Genesis 1:1 Journey Study...

Today we continue our journey that we start with Genesis 1:1 which led us to Psalms 102:25

Which led us to Deuteronomy 4:29 which led us to Psalm 32:6 which now leads us to Isaiah

26:4.

4 Trust in the Lord forever,

For in God the Lord, we have an everlasting Rock. Isaiah 26:4

So, we are to trust God for good (Forever), for He is the everlasting Rock.

Behold, God is my salvation,

I will trust and not be afraid;

For the Lord God is my strength and song,

And He has become my salvation.” Isaiah 12:2

God is my Salvation.

I will trust Him.

I will not be afraid of what comes my way.

For the Lord is where I get my strength to not be afraid.

Also, I get a song refers to a song that is composed like that of Moses after the Red Sea.

He has become my salvation refers to the fact that God has become the author of salvation.

But I have trusted in Your faithfulness;

My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation. Psalm 13:5

The writer is saying that he has trusted in God's faithfulness.

His heart has rejoiced in the salvation of God.

Genesis 1:1 Journey Study...

 6 Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found;

Certainly in a flood of great waters, they will not reach him. Psalm 32:6

Let everyone who is Godly pray.

The next part of the verse talks about times when God would be gracious or times of mercy or

give audience to His people.

The Flood refers to what will happen to the ungodly people.

They will not reach Him refers to the Godly will not have the same fate as the ungodly.

13 But as for me, my prayer is to You, Lord, at an acceptable time;

God, in the greatness of Your mercy,

Answer me with our saving truth. Psalm 68:13

This verse instead of revenge feelings he gave himself to prayer. He looked to God in his time

of need.

A time well pleasing to God.

The greatness of mercy which God bestowed on him answered him.

This is according to the y saving truth or faithfulness.

8 This is what the Lord says:

“At a favorable time I answered You,

And on a day of salvation I helped You;

And I will watch over You and make You a covenant of the people,

To restore the land, to give as inheritances the deserted hereditary lands; Isaiah 49:8

This is from the Lord.

At a favorable time, I answered the prayer that you prayed to Me.

In the Day of Salvation refers to the time of grace and of the gospel for the working of my

Salvation.

There is more to this verse, but the main point is it talks about prayer, not that they prayed

but it was answered.

So, God created all things, then we are to worship Him with all we have, and then we are to

seek Him and find Him if it is with our all hearts then we are to pray to God and He will answer

Tomorrow we will continue this journey to see where it takes us!!!

Genesis 1:1 Journey Study...

Today we continue our journey that we start with Genesis 1:1 which led us to Psalms 102:25 which now leads us to Deuteronomy 4:29

29 But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. Deuteronomy 4:29

We are to seek the Lord God.

If we seek Him with all heart and all our soul, it says in the verse we will find Him.

4 But in their distress they turned to the Lord God of Israel, and they sought Him, and He let them find Him. 2 Chronicles 15:4

So, this verse also talks about Seeking God, and they would find Him.

Even though the verse talks about distress, it still refers to seeking God and finding Him.

But we do know that Israel was in trouble by the word distress.

13 And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13

This verse also says that if we seek God and search for Him, we will find Him if we do it with all our heart.

All these verses led to us to seek God and we will find Him if it is with all our heart.

So, God created all things, then we are to worship Him with all we have, and then we are to seek Him and find Him if it is with our all hearts.

Tomorrow we will continue this journey to see where it takes us!!!

Genesis 1:1 Journey Study...

Today we continue our journey that we start with Genesis 1:1 which led us to Psalms 102:25

which led us to Nehemiah 9:6. Now let's keep going on our journey today.

4 “Hear, Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! Deuteronomy 6:4 

So, this verse turns from saying that the earth and the heavens were created by God to saying

that God is one!

Essentiality one and the only one that we should worship as the object of our faith.

37 And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your

soul, and with all your mind.’ Matthew 22:37

This verse then backs up that we should only worship God as the object of our faith.

It goes on in Mark and Luke to say with all your strength.

This means we are to worship Him with everything we have.

