Lesson 11: Looking for Friends and Joy

1.  If a person wants friends, what must he or she be?  Proverbs 17:17.

Answer: .


Sometimes we feel lonely and without friends because we do not act friendly towards others. We need to be approachable and not come across as angry at the world, or “holier than thou.” Let Jesus’ grace into your heart and you will be a friendly and warm person. It’s not too late to change! By the way, the “friend that sticketh closer than a brother” is the Lord Jesus Christ! Praise His name!

2.  What is Jesus’ commandment to us?  John 15:12.

Answer: That we one .


Loving others will open great doors in your life! For to love is man’s highest achievement and an avenue for his greatest joys. Let the love out!

3.  How should we love one another?  John 13:34.

Answer: As loved .


What a command! Love others like Jesus loved you! He gave His life for you! Are you willing to love the way He loved? The fruit of the Holy Spirit is “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,” etc.  See Galatians 5:22-23 now.  This fruit can be yours for the picking (the asking that is!)

4.  Where can we find fullness of joy?  Psalm 16:11.

Answer: In God’s .


If we practice the presence of God, we will experience a greater joy. We approach Him in prayer, and church service and Bible study. In His presence is fullness of joy!

5.  How can we truly be at peace?  Job 22:21.

Answer: By getting with God!

6.  What does the Lord want to give us to replace our “mourning?”  Isaiah 61:3.

Answer: The of .


This oil is needed to lubricate our hearts and perk up our lives! It’s free.  Pull into the Lord’s service station and “fill ‘er up!”

7.  What can rejoice our hearts and enlighten our eyes?  Psalm 19:8.

Answer: The and of the Lord.

8.  What can the Lord give us in the darkness of the night?  Isaiah 30:29.

Answer: A in the .


How great it is to go to sleep with a song in our heart and to wake up the next day to resume the chorus!  Walking close to the Lord, enjoying His presence puts a song in our hearts!  Do you have a song to sing?  If not, ask the Lord to give you one!  He will, you know!

9.  Why did Jesus tell us the things He did?  John 15:11.

Answer: So that His might in us and our joy may be .


Listen to what Jesus said.  Absorb it.  Believe it.  Live by it!  In so doing there is fullness of joy awaiting you!  Believe me, I know!  I went from darkness to light, sorrow to joy, foolish to wise, etc. through the Lord Jesus Christ, and you can too!

10.  Who has the counsel and understanding that we need?  Job 12:13.

Answer: The .

11.  What will God’s truth do for us?  John 8:32.

Answer: It will set us .


Whatever chains are binding you now, they can be broken by the Lord Jesus Christ!  Ask Him, and He will surely do it!

12.  What will they that seek the Lord be able to do?  Proverbs 28:5.

Answer: all .

13.  What kind of love has the Lord been loving us with for all these years?  Jeremiah 31:3.

Answer: An love.


He is right now drawing you by that love!  Have you given Him your heart yet?  If not, why not do it right now?

14.  Even though the mountains and hills disappear, what will never depart from us?  Isaiah 54:10.

Answer: God’s toward us.

15.  How will the Lord comfort us?  Isaiah 66:13.

Answer: As a loving comforts her .


Maybe you did not have a loving mother to comfort you.  If not, you have one now in Jesus!  If you did have a loving mother, then you know how the Lord will cuddle you, embrace you, and care for you!

16.  If you love Jesus and believe that He came from God, what will the Father Himself do?  John 16:27.

Answer: He will us even more than He already does!

17.  How did God show His love to us?  Romans 5:8.

Answer: Because while we were yet He sent His Son to for us!

18.  If the Lord is our Shepherd, what shall we not do?  Psalm 23:1.

Answer: Never be in .


God will supply us with whatever we need!  God bless you and keep you!

Lesson 12 deals with money, patience and peace.

 


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