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Week 23
Lessons 155-161 talk about obedience that leads to freedom.
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Overview:
- Love Of Money
- Freedom From Entanglement Of Debt & Possessions
- Learning To Give
- Give “Hilariously"
- Stretching Your Faith
- The Sin Of Presumption
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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
Love of Money-Day 155
May 23rd, 2026
1 Timothy 6:10“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.”Matthew 6:21“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”Why does God care about our money so much? He does care you know. In fact, if you take everything that Jesus said about salvation, heaven, and hell and combine...
Freedom From Entanglement-Day 156
May 23rd, 2026
1 Timothy 6:10“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.”Matthew 6:21“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”Why does God care about our money so much? He does care you know. In fact, if you take everything that Jesus said about salvation, heaven, and hell and combine...
Freedom From Entanglement-Day 157
May 23rd, 2026
Proverbs 22:7“The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.”Matthew 6:24“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”We read yesterday that Jesus had a lot to say about money. In fact, He said that it is a huge competitor for your heart. When your...
Learning to Give-Day 158
May 23rd, 2026
Luke 6:38“Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”Malachi 3:10“‘Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,’ says the LORD Almighty, ‘and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour ...
Give “Hilariously”-Day 159
May 23rd, 2026
2 Corinthians 9:7“Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”I never truly understood the concept of cheerful giving until I had children. I still remember the first Christmas my son was old enough to really be excited. We had bought a Playmobile set, complete with a ship, sailors, an island, and a treas...
Stretching Your Faith-Day 160
May 23rd, 2026
2 Corinthians 9:6“Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”1 Kings 17:14“For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain on the land.’”One of my favorite Old Testament stories is found in 1 Kings 17. It is the ...
The Sin of Presumption-Day 161
May 23rd, 2026
1 John 5:14-15“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us – whatever we ask – we know that we have what we asked of him.”Romans 8:26“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.”One o...