Family Worship Guide: Week of April 24th, 2022
Memory Verse: Matthew 6:9-13: 9 Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. 10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread, 12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Question 20: How do you know that you have a soul? Answer: Because the Bible tells me so.
Question 21: In what condition did God make Adam and Eve? Answer: He made them holy and happy.
Monday
Scripture: Matthew 11:29
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Point of Focus: We are back looking at the biblical foundation/justification for our soul. Today we should see Jesus’ invitation to find rest for our souls. One of the “church fathers” (St. Augustine) said that our souls are restless until they find rest in Jesus. Christ Jesus is who our souls search for and we must give ourselves—body and soul to Him.
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Tuesday
Scripture: Luke 1:46
46 And Mary said,
“My soul magnifies the Lord,
Point of Focus: Mary, upon hearing all that the Lord was going to do through Jesus (whom she carried in her womb) she breaks out in worship (known as Mary’s Magnificat). When you grow to know the Lord, He becomes the object your soul desires and exalts. Magnify the Lord.
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Wednesday
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Point of Focus: By the Spirit working the Word of God in us, our souls (inner self) are being renewed every day. Though our bodies suffer and die, our soul is being kept and strengthened by the Holy Spirit of God and because we are eternal beings—all the sufferings and struggles are but “light momentary afflictions” compared to what God is doing in us eternally.
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Thursday
Scripture: Matthew 26:41
41 Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Point of Focus: The soul of man is at war with the “flesh”. This is not our physical flesh, but the part of us that still longs for worldly things. We must be diligent to strengthen our souls and put to death the deeds of the flesh for God’s glory.
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Friday
Scripture: Acts 7:59
59 And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
Point of Focus: Stephen, who was the first Christian martyr, looked to Christ as he (Stephen) was being executed for his faith knowing that Christ held his spirit in the palm of his hands. Christ is the Receiver of our souls.
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Saturday
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 6:20
20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Point of Focus: Christ spilled his blood for our body and our soul, we belong fully to the Lord. Therefore, our response should be to glorify Him with our body and our soul.
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