2 Samuel 7:15

The faithful love of God towards us is something that we shouldn’t take for granted.  

Just because God loves you doesn’t mean you should do something that is contrary to his will.

You shouldn’t slander His will

You shouldn’t slander His divine purpose for your life just because of His faithful love towards you

God’s faithful love to us is precious and thus shouldn’t be taken for granted.  

Saul wanted to continue with the faithful love of God but unfortunately God took away His faithful love from Him and thus God showed His faithful love to Solomon 2 Samuel 7:15 [15]But My mercy and loving-kindness shall not depart from him, as I took [them] from Saul, whom I took away from before you.

Reflective questions about the teaching 

a) According to our reflection in view, what is that which we shouldn’t take for granted?

b) What did The Lord say He would not take away from Solomon 

c) Give some of the lessons in view you learn from our subject study

d) What is that which The Lord took away from Saul?

e) Give an understanding of due as reflected upon 

Dear Lord Jesus I come before you today and I pray that just as you did not take away your faithful love from Solomon so I shouldn’t loose your faithful love in Jesus name amen 

How do we set our face to the Lord? 

The challenge with this generation is that we have been distracted and we are continually distracted by things which we think are important yet in actual sense they are not important

We are distracted  from personal time in the presence of the Lord.  We are taken up by this and by our self degree of enterprise.

We are taken up by things that hold no value to the destiny God has for us 

From Daniel’s perspective, he talks about setting his face to the Lord to seek Him by prayer and supplication Daniel 9:3[3]And I set my face to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes; as thus we too should set our heart’s to seek the Lord by prayer and supplication  

 Reflective questions about the teaching

a) According to our teaching in view, How do we set our face to the Lord?

b) How did Daniel set His face to the Lord as realised in perspective?

c) In what ways can we position ourselves to seek the Lord with an understanding of divine  purpose 

Dear Lord Jesus I pray tonight that I will set my heart to seek your face with an understanding of purpose amen

FROM THE DAY YOU PURPOSED TO HUMBLE YOURSELF YOUR PRAYERS WERE HEARD*

The book of Daniel is a clear reflection to us of what happens when we humble our selves before the Lord.  

When we humble ourselves before the Lord it’s on a high chance that the Lord will hear and respond to our prayers 

Scriptures talk about.. From the day that Daniel humbled himself before the Lord.  From that day Daniel humbled himself before the Lord.  What happened… Daniel’s prayers were heard and so the Angel came to give him understanding Daniel 10:12[12]Then he said to me, Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your mind and heart to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come as a consequence of [and in response to] your words. As thus may we humble ourselves before the Lord to recieve that understanding that we need for ministry and for whatever the Lord has called us to accomplish in this world. 

a) What happened to Daniel when he humbled himself before the Lord?

b) As included to context what happens to our prayers when we humble ourselves before the Lord 

C) Give an understanding of due concerning our teaching

Dear Lord Jesus I pray that you give me the grace to live a life that is consecrated after your will and your divine purpose for my life 

DANIEL CONFESSES HIS SIN AND THE SIN OF Israelites IN PRAYER

We live in a time when people are cofounded by the love of the world.

When some don’t take sin as a big deal whatsoever . Whether on the contrast or not. 

Whether by mind of controversy or not

Daniel gets to a point in his life when he begins to pray and to confess His sin.

Daniel didn’t  only confess his sin in prayer to the Lord but he also confessed the sin of Israel His people Daniel 9:20[20]While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy hill of my God–as thus, we too should confess our sins before the LORD in like manner as Daniel did 

Reflective questions about the teaching 

a)According to our teaching in view, whose sin did Daniel confess? 

b) Why is it that many of our people don’t take the issue of sin seriously 

c) What About the mind of controversy over sin

d) Do you confess your sin before the Lord 

e) What would be some of the lessons in view you draw from our teaching 

f) What is that which we should do in like manner as Daniel did? 

Dear Lord Jesus I pray that i will confess my sins in Jesus’s name Amen 

THOSE WHO DO THE WILL OF GOD REMAIN FOREVER/ ENDURE FOREVER 

I have been contemplating on this teaching in view and I realise that the most important thing is doing what God wants you to do and being where He has destined you to be. There is no blessing in chasing after vain desire and things that don’t make sense

By survey you will realise that many of the  people today derive contentment from superficial things.

They are not after God’s will whatsoever 

They drive contentment from

Cars

money

Vocational trips e t c e t c

prestigious things of the world 

Whereas all that may be good. The most important and far important is the promise of what happens to those who do the will of God and those who do the will of God. 

* remain forever/ endure forever 1 John 2:17[17]And the world passes away and disappears, and with it the forbidden cravings (the passionate desires, the lust) of it; but he who does the will of God and carries out His purposes in his life abides (remains) forever.

a) Why is it that many of our people derive contentment from superficial things ?

b) Is it true that people derive contentment from superficial things?

c) What may be some of the superficial things people derive contentment from?

d) Who do scriptures say will endure/ remain forever 

c) Underline purpose of note as due to our teaching

Dear Lord Jesus I pray that I will not derive contentment from superficial things but from your presence and the inner fulfilment of my life’s desire 

OFFERINGS TO THE LORD WHICH ARE DETESTABLE

Many times we bring offerings to the Lord which are detestable as due to the sources that we have got this money from. 

