Daily Bible Study for Friday November
4, 2016
By: Hanny Lynn Stearns
Fish N
Loaves Ministries, Inc.
“Multiplying
God’s Word Around the Globe”
Chapter Reading
for Today: Please read in
your Bible before proceeding. Note that most translations are considered
paraphrases. The Young’s Literal Translation provides a more accurate
translation since he is the one who authored a concordance. Others are helpful
for seeing a different perspective, but we cannot always depend on their
wording. I hope this is helpful to you. If you are studying in another version,
that is fine. I am studying from the KJV.
***Please note a change! We will look at everything
for our basic study from the King James Version going forward. It is helpful to
stay with one solid version as we study so as not to cause confusion. I may add
other translations for specific scriptures as the Lord directs.
One final note: I will put the scripture in italics to differentiate from my
own writing. I am adding red to the letters when
it is Jesus talking – just like the Bible. Thank you.
Bible Gateway Verse of the Day
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new
testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but
the spirit giveth life.
God’s Word Is Stronger Than the Storms in Our
Life
Today’s Psalm brought tremendous revelation to me personally.
I am so blessed by what the Lord has revealed to me that I can hardly wait to
type the words and post them for you. This will be another testimony kind of
lesson, drenched in the word of God. This information came to me like a flood –
the kind of flood that we want in our lives; washed in the waters of the word
of God! Let’s pray…
Heavenly Father:
You are awesome, oh so awesome! We worship You as we get
drenched in Your word yet again. Father, I am asking that the testimony of my
heart and life will be used by You to show many people around the world that
what You have done for me You will do for them. The key is right here in Your
strong and powerful word and name. Help everyone to receive it and soak in it
today and in the days to come. Father, bring them from the north, south, east
and west. Make Your face to shine on them with Your favor. Help them to know
that nothing, absolutely nothing can ever separate Your love from us – nothing!
Father, I ask You to give me the anointing and utterance to bring this word
with boldness, accuracy and excellence. Bring glory to Yourself in every life
that reads this as they apply Your word to the storms in their lives. Help
everyone to see what they could not see and receive in their heart major wisdom
and revelation as they apply these principles to their own situations. Cause
this to go out unhindered and unchecked by any outside force or my flesh. Help
us by Your power to be doers of Your word and not hearers only. Thank You for
watching over Your word to perform it in our lives when we trust in it and do
what You say. We thank You for the revelations, the healing, the comfort and understanding
that will surely come through Your word in this message. We believe we receive
them right now in Jesus powerful name. Amen.
Every Bible I opened, every scripture card I pulled called me
to this specific message. This happens around here every single day. Nobody can
tell me that God does not do miracles anymore! He is in the miracle working
business of love and transformation for the human life that will place their
trust in Him. All of us have seen the storms come and go in our lives. We have
seen the enemy rise up like a raging sea and try to bring us down and take us
out of the race that was set before us. Oh, but God! He is awesome! He is
powerful! His throne is established and He has also established the very ground
we all walk on! He is girded (surrounded) with majesty, or in other words, greatness,
dignity, splendor; inspiring awe and reverence from His children. Truly God is
awesome in every place. Hallelujah!
I will print the scriptures that the Lord led me to, and I
will be putting in what was coming to me as I was hand writing them. This is to
show you how powerful God has worked in my life and be an example to you of how
powerful He wants to work in your life too my friend. I have struggled with
many addictions, with the most difficult one for me was to sugar and food. That
was the thing that was as a chain around my neck. It was a terrible struggle
and the Lord has set me free. Let’s get right to it, shall we?
My words will be inserted with a different color text than
the scriptures so you are easily able to differentiate between God’s words and
what I am inserting for the purpose of this lesson. I am in no way changing God’s
word. I am only showing you what He showed me as I studied – hallelujah!
Zechariah 10:6-12
6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, (Hanny) and
I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for
I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off:
for I am the Lord their
God, and will hear them.
7 And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man,
and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see
it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the Lord.
8 I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I
have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.
9 And I will sow them among the people: and they
shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children,
and turn again.
10 I will bring them again also out of the land of
Egypt, (bondage) and gather them out of
Assyria; (the enemy) and I will bring them
into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; (promised land) and
place shall not be found for them.
11 And he (Hanny) shall
pass through the sea with affliction, (the place of pain,
distress and grief) and shall smite (come
against the storms) the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the
river (of wounds) shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria (evil
plans of the enemy) shall be brought down, and the sceptre of
Egypt (the chains of bondage) shall depart away. (Be
completely gone!)
12 And I will strengthen them in the Lord; (You have Lord! It is a
miracle!) and they shall walk up and down in his name,
saith the Lord. (Everywhere
I go, I will go in the name of the Lord)
While I was eating lunch, and preparing to start
this study, it came to me from the Lord that my life is now more regimented than
it has ever been. My routine is good and established. It’s a peaceful,
wonderful place to be. Just this morning, when I glanced at the words of Zechariah
4:6-7, I thought of how God’s grace has been applied to the mountains
(difficulties, struggles, addictions) in my life. By His mighty word, He has
made them to become like level ground, and I have walked right over them. Glory
to God! He gave His word and loaded me with His grace when I firmly applied His
word to my life in faith.
