The Believers Diligence
BELIEVERS BIBLE STUDY
Stewards of The mysteries of God
#13 The Believers Diligence
By Paul B Thomas
Topic: Diligence
Scripture Reading: 2 Cor 8;7 Proverbs 6:6-11
Purpose: Diligence enables us to keep what God has blessed us with. Diligence enables us to own our lives and take control of our future. These are principles which rule the financial, spiritual and earthly worlds and should not be confused with grace and favour. Neither substituted for the course of diligence.
1.What is the believer exhorted to excel in?
But as you excel in everything – in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you – see that you excel in this act of grace also. (2 Cor 8:7e ESV).
2.What are we to add to our faith?
For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self- control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. (2 Peter 1;5-7 ESV).
3.What does Solomon say in relation to a Shepherds diligence.
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks (Proverbs 27:3).
4.What does the wisest man who ever lived say regarding financial diligence.
He that gatherers in summer is a wise son but he that sleepers in harvest is a son that causeth shame (Proverbs 10:5).
5.Can a believer be rich in industry (business).
The hand of the diligent maketh rich (Proverbs 10:4).
6.How does Preparation and planning ward off poverty.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. (Proverbs 6;6-11).
7.We are to be diligence in keeping our motives and attitude pure
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. (Proverbs 4;23).
8.What is the key to the believer’s harvest of blessing?
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. (Gal 6:9)
9.How should we be diligent in our seeking after God?
But without faith it is impossible to please God; for he that comes to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of those that diligently seek him (Hebrews 11;6)
He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper. (2 Chron 26:5).
10.How does diligence lead to promotion in the workplace
The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute. (Proverbs 12;24).
Tribute: Tax in the form of enforced labour.
These papers are written By Paul B Thomas for the propagation of the true gospel of Jesus Christ, the understanding of the apostles doctrine and the revelation of Jesus Christ.
NOTES:
Diligence is the ability to navigate struggles and setbacks and arrivei at ones chosen open heaven.
In life we all face struggles. whether you’re a surgeon or street cleaner, an aristocrat or a street artist. rich or poor. struggles are challenges, opportunities to get out of the rut and every vocation rich or poor has its ruts). its monotonous moments, its routine, its ritual and its struggles.
Diligence is the art of the smart and the reward of the faithful. the faithful shall abound with blessings and indeed there in no greater area in which one should be faithful than in the area of struggle sand setback. if you can master these two barriers you can win in life. ignore them and you’re doomed to failure.
Diligence is the art of the smart who find solutions to problems others are overcome by. Those who get ahead of the crowd are indeed those who can navigate crisis and push forward irrespective of obstacles in their way. Instances are indeed stepping stones to a higher dimension. and it’s as we have a positive view of obstacles we see them not as barriers but open gates. Access points to what’s bigger, better and more desirable.
QUESTIONS:
1.What is the definition of diligence mean? What’s the meaning of “tribute” as in Prov 12:24? 2.List three aspects of diligence? 3.What are the differences between a prosperous man and a sluggard? 4.How can the believer develop habits of industry, technology and spirituality.
SCRIPTURES: Prov 24:30-31;
FURTHER STUDY: Go to the study on “wisdom” a supplement to this important subject
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Being Steadfast in the Faith
The steadfast shall abound with blessings. Discover the rewards for consistency and the requirements for divine success in life, work and all that you set your had to do
THE BELIEVERS BIBLE STUDY
Stewards of The Mysteries of God
Being Steadfast in the Faith
By Paul B Thomas
Topic: What FAITH Can Do
Scripture Reading: (Hebrews 11:6)
Purpose: faith comes by hearing and rehearing the Word of God
Being Steadfast in the Faith
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THE BELIEVERS BIBLE STUDY
Stewards of The mysteries of God
Being Steadfast In the Faith
By Paul B Thomas
TOPIC: Being steadfast in the Faith
SCRIPTURE Reading: Ephesians 1:18.
