Victory in Obeying God's Command

Subject: Victory in Obeying God's Command

Scripture Reading: Luke 17: 11 - 19

Memory Verse: 1 Samuel 15: 22

Objective: To reassure believers that healings, deliverances, and favours are possible when we obey God’s instructions.

1. What simple action won ten leprous men healing from their dreaded disease? Luke 17: 11 - 15

2. When good sense prevailed, what simple instruction, when carried out by a Syrian commander, brought him healing? 2 Kings 5: 1 – 14

Note: A closer look at Luke 5 should allow us to clearly understand that obedience generates the type of blessings that defies all logic, reasoning or anything that makes sense to humans. ⁠Arrogance and/or being self-willed leaves no place for the power of God to work.

3. Describe Saul’s experience when he displayed the wrong attitude? 1 Samuel 15: 17 - 23

4. What befell a great prophet who came up short? 1 Kings 13: 18 – 24

Note: God is serious, He is not impressed with 99.9%. He solicits total obedience from His people.

5. List some of the benefits of those who obeyed? Genesis 12: 1 - 7; 1 Kings 17: 8 - 16; 2 Kings 4: 1 – 7

6. How useless is all else that we do if we do not obey? 1 Samuel 15: 22 & 23