The mountain of eating addiction is gone! I am shouting “Grace,
grace to it!” Hallelujah! I am now walking along on level ground. I thought to myself,
“If I had known what I really understand now about the power of God’s word when
I work it, I could have been spared years of pain, suffering, loss and sorrow
(afflictions). I am so very grateful to be where I am now. The Lord has caused
me to triumph! He is so awesome! Let’s look at the verses…
Zechariah 4:6-7
6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This
is the word of the Lord unto
Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.
7 Who art thou, O great mountain? before
Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone
thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
Because of His word that I now stand on, which is mightier
than any storm I could ever face, I can go out in His name and live in a place
of purity. Praise His name forever! Next, He led me to these verses in Romans…
Romans
8:31-39
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God
be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered
him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's
elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that
died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God,
who also maketh intercession for us. (Jesus prays for us to
come back to Him, see Luke 22:32 –
32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail
not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.)
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? (No
one!) shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword? (I have been through all of this!)
36 As it is written, for thy sake we are killed all
the day long; (experience trials) we
are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. (By the wolf, aka,
satan)
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than
conquerors through him that loved us. (see Phil. 4:13 – I can do all things through Christ which
strengtheneth me.) 38 For I
am persuaded, (fully convinced!)
that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, (devils) nor
things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, (covers
everything) shall be able to separate us from the love of
God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The song my husband and I sang during our time
of worship this morning was titled, “God is Awesome in This Place” by Hillsong.
This song has been playing in my spirit for hours now as I reviewed this
lesson. The words that keep playing in my heart go like this…
“God is awesome, He’s so awesome, God is awesome
in this place. I’ve finally found where I belong, I’m a living stone and in
this house I will grow.” Here are the verses about being built on the Rock…
Luke 6:46-49
46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the
things which I say?
47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings,
and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
48 He is like a man which built an house, and digged
deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream
beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded
upon a rock.
49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man
that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the
stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house
was great.
These days my life truly is being built on the
solid rock of God’s word. The benefits are numerous. The next scriptures that
the Lord showed me was pertaining to entering into the kingdom through the
narrow gate. Friend, I tried the broad path for most of my life, and it only
brought the destruction that comes with the world’s way of doing things. Look at
this…
Luke 13:24-28
24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I
say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
25 When once the master of the house is risen up, and
hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door,
saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know
you not whence ye are:
26 Then shall ye begin to say, we have eaten and
drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.
27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not
whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when
ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the
kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
We have to enter His house, His presence, by the
narrow gate. We cannot insist on doing things our way. Otherwise, when Jesus
returns, He will ask, “Who are you? I do not know you.” Instead, I had to do
what God’s word says so that when that day comes, and the door gets closed to
any opportunity to be saved, I will be safely on the inside! Thank You, Jesus! I
speak from 61 years of life experiences – most of them on the broad path with
only 11 of them walking with the Lord in a surrendered fashion. Of those 11, I
have only just begun to see the true victory in my life that the Lord has
wanted for me all along.
I had to realize that the way I was going before
was the way of rebellion and pride. I was acting more like the devil than my
Lord. It took a lot of hard words to get me to turn around, but I never gave
up. I will always need to grow. Along the way I will need to be continually
taught, corrected, and adjusted to the Lord’s way of doing things. I have
learned that if I am willing and obedient, I will eat the best of the land. In
other words, I will have the abundant life. Frankly I am more than tired of the
old way of doing things.
This path in my life is a path of great peace and
joy. Now I am seeing the miraculous such as I have never experienced before,
and it is glorious. What does the Lord want you to know today? He wants to show
you that what He has done for me He will gladly do for you if you will apply yourself.
The question is, are you willing? Selah…
There are three main points to
consider from today’s study…
It is God alone who can strengthen
us – we cannot
His word is truly stronger than any storm
that may come our way
Once we are walking with the Lord in
obedience, we can have great peace and joy
Questions:
What spoke to your heart the most in this lesson?
How did it change your thinking?
What will you change as a result of what you have learned
today?
Who can you share this study with?
Whose
words will you choose to build your “house” on?
Let’s pray…
Heavenly Father:
Thank You for Your great power, Your word and
Your love that cannot be separated from us. Thank You for giving me the victory
over every storm I face. Thank You for always causing me to triumph through
Jesus Christ my Lord. Thank You for being patient with me and seeing me through
all the things that You did to bring across those mountains like they were
level ground. Father help me to continue to build my house on You and keep my
feet from falling. Hide me in the shelter of Your wings until the calamities of
this life pass by me. Show me who I can be a blessing to as You bring victory
in my life. Freely You have given me all things. Help me to freely give to
others. I ask in faith and believe I receive the answers in Jesus powerful,
awesome name. Amen.
And God Said… You fill in the blanks.
Zechariah 4:6-7
6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This
is the word of the Lord unto
Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.
7 Who art thou, O great mountain? before
Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone
thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
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