Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: Don’t love money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, “I will never fail you. I will never abandon you.” So we can say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper, so I will have no fear. What can mere people do to me?” (Hebrews 13:5, 6 NLT) Observation: This passage is our reminder to put our trust only in God. He I never fails, never leaves us out there...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery. (Hebrews 13:4 NLT) Observation: Once again scripture reminds us to honor our marriage and remain faithful to one another. God’s judgment will weigh hard on those who continue in this lifestyle. Application: This sin...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: Remember those in prison, as if you were there yourself. Remember also those being mistreated, as if you felt their pain in your own bodies. (Hebrews 13:3 NLT) Observation: Specifically, this refers to those who are imprisoned for their faith in Christ. We are to remember them, pray for them, and care for them as much as is possible as though it were ourselves who were...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it! (Hebrews 13:2 NLT) Observation: The “some” here speaks of Abraham and Lot who were hospitable to angels without realizing it and were blessed for doing it. The apostle encouraged the disciples to show hospitality to strangers, even as...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: Be careful that you do not refuse to listen to the One who is speaking. For if the people of Israel did not escape when they refused to listen to Moses, the earthly messenger, we will certainly not escape if we reject the One who speaks to us from heaven! (Hebrews 12:25 NLT) Observation: We need to be careful that we do not refuse to listen to God. When the people...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: And have you forgotten the encouraging words God spoke to you as his children? He said, “My child, don’t make light of the Lord ’s discipline, and don’t give up when he corrects you. For the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes each one he accepts as his child.” As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Who...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. (Hebrews 12:1 NLT) Observation: Since we have seen how faith in God is in so many around us, those with “faith...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: …But others were tortured, refusing to turn from God in order to be set free. They placed their hope in a better life after the resurrection. Some were jeered at, and their backs were cut open with whips. Others were chained in prisons. Some died by stoning, some were sawed in half, and others were killed with the sword. Some went about wearing skins of sheep and...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: How much more do I need to say? It would take too long to recount the stories of the faith of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and all the prophets. By faith these people overthrew kingdoms, ruled with justice, and received what God had promised them. They shut the mouths of lions, quenched the flames of fire, and escaped death by the edge of the sword....

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: All these people died still believing what God had promised them. They did not receive what was promised, but they saw it all from a distance and welcomed it. They agreed that they were foreigners and nomads here on earth. Obviously people who say such things are looking forward to a country they can call their own. If they had longed for the country they came from,...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: It was by faith that Abraham obeyed when God called him to leave home and go to another land that God would give him as his inheritance. He went without knowing where he was going. (Hebrews 11:8 NLT) Observation: Abraham was given a directive to leave the place he had spent his life in and to go to a place that he would give to him and his descendants, but he was not...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see. (Hebrews 11:1 NLT) Observation: Faith gives us both confidence and assurance for things that we have no real evidence for. Application: Faith changes what we know to be reality. When God gives us hope, through faith we see it as done although it has not...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins. There is only the terrible expectation of God’s judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies. For anyone who refused to obey the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near. (Hebrews 10:25 NLT) Observation: As the day of the coming of our Lord gets closer and closer, we need to make sure that we continue to gather together in corporate worship and to take time while there to encourage one...

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer Scripture: Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. (Hebrews 10:24 NLT) Observation: We are to come up with ways to motivate (provoke KJV) each other to do acts of love and good works. Application: This is not something that just happens, we have to consciously make ourselves think about ways to motivate each other. Instead of just wasting idle...