Richard Adair's - Bible Study Lessons

This is so wonderful that any child or adult has now the ability to share the wonderful story of Jesus by simply saying "look at me and what Jesus is doing blessing me so"! Somehow over the years we've lost this fundamental part of the message but much like Martin Luther discovered "The just shall live by faith" its been rediscovered by so many through reading the Bible that we are indeed supposed to all be richly blessed. Everyone of us can claim difficulties and be the champion for who's had it the worst or at least in our own minds. The real challenge is to drop this thinking and take Jesus at His own words and believe He wants to bless you personally. Stop claiming you are the worst sinner ever born for Paul the apostle already claimed that position yet he still knew he had the same marvelous Grace that we all benefit from. Its a pity when we don't accept God's richest blessings because we feel we don't deserve them after all the price our Lord Jesus paid for us to enjoy them. Yes, you'll feel guilty with all these rich blessings following you around all the time as you lie in bed before you fall asleep but you will find out that you can channel that guilt in a positive manner and tell your friends that since you discovered Jesus will bless you then you know He will bless them. This makes sharing Jesus so much easier. You'll be thanking HIm every day for his blessings!

We can deny all these blessings all we want to publicly or even privately but they'll still be sitting here waiting on each one of us the moment we release all our unbelief. When did it ever become our responsibility to bless ourselves? We live in a society where the miraculous has to be completely explained. Try to take a step back and realize that God really exists and that He really wants to bless you. Stop making excuses that you are such a sinner and God doesn't want to bless you. That's ridiculous! Jesus didn't die for Himself. He died for your sins! What else will you accept as the reason you can't be blessed just like all the rest of God's people in the Bible. They were sinners just like you and me and still had God's richest and best! You can too! Doing without these wonderful blessings will not get you to heaven. This isn't proving anything to God except your own ignorance or unbelief. Taste and see that the Lord is Good! Its ok! He's got plenty to go around and especially for YOU!

The truth is God is much more powerful than the Devil could ever hope to be. Many times we believe we are simply at the mercy of this merciless enemy and its not the truth. Redemption is a financial word. It simply means to purchase. We have been purchased legally from the hand of this merciless enemy but we need to act as though it is the truth. That's all faith is. Just pretend (shall i say) the Bible is telling you the truth. Act like a child and play like scriptures mean what they say. This will produce results that you'll be so excited over you can't help but tell people around you what happened. This is how the Gospel is spread! Let's get to work! Find out Jesus is Lord for your sake and He didn't leave you helpless where the Devil is concerned. How ridiculous for Ephesians 6:10 to begin to explain all of the wonderful powerful armor we possess to win against the Devil only to be at his mercy. No so my friend! We are victors!!!!!

Sometimes as Christians we just don't get it. We feel we're the enemy ourselves to God when in fact we are His children. We are so sure that life's problems are just a bag of punishment we all deserve that we quit believing in the simpleness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It gets ridiculous when you get to studying the Bible and finding out that its our own fault for not bringing our troubles to the Lord. We know we can't earn our way to heaven but I'll be John Brown if we both don't think at times Jesus won't bless us unless we are absolutely Perfect! We don't realize that in Jesus we are Perfect by His blood and we don't have to earn His peace He's given us. Take time to use a little faith and watch Him help us through ever trial we ever face with the assurance He will protect us at all times!

Its difficult to realize Jesus will heal you and I. This is what is called faith. You'll never experience your faith for healing if you don't take time to read about what the Bible says about your own guaranteed healing. David was so bold as to say in Psalms 103 "who forgives all my sins and HEALS all my diseases". David called this a benefit and also MADE himself remember it. Oh how fitting this is for us today. We can get so wrapped up in our hurts that we forget we have a benefit from God to be healed. Make sure you take time to use this benefit! Stop thinking about all the people you know that have been sick or even died and just play-like that the Bible is true. That's called faith. Why would God write such promises just to let us down? If you would just be bold enough to try Jesus would help you.

The Bible will make you a very happy person. Just knowing God will help you all the days of your life and will make you the happiest person on earth! Ask and you shall receive that your JOY MAY BE FULL! ... Jesus said "That my joy might remain in you". What? Was Jesus actually a happy person? Of course! He wants you happy too!

Genesis chapter 1 declares this wonderful fact. However your own failures will work on you and make you think you are meant to fail and lose and just have a terrible life altogether, but Jesus said "I've come that you might have Life and have it more Abundantly". Its up to us to act. We are MORE THAN CONQUERORS through Him that loved us.

God really does love you. You'll always have trouble loving others until you finally figure out God loves you so much He wants to help you with you daily struggles! We lose our tempers sometimes because we get frustrated with our own problems and become unlovely sometimes! When you discover God loves you and really will help you with your own problems you'll soon see how to love others like God wants you to.

Why is it we feel the Lord will help everyone else but US in times of trouble. David didn't feel that way. He insisted the Lord was always going to help him and he was very impatient about it. We would do ourselves a favor if we acted more like him instead of feeling so alone in trouble. Expect the Lord to get you out of trouble every time!

We do not even need a Bible if we continue to believe God could care less about us. Condemnation can get so great and common in our lives that we actually believe God never loved us to begin with. Oh how wrong that thinking actually is. God demonstrated His love toward us while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. For God so loved the World.... and yet another place it says "who loved me and gave Himself for me". Wrong believing here as you know gets you no where fast! If you don't think you're God's friend then you have not heard the Story of Jesus! He came to get you to be His friend. Remember Zacheus? I'm coming to your house today, Jesus said! Shake off your fears and accept His friendship and watch Him help you TODAY!