and you'll soon be "praying without ceasing" and will understand why Ephesians 3 says "He can do exceedingly, abundantly, above all we ask or think according to the power that lieth within us". Be bold! Hebrews 4:16 "Let us come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need". Don't stop praying til you get help for your time of need! Quit thinking you'll bankrupt heaven! Jesus never would have said "ask for ANYTHING" if there were limits! Jesus didn't put limits out there. We have through our own unbelief! Start praying today and start seeing YOUR OWN prayers be answered! You'll certainly not lack for a testimony to tell others what GREAT things the Lord has done for you.

Again, check your Bible. To go without is not right. God will always provide abundance. He chooses to do this to show us He is God and that we don't need to be chasing after other so called gods. This is proven over and over in the scriptures but you have to read for yourself to be convinced. I'm not just going to say the Bible supports my message. Quite the contrary this message will be the Bible so you can see for yourself. We have all these crazy ideas of why we believe God will not be there for us because perhaps He needs to punish us or some other unknown plan of His. Try to explain that to the birds of the air in Matthew chapter 6. Jesus Himself said they don't worry and we are of MORE VALUE THEN THEY! Oh the unbelief we possess! Much of the time we hear the voice of condemnation ranging from our own minds telling us how sinful we are to listening to preachers who feel the only message is to point out how awful we are to the Lord. Strange as it may seem Romans chapter 2 tells us "its the Goodness of God that LEADS US TO REPENTANCE".... We want to believe its a "pay to play" type walk with Jesus and you'll never get away with that. Its your simple faith in a very forgiving Jesus that will put you back into abundance as soon as you stop your whining and complaining and start trusting Him for His help. God is merciful to all of us so stop pointing your fingers at your own lack of goodness or even pointing to others where they lack goodness. Jesus would not let the multitudes leave HUNGRY. He fed them all. Do you reckon everyone was perfect? I'm certainly not! How about you? I'm just thankful God doesn't want us to go without. "Psalm 37:25 - I've been young and been old but i've never seen the righteous forsaken or their seed begging bread"

If we can believe God will take us to heaven by simply believing in Jesus then its absurd to think He won't heal us for the promises are identical. Traditional thinking has gotten the best of us. Knowledge of healing for us all in the bible has been like a deep dark secret to many a christian. Some think healing is NOT in the bible for us while others say it is. The fact of the matter is "what do you think"? Lets find out for ourselves and if it so then let's do the honorable thing and just TRY to act like the Bible is true and begin to watch God really help us. You will find out He does want to heal you and He wants to "TODAY" ! Ask yourself when you would want your own children to be healed if you could help them. I don't think you would delay it for a second and try to explain the reasons why mommy or daddy want you to be in pain a few more days or even years. I'm sure you'd say RIGHT NOW, TODAY! Well, God loves you more than you can even begin to love your own children yet you would do anything for your children's health. You would be willing to die for them, right? We all would. Our hearts go out to our children when they are sick! Why is it then that we would want to believe God is not this concerned about our health? He is! There's a story in the bible about how He died for you. He's got healing for you! You don't have to earn it! It's free! We believe the silliest things when it comes to healing about God. Remind yourself of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and the book of Acts. Pay close attention to anyone that was sick in those books. What happened to them? They all got healed! If you can believe positively without a doubt that Jesus will take you to heaven someday then you can believe God will heal you. Its the exact same faith! Reach out and at least begin try to trust Him for your health from minor things to major things. Soon you'll be carrying a sack full of your own testimonies of how the Lord has been your healer!

This is so simple yet we make it so hard to give ourselves an excuse for our unbelief. Faith is easily understood as compared to unbelief. Do you believe your friend or not when they tell you something? As we learn our friends we know when they are teasingly telling us the truth or not. Sometimes people we do not know we have to decide do we believe them or not. Stated differently, do i have faith in them or not. Why is it we think faith is so optional when dealing with God? It cannot be or otherwise it would certainly make us look disrespectful. Sometimes people just don't know what all God said He would do and they never know so how could they ever have faith or trust shall we say He would do anything. Let's take for granted we have a record of what God said He will do for us and its written down in a very accessible book called the Bible. Faith would be if either you or i or both of us decided to believe that the things God said He would do for us we simply chose to believe were so and started acting like they would soon happen in our lives.

Great question? Why is it in your Bible? It's clearly all about David and some problem he was facing. Then why is it in your Bible? That's a great question too! We certainly already believe in God so we don't need to know about how powerful God is. What is the reason for this Psalm? Simply put it was personal for David because it's personal for YOU TOO! We are all but ignorant if we do not take on this Psalm 18 and use it for ourselves. Simple study would understand David as King of Israel sent this Psalm over to the choir director to be sung at least weekly if not daily for everyone to hear around Jerusalem. For it to be exclusively for David personally it would never have been made a Psalm. How many times have we all heard "the Psalms are not for us today"? Incredible unbelief we surround ourselves with every day. With that kind of thinking then we need to toss out the 23rd Psalm as well, and that would be absurd. Well, then tossing out the 18th is just as absurd. Every word in Psalm 18 can be depended on. Recognize your own unbelief and begin to take God at His word and believe Him to respond to you just like He did for David in this wonderful Psalm. Is there any wonder David killed Goliath thinking like he did here in this Psalm.

This is the personal side of Redemption! It's so important that we believe for our own selves how great this redemption truly is. Who are we to determine how little Jesus did for us by assuming all there is can only be at ticket to heaven someday. That alone seems fishy if that were all redemption includes. Some even say Redemption is only then the heart of a person being changed into something more useful for God. Well, these things are certainly included in the effects of Redemption, but there's so much more or Jesus used the wrong words saying "And have it more Abundantly" in speaking of Eternal Life. Why even did Jesus describe the rich blessings of the Prodigal Son returning home after the son's return home from wasting his father's inheritance. Jesus ruins a great opportunity to show how angry God must be with all of us by confusing us with "rings for his fingers, shoes for his feet, the best robe, killing the fatted calf and music and dancing!" This is just it. He is NOT angry with us as we tend to believe much of the time. We are not trying to sin as some insist. It just happens. Jesus thinks we are worth something or He never would have died for us. The unbelief needs to stop in our lives and we need to see what really is Redemption according to Jesus. Redemption is a financial term much like you redeem a coupon. What was it we were bought from?