The Inheritance by Beth Moore ~ Session Two ~ Blog Study
Reflection:
1. What struck you most out of this session?
2. Read Galatians 3:1-9
You began your walk with God by faith, do you ever find it a struggle to continue to walk by faith?
I love how the message bible paraphrases these verses:
Let me put this question to you: How did your new life begin?
Was it by working your heads off to please God?
Or was it by responding to God's Message to you?
Are you going to continue this craziness?
For only crazy people would think they could complete by their own efforts what was begun by God. If you weren't smart enough or strong enough to begin it, how do you suppose you could perfect it?
Did you go through this whole painful learning process for nothing?
It is not yet a total loss, but it certainly will be if you keep this up!
Answer this question:
Does the God who lavishly provides you with his own presence, his Holy Spirit, working things in your lives you could never do for yourselves, does he do these things because of your strenuous moral striving or because you trust him to do them in you?
Don't these things happen among you just as they happened with Abraham? He believed God, and that act of belief was turned into a life that was right with God. Is it not obvious to you that persons who put their trust in Christ (not persons who put their trust in the law!) are like Abraham: children of faith?
It was all laid out beforehand in Scripture that God would set things right with non-Jews by faith. Scripture anticipated this in the promise to Abraham: "All nations will be blessed in you." So those now who live by faith are blessed along with Abraham, who lived by faith—this is no new doctrine!
And that means that anyone who tries to live by his own effort, independent of God, is doomed to failure.
3. Do you believe that God wants to bless you and through you, to bless others?
Homework:
With either your time, words or money, find a way to generously, and if possible, anonymously bless someone.
scriptures to remember:
Genesis 12:1 Leave and go to the land I will show you.
Genesis 15:1 I am your shield, your very great reward.
John 1:16 From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another.
Galatians 3:9 So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith!
Galatians 4:7 I am no longer a slave to sin- but a daughter and since I am His daughter, God has made me also an heiress.
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