Spiritual Growth Scheme New Testament Reading Training Material, 2024
SGS NT TRAINING DAY 5
SGS NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE READING
NOVEMBER 2024 – TWENTY-SEVENTH EDITION
TRAINING DAY 5 Good day, Friends!
Welcome; This is the FIFTH INSTALMENT of our training.
We want to appreciate everyone who has been praying and leaving a good word for us. Thank you very much. God bless you richly. And to all who have been following, God bless you also.
DO YOU FEEL SLEEPY WHILE READING?
Try these practical steps:
✓ You can rebuke the devil plainly if it is spiritual.
✓ Read at the time you are alert, not when you are worked up and tired. ✓ Avoid reading while lying down. Practice Reading while sitting upright.
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✓ If tiny fonts make you sleepy, try bigger and bolder fonts. ✓ Take snacks to keep yourself busy or chew gum if it's healthy for you. ✓ Read where there's a lot of light. ✓ If you are reading during the day, go outside to expose your eyes to daylight rather than staying inside. ✓ If you are really tired, try to rest a little and wake up bright, if that works for you. ✓ Scientists believe that if you eat healthily and take lots of water, you will feel more alert. ✓ You can ask the Holy Spirit to take control before you start ✓ You can read at intervals of 15mins. Do something you like then return to continue.
✓ You can also read our lesson on "Keep it interesting"
LESSON 8: NOT FOR SHOW, NOT FOR FAVOUR
A number of persons have repeatedly requested that we prepare certificates of
completion for those who finish this course. They even volunteered to help us prepare it. Just when we were about to agree, we saw in our spirit that this will compromise our purpose. Our purpose for gathering people is not so that they can brandish their medals and show off how they read up their Bibles. If that is why you are here, change your thinking. Some of our participants have joined the reading over and over and over because they understood the benefit of the Word of God.
Perhaps you also joined this Bible Reading because you want to earn God's favour. You think reading up the New Testament will in some way make God love
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you more, this is also a wrong mindset. God's Love for us is not dependent on what we do. When we were at our worst, He loved us, gave us Himself and died for us. It is an offence to the cross if you try to earn God's acceptance and love through something you do. If you are His Child, He loves you not because of what you do but because of who you are; not because you are loving but because He is love. John 3:16 says it all. "God so loved the world" not "God so loved the lovely"
Are you also here still living in your sins or you have not yet accepted the Life of Christ? Or did you commit grievous sins and hope that God will forgive you if you read your bible like this? Do you think reading your Bible in some way will make God overlook your sins or wrong? Stop that!!!! You cannot do Penance for your sins. Receive the free gift of salvation through faith for the remission of your sins, then come and follow Jesus.
Reading your Bible and living in sin can deceive your heart. GO TO THE CROSS. Forgiveness and remission of sins are received by repentance and faith in the Son of God who is Christ Jesus. Don't try to earn it through work.
TODAY IS THE DAY OF SALVATION! If you are in this category, today is the day of salvation. Do not wait till tomorrow. Do not wait till the next church service.
• Why not speak to God wherever you are? Tell Him that you are ready to turn away from your ways and your sins. Speak to Him like He is hearing and Yes, He is. • Tell Him that you believe He is the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, ordained only to save you and all who believe from sins. • Ask Him to come and make your life a home. Ask Him to give you a new heart and a new spirit. Ask His Spirit to come into your heart.
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• Thank Him because it is done in Jesus’ name. Hallelujah!
If you prayed that prayer from your heart, we believe that you are born again.
Speak to your Team Leader so that he or she can help you reach our counselling team. We have something special for you to help you along the way. We look forward to hearing from you.
READ YOUR BIBLE BECAUSE YOU LOVE GOD.
If you are a child of God, you have the capacity to read your Bible because you love God and want to know Him through His Word. Not for show, nor pride, not for penance nor for favour. We love Him because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19 That will be all for this instalment. You can go over it again. It is very vital. We must be wholehearted Followers of Christ. He must be our end, not a means to our selfish ends.
PLEASE, TREAT OUR LEADERS WITH RESPECT
Many people can't understand why someone would call them and care about them for no selfish reason. But that is what God has called us to do. Many insult our leaders, call them scammers and all sorts of names. They don't believe there are people who will use their airtime to call them and text them just because they care for their souls. It is well. We don't blame them.
SGS IS A ZEAL OF THE LORD. WE ARE NOT HERE TO TAKE
FROM YOU. RATHER, WE ARE HERE TO BE A BLESSING TO YOU. WHEN WE ARE DONE SETTING YOU ON FIRE THIS MONTH, WE WILL RELEASE YOU TO BURN FOR JESUS AND INVITE OTHERS. Do not suppose that our team leaders reaching you are doing so because they are jobless or because they are mean men. To the glory of God, we have nearly
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all professionals represented in our leadership team from Nigeria and beyond (we speak like men).
Please, we beseech you by the mercies of God that you cooperate and make their work easy. They are all busy people like you, they are making sacrifices just to help a fellow believer, and they are here to labour over you selflessly. Please encourage them, and may God honour you in return in Jesus’ Name.
HAVE YOU JOINED YOUR TEAM GROUP? By now, we expect everyone to have settled into their team subgroups. If not, reach the number provided in the group.
Let us pray!!!
Faithful God, we thank You for giving us eyes to see this day. Precious Lord we ask that of all that You have given us, we will lose none. There is nothing oh God that You cannot do. We believe this with all our hearts.
Thank You Father. Your Word says if we seek You, all other things will follow us. May that be our testimony this month. Thank you because you always hear us.
We pray in Jesus’ name, Amen.
God bless you richly and have a blessed day
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DAY 5 TRAINING QUESTIONS
Try to answer the questions below, if you can't, you may need to go through the day 5 training again:
1. Avoid reading while _____. Practice reading while sitting upright.
2. Do you feel sleepy while you read? Read where there is a lot of ____ 3. Do you feel sleepy while you read? ___ not when you are worked up and tired. 4. Our purpose for gathering people is not so they can ____ their ___ and _____ that they read up their Bibles. 5. It is a ____ to the Cross if you try to ____ God's acceptance and love by something that ____ 6. You cannot do ____ for your sins neither can reading the Bible replace the need to ____ from your sins. 7. If you are a child of God, He loves you not because of ____ but because of who you are, not because you are _____ but because He is love. 8. Reading your Bible and _____ in ____ will deceive your heart. 9. We expect everyone to have settled into their team sub-group. If not, reach any of the _________ that will be _________ in the group. 10. When is reading starting? How many chapters daily? Trusting on who to help us?
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CONTACT US: Spiritual Growth Steps Ministry, SGS (AKA: Spiritual Growth Scheme) 7, Eru Oba 3 Street, Off Car Street, Akure, Ondo State. Nigeria.
