Richard Adair's - Bible Study Lessons

The simple truth is fear! We are so afraid of tomorrow. This world as Jesus said is full of tribulation (problems what have you), but remember He said for us to be of good cheer meaning be happy. Well its impossible to just say you'll be happy when trouble comes and not have any way out, but that's the silly things we believe about God sometimes and it could not be further from the truth. Jesus is a Savior not a consoler. He wants to save you from all your worries. We simply can't believe it. Nevertheless its true or the Bible is a very misleading book. Well, we know its not misleading so the problem lies with us daring to believe the Bible is true. We waste our time asking each other whether or not we believe the Bible is literal or not. This should not even be up for debate. Just read the Bible and act like the people and stories in it and you'll see your own miracles daily.

Our own unbelief is staggaring to say the least. We are no different than the persons in stories mentioned in the Bible. From Elijah's silly depression claiming he was the only Christian left all the way to Martha at the tomb of Lazarus telling Jesus that by this time Lazarus stinks. We are constantly fed a storyline in America that there is no God or if there is then Jesus is NOT the only one. We worship trees, animals and practically anything that our highly intellectual minds will conger up. The truth is the Bible has been around longer than any of us have ever been and it is historical in nature if one would but check the facts. The Bible being true should makes us wonder about all we read about Angels. Why are they there? Do I have Angels with me? Why do I need them? Stop beleiving that the Bible is just writtten by a bunch of philosophers. Stop questioning the honesty of the Bible at every turn. These things only delay you from reading the Bible for yourself. You should be questionin

We are so ignorant of the Bible at times in our lives. We gladly give up simple truths of the scriptures just because someone says that it is not forus today. This is so embarrassing to be so ignorant. Do we not take time to research something a doctor may have said? Do we blindly believe anything our news media says today? I don't think so. We research what we hear all the time but when it comes to the Bible we never look for ourselves to be sure. This is one of the main reasons I enjoy preaching the Bible so much because there is so much we all have not heard. You can get your miracle. Everyone in the Bible that asked for one or two or however many they asked for got them. We need to get ours too. Stop complaining and start praying and believing. The Christian life is truly the happiest life on earth. James chapter 5 says "is anyone afflicted let him pray". That's our signal to get help when you feel sad or hurt then PRAY! Watch Jesus get you out of trouble!

Its amazing to find out for yourself why all the stories about Abraham are in YOUR BIBLE. Some think it's only historical but that's only half the story. You don't have to be a preacher to figure this one out. If Galatians chapter 3 says you are blessed with faithful Abraham then it only makes sense to find out how he was blessed. Genesis 12 is where it all begins so see for yourself what the first thing God said He would do for Abraham. He promised to bless him and that meant financially too. Ask yourself why Abraham lifted his hand to God when the King of Sodom tried to pay Abraham some money in Genesis chapter 14. Why do we even have this information in our Bibles? We are supposed to believe it. Stop listening to every excuse people give about how God won't do for you what's in your Bible. Be like a child and just believe what you read out of God's book He gave to you. This could not be more simple. You wouldn't dare say Jesus was not your Lord and Savior and you learned

Why were the multitudes following Jesus everywhere? Jesus was always making them glad. We have such a pessimistic view of the bible sometimes. For all we know, sometimes we believe God is just an unhappy God. That's so not right. When is the last time you heard children quit laughing. When is the last times you heard parents don't laugh at the funny things their little children and even older children say? For us to lose our happiness is directly related to NOT reading our bibles or not paying attention to what we read. God wants you happy and if your NOT then God wants you to do something about it! It's called PRAYER! James 5 says is anyone among you AFFLICTED let him PRAY. If you pray you can STOP the pain! 1 Chronicles 4:10 LOOK IT UP! WHAT A SELFISH PRAYER!!! IS it selfish or was Jabez just smarter than the rest of us? Wake up believer and start getting happy because GOD WANTS YOU HAPPY. Why on earth would God say "Well done thou good and faithful servant ENTER THOU INTO