5 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your

strength. Deuteronomy 6:5

This verse reiterates the same things Matthew said in Chapter 22 verse 37.

Again, it's a call to worship Him with all we have.

So, God created all things, then we are to worship Him with all we have.

tomorrow we will continue this journey to see where it takes us!!!

Genesis 1:1 Journey Study...

So today we start a study that begins in Genesis 1:1 and see where it leads us. Can't wait to

see what God has for us!!!! So, let's dive in...

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1

So in the NASB, they have headings and the heading for this is The Creation.

Rightly so.

Because this first verse in the Bible refers to the creation of heaven then the earth and all its

splendor.

So, we know by this there was no earth, God had to create the earth.  God also had to create

heaven as well.

God create a place for us to live in the flesh and then a place to live in the spirit.

Before we could be we needed a place to live in the flesh and in the spirit.

Knowing this we move to Psalms 102:25 (AMP) which says, “At the beginning You founded

the earth; The heavens are the work of Your hands.

This verse also talks about in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Both heaven and earth were the works of God's hand.

We then look at the next verse this journey takes us on which is found in Nehemiah 9:6 Which

says, You alone are the Lord. You have made the heavens, The heaven of heavens with all

their lights, The earth and everything that is on it, The seas and everything that is in them. You

give life to all of them, And the heavenly lights bow down before You.

So, this verse also talks about the heavens and the earth being created by God.

But this verse goes further to talk about the lights that were created in heaven.

And then God created all things or as the verse everything.

It furthers this saying that God gave life to all of them.

The example the verse uses is the seas.

So, God created all things!!

Tomorrow we will continue this journey and see where it takes us!!!

Verse 22 Conclusion...

So, we will continue with verse 22 which says, It has happened to them according to the true

proverb, “A dog returns to its own vomit,” and, “A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in

the mire.”

Our first stop or look was in Proverbs where the verse came from In Peter.

This then took us on a journey to Exodus to talk about the king of Egypt. 

Which keeps us looking at Exodus.

19 But I know that the king of Egypt will not permit you to go, except under compulsion. 20 So

I will reach out with My hand and strike Egypt with all My miracles which I shall do in the midst

of it; and after that he will let you go. Exodus 3:19-20

But does this have to do with vomit returning to it as a dog?

Pharoah had the opportunity to change but went back to old habits.

Pharaoh was given 10 times to change but each time he went back to his old habits.  

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:23

Pharoah was committing sin and, in the end, literally died for it.

The same could be said of Pharoah about walling in the mire.

He had 10 chances to be clean but chose to return to the mire and be in sin.

Take Pharoah and insert us as that person and answer these questions:

Are you like Pharoah in any way?

Do you go back to old habits?

Do you keep coming back to the same sin?

Think about these things and if so, make changes in your life today!!!!

Tomorrow we start a study that starts in Genesis 1:1 and we see where it goes from there.

Study of Peter 1 & 2: Chapter 3 Verses 14-18...

 14 Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found spotless and

blameless by Him, at peace, 15 and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also

our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all

his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which there are some things that are hard to

understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures,

to their own destruction. 17 You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard

so that you are not carried away by the error of unscrupulous people and lose your own firm

commitment, 18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To

Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

Verse 14

Things refers to Christ's judgment day.

Him is Jesus.

He wants us to be found blameless and spotless.

58 Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, be firm, immovable, always excelling in the

work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. 1 Corinthians 15:58

Verse 15

regard patience of our lord as salvation just as Paul did.

Just as the wisdom that Paul shared with you when he wrote to you.

9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you,

not willing for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance.2 peter 3:9

Verse 16

Paul speaking of these things again refers to Christ's judgment day.

Some things will be hard to understand refers to some things will be difficult to

 comprehend/grasp. 

With untaught ones refers to the people were not taught of Christ's judgment day.

There was also people who were unstable.

These people distort the Scriptures that lead to their destruction.

14 Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found spotless and

blameless by Him, at peace, 2 Peter 3:14

Verse 17

Knowing that people will distort the scripture the people he was writing to need to be on guard

that they may not be let or as the verse carried away in the wrong ways or errors of those

ways.

