My Ways Are Not Your Ways Syllabus                                           obcmy2

OBC                    My Ways Are Not Your Ways               Lesson 2 

God’s Way is walking in joy.                             Man’s way is walking in anxiety.

Isaiah 55:8 & 9

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts”
 
It is God’s way that we walk in joy.   You might say, “How can I walk in joy when I have all of these problems?”   Too often we choose to walk as men in anxiety, instead of in joy.  We will examine some scriptures that teach us to walk in joy.    We will also consider what the scriptures say about anxiety.
 
I Thessalonians 5:16-18 says,   “__________always,  _________ without ceasing; in everything _____ ____________,  for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”
Notice in this scripture we are told that we are to rejoice when?______________.
We are to pray without what?_______________-
In everything we are to do what?___________________
 
Lets think of some things that we have to rejoice about.

1.  What did the eunuch of Acts 8:39 have to rejoice about?________________

    When we obey God's word we have reason to rejoice.

2. What according to Romans 5:2 gives us reason to rejoice?
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3. Paul and Silas rejoiced in prison (Acts 16:25).   What did they do to show their rejoicing?
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Why do you think they rejoiced in their unfavorable circumstances?
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Who was always with them, and is always with us?____________
4. What will be added unto you if you seek first the kingdom of God, according to Matthew 6:33?
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Does God know if you need food or clothing or shelter?__________________
Can we rejoice that when we seek first His ways, He will add to us the necessities of life?________
5. Can we expect to face loss in this life? (Read Romans 12:15.)  ______________
We can rejoice at the expectation of having brethren weep with us when we weep.
I Peter 5:7,   “Casting all your ___________ upon him for he __________ for you.”
Can we rejoice that when we have troubles and cares, God cares about us?______
Is this reason to rejoice always?_______
Rejoicing always is God’s way,  I Thessalonians 5:16.
 
Now let us look at man’s way of dealing with life’s troubles.
Let's see what the scriptures say about anxiety.

6.Philippians 4:6 says,  be careful for nothing, or in other words don’t ______________
How do we keep from being anxious?  (Read the rest of verse 6) by ______________ and ___________________.
What does supplication mean?

supplication–noun, 

"an act or instance of supplicating; humble prayer, entreaty, or petition."

7. Matthew 6:25 ASV,  “Therefore I say unto you, Be not ____________ for your life, what you shall eat or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.  Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment.”

8. Matthew 6:26,   “Behold the _________ of the air; for they ______ _____, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them.   Are ye not much __________ _______ _______?”

9. Matthew 6: 28-30,   “And why take ye thought for raiment: consider the _________of the field , how they grow; they ________ ______, neither do they _________; and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if _________ so clothe the ________ of the field, which today is and tomorrow is cast into the oven, ________ ____ ______ much more _________ ________, O ye of little faith.”

10. Does God care about bird and grass?   We know that God cares about small things such as birds and grass, so why should we be anxious?   Surely we are of more value than birds and grass.  What makes us anxious? (See the end of Matt. 6:30.)  ____________________.
We know that worry and anxiety are counter productive.  They hurt us mentally, and even sometimes physically.   This is the way of the world.
 
Which do you choose:   joy (rejoicing) or anxiety?   Do you choose God’s way or man’s way?
 
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