Why not? What part of reading your bible taught you to NOT expect a miracle? As you will learn the bible NEVER said you couldn't have a miracle. Miracles are for you! John chapter 1 Jesus told Nathaniel "You'll see greater things than this". The very last verse in John's Gospel says that if everything Jesus ever did was written down the world itself couldn't contain the books! Where have we been? We have been so embarrassed by our powerless Jesus but its entirely our fault. We tell ourselves subconsciously He is powerless because we believed He will not help us anymore. These beliefs are in directly conflict with those in the bible who simply asked for a miracle and got one. Where in the bible do you read about the people who asked God for a miracle and they were denied? Wipe the dust off your bible and read and do what they did. Its ok to copy what they did. Why on earth was it written down for us? The greatest book on earth! Taste and see that the Lord is good!

Yes He does! Jesus, His very Name means Savior! We have so limited our Lord. We've estimated Him today to be practically ineffective in our lives to save us from anything except HELL. Thank God we've not lost our faith in THAT, but oh there is so much more that Christ has made available for us. Our problem lies in our complete ignorance of the Bible. We claim we've heard every story but somehow we insist God is NOT WILLING to help us like those He helped in the Bible. Something is wrong with that thinking. Since when did God want you to read the Bible and NOT believe it was for you just the same as it was for anyone written in the Bible itself? Unbelief is so ridiculous. Realize you are simply denying yourself one of God's basic promises and stop the worrying about the dangers life throws at all of us. Learn that you have God's protection about you as a SHIELD!!!!

Naaman was a leper in 2 Kings chapter 5 until he turned his worry into a MIRACLE. You can do the same thing. My suggestion is to read that story and realize for yourself you can have a miracle, too! How is it that Naaman's wife could have a little Israelite slave girl that KNEW Naaman could have a miracle and yet today we believe we CANNOT? See how far we've gotten ourselves from the Bible? We've got to stop the bleeding! We're losing the battle here with this kind of UNBELIEF. Start praying! Turn your worries into MIRACLES! You think you love Jesus now? When you start treating Him like He's the same YESTERDAY, TODAY and FOREVER you'll love Him more and more! He's just that incredible! Read the Bible and see for yourself!

The Bible plainly states YOU have angels with YOU! It would do us good to stop complaining about being so helpless down here in all our problems as though God does not care. He cares more than you'll ever dream. Our trouble is unbelief. We grow up knowing more about the Religion of Evolution and the Religion of Atheist than we do about our Bible. How is that? Simple! We quit reading our Bible. You cannot help but be the happiest person on earth when you read YOUR very own Bible! Its a book about You and God and He has special Angels assigned to you all your life.

The Bible is on our side here concerning Heaven and getting there! We wind up continually condemning ourselves and coming up with all kinds of excuses as to why we should never be allowed to go there. Truth is Heaven is a gift and you're not going to earn it in the first place. Read the book for yourself and KNOW you're going! You'll have so much more joy in your heart KNOWING the truth.

The easiest thing to do is believe God is NOT going to help you. It takes work to believe He is on your side and that He will actually HELP you. Ask yourself why you are so tempted to quit. Why aren't you just as easily tempted to "Hang in there"? See this is not a game. There are real forces out there trying to get YOU to just roll over and quit. The forces are trying to get you to stop acting like Jesus is so real and just go back to accepting every little bad thing that happens to you and then make you face the fact there's nothing you can do about it. No! Don't act that way! Fight the good fight of faith! When things hurt you, PRAY! Ask God to get involved and get you OUT of trouble. When you do that then you STAND THERE til you get the answer you ask for! Don't quit! The result is you'll get out of your problems and you'll be so happy you can't wait to tell someone about Jesus!