Purpose: Understanding our Victory in Christ Jesus
1.The Believer is to apply himself to consistency
Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labour in the Lord is not in vain.(1 Cor 15;58 NIV).
2. What has God prepared for those who are steadfast and consistent?
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have it entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him (1 Cor 2;9)
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, (Ephesians 1:18)
3.When we are steadfast in doctrine we discover the treasure of God and his word.
But God hath revealed then unto us by his Spirit for the Spirit searcheth all things yes the deep things of God 1 (Cor 2:10).
4.The steadfast are rewarded and promoted and shown favour.
Who will render unto every man according to his deeds, glory, honour, and peace to every man that worth good (Romans 2:6-10)
5.The steadfast find the path of life
Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; and they right hand there are pleasures for evermore (Psalm 16:11)
6.What did Christ promise the overcomer?
To him that overcometh will Grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the midst of the paradise of God (Rev 2;7)
7.What gives us the authority to overcome the world?
And this is the victory that overcometh the world even our faith (1 John 5:4).
8.What blessing does God give to those who push through to breakthrough?
To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. (Rev 2;17).
9.What Inheritance do we have among the nations?
And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations (Rev 2;26),
10.Is sonship a promised blessing to the overcomer?
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. (Rev 21;7).
11.The overcomer has his name written in God.s book of Life
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.(Rev 3;12).
12.Will the Overcomer reign in life?
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne (Rev 3;21).
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. (Rev21;7).
These papers are written By Paul B Thomas for the propagation of the true gospel of Jesus Christ, the understanding of the apostles doctrine and the revelation of Jesus Christ.
NOTES:
Questions to Consider:
1.How should we conquer?
2.How does conquer relate to the kingdom?
3.What is the victory that overcometh the world?
For further Study: We conquer, Gen22;17; Gal 3;16-29 Dan 7;22; Psalm 149:6-9; Dan 7;22; Psalm 19:10
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The Believers Faith
The Ministry to the Poor
The Believers Responsibility
How should we Study the Bible
Contending for the Faith
What is Man?
Sin and God's Grace
The Believer's Diligence
The Believers Redemption
The Works of Jesus
Paul B Thomas
Questions to Consider:
1.What can faith Do?
2.Are we to have Faith in Faith or FAITH in God?
3.Nmae one New Testament healing that came by faith?
For further Study:
Literature: Visit brother Paul on amazon for pentecostal/ apostolic ebooks
9 Reasons why you should be baptised in Jesus Name by Paul B Thomas available on amazon. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Paul-Thomas/e/B005SRDAES
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These papers are written By Paul B Thomas for the propagation of the true gospel of Jesus Christ, the understanding of the apostles doctrine and the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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What Faith Can Do (2)
What can FAITH DO? here in this mini Bible Study with Brother Paul you can discover the workings of Faith and how Your Faith can make you whole and save your soul.
THE BELIEVERS BIBLE STUDY
Stewards of The Mysteries of God
What FAITH Can Do!
By Paul B Thomas
Topic: What FAITH Can Do
Scripture Reading: (Hebrews 11:6)
Purpose: faith comes by hearing and rehearing the Word of God
1.Every man has a measure of faith
For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. (Romans 12:3).
2.We cannot please God without Faith
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. (Hebrews 11:6).
3. We cannot pray, without having faith
But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. (James 1:6)
4. We cannot be saved without faith
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: (Ephesians 2:8).
5. We cannot live for God without Faith
The just shall live by faith (Romans 1:17
6. You cannot walk the walk or talk the talk without faith
We walk by faith and not by sight (2 Cor 5:7)
NOTES:
FAITH BUILDERS: WHAT DOES FAITH DO... Faith gives you courage to move on and embrace the new. Faith gives you the ability to say yes to the challenge and say no to the dissapointments. Faith moves you out of the rut and into revival, out of hopelessness and into a bright tomorrow. Faith lets Go of yesterday and let's God do something new today. Faith says yes when doubt says no, Faith embraces new things, horizons, possibilities, dreams and a new start. Yes thats what FAITH is... A new Start.. Embrace faith today, change your life tomorrow.."ALL things are possible to him who belives." (Jesus).