3 Beloved, this is now the second letter I am writing to you in which I am stirring up your sincere mind

by way of a reminder, 2 Peter 3:1

Verse 18

Grow in Knowledge of God and Jesus.

To Him be the glory now and the day of eternity.

Amen

2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 2

Peter 1:2

What did you think of the study of Peter?

What did you learn from this Study?

Tomorrow we dig into 2 Peter 2:22....

Study of Peter 1 & 2: Chapter 3 Verses 10-13...

 A New Heaven and Earth

10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a

roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be

discovered.

11 Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in

holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God,

because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with

intense heat! 

Verse 10

Day of the lord refers to judgment day, that great day when Jesus comes back.

This day that is coming is like a thief because it will be sudden, and no one will expect it.

The CEV says The heavens will disappear with a loud noise.

ERV says The sky will disappear with a loud noise.

Heavens pass away refers to the new heaven that is talked about in Revelations 21:1 which

says, 21 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth

passed away, and there is no longer any sea.

Elements refers to natural elements like air water and earth.

The earth and works in it will be burned up.

8 who will also confirm you to the end, blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1

Corinthians 1:7

Verse 11

Since all these are destroyed refers to the verse before it about the earth and its works being

burned up.

Ought you refers to ought to be found.

ASV says, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy living and godliness,

11 Everything will be destroyed. So you should serve and honor God by the way you live. 2

Peter 3:11 CEV

Verse 12

The day of the lord is judgment day again repeated from the earlier verse (verse 10).

The old heaven will be burned or destroyed by fire and the elements will melt the fire/flames.

7 so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you eagerly await the revelation of our Lord Jesus

Christ, 1 Corinthians 1:7

Verse 13

But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth

righteousness. 2 Peter 3:13 ASV

The promise is we will be in the new heavens and new earth.

17 “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;

And the former things will not be remembered or come to mind. Isaiah 65:17

Study of Peter 1 & 2 : Chapter 3 verses 6-9...

6 through which the world at that time was destroyed by being flooded with water. 7 But by His

word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of

judgment and destruction of ungodly people.

8 But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a

 thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. 9 The Lord is not slow about His promise,

as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not willing for any to perish, but for all to

come to repentance.

Verse 6

This comes right after verse 5 and continues from that verse which talks about what happened

in the book of Genesis.

The great flood is also recorded in Genesis which is what verse 6 talks about.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the

month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky

were opened. Genesis 7;11

Verse 7

The power of His word and God's commandments is what it refers to when it says His word.

It is the same His word as in verse 5.

Kept for the day refers to being protected and safe in treasury and not touched for a time, that

it will ultimately be destroyed.

The day of Judgement refers to the general judgment.

This was to happen by fire this time instead of water.

This kind of judgment was reserved for heaven.

This was to happen to the ungodly people, the ones who were wicked.

10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a

roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be

discovered. 2 Peter 3:10

Verse 8

The KJ21 says, But, beloved, be not ignorant.

This helps us to understand the word escape.

So we are not let this pass us by and we are to be aware of this.

This next part of the verse refers to the second coming of Jesus.

The last part of the verse talks about time and who are subject to it. But God is there is no

difference of time.

3 Beloved, this is now the second letter I am writing to you in which I am stirring up your

sincere mind by way of a reminder, 2 Peter 3:1

Verse 9

This verse refers to that God is not slow in His promises.

KJ21 says, The Lord is not slack concerning His promise.

AMP says, The Lord does not delay [as though He were unable to act] and is not slow about

His promise.

As some count slowness meaning scoffers.

But the patient talked about is for the believer, God's chosen.

The next part refers to the ordained life He has for us.

All God's people who come and repent so that as it refers to the day of judgment that they

would have salvation and it would save them.

3 For the vision is yet for the appointed time;

It hurries toward the goal and it will not fail.

Though it delays, wait for it;

For it will certainly come, it will not delay long. Habakkuk 2:3

Study of Peter 1 & 2: Chapter 3 Verse 5...

