Week Ten: God and Deliverance

As disciples of Christ we walk with God seeking to do his will. Sometimes as we travel we are put to extreme tests of our faith and often we feel as though we have been left alone. We pray and wait for God to answer, we are stretched to the limit and pressed on every side only to hear God sometimes say wait or sometimes say nothing at all! Jesus felt this also. He was put under extremely stressful situations, many people left his side and chose not to follow him anymore. When we are put to these extreme times of strees we seek deliverance. The Bible teaches us that deliverance belongs to God so for us to experience deliverance we must go to him. This week we will be looking at God and what he teaches us about deliverance. Deliverance belongs to the Lord and we will focus on why it is important to understand this.

Read Psalm 34 What questions did you have after reading this? 

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Answer the following questions:

What was David delivered from? ____________________________________

Did the Lord use an Angel to deliver him? _____________________________

Who does David say the Lord delivers in verse 17? _____________________

What does deliverance mean? _____________________________________

Is there any place in what we have just read that tells us to deliver ourselves from our troubles? You have heard the saying, "You made your bed now lie in it" While many believe this is how it is the word of God tells us that we can be delivered. God will deliver us from our troubles when we cry out to him.

Read Psalm 40:1-11 What questions did you have after reading this? ______________________________________________________________

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Answer the following questions:

Why is this Psalm titled A song of Deliverance? ____________________

Why is it important to express our greatfulness for God’s deliverance?_

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Since deliverance belongs to the Lord it is important how we address God to request that he deliver us from our troubles. David often went to God in song and sang to him, recognizing that God knows our heart he poured out his heart to God through songs of deliverance.

Read Luke 4:18 and Isaiah 61:1 What questions do you have after reading these verses? _________________________________________________________________

Answer the following questions:

Who did Jesus preach deliverance to?

Does the words of Jesus have the power to deliver us?

Jesus is the bondage breaker! We all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, but there is many who are stuck in their sin, who are addicted to sin, who struggle severely everyday to be set free and are not. This is called captivity! To be stuck in the chains that restrict our free movement and enjoyment of life. Jesus came to set the captive free! "The truth shall make you free" Jesus is that truth and so how powerful is the truth in the roll of deliverance? It is huge! We cannot be delivered from our captivity without receiving the truth into our heart. Prayer is just one of those truth's and many need to be taught as the Disciples were, how to pray.

Read Mathew 6:9-13 What questions do you have after reading this? ___

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Answer the following questions:

Why did the Disciples ask Jesus to teach them to pray? And what? _____

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In verse 6:13 what are we to pray concerning deliverance? ____________

Do we have the power to deliver ourselves? _________________________

Can you think of a tough time in your life and how you got out of it? Explain.

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Have you ever delivered yourself from something that was tough that maybe God wanted you to be more patient and wait for him to do it? _____________

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Sometimes when we hear the word deliverance we automatically think "set free" but we think that we have to do the work. We love to help others in this process, but rarely know how to do this for ourselves, not to mention someone else. I know for myself, I have a hard time asking for help, I love to help others and rarely would miss the opportunity to assist another in deliverance, but who am I? Only God can deliver someone from their captivity, and this only when they desire freedom, I can't set myself free from bondage, so I should be careful not to think that I have any power to deliver another! It is a honorable desire to help others, but we must first consider the log in our own eye as Jesus has taught us. There is a process to deliverance and that process requires that we humble ourselves before God realizing and accepting that only he can deliver us and others. He can and he does! Here is one of the greatest examples recorded in history. 

Read Exodus14 :8-31 What questions did you have after reading this? ____

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Answer the following questions:

What happened to the Israelites after they left Egypt? ___________________

What did Moses tell the people in verse 13 & 14? _______________________

What was the instructions that God gave to Moses to tell the Israelite? _____

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What should we do when we are stuck in a hard time with no way out? _____

What happens to our enemies when we obey God? ______________________

After they experienced the deliverance of the Lord what did the people do?

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Memory verses test #10

Isaiah 41:10 “ Fear thou not …”

Isaiah 50:7 “For the Lord God will help me therefore I shall not…”

2Corinthians 10:5 “Casting down imaginations and every…”

Ephesians 6:10-18 “Finally my brethren be…”

Finish the following verses and repeat them.

Memory verses:

Psalm 34:4 “ I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered…”

Psalm 40:1 “ I waited patiently for the Lord; and he…”

Isaiah 61:1 “The spirit of the Lord God is upon me;…”

Mathew 6:9-13 “Our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name…”

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