Faith is the working out of all impossibilities so that when you arrive at a deciding point you get rid of all options. It's saying yes when you dare not say No. Its embracing the world thing to do the great thing and then move silently into action
Faith dont need a debate. You can't debate God anymore than you can debate with your ultimate destiny, the thing God has in store for you. Its a present, a gift., God's gift to you. Yes faith is God's gift to you to do what you are not capable of doing without him. Its a bit like a business deal with divinity. God needs You and you need divinity. Now with that in mind ask yourself what are you doing that's just simply out of this world?
Faith makes invisible things seeable and embraceable, Faith energises thelife within and says, "let's do it!"
The source of your future is your faith, the faith you have right now, which means right now if you have faith you can create your future and live it as if it already exists. Faith says it does. So why wait for tomorrow? Your future has already arrived!
“Faith is a participation in an event called POSSIBLE”
“Faith is a living organism”
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NOTES:
1.A happy home is a home where everyone is edified, appreciated, valued and cares one for another. God gave us the foundation for a happy home(Genesis 2;8)
2. To make a happy home a man needs a happy woman(Genesis 2;18)
3. A happy home shares the same values
4. A happy home shares the same goals, dreams and ideals
5. A happy home is where folks are thought well of. ‘The glory of children are their fathers (Proverbs 17;6)
6. A happy home is where there is mutual submission (Ephesians 5:22,23)
7. A happy home is where there’s a healthy balance between recreation together and ones separate work. The happy home has time for each other and values a time for work. (Ecc 3:1-9) And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
8.A happy home values the elderly and takes time to visit the sick (Proverbs 23;22) ‘Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.’ (Lev 19:32) Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the LORD.
9.Care one for another is a foundation for a happy home (1 Cor 12:25)
10.A happy home has time for God, prayer and church fellowship (Hebrews 1:;25).
The family that loves the Lord is a happy family. It has structure and order. and because it has structure and order it finds peace and security. The family that has a family prayer time has intimacy and love a boding takes place and togetherness is real and never superficial. Children grow up with a Christ like trust, confidence in themselves their faith and their Lord. A Godly family true raises positive kids, kids who will walk in wisdom and carry forth the purposes of God to their generation.
It must be strongly noted that it is never the governments job or duty to raise up children rather it is the parents duty to instruct their children. No one knows the children better than the parents and its the parents who are required by the Lord to teach them the ways of the lord. hence they will take on the success that alone God them later in their life. There is no place that prepares them for failure or success greater than the home. The home is where they learn their values, approval, confidence and place in life and family. THE HOME IS THE EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF LIFE. There is no place more important that the family home.
Questions to Consider:
1.What can faith Do?
2.Are we to have Faith in Faith or FAITH in God?
3.Nmae one New Testament healing that came by faith?
For further Study:
Literature: Visit brother Paul on amazon for pentecostal/ apostolic ebooks
9 Reasons why you should be baptised in Jesus Name by Paul B Thomas available on amazon. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Paul-Thomas/e/B005SRDAES
Produced by Paul B Thomas
www.paulbthomas.wales
These papers are written By Paul B Thomas for the propagation of the true gospel of Jesus Christ, the understanding of the apostles doctrine and the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Copyright © paulbthomas 2021 and The Believers Bible Study
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doctrine for a Book of Acts
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The Godly Home
THE BELIEVERS BIBLE STUDY
Stewards of The Mysteries of God
The Godly Home
By Paul B Thomas
Topic: The Godly home
Scripture Reading: Joshua 24;15
Purpose: The quality of life begins in the home, the home is where we receive affirmation, of our identity and family. The home is where we learn to live as a family and thus be able to live with others outside it in the wider world. Our actions, ways of communications, respect or lack of it in the home, reveals the way we will communicate and respect others in the community and bigger world. The home therefore is the pace where we must get it right in order to be a bigger success in the world at large.
