SUNDAY: TRINITY 3

Liturgical Colour: GREEN

7.15 A.M:   Pre-Service Bible Study  27      

Conductor:  Dame Nneka Mba

SUB-THEME4: DIVINE MEANS OF HEALING

TOPIC:             Human Agents (iii): Individual Believers Today.

TEXT:               Ezra 9:1 – 10:15.

 

AIM: To

• Discover what God expects individual believers to do about the healing of the land/nation;
• Aspire to be used by God to restore lost glories;
• Realise we have all it takes to spearhead revival and will be accountable for them.

INTRODUCTION

Our text clearly states the individual roles of Ezra and Shechaniah and how these propelled appreciable corporate effort and revival. Ezra was a priest, Shechaniah was a layman. The combination of their roles is a typical example of what is needed for a great divine visitation to the Church of Nigeria today. Both men were not invited, they simply responded to the burdens placed in their hearts by God. Revival and its accompanying healing can begin from either the clergy or lay. It depends entirely on how individual believers respond.

 

 

QUESTION FOR DISCUSSION

1. 1. What were the transgressions of God’s people in Ezra 9:1, 2?
   2. What were the God’s implications of these transgressions to them, their posterity and God’s plan for them? Ezra 9:2b; Deut 7:3, 4, 6.

2. 1. What did Ezra do and what do these connote? Ezra 9:3-6; Job 42:6.
   2. What were the implications of his actions and the results that followed? Ezra 9:3-5; 10:1-4.

3. 1. How will you describe Shechaniah’s action-what it meant then and does today? Ezra 10:2-4; Titus 2:15.
   2. How did it influence Ezra’s further action, the revival and healing that followed? Ezra 10:4-6, 9-14.

4. What challenges, from the individual actions of these saints inspire you?
   1. Nehemiah, 2:11, 12, 17-20;
   2. Phinehas, Num 25:1-13;
   3. Gideon, Judges 6:1, 6, 11-16; 7:22.

CONCLUSION

God works with both individuals and groups; with few or many; He uses the weak and the mighty. God specifically calls and enlists men to pursue His purpose many that have, however offered themselves and were tremendously used by Him. What have you chosen to do?

 

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Here I am; send me, use me!

 

MEMORY VERSE: Ezra 10: 4 – Take action, for it is your duty, and we are with you; be strong, and do it.”