Skip to main content

LESSON FOUR: “1 Peter: Finding Encouragement in Troubling Times – A Sue Edwards Inductive Bible Study”

Lesson 4 of “1 Peter: Finding Encouragement in Troubling Times – A Sue Edwards Inductive Bible Study” talks primarily about servanthood. One of the blog study questions from the publisher was “What does it mean to entrust yourself to the one who judges justly? Is there a situation in your life that you need to give to God?” To entrust yourself to the one who judges justly is to completely and totally trust God. It is to trust that whatever our Heavenly Father allows to touch our lives, regardless of whether we think it is a good or a bad thing, is what’s best for His plan and His glory and also for us. He is not a cruel Father who would hurt His kids.

Personally, I need to entrust every day to Him. I need to trust Him with my ministry, my health, my job, my relationships. I need to consciously stop doing things in my own power and allow Him to work through me. I think the situation I need to give to God is my health. I am a breast cancer survivor and I grew very close to Jesus during treatment. Now, treatment is over and tests have been clean for six months. Praise Jesus! But I want to cling to Him with the same intensity now that I’m well as I did when I was “sick”.
Labels:

Comments

Tami @ ThisMomsDelight.com said…
I need to entrust everything to God to. It's finally dawning on me that I haven't lost any weight or grown much spiritually, simply because I am not trusting Him to lead me in those endeavors.
3:06 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Homiletics Training: Content

Homiletics .   By definition, “homiletic” is the art of preaching or writing sermons.   I think we would all agree that our pastors study the Bible thoroughly to deliver sermons every Sunday to their congregations.   The beautiful news is that every child of God can use this discipline to study the Bible for themselves. As a member of Bible Study Fellowship (BSF) Leadership, part of my required preparation each week is to prepare homiletics for the passage we are studying.   BSF offers an engaging seminar on how to use this method to study the Scriptures.   I’ve taken the seminar several times under two different leaders and I’ve learned something new every time I’ve attended.   I’ve also been doing the process of homiletics for over ten years and I can say that there is no better teacher than the Holy Spirit in this process!   So keep practicing.   Keep sharing and discussing.   I’ve been posting my homiletics on this blog for quite a...
1 comment
Read more

Armor of God – Week One – Sizing Up The Enemy

Welcome to Boot Camp!   For the next seven weeks we will be training with our weapons (God’s Word and prayer) in preparation for the battle of our lives and the lives of others!   And we will be learning how to equip ourselves with the Armor of God. Priscilla Shirer’s Armor of God Bible study is a MUST-DO for EVERY BIBLE STUDENT!   I don’t mean to shout, but I can’t emphasize this enough!!!   We are at war boys and girls.   And our enemy wants to keep us in the dark about that fact.   If he can convince us that he does not exist or that our God is not good or that we are not loved and treasured by the King and Creator of the Universe, he wins the battle.   But can I share something with you?   OUR ENEMY HAS ALREADY LOST THE WAR!!!!!   His time is short and he is grasping at anything we leave dangling in an attempt to drag us down.   So let’s not leave too much dangling. My church begins the Armor of God study tonight (9/9/15). ...
1 comment
Read more

Homiletics: Revelation 8-9

Contents ( not sentence, direct verbiage from Scripture ):   1 8:1-2 When He opened 7 th seal, silence in hvn ½ hour; I saw 7 angels, 7 trumpets given to them. 2 8:3-4 A givn incns 2 offer w/prayers of G’s ppl altar in frt of throne; Smoke/prayers went b4 G. 3 8:5 A took censer, filld w/fire frm altar, hurld on earth: thundr, rumblings, lightning, eaquake. 4 8:6-7 7 As w/trumps; 1 st trump: hail, fire/blud hurld on earth, 1/3 ea/trees/all grass burn up. 5 8:8-9 2 nd trump: like huge mt ablaze thrn in sea, 1/3 sea turn 2 blud/creat die/ships destroyed. 6 8:10-11 3 rd trump: grt star blazng fell on 1/3 rivers/springs; Wormwood, 1/3 waters bitter, ppl die. 7 8:12 4 th trump: 1/3 sun/moon/stars struck, turned dark, 1/3 day w/o light, also 1/3 night. 8 8:13 ...
Post a Comment
Read more