Study Guide Aug. 31st -Sept. 5th

Monday, August 31: God Gives Rest; Read Matthew 11:30. There is a correlation between the way you feel about yourself and the way you feel about others. If you are at peace with yourself---if you like yourself—you will get along with others. The converse is also true, if you don’t like yourself; if you are ashamed, embarrassed, or angry, other people are going to know it.
Tuesday, September 1: He Is Coming Back: Read 1 Corinthians 15: 23. God has made a promise to us. “I will come back.” Do we dare believe this promise? There is a cautious part of us that wonders how reliable these words may be? How can we know He will do what He says? Why, because He has already done it once!
Wednesday, September 2: Nothing on Earth Satisfies; Read 1 Timothy 6:7-8. Satisfied? That is one thing we are not. We are not satisfied. We take the vacation of a lifetime, yet on the way home we dread going back to work. Contentment is a difficult virtue, because there is nothing on earth that can satisfy our deepest longings. We long to see God and we won’t be satisfied until we do.
Thursday, September 3: The Master Builder; Read Psalm 23:3. It is hard to see things grow old. We see our friends and family members grow old. We see the towns we grew up in grow old and we wish that we could make things new again. We can’t make things new again, but God can. He restores our soul. He will restore the vigor in our lives. He will restore the energy and He will restore our hope and our soul.
Friday, September 4: A Raging Fire; Read Romans 12:3. Resentment is the cocaine of our emotions. It causes our blood to pump and our energy level to rise, and it requires increasingly large and more frequent doses. There is a dangerous point at which anger ceases to be an emotion and becomes a driving force. A person bent on revenge moves further and further away from being able to forgive.
Saturday, September 5: You Have Captured God’s Heart; Read Isaiah 62:5. Have you ever noticed the way that a groom looks at his bride during the wedding? If the light is just right you can see the bride’s reflection in the groom’s eyes. What groom could bear to live without his bride? This is exactly how Jesus feels about each of us. Look long enough into the eyes of our Savior and you will see a bride. Who is this bride? You are, you have captured the heart of God!