Our Overall Response to Biblical Examples!

We can all learn to Pray like Hannah. She prayed fervently with commitment and her words were a bond that she kept before God. Even when she saw no results for what she asked for, she continued praying to God until she got her answer. Many begin to wait upon the Lord like Hannah did but soon lose focus and tend to think that they are simply wasting their time and they soon give up. Hannah stayed focus, stayed true and stayed committed until God responded to her request. We can also learn to Obey like Daniel and the Three Hebrew Boys. These men learned to trust God more than they trusted the king or any one in authority in the land. They were led by God and they trusted Him with all their hearts refusing to bow to the king and worship him. They were even willing to suffer punishment and death instead of bowing down in worship to anyone else but God.

John 13:35 “By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”

We can learn to Lead like Moses. Although Moses was double-minded when God asked him to lead the Hebrew people out of Egypt, he eventually went and did what God asked him to do. But the minute that Moses stepped up and began leading the people, he never looked back, he never had any reservations and he did the best possible job that he could have done. We can argue that he could have done some things better, but we don’t have any idea what Moses went through. He successfully led them out of Egypt and out of the hands of Pharaoh and his army. We can learn to Build like Noah. God asked Noah to build an ark in a time when there was no rain previously. The earth was watered by the dew of heaven. Yet, Noah obeyed and did what God commanded him to do to the last detail. Although no one else apart from his family was saved, Noah accomplished what God requested of him! It shows us that God judges us on our obedience and not on the outcome.

We can learn to Worship like David. I believe that this is the reason why David is known as the man after God’s Heart. David knew how to approach God, how to be real with God and honor and obey God. But more importantly, David also knew how to come in repentance before God. He knew that God looks at the heart and not our outward approach. David made sure that his heart was right with God before he could come before God. That is why David had a pure heart and a right spirit when he came before God. We can learn to Believe like Mary. Mary was a young woman who was engaged to be married. When God spoke to Mary and told her of His plan to save the world through her seed, she was overjoyed and ecstatic and made this declaration: “Let it be unto me as You have said…” She believed God and took Him at His Word without doubting. She gave birth to the Holy Son of God!

We can learn to Teach like Paul. [Paul] Saul the then known persecutor of the church of Jesus Christ became the teacher that would exhort all Christians how to be Christ-like and true children of God. These letters in the New Testament show us how we need to conduct ourselves and how we ought to interact with God and with others within the church and without. As we listen to Paul’s teachings, we are more and more confident in how the Holy Spirit worked in and through him. We can learn to Love like Jesus. Everything that we touched on in this message would be of no value if we don’t learn to love like Jesus. Even Paul says that we would be nothing but loud sounding cymbals that amount to no value without love. Love forms the basis of who we are as Christians. When we love like Jesus did, we reveal Jesus to all who we meet and to all that we learn to share our lives with. When we love like God, we remind God of who He is, for God is Love!

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