The amount you bring to the house of the Lord may be much or little but as long as the source from which you got that money is not from a straight manner of administration.. that offering will surely be detestable before the Lord .

If it is stolen money, it will be detestable to the Lord 

If it is money got out of a corrupt deal it will be detestable to the Lord 

The Lord demanded that wages from female prostitution and earnings from male prostitution shouldn’t be brought to the house of the Lord lest it will be detestable to the Lord 

Deuteronomy 23:17-18[17]There shall be no cult prostitute among the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a cult prostitute (a sodomite) among the sons of Israel.[18]You shall not bring the hire of a harlot or the price of a dog (a sodomite) into the house of the Lord your God as payment of a vow, for both of these [the gift and the giver] are an abomination to the Lord your God.

a) According to our teaching in view, what did the Lord tell the Israelites not to bring to the house of the Lord?

b) What is that which is considered as detestable?

c) Reclaim perspective of note as due to our teaching in view

Dear Lord Jesus I pray that the offering I bring to your house be consecrated to the glory of your name Amen 

THE NAZARITE VOW WAS BOTH FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN

Recently in our last teaching if you have kept on following to procedure  we considered the Nazarite vow of CONSECRATION unto the Lord which the Lord demanded the Israelites to make  .

The other aspect that we should also consider in this is that this vow wasn’t subject to men only or  to women only. 

it was subject to both men and  women and also the men as re aligned in manner Numbers 6:2[2]Say to the Israelites, When either a man or a woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, that is, one separated and consecrated to the Lord, As thus we realise that Both men and women should live a life of consecration in order to achieve their God given purpose and desire in this world.

a) Was the NAZARITE vow for men only?

b) Was the NAZARITE vow for women only 

c) What things did one have to do away with during his time of consecration 

d) Do people take this aspect of spirituality serious 

e) What would be some of the lesson study 

Dear Lord am grateful that my mind and heart in increasingly growing in your purpose for my life Amen

THE Nazarite VOW

When you don’t live a life of  CONSECRATION  your spiritual life will eventually die or suffer . The anointing will also go whereby as failure to live a life that is expected of you

Recently I was studying the word of God when I came across a portion I had never read before. 

It was about the Nazarite vow which the Israelites had to make to the Lord upon purpose of personal consecration Numbers 6:2-3[2]Say to the Israelites, When either a  or a woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, that is, one separated and consecrated to the Lord,[3]He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar of wine or of strong drink, and shall drink no grape juice, or eat grapes, fresh or dried. [Luke 1:15.] As thus we should concentrate ourselves before the Lord 

a) According to our teaching in view, what is the Nazarite vow?

b) What did the Nazarite vow entail as thus realised upon to context

c) How purposeful may this teaching be to relation?

Dear Lord Jesus I pray that I walk and live a life that gives you glory.. a life that is after your purpose for my life amen 

GLORIFY YOUR NAME

There is a famous preacher who likes  singing a song saying ” Glorify your name, Glorify your name, Glorify your name in all the earth.

Glorify your name are words that were spoken by Jesus to the Father. Jesus asked the Father to glorify His name John 12:28[28][Rather, I will say,] Father, glorify (honor and extol) Your [own] name! Then there came a voice out of heaven saying, I have already glorified it, and I will glorify it again.

Glorify His name  and God the father responded, I have glorified my name and I will continue to glorify it again and again as thus, we too should glorify the name of the Lord in all the earth 

a) According to precedence in view, who asked the Father to glorify His name? 

b) Did The father glorify his name?

c) What did the voice that came from heaven say?

d) Attribute purpose of note concerning some of the lessons in view we draw from our teaching

Confession prayer

Dear Lord Jesus may your name be glorified above everything else on earth, beneath the earth and to totality of everything that has been created to the grace and the glory of your wonderful name amen

MULTITUDES OF HEAVENLY HOST PRAISING GOD

LIFE IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD IS KINETIC ( Dynamic/ Animated)

 Heavenly knighthood praising God

Have never been in the spiritual world through any spiritual portal of divine existence  though continue to experience effects of the spiritual world both on the positive and also on the negative but those who have gone ahead us know beyond doubt that when you are in the  spiritual world.. you are in the spiritual world 

Recently as I was studying the scripture about a multitude of heavenly hosts praising God  with an angel of the Lord , I was thereafter  distracted by the devil and by the ramblings of the world. Luke 2:13-14[13]Then suddenly there appeared with the angel an army of the troops of heaven (a heavenly knighthood), praising God and saying,[14]Glory to God in the highest [heaven], and on earth peace among men with whom He is well pleased [men of goodwill, of His favor].

Question.  What would be the multitude of heavenly hosts? Would they be angels or other beings we may not be able to conceptualize by bearing of human knowledge.

When Christ was born. The day Christ was born.  Multitudes of heavenly hosts praised  God.  What a great purpose of faith in declaration by the hosts of heaven 

Reflective questions about the teaching 

a) According to our teaching, which beings appeared to the shepherds in the field 

b) Give perceptions in view as realised upon to our subject study

Dear Lord Jesus, am grateful for the exercise of your word in faith concerning my life and my future in Jesus name amen