God's Heart and Dedication

Tuesday, December 15, 2015
2 Chronicles 30:5-12 KJV 

5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done [it] of a long [time in such sort] as it was written. 6 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria. 7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, [who] therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see. 8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers [were, but] yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you. 9 For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children [shall find] compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God [is] gracious and merciful, and will not turn away [his] face from you, if ye return unto him. 10 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them. 11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem. 12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) What decree was established and proclamation declared throughout Israel? Why? (v.5)
2) What posts went to the king and his princes throughout Israel and Judah? (v.6a)
3) What did the letters say? (v.6b-9)
4) How did the people of the land respond upon hearing and reading the posts that were dispatched? (v.10-11)
5) What did God do in Judah? (v.12)

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
6) What is the Lord calling you and/or your local church to do during this last hour? 
7) Are you doing what the Lord has called you to do?

LIFE LESSONS
8) The Lord grants His people discernment to know what He is doing, or about to do, among us. We would be wise to heed His directives.

Speaking with One Voice

Sunday, May 11, 2015
Exodus 19:1-8 KJV 

1 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they [into] the wilderness of Sinai. 2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come [to] the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount. 3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; 4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and [how] I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. 5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth [is] mine: 6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These [are] the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. 7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him. 8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) What happened to the children of Israel after the Lord delivered them from the Egyptians? (v.1-2)
2) What did Moses do and what did the Lord tell Him? (v.3-6)
3) How did Moses and the people of God respond to the Lord's commands? (v.7-8)

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
4) How do you, and/or your local church family, typically respond to the voice of the Lord? 

LIFE LESSONS
5) The Lord expects His children to hear and to do what He says as one body, united by one Holy Spirit.