Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: In the same way, these people—who claim authority from their dreams—live immoral lives, defy authority, and scoff at supernatural beings. But even Michael, one of the mightiest of the angels, did not dare accuse the devil of blasphemy, but simply said, “The Lord rebuke you!” (This took place when Michael was arguing with the devil about Moses’ body.) But...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: So I want to remind you, though you already know these things, that Jesus first rescued the nation of Israel from Egypt, but later he destroyed those who did not remain faithful. And I remind you of the angels who did not stay within the limits of authority God gave them but left the place where they belonged. God has kept them securely chained in prisons of darkness,...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: Dear friends, I had been eagerly planning to write to you about the salvation we all share. But now I find that I must write about something else, urging you to defend the faith that God has entrusted once for all time to his holy people. I say this because some ungodly people have wormed their way into your churches, saying that God’s marvelous grace allows us to live...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: Dear friend, you are being faithful to God when you care for the traveling teachers who pass through, even though they are strangers to you. They have told the church here of your loving friendship. Please continue providing for such teachers in a manner that pleases God. For they are traveling for the Lord, and they accept nothing from people who are not believers. So...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: Anyone who wanders away from this teaching has no relationship with God. But anyone who remains in the teaching of Christ has a relationship with both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to your meeting and does not teach the truth about Christ, don’t invite that person into your home or give any kind of encouragement. Anyone who encourages such people becomes a...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: Dear children, keep away from anything that might take God’s place in your hearts. (1 John 5:21 NLT) Observation: Attention believers, you should stay away from anything that is more important or takes up more of your attention than God. Application: Nothing should be more important to any of us as believers than God. Anything that does, whatever it is, a Christian...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: We know that God’s children do not make a practice of sinning, for God’s Son holds them securely, and the evil one cannot touch them. We know that we are children of God and that the world around us is under the control of the evil one. (1 John 5:18, 19 NLT) Observation: True Christians do not make a habit of living their lives in sinful ways because Jesus is with them...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: If you see a fellow believer sinning in a way that does not lead to death, you should pray, and God will give that person life. But there is a sin that leads to death, and I am not saying you should pray for those who commit it. All wicked actions are sin, but not every sin leads to death. (1 John 5:16, 17 NLT) Observation: We should pray for God to give divine life to...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: And we are confident that he hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases him. And since we know he hears us when we make our requests, we also know that he will give us what we ask for. (1 John 5:14, 15 NLT) Observation: As believers, we know that God hears our prayers when we ask for anything that please Him. We also know that since he hears us, he will also...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Continued from yesterday about God testifying through the water, the blood, and the Spirit. Scripture: And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God’s Son does not have life. (1 John 5:11, 12 NLT) Observation: To sum up God’s testimony is that He has given us eternal life...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: And Jesus Christ was revealed as God’s Son by his baptism in water and by shedding his blood on the cross —not by water only, but by water and blood. And the Spirit, who is truth, confirms it with his testimony. So we have these three witnesses — the Spirit, the water, and the blood—and all three agree. Since we believe human testimony, surely we can believe the greater...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith. And who can win this battle against the world? Only those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God. (1 John 5:4, 5 NLT) Observation: Those who truly believe that Jesus is the Son of God are the children of God. Everyone of them are able to defeat this evil world and do so...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has become a child of God. And everyone who loves the Father loves his children, too. We know we love God’s children if we love God and obey his commandments. Loving God means keeping his commandments, and his commandments are not burdensome. (1 John 5:1-3 NLT) Observation: Everyone who believes Jesus is the Christ is a...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a fellow believer, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see? And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their fellow believers. (1 John 4:20, 21 NLT) Observation: No one can love God without loving their fellow believers. Anyone who...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world. Such love has no fear, because perfect love...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us. (1 John 4:13 NLT) Observation: More proof from God about our salvation. God gave us his Spirit so that we can know that He lives in us and we live in Him. Application: The Spirit of God is with us and in us. His Spirit produces love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, etc....

Scripture – Observation – Application – PrayerScripture:Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won a victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world. Those people belong to this world, so they speak from the world’s viewpoint, and the world listens to them. But we belong to God, and those who know God listen to us. If they do not belong to...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. For there are many false prophets in the world. This is how we know if they have the Spirit of God: If a person claiming to be a prophet acknowledges that Jesus Christ came in a real body, that person has the Spirit of God. But if...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: And this is his commandment: We must believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as he commanded us. Those who obey God’s commandments remain in fellowship with him, and he with them. And we know he lives in us because the Spirit he gave us lives in us. (1 John 3:23, 24 NLT) Observation: Yes, we must believe in the saving power in the name...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: Even if we feel guilty, God is greater than our feelings, and he knows everything. Dear friends, if we don’t feel guilty, we can come to God with bold confidence. And we will receive from him whatever we ask because we obey him and do the things that please him. (1 John 3:20-22 NLT) Observation: If we feel guilty or not, God is greater than our feelings and through His...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: If we love our brothers and sisters who are believers, it proves that we have passed from death to life. But a person who has no love is still dead. Anyone who hates another brother or sister is really a murderer at heart. And you know that murderers don’t have eternal life within them. We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: Dear children, don’t let anyone deceive you about this: When people do what is right, it shows that they are righteous, even as Christ is righteous. But when people keep on sinning, it shows that they belong to the devil, who has been sinning since the beginning. But the Son of God came to destroy the works of the devil. Those who have been born into God’s family do not...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: Everyone who sins is breaking God’s law, for all sin is contrary to the law of God. And you know that Jesus came to take away our sins, and there is no sin in him. Anyone who continues to live in him will not sin. But anyone who keeps on sinning does not know him or understand who he is. (1 John 3:4-6 NLT) Observation: Sin is breaking God’s law. It is a total...