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Living Power Online Bible Study Lessons
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Aug 27, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease” (Lamentations 3:22). During the worst time of Judah’s history, the prophet Jeremiah laments over the destruction of Jerusalem. Yet, in the midst of this emotional liturgy, he remembers the mercy and faithful love of ...
READ MOREAug 26, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “King Nebuchadnezzar had told Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, to find Jeremiah. “See that he isn’t hurt,” he said. “Look after him well, and give him anything he wants”… So Jeremiah stayed in Judah among his own people” (Jeremiah 39:11-12, 14). After a long life ...
READ MOREAug 25, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “I will send you to the pit to join those who descended there long ago. Your city will lie in ruins, buried beneath the earth, like those in the pit who have entered the world of the dead. You will have no respect here in the land of ...
READ MOREAug 24, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “Ask me and I will tell you remarkable secrets you do not know about things to come” (Jeremiah 33:3). Today we read about Jeremiah, back at home in Jerusalem during the time of the Babylonian invasion; and after he tells the King that the Babylon armies ...
READ MOREAug 23, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “I will defile my Temple, the source of your security and pride, the place your heart delights in” (Ezekiel). The destruction of the Temple was such a devastating catastrophe to the Jews that it was shocking to them. They had forgotten that the blessings associated with ...
READ MOREAug 22, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “I looked for someone who might rebuild the wall of righteousness that guards the land. I searched for someone to stand in the gap in the wall so I wouldn’t have to destroy the land, but I found no one” (Ezekiel 22:30). Click here for a map ...
READ MOREAug 21, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “Everyone in the world will know that I am the Lord” (Ezekiel 21:5). Ezekiel clarifies for us a very important point threaded throughout the Old and New Testaments, which is that obedience (living a life consistent with the Word of God) leads to life (Ezekiel 20:13). ...
READ MOREAug 20, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “The king of Israel will die in Babylon, the land of the king who put him in power and whose treaty he disregarded and broke” (Ezekiel 17:16). A Chart of the Last 5 Kings of Judah: The story of two eagles found in Ezekiel 17 ...
READ MOREAug 19, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “I will do this to capture the minds and hearts of all my people who have turned from me to worship their detestable idols” (Ezekiel 14:5). God, through Ezekiel, explained that it was because of his great and everlasting love that he is bringing the exile ...
READ MOREAug 18, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “Then the glory of the Lord went up from the city and stopped above the mountain to the east” (Ezekiel 11:23). The Temple had been polluted heavily with idolatry to the point that God’s Spirit could no longer dwell there. He arises from the Holy of ...
READ MOREAug 17, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “With them was a man dressed in linen, who carried a writer’s case at his side… He said to him, “Walk through the streets of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of all who weep and sigh because of the detestable sins being committed in their ...
READ MOREAug 16, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Notes “I have appointed you as a watchman for Israel. If … you fail to deliver the warning, they will die in their sins” (Ezekiel 3:18). Click the link to see a recipe for Ezekiel bread: (Click the Back button to return to blog) See a recipe for Ezekiel ...
READ MOREAug 15, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “Son of man, I am sending you to the nation of Israel… and whether they listen or refuse to listen – at least they will know they have had a prophet among them” (Ezekiel 2:3-5). Our dear Jeremiah is wrongly imprisoned back at home in Jerusalem ...
READ MOREAug 14, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “Come out, my people, flee from Babylon” (Jeremiah 51:45). Today’s reading is loaded with historical significance because in 597 BC the second Babylonian exile takes place wherein 10,000 people were taken from their home to a new land! Isn’t it interesting that amidst the seemingly ...
READ MOREAug 13, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “The day is coming… when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah” (Jeremiah 31.31). Jeremiah 31 brings a message of hope. In the midst of breaking down, God is doing a new thing… he is going to build up and ...
READ MOREAug 12, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says to all the captives he has exiled to Babylon from Jerusalem: “Build homes, and plan to stay. Plant gardens and eat the food they produce. Marry and have children” (Jeremiah 29:4-6). After 597 ...
