Bored Christians are dangerous Christians. Flatland’s Youth Staff Team Leader, Mike Donahue, challenges us to get out of our comfort zones and accept the mission Jesus gave us: go into the world to rescue and recover those who have fallen into enemy hands.
Lost. Hopeless. Unsure. Afraid. Dying. We all face days of despair. We wonder where God is. We long for His assistance.
In this week’s teaching, you’ll hear how God wants to assist you in having a deeper relationship with Him. This relationship will transform every area of life.
God’s Assistance: Wrap Up
It has been a challenging and eye-opening trip through God’s Assistance. We have seen a wide array of examples of just how God helps people. We have seen a donkey talk, fire fall from heaven, city walls fall down, armies routed and destroyed, jars of flour and oil that just won’t run dry, men walking on water, the sick healed at a word, and the dead raised to life. These are absolutely amazing physical miracles, completely outside of our normal experience and if push came to shove, each of us would probably have a hard time believing that they might be possible if we had to count on them personally.
God’s Assistance: Jesus in Gethsemane (Matthew 26:36-45)
It is Passover in Jerusalem, which in many ways is similar to Christmas for our culture. There was traveling to be done, religious observances to make, meals and celebrations to be had with friends and family, all with the city itself crowded to overflowing. Passover was a busy, crazy time for most any Jew by any definition.
God’s Assistance: Peter Walks on the Water (Matthew 14:22-32)
It has been a long day for Jesus and the disciples. The day starts with getting into a boat and heading for a ‘secluded place’ only to find that the crowds have followed them, so instead of seclusion, they find a busy day of ministry, of healing the sick that have come to Jesus. When evening arrives, Jesus feeds the crowd with five loaves and two fish and after the cleanup is done, He has the disciples get into the boat and head across the lake, while He dismisses the crowd. When all is finally done, Jesus goes up on a mountain to pray. He has finally found the seclusion and solitude that He began the day in search of.
God’s Assistance: Elijah on Mt. Carmel – 1Kings 18:16-46
It is the third year of the drought the Lord had Elijah proclaim to Ahab, the king of Israel (1Kings 17:1). Elijah is living in Sidon, presumably with the widow of Zaraphath, when the word of the Lord comes to him, commanding him to present himself to Ahab, at which point the Lord will send rain on the land once again. So Elijah picks himself up and goes back into Israel to find Ahab.
Lost. Hopeless. Unsure. Afraid. Dying. We all face days of despair. We wonder where God is. We long for His assistance.
In this week’s teaching, you’ll hear how God assisted a woman tormented by an unfulfilled desire. Discover how God can assist you in fulfilling your deepest heart’s desire.
Job lived in the land of Uz. He was blameless, upright, feared God and shunned evil. He was very rich and the greatest man among all the people of the East (Job 1:1-3).