5 For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long

 ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water, 

Verse 5

For this they wilfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water

 and amidst water, by the word of God; 2 Peter 3:5 ASV

This version helps us understand what this first part of the verse is talking about which refers to what

they should know but did not know and if they had read the scriptures, they might know of God's

power.

By the word of God refers to knowing the commands of God and the power of His word.

The next part of the verse talks about the beginning of the earth.

The water refers to the Greek word συνεστῶσα sunestōsa meaning to stand with or together.

The writer of this letter, Peter, uses this illustration to reference Genesis 1 about the creation of the

earth.

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 And the earth was a formless and desolate

emptiness, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the

surface of the waters. Genesis 1:1-2

The earth was barren, with no form of life; it was under a roaring ocean covered with darkness. But the

Spirit of God was moving over the water. Genesis 1:2 CEV

6 Then God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from

the waters.” Genesis 1:6

9 Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land

appear”; and it was so. Genesis 1:9

Study of Peter 1 & 2: Chapter 3 Verses 3-4...

The Coming Day of the Lord

3 Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following

 after their own lusts, 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the

 fathers fell asleep, all things continue just as they were from the beginning of creation.”

Verse 3

This is something to be remembered because it says know first of all.

So, they didn't just need to remember this back then, but we need to remember this today.

 This is talking about the last days and that has yet to happen.

In the last days, people (scoffers) will not speak the truth is what this verse is talking about.

The lust they will follow after refers to their own pleasures, living in free indulgence.

20 But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture becomes a matter of someone’s own

 interpretation, 2 Peter 1:20

Verse 4

Where is the promise of His coming refers to what has come of the promise. where is to be

 accomplished here on this earth.

and say, “Didn't your Lord promise to come back? Yet the first leaders have already died, and

 the world hasn't changed a bit.” 2 Peter 3:4 CEV

The fathers fell asleep refers to death or they had died.

The world will continue as it was.

and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for, from the day that the fathers fell asleep,

 all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 2 Peter 3:4 ASV

and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things

 continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.” 2 Peter 3:4 KJ21

19 Who say, “Let Him hurry, let Him do His work quickly, so that we may see it;

And let the plan of the Holy One of Israel approach

And come to pass, so that we may know it!” Isaiah 5:19

Prayer Interruption...

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. 1 Peter 4:10-11

God, I pray this morning for new ministries to be formed

I pray the visions and ideas you gave to people to start a ministry, you would put in their hearts

to start it today in Jesus' Name 

I pray for ministries that are being formed

To be made perfect and flourish today

In Jesus Name

I pray for protection for all new and forming ministries today In Jesus' Name

Give the leaders of these groups wisdom and help them to be a light to the world

In Jesus' Name

In Jesus' Name, all this would happen today

Amen

Implant ministry in the hearts of your people today and let it burn so the people who are called will head this call to form and create new ministries!!!

Study of Peter 1 & 2: Chapter 3 verse 1& 2...

Purpose of This Letter

3 Beloved, this is now the second letter I am writing to you in which I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of a reminder, 2 to remember the words spoken beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior spoken by your apostles.

Verse 1

This letter is the second letter Peter wrote as stated in verse 3:1. 

My dear friends, this is the second letter I have written to encourage you to do some honest thinking. I don't want you to forget 2 Peter 3 :1 CEV

This is now, beloved, the second epistle that I write unto you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by putting you in remembrance; 2 Peter 3:1 AMP

This letter was to remind them of what was spoken to them by the apostles.

11 Beloved, I urge you as foreigners and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts, which wage war against the soul. 1 Peter 2:11

Verse 2

Words that were spoken before to them by the way of the prophets, the commandments, the Lord and Savior were what Peter reminded them of by the way of the apostles.

what God's prophets said would happen. You must never forget what the holy prophets taught in the past. And you must remember what the apostles told you our Lord and Savior has commanded us to do. 2 Peter 3:2 CEV

that ye should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of the Lord and Saviour through your apostles: 2 Peter 2:3 ASV

Keep Yourselves in the Love of God

17 But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, Jude 1:17

Through Heaven's Eyes