WALKING WITH THE UNCHANGING GOD

PREAMBLE

A call to walk with God is a call to a walk of faith. God chose to call Abram. Abram may have known very little about God at that time but when God spoke to him Abram believed and did that which he was asked to do. The Bible says, “Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.” (Gen. 15:6). God has not changed. He is the same one today who calls us to walk with Him in salvation and service through faith and obedience. In this month’s study series, He challenges us with the testimonies of Abram and Joshua—two great  models of how we should live and serve the unchanging God.    

STUDY ONE                                                    WEEK OF AUGUST 29^th    

ABRAHAMIC JOURNEY OF FAITH

Introduction:

Chapter 12 is a dramatic departure from the earlier chapters of Genesis. God stops dealing with people collectively and chooses to work through one person, one old childless nomad, Abram, to make a great nation and bless all peoples on earth. What did it cost the man?         

Read:  Genesis 12:1-8 

Observe:

1.   What instruction did the Lord give to Abram?

2.  What did God promise Abram?

3.  How did Abram respond to God’s instruction?

4.  Trace Abram’s journey up to Bethel and the altars he built?

Digest:

5.  Why did God call Abram out of his country, people and father’s household?

6.  What was the problem with Abram’s response to God’s instruction?

7. To whom did Abram build altars and why?

8. Why would God give the Canaanites’ land away?

Apply:

9. If you were in Abram’s shoes, how would you have responded to God?

10. Share with your group what you consider to be God’s call for your life and how it is blessing others.

STUDY TWO                                      WEEK OF SEPT 8^th      

THE DELIVERANCE COVENANT

[Review of Last Week’s Memory Verse:  Genesis 12:3]

Introduction:

The book of Joshua is a book of renewed hope. After four decades of wandering in the wilderness, all the older generation except Joshua and Caleb who believed in God’s deliverance had died off. The new generation decided to trust God and God chose Joshua to be their leader after the death of Moses. It is a whole new era of faith, obedience and deliverance.         

Read:  Joshua 1:1-18

Observe:

1.  What instructions did God give to Joshua?

2.  What circumstances caused God to give Joshua the instructions?

3.  What did Joshua order the officers of the people to do?

4.  What command did the Lord give about the Book of the Law?

5.  What command did Joshua give to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh?

6.  What was the response?

Digest:

7.  Why did Joshua need to be strong and courageous?

8. How would the Book of the Law be helpful to the Israelites?

9. From your recollection of Moses’s experience with the Israelites, evaluate the response to Joshua in verses 16-18.

Apply:

10. Can you relate any of your successes or failures to obedience or disobedience?  

STUDY THREE                                   WEEK OF SEPT 15th

CLAIMING THE PROMISED LAND

[Review of Last Week’s Memory Verse: Joshua 1:8]

The moment of reckoning has come. Only the Jordan is standing between the Israelites and the promised land.  But God has promised to do amazing things.       

Read:  Joshua 3:1-17

Observe:

1.  What arrangements were made for crossing the river?

2.  How were the people to be prepared for the crossing?

3.  What was to be the role of the priests?

4. Why did God want to exalt Joshua?

5.  How were the Israelites to know that the Living God was among them?

6.  How did the Israelites cross the Jordan?

Digest:

7.  What do you understand by the instruction to ‘consecrate yourselves’?

8. As a Christian, what do you know about the Ark of the Covenant?

9.  What ‘Jordans’ have your crossed in your life?

Memory Verse:Joshua 1:9

“Have I not commanded you?  Be strong and courageous.  Do not be terrified; 

do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”   

(NIV)                                                                   Joshua 1:9

STUDY FOUR                              WEEK OF SEPT 22nd 

GOD’S COVENANT WITH ABRAM

[Review of Last Week’s Memory Verse: Joshua 1:9]

This week we go back to another part of Abram’s story in Genesis. God gives his word to Abram in a vision. It is a covenant word given by the unchanging covenant God.

Read:  Genesis 15:1-8

Observe:

1.  What words of the Lord came to Abram in a vision?

2.  What was Abram’s concern?

3.  How did the Lord encourage him?

4.  Why did the Lord bring Abram out of Ur?

6. What is the significance of verse 6?

Apply:

8. Can you define God’s covenant with you?

Memory Verse:Genesis 15:6

“Abram believed the Lord, and He credited it to him as righteousness.”