READ MOREAug 11, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “The time is coming, says the Lord, when I will raise up a righteous descendant from King David’s line. He will be a King who rules with wisdom. He will do what is just and right throughout the land” (Jeremiah 23:5). Jeremiah 23 contains Scripture referring ...
READ MOREAug 10, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “The descendants of Jehonadab son of Recab have obeyed their ancestor completely, but you have refused to listen to me” (Jeremiah 35:16)! Today’s reading introduces us to a brand new people – the Recabites. Descendents of Moses father-in-law, these people accompanied Israel in the wilderness and ...
READ MOREAug 09, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “As a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I created Judah and Israel to cling to me, says the Lord. They were to be my people, my pride, my glory – an honor to my name” (Jeremiah 13:11). In today’s reading, God asks Jeremiah to ...
READ MOREAug 08, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “I hurt with the hurt of my people. I mourn and am overcome with grief” (Jeremiah 8:21). Jeremiah has been called “The Weeping Prophet” because he so identified through tears the plight of God’s people throughout Judah and Jerusalem up to and including the time of ...
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Aug 07, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “Then the king appointed Daniel to a high position and… made Daniel ruler over the whole province of Babylon, as well as, chief over all his wise men” (Daniel 2:48). We can’t always make sense of our dreams, can we? Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon had ...
READ MOREAug 06, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “He arrested Jeremiah the prophet and had him whipped and put in stocks” (Jeremiah 20:2). The story of the potter and the clay, told by Jeremiah the prophet, is an action sermon depicting a spiritual reality using a physical example. The telling of this truth, that ...
READ MOREAug 05, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “So Jeremiah sent for Baruch son of Neriah, and as Jeremiah dictated all the prophecies that the Lord had given him, Baruch wrote them on a scroll” (Jeremiah 36:4). Jeremiah gives 13 messages of judgement (Jeremiah chapters 2-25), which are arranged topically, not chronologically. Chapter 25, ...
READ MOREAug 04, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “Then he (Jehoahaz) was deposed by the king of Egypt, who demanded that Judah pay 7,500 pounds of silver and 75 pounds of gold as tribute. The king of Egypt then installed Eliakim, the brother of Jehoahaz, as the next king of Judah and Jerusalem” (2 Chronicles 36:3-4). ...
READ MOREAug 03, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “Stand in silence… for the awesome day of the Lord’s judgment is near” (Zephaniah 1:7). Today, we begin to discuss what Scripture calls a Day of the Lord. This is a time of worldwide devastation which occurs in the last days. An act of right judgment, ...
READ MOREAug 02, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “The righteous will live by faith” (Habakkuk 2:4). There is a verse in the book of Habakkuk that is one of the most important verses in the entire Bible. It speaks of righteousness, daily life and faith. This verse formed the basis for three of Paul’s ...
READ MOREAug 01, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “Nineveh is like a leaking water reservoir!” (Nahum 2:8). Nineveh was a city founded by Nimrod back in the book of Genesis. The prophet Jonah was sent by God to Nineveh to call them to repent. Prompted by Jonah, they did repent and were spared. Our ...
READ MOREJul 31, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “Let us live in awe of the Lord” (Jeremiah 5:24). Many of us use the term “awesome” quite casually in everyday life. We use it to denote something spectacular, of extreme goodness and/or denoting excitement; however, the original Hebrew meaning denotes something quite different. In fact, ...
READ MOREJul 30, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “I would love to treat you as my own children!… I looked forward to your calling me ‘Father'” (Jeremiah 3:19). In the book of Jeremiah we see charges made against Israel for their unfaithfulness to the Lord their God. We also understand that during this time ...
READ MOREJul 29, 2021 / Bible Study / 0 COMMENTS
Today’s Scripture “So the Lord sent the commanders of the Assyrian armies, and they took Manasseh prisoner. They put a ring through his nose, bound him in bronze chains, and led him away to Babylon. But while in deep distress, Manasseh sought the Lord his God and sincerely humbled himself ...
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