God's blessing shall be following you continually for taking the time to study. Examination Of Bible Fasts (1) Thursday 3rd April Text: Exodus 24: 12-18 Key verse: But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head and wash thy face. Matthew 6: 17. a: Today’s text gives account of Moses' forty days fast. Moses did not plan that he was going to observe forty days fast. When God invited him to the mount, he did not know he was not returning that day. Hence, his staying forty days before the Lord without food was in God's perfect will and perfect control. Moses' experience did not become a doctrine in Israel. The scripture did not record any Israelite throughout the Old Testament who embarked on forty days fast after the pattern of Moses. b: David fasted when his child was sick, 2 Samuel 12:15-23. Some consider that he fasted for seven days. He did not plan the number of days he would fast; he was using the last resource in his disposal– fasting and prayer, to see if he...
God's blessing shall be following you continually for taking the time to study. Believers Do Not Encourage Sin (1) Tuesday 1st April Text: Romans 1:29-32 Key verse: Let us not, therefore, judge one another anymore: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. Romans 14:13 To put a stumbling block in your brother's way is to encourage sin. Do not encourage sin by pairing a lady and man together, sending them together for an assignment; to where they could be alone, when they are not husband and wife. Do not pay people salary that cannot feed them; you would be encouraging stealing. It would be better not to employ them than to pay them salary that will cause them to contemplate stealing, because the salary cannot sustain them. Do not create opportunities that can cause people to sin. Do not lay a stumbling block that will cause another to sin. For example, you gave someone money to...