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Living Power Online Bible Study Lessons
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May 09, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “My heart has heard you say, ‘Come and talk with me.’ And my heart responds, ‘Lord, I am coming.’” (Psalm 24:7). Today’s reading of the Psalms help us to identify with common life experiences, such as when people oppose us, when God seems silent, when God ...
READ MOREMay 08, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “Open up ancient doors, and let the King of glory enter” (Psalm 24:7). Psalms 22-24 are called the Passional Psalms because they describe the last three days of the Passion Week: Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday. They give us “insiders-insight” into what was really ...
READ MOREMay 07, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer” (Psalm 19.14). Today we begin the book of Psalms, which is a book of praise and poetry. Psalms 12-15 help us understand victories ...
READ MOREMay 06, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “Yet, you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor. You gave them charge of everything you made, putting all things under their authority” (Psalm 8:5-6). Psalm 8 is a Messianic Psalm, referring to Adam’s inability to steward the ...
READ MOREMay 05, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “And now, because of my devotion to the Temple of my God, I am giving all of my own private treasures of gold and silver to help in the construction” (1 Chronicles 29:3). Today, we discover a multi-step model for successful corporate giving. David is building ...
READ MOREMay 04, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “Worship and serve him with your whole heart and a willing mind” (1 Chronicles 28:9). David is nearing the end of his reign and his life and he warns all Israel to worship and serve God with their whole heart and mind. Like Moses, he convened ...
READ MOREMay 03, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “4000 will praise the Lord with the instruments I made” (1 Chronicles 23:4). After hundreds of years, the Levites no longer need to transport the Tabernacle and can perform other priestly duties. David has determined to build God a permanent dwelling place, a Temple in Jerusalem; ...
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May 02, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “I will not present burnt offerings to the Lord my God that have cost me nothing” (2 Samuel 24:24). David is incited to take a census and neglects to collect the ransom money outlined in Exodus, which results in a 3-day plague upon the land. 70,000 ...
READ MOREMay 01, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “In your strength I can crush an army, with my God I can scale any wall” (2 Samuel 22:30). Today, we get time out to focus on a Psalm. Psalm 18 is known as “David’s grand tribute of thanksgiving from deliverance from his enemies.” Yahweh ...
READ MOREApr 30, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “Sheba began to chant: Down with the dynasty of David!” (2 Samuel 20:1). After the short exile in which David must leave Jerusalem due to the failed takeover of his son, Absalom, he is escorted by the tribe of Judah back into Jerusalem in joyful procession! ...
READ MOREApr 29, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “The king was overcome with emotion. He went up to the room over the gateway and burst into tears crying, ‘O my son… If only I had died instead of you!'” (2 Samuel 18:33). Positioned for war, we see father and son on opposite sides in ...
READ MOREApr 28, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “If he is through with me, then let him do what seems best to him” (2 Samuel 15:26). As the conspiracy against David transpires, we see Absalom openly challenging his father and building quite a following. In multiple encounters in the Scripture today, we see David’s ...
READ MOREApr 27, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “God devises ways to bring us back when we have been separated from him” (2 Samuel 14:14). In yesterday’s reading, Nathan told David that one of the punishments for his son was that the sword will never depart from your home. Today, we see the beginning ...
READ MOREApr 26, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “Against you, and you alone, O Lord, have I sinned” (Psalm 51:4). Today we read about David’s sin with Bathsheba and the murder of Urriah. Some time after when their son was a “child,” God calls Nathan to go to David and confront him of these ...
READ MOREApr 25, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “…but he will eat regularly at my table” (2 Samuel 9:7). Ancestry of The Two Current Priests: Mephibosheth was Jonathan’s living son, who was lame in both feet because his nurse dropped him while fleeing during a battle when he was very young. David promised to ...
READ MOREApr 24, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “You won’t make a house for me… I (God) will make a house for you” (2 Samuel 7:11). In our reading today, God makes a covenant with David. It is rightly called, “The Davidic Covenant.” In it, God promises to make his name famous, provide a ...
READ MOREApr 23, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “Because you Levites did not carry the Ark the first time, the anger of the Lord burst out against us” (1 Chronicles 15:13). David moves the Ark from a man’s home to a tent (not the Tabernacle) in Jerusalem. They were not careful to transport it ...
READ MOREApr 22, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “So there at Hebron, King David made a covenant before the Lord with all the elders of Israel. And they anointed him king of Israel (2 Samuel 5:3). In today’s reading, the elders anointed David king over all Israel. This was the third time in his ...
READ MOREApr 21, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “As the war between the house of Saul and the house of David went on, Abner became a powerful leader among those loyal to Saul” (2 Samuel 3:6). War ensues between the house of David and the house of Saul. Abner made Ishbosheth king over the ...
READ MOREApr 20, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “Then the men of Judah came to David and anointed him king over the people of Judah” (2 Samuel 2:4). The group of “Thirty” was a band of loyal, fighting men that comprised David’s army. It was a technical term for a small military contingent known ...
READ MOREApr 19, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God” (1 Samuel 30:6b). Saul dies today in the battle and Israel needs a new king. David responds with weeping and fasting and mourns over the death of Saul, his friend Jonathan, Israel and the army. We ...
READ MOREApr 18, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “May the Lord value my life, even as I have valued yours” (1 Samuel 26:24). David spares Saul’s life yet again and does not desire to kill him even though Saul has been hunting him down for years. David finds safety in an unusual place – ...
READ MOREApr 17, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “Saul hunted him day after day, but God didn’t let Saul find him” (1 Samuel 23:14). David’s Flight Path from Saul: Sheep-shearing time was a time of hospitality and festivities for shepherds. David would have been familiar with this practice, so when he asked Nabal, ...
READ MOREApr 16, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “I will protect you with my own life, for the same person wants to kill us both” (1 Samuel 22:23). David’s Flight Path from Saul: Death, conspiracy and intrigue is found in today’s reading! The battle between Saul and David rages on as Saul continues ...
READ MOREApr 15, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “Isn’t this David, the king of the land?” they asked. “Isn’t he the one the people honor with dances, singing, ‘Saul has killed his thousands, and David his ten thousands’? (1 Samuel 21:11). When we start to take our eyes off of God and placed them ...
READ MOREApr 14, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “The Lord who rescued me from the claws of the lion and the bear will rescue me from this Philistine (1 Samuel 17:37). David and Goliath is a beloved story known to many. While David was just a young boy, Goliath was a strong man over ...
READ MOREApr 13, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “And the Spirit came powerfully upon David from that day on” (1 Samuel 15:3). Ancestry of David: In the video today, I mention Ruth is David’s grandmother and I should have said his great-grandmother. Today, Saul was told to attack and completely destroy the Amalekites. ...
READ MOREApr 12, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “In seven days I’ll meet you and I’ll sacrifice the offering” (1 Samuel 10:8). Kingdom of Saul: Yesterday, Saul was declared king! Today, we see insights into the relationship between kings and prophets. In the midst of a decimating battle, Saul fails to wait a ...
READ MOREApr 11, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “The Lord will not abandon his people, because that would dishonor his great name” (1 Samuel 12:22). The period of the Judges ends when Saul becomes king of Israel. At God’s direction, Samuel anoints Saul with oil and leads a victorious attack against the King of ...
READ MOREApr 10, 2024 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “Do everything they say to you,” the Lord replied, “for it is me they are rejecting, not you. They don’t want me to be their king any longer” (1 Samuel 8:7). Path of the Ark: Today we see the Ark being taken by the Philistines ...
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