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Week 21
Lessons 141-147 discuss developing the character that makes our witness effective.
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Overview:
- Salt
- Light
- Holiness
- Prayer
- Joy & Peace
- Holding Up The Law
Video Lesson
Memory Verses
Primary Verse:
But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Matthew 6:6
Secondary Verse:
Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.
Mark 1:35
Daily Lessons
Prayer
May 11th, 2026
This week, as we look beyond what Christ taught directly about prayer, we’ll pick seven other topics that emerge as important and worthy of emphasis. YOU’LL SPEND A LIFETIME IN THIS SUBJECT, and so I know this is just an appetizer to all you’ll study on this most important essential of prayer....
Lifestyle Praying
May 11th, 2026
Ephesians 6:17-18 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people. There’s a reason when we started this study that we began by first focusing on a relationship with Christ, and then moved secondly to Hi...
Lifestyle Praying
May 11th, 2026
James 1:5-8 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do. T...
Lifestyle Praying
May 11th, 2026
Colossians 4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, that you may stand firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured....
Lifestyle Praying
May 11th, 2026
James 4:1-17 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures....
Lifestyle Praying
May 11th, 2026
Nehemiah 1:1–2:9 The words of Nehemiah son of Hakaliah: In the month of Kislev in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa, Hanani, one of my brothers, came from Judah with some other men, and I questioned them about the Jewish remnant that had survived the exile, and also about Jerusalem....
Lifestyle Praying
May 11th, 2026
Romans 8:26-27 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. ...