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The spiritual choices we make due to chronic illness can develop spiritual, personal growth. This Bible study is a take-anywhere book.
No matter how healthy or unhealthy we are at this moment, we know that just around the proverbial corner change crouches ready to pounce. And, with any change, comes unavoidable choices. Yet through our choices, we can experience personal growth. When we regularly apply God’s Scriptures to our daily situations and behaviors, we encounter spiritual transformation. One the other hand, if we live our lives with knee-jerk reactions to our circumstances, the significance of our relationship with God is diminished. Consequently, if we search for God’s truths in the Scriptures, even while suffering f | |  | | Lord, What Do I Do With Sammy?
Do student behavior problems intrude on the dynamics of your curriculum? With the Holy Spirit as your guide and Galatians 5:22–23 as your compass, you, the Christian teacher, can influence the performance and character of your students through compelling, powerful prayer. Whether a new teacher or a veteran, Lord, What Do I Do With Sammy? will help initiate a fruitful prayer life. You can remedy your class clown, misfit, and underachiever—your Sammys—by building prayer-inspired techniques into your teaching strategies. So kick off your busy day with the Holy Spirit’s power, discovering God’s blueprint for each student. Ignite your enthusiasm by visualizing each student with a new name, such as “Griper” becoming “Comforter.” Jolt your students out of negative self-perceptions by consistently using descriptive, uplifting, empowering vocabulary words, thus “despised” becomes “admired.” Inspire others by visibly applying God’s promises.
Pursue effective methods dealing with daily classroom crises before they happen. Lord, What Do I Do With Sammy? will take you on a year-long exploration of the fruit of the Spirit—love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control—that can launch a lifetime of changes in you and your Sammys.
After 28 years of teaching in the public schools, it seems to me that more and more of our students have empty souls. Taking God and prayer out of the classroom has made our students vulnerable to the negative, changing morals of our time. We are battling an enemy who encourages our youth to “do your own thing,” “make your own rules,” and “look out for #1.” We teachers can bring prayer back into our schools, even if we can’t pray out loud. We can cover our students with prayer and change our mental and verbal vocabulary concerning them. If we are faithful in our desire to see change, God will | |  | | The Silver Bullet: God's Rx for Chronic Pain
The Silver Bullet is a take-anywhere devotional Bible study designed for people with chronic health conditions. Constructed to be flexible, each study has two goals—first, to understand the Scripture quoted, and second, to encourage the user to apply God’s words to his or her circumstances. Bullet provides a spiritual journey through which one discovers how God reaches beyond the quick fixes of the world and prescribes Jesus Christ as the ultimate solution for chronic pain. By working through the devotional lessons, in either individual or group study, it is possible to keep physical pain from being a life-stopper and to gain freedom of intimacy with Jesus Christ.
Anyone who struggles with chronic pain has searched for the silver bullet—the magic elixir that will end the incessant suffering and return one’s life to normal. If we search for God’s prescription, however, we will soon discover that our silver bullet is not a medication, a therapy, an exercise regime, a seminar, a new mechanical manipulation, an operation, or even the latest, greatest cure-all potion offered by marketing enterprises. Instead, God’s prescription is a relationship with a person, Jesus Christ.
So let’s not be fooled by the world’s promises of quick fixes and magic cure |
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