This is NOT some new thing. Learning Jesus will heal you NOW is easily understood when you Search The Scriptures for yourself. If you just took the book of Matthew alone and read all 28 chapters which would probably take you only a couple of hours you would convince yourself of this fact as well. Trouble is... will we read the book of Matthew and find out? Unfortunately, many will NOT. Thats about as smart as saying "if I take that medicine my doctor gave me I will get better, but I'm NOT going to take it". That would be so stupid, right? Well is the same thing when we don't search the Bible to see if Jesus will heal us. We all have so many reasons why we are so sure we will NOT be healed. Many times we won't read because we condemn ourselves because we think we are too sinful to be healed. Sin will NOT stop you from being healed. It's quite the opposite when you READ the truth. There is no excuse for you NOT to be healed except for our own ignorance of the Mercy and

We paralyze ourselves in our own thinking. Continually condemning ourselves for a seemingly major sin or even and occasional slip up is certainly not trusting in the One Who died to take all our sins away. We act as though Jesus will not forgive us for we won't forgive ourselves. Listen, we can't save ourselves. We have to have Jesus do it for us. You couldn't pay for a single sin by running around depressed all the time. David wrote in Psalms 103:2 "And forget not all His benefits; and who forgiveth all thy sins" . See we should use a little more faith and start acting like we have God's Mercy when we blow it. We have God's Mercy! Stop acting so pitiful and start rejoicing that your sins are forgiven no matter what you have done!

Once we get beyond our own unbelief that God wants to help us we discover you cannot out give God. The Bible will encourage you all the time that God will give you gifts. Some people think just the gift of Jesus is all we have but even then they don't understand the gift of Jesus. You can't just have Jesus and not have everything else. Everything came when the gift of Jesus came. No wonder Jesus is all we need!

The Name of Jesus should be such a well known weapon in the life of every believer. Unfortunately it gets overlooked. When we read the Bible ourselves we will find out that the use of the Name of Jesus is literally spoken. Makes sense! Why have a name if you're not going to speak it. Jesus said to use His name in prayer and we would get what we asked for. Why did He spend time telling us this if we were not meant to use it?

Faith matters and it matters to you. Without faith it's impossible to please God. Think about a friend or parent or a spouse. Does my faith matter with them? Yes is the only answer. How would people treat us if we had NO FAITH in anyone around us? Easy answer here as well. No one would want to be around us and no one would want to do anything for us! Wow! See how your faith in God is critical? James chapter one tells us "let him ask in faith without wavering (doubting)". This passage here tells us to not expect anything from the Lord is we doubt He'll do it. We have to do our part and believe even when it looks totally impossible! Mark 9 Jesus tells a man who has a demon possessed son that he needed to believe. See we have a part to play. We can't just be waiting to see what will happen to us next. No. We need to believe what we ask for in prayer we will get! Mark 11:24 "what things you desire when you pray, believe you recieve them and ye shall have them"

This should be our first area of personal confidence and happiness but many times we just can't believe the Jesus of the Bible is this way, but He is. The Bible is the key to understanding your own forgiveness not how you feel or how others treat you. The trouble is many times we self condemn ourselves because we have made mistakes after we have been saved. Not realizing the Devil is called the Accuser of the Brethren in Revelation 12 and that he has been cast down we become our own worst enemy. We let our feelings or other decide whether or not Jesus likes us anymore. When this happens our closest friends begin to see our own personal loss of trust in Jesus to forgive us and they lose hope that He really might forgive them one day. This is by design of the Devil. He will make you feel so bad if you self condemn yourself. Face the music! We've all made mistakes and trying to be on a Perfect Streak is only going to make you feel worse when you fall! Here's a tip! Keep reading God&apos

The Bible is a very important book for you. If there was ever anything magical in this world then its the Bible. People have all kinds of reasons to ignore it and never read it. From people who don't believe it even to those who claim they believe every word yet they don't take time to read it. God has promised if we'll but just read it then FANTASTIC things would begin to happen for us. Consider this... Jesus said in Matthew 4:4 "Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word of God". I'm sure you don't exactly feel hungry but we all really are! We need God's Word. It couldn't be easier today to have it near us to read. Find out what happened to the people in the Bible who began to read God's Word! Mark the calendar for yourself and begin to read God's Word. Read it outloud. You college students... you know how to study. Treat the Bible the same way and watch what happens in your life. You'll never stop reading again for after all