1.Who lays the foundations of the happy home?
And the lord planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man who he formed (Gen 2;8).
2.In making a Godly and Happy home, what is needed?
And the Lord god said it is not good that man should be alone, I will make him an help meet. (v18).
3.What is the purpose and blessing of a happy and Godly home?
And God said to them be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth (Genesis 1;28).
4. God in the home brings order and happiness to all
Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. They wife shale as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house, they chidden shall be like olive plants round about the table (Psalm 128,2,3).
5.A Godly home has Children who are valued and celebrated.
Her children arise up, and call her blessed (Proverbs 31;28)
6. Your household shall leave a legacy and a heritage.
Children are a heritage of the Lord (Psalm 127;3).
7.A Godly home raises wise children.
Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right (Ephesians 6;1).
8.A Godly home provides godly instruction.
Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it (Prov 22;6).
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto they children, and shall talk to them when thou fittest in thine house, and when thou wallets by the way, and when thou lest down, and when thou rises up. (Deut 6;7).
9.God has a purpose for the children.
And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures which are able to make theorise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3;15).
10. Every home should have a family altar
And there he built an altar unto the Lord and called upon the name of the LORD (Gen 12;8).
NOTES:
1.A happy home is a home where everyone is edified, appreciated, valued and cares one for another. God gave us the foundation for a happy home(Genesis 2;8)
2. To make a happy home a man needs a happy woman(Genesis 2;18)
3. A happy home shares the same values
4. A happy home shares the same goals, dreams and ideals
5. A happy home is where folks are thought well of. ‘The glory of children are their fathers (Proverbs 17;6)
6. A happy home is where there is mutual submission (Ephesians 5:22,23)
7. A happy home is where there’s a healthy balance between recreation together and ones separate work. The happy home has time for each other and values a time for work. (Ecc 3:1-9) And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
8.A happy home values the elderly and takes time to visit the sick (Proverbs 23;22) ‘Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.’ (Lev 19:32) Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the LORD.
9.Care one for another is a foundation for a happy home (1 Cor 12:25)
10.A happy home has time for God, prayer and church fellowship (Hebrews 1:;25).
The family that loves the Lord is a happy family. It has structure and order. and because it has structure and order it finds peace and security. The family that has a family prayer time has intimacy and love a boding takes place and togetherness is real and never superficial. Children grow up with a Christ like trust, confidence in themselves their faith and their Lord. A Godly family true raises positive kids, kids who will walk in wisdom and carry forth the purposes of God to their generation.
It must be strongly noted that it is never the governments job or duty to raise up children rather it is the parents duty to instruct their children. No one knows the children better than the parents and its the parents who are required by the Lord to teach them the ways of the lord. hence they will take on the success that alone God them later in their life. There is no place that prepares them for failure or success greater than the home. The home is where they learn their values, approval, confidence and place in life and family. THE HOME IS THE EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF LIFE. There is no place more important that the family home.
Questions to Consider:
1.What is God’s structure for the family?
2.What is God’s purpose for the family.
3.What is the value fo having religion in the home?
4.What does scriptures say about husbands and wives connecting and relating (Ephesians 5;22-33; 1 Peter 3;1-7).
For further Study:
Literature: Visit brother Paul on amazon for pentecostal/ apostolic ebooks
9 Reasons why you should be baptised in Jesus Name by Paul B Thomas available on amazon. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Paul-Thomas/e/B005SRDAES
Produced by Paul B Thomas
www.paulbthomas.wales
These papers are written By Paul B Thomas for the propagation of the true gospel of Jesus Christ, the understanding of the apostles doctrine and the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Copyright © paulbthomas 2021 and The Believers Bible Study
Unlocking the apostles
doctrine for a Book of Acts
awakening