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1.       Pray with thanksgiving.   Ask for wisdom.   Pray for your Pastor and leaders.   Pray for the President and the government.   Pray for our nation to turn back to God and for true revival to start. 2.       Read and review James 3 through James 4:1-4. 3.       Read James 4:6.   I am so thankful that God gives more grace.   Can you think of times in your life when God gave you more grace? 4.       According to verse 6 who does God resist?   Why do you think He resists the proud?   Usually if someone is proud they do not think they need God or they do not want God because they think they can handle things on their own.   Define the word pride. 5.       According to James 4:6 who does God give grace to?   Define the word humble. 6.       Read James 4:7.   Who are you supposed to submit yourself to?   What does it look like to submit yourself to God?   It may help to define the word submit.   God is in charge and there is no need trying to fight Him to get our way.   He w

Congratulations on doing four and a half chapters of James!   I love the book of James.   It can be convicting and challenging, but we need that in our Christian lives, right!?   This time we are going to take a short break from the book of James to talk about something that is a burden on my heart.   After your prayer time we will talk about it below. 1.       Pray and thank the Lord for something He has done for you.   Sometimes we can get into a pity party thinking that the Lord has not been good to us.   I complain sometimes and get discouraged sometimes but then I look around me and realize that there are people out there who are lost and undone or sick with a disease and I immediately quit complaining and start thanking God for blessing me.   There is always someone out there who has it worse than you.   When we think about this it should also move us to pray for them. 2.       The past week I have been burdened for the purity of our young people.   Then I found out last nig

1.       Begin your devotion with prayer.   Pray for needs in your family and the church.   Ask for wisdom daily. 2.       Read James 4:1-3 in review. 3.       Read James 4:4-5.   “Ye adulterers” is talking about a spiritual adultery in this verse.   We are the bride of Christ and we commit spiritual adultery when we love other things more than Christ.   What do you think the Bible means when it says, “friendship of the world is enmity (ill will, mutual hatred) with God?”   4.       Read 1 John 2:15-16 According to 1 John 2:16 what all is in the world? 5.       Read 1 John 2:17.   According to this verse what are the pros and cons of living for God or the world? 6.       Read Matthew 6:24.   No one can serve two _______?   Which one is your Master? 7.       Take a look at your life and make a list of the worldly things and godly things in your life.   On a day to day basis what or who governs (decides or determines) what you do…the decisions you make, what you pursue, what you

Read Galatians 2:20 .   Dissect this verse using a dictionary.   Look up each word and read the verse with the meaning of the defined word. Meditate   on this verse this week. List things in your life that the Lord wants you to put to death or die or be crucified with Him….things in your flesh, sin, things that pull you away from Him. Now list things to be resurrected in your life to take the place of the things you are getting rid of to be closer to Jesus.   Example: I am getting rid of watching a soap opera and will instead read my Bible or pray during that time.   Example: I am not going to read certain things or look at certain things and will instead listen to godly music. Think about Jesus’ death on the cross and what He went through because He loves you.   Ask Him how He desires that you live for Him.

1.     Do your daily prayer time for a few minutes.   Include thanksgiving and prayer requests from the church and your family.   Pray for your Pastor and his family as well.                                                                                                     2.     Review James chapters 1-3 if you have time.   Go over the things the Lord taught you and share it with someone. 3.     Read James 4:1 and compare it to Romans 7:23 and Galatians 5:17. 4.     Where do wars and fighting come from according to James 4:1? 5.     Read James 4:2.   Why do we have not? 6.     Read James 4:3.   Why do we sometimes not get what we pray for?               Define the word lust.   The Lord knows (and so do we) the difference between us praying for something we NEED versus something we WANT.   List some of your needs.   Now list some of your wants.                                       God has always provided for my needs, food, clothing and shelter.   He has also provided for our