CoEd Bible Study: Distractions

Join us for CoEd bible study at www.stolenlunches.org Hope Grace and faith  Resisting distraction Hope: When there’s no vision, the people get out of control, but whoever obeys instruction is happy. Proverbs 29:18 CEB https://bible.com/bible/37/pro.29.18.CEB When there is no prophecy, the people cast off restraint, but as for he who guards instruction, happiness is his. Proverbs 29:18 LEB https://bible.com/bible/90/pro.29.18.LEB Have you had a prophetic Word come true? What do you do with prophetic Words? Prophetic word about suitcase for a missionary being lost but was eventually found by the person I prophesied over.  I look back on that to remind me and encourage me that God speaks. Vision and hope are similar Let's look at what happens when we lose hope or the Vision It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out to  battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. Then it happened one evening that David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to behold. So David sent and inquired about the woman. And someone said, “ Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” Then David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house. And the woman conceived; so she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.” II Samuel 11:1‭-‬5 NKJV https://bible.com/bible/114/2sa.11.1-5.NKJV Distractions can impact the Vision God has for us. What should believers do? Our purpose? Our purpose is to walk by faith and not by sight. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.” Romans 1:17 NKJV https://bible.com/bible/114/rom.1.17.NKJV Then the Lord answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry. “Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him; But the just shall live by his faith. Habakkuk 2:2‭-‬4 NKJV https://bible.com/bible/114/hab.2.2-4.NKJV Faith is obviously a lifestyle. Elements of faith 1. The Word 2. Speaking or confession 3. Rest 4. Fight Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. I Timothy 6:12 NKJV https://bible.com/bible/114/1ti.6.12.NKJV When have you fought in faith and overcome? Further your study by reading about God's grace.