RCCG JUNIOR ZEAL FOR 2022/2023 - AGE 9-12 TEACHER'S MANUAL - SUNDAY 9TH OF APRIL, 2023 - LESSON THIRTY TWO (32) - TOPIC: REVISION 5/SUMMARY

RCCG JUNIOR ZEAL FOR 2022/2023 – AGE 9-12 TEACHER’S MANUAL – SUNDAY 9TH OF APRIL, 2023 – LESSON THIRTY TWO (32) – TOPIC: REVISION 5/SUMMARY

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RCCG JUNIOR ZEAL FOR 2022/2023
AGE 9-12 TEACHER’S MANUAL
SUNDAY 9TH OF APRIL, 2023
LESSON THIRTY TWO (32)
TOPIC: REVISION 5/SUMMARY

Revise the previous lesson with the children
Ask them questions to ensure lessons have been well understood.
Tell your class to review the previous lessons during the week before the revision

SUMMARY OF LESSONS 27-31
LESSON TWENTY SEVEN (27)
TOPIC: THE POWER GIFT 1: FAITH

BIBLE TEXT: Hebrews 11:1-6

MEMORY VERSE: Hebrews 11:1, “Now faith is the substance of things honed for, the evidence of things not seen”

LESSON AIM: To let the children know the power of faith

CENTRAL TRUTH: without faith we cannot do the will of God.

INTRODUCTION:The gift of faith may be defined as the special gift whereby the Spirit provides Christians with extraordinary confidence in God’s promises, power, and presence so they can take heroic stands for the future of God’s work in the church. The spiritual gift of faith is exhibited by one with a strong and unshakeable confidence in God, His Word, and His promises. Examples of people with the gift of faith are those listed in Hebrews chapter 11.

STUDY GUIDE
A. DEFINE THE GIFT OF FAITH ?

The gift of faith is exhibited by one with a strong and unshakeable confidence in God, His word and His promises.
The gift of faith enables some people to have an extraordinary amount of faith that God uses to show us his power in ways that create joy and encouragement for others.
The gift of faith is the supernatural ability to confidently without doubt or wavering, believe God for the impossible in a situation or need.

B. GIVE BIBLICAL EXAMPLES EXAMPLES FROM THE FOLLOWING PASSAGES: Daniel 3:23-25, Daniel 6:16-22, Matthew 9:20,Matthew 21:18-22

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego(Daniel 3:23-25)
Daniel(Daniel 6:16-22)
The woman with the issue of blood(Matthew 9:20)
Withering of fig tree(Matthew 21:18-22)

C. FOUR DISTINCTIONS OF FAITH IN THE SCRIPTURES
The distinctions of faith as found in the Scriptures are:

Saving Faith. Ephesians 2:8-9
The Prayer of Faith. James 5:15.
Works of Faith. James 2:14-17.
The Gift of Faith.

D. WHAT DOES FAITH DO?

The gift enables you to gain insight for a moment into what God wants to accomplish and it equips you with the necessary power to bring it about.
The gift of faith speaks a miracle into existence. Mark 11:12-14; 20-22
The gift of faith brings circumstances and people into divine alignment.

E. HOW DOES THE GIFT OF FAITH SERVE GOD’S PURPOSE?

The gift brings attention to God by providing someone with a supernatural encounter.
The gift establishes an onlooker or recipient with an unexplainable miracle of the truth of God’s existence and personal care. Acts 9:32-35.
The gift establishes a clear distinction as to who is really in sync with God. Or better, the gift of faith communicates, “God is using this person because they act like God.” Acts 5:12-16.

LIFE APPLICATION: As a child of God this gift of faith is available for you as long as you believe in the God of all possibility.

CONCLUSION: Make yourself available to exhibit an unshakeable confidence in the word of God.

LESSON TWENTY EIGHT (28)
TOPIC: THE POWER GIFT 2: HEALING AND WORKING OF MIRACLES

BIBLE TEXT: Mark 1:29-34

MEMORY VERSE: Mark 16:18 “They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”

LESSON AIM: To let the children know the power of healing

CENTRAL TRUTH: Our God is a healer

INTRODUCTION: What is Healing? Healing means to restore to health; to overcome a malady caused by a disease, virus, bacteria, germ, malformation, etc. The gift of healing is not medical science but God has anointed many people to operate with His mighty power because there are no situations that exceed the healing pOwer of God. There is nothing too hard for God. While the working of miracles is allowing the mighty power of God to flow through you. True miracles always confirm and bear witness to the Gospel. They always give glory to Christ, the Miracle Worker.

STUDY GUIDE
A. WHAT IS THE GIFT OF HEALING?
The gift of healing is an endowment from the Holy Spirit upon a human to bring about miraculous healing and deliverance from disease and infirmities whether functional, organic, cellular, nervous, or etc. It is the power of God being made manifest through a human to destroy the works of the devil in a human body.

B. WHAT THE GIFT OF HEALING IS NOT

It is not medical science.
It is not a temporary psychological cure.

C. HOW YOU SHOULD OPERATE IN THE ANOINTING WITH THE GIFT OF HEALING.

Spend time in prayer, specifically aimed at healing.
Learn the healing Scriptures. Then, at any time, you can use the Word of God to pray for someone’s healing.
Stay in close relationship with the Holy Spirit. You will be prepared when He directs you to pray.
Get compassion in your heart before you pray. 1 Corinthians 13:1-2.

D. THE GIFT OF WORKING OF MIRACLES
A miracle is the performance of something against the laws of nature; it is a supernatural power to intervene and counteract earthly and evil forces.

Signs may be defined as, “significant displays of power that point beyond themselves.”
Wonders may be defined as, “that which emphasizes the marvelous aspect of the signs.” The word “wonder” is never used by itself. It is always used with other words, such as sign.
Miracles are defined as “mighty works that bring out this truth: In Christ’s miracles, there is supernatural power.” The word “miracles” (dunamis) means, “the working of God’s power that interrupts, disregards and displaces the natural laws of nature.”

E. GIVE EXAMPLE OF MIRACLE IN THE BIBLE (John 2, John 11, Matt. 14:13-14, Act 19:1-6, Exodus 14:16)
The greatest miracle was God Coming to earth, born of a virgin, as fully human. He never lost His divine attributes. He voluntarily veiled them to become fully man, but was always remained fully God. Thirty years later, the Holy Spirit came upon Jesus. Then, Jesus unveiled some of His divine attributes. When He arose from the dead, He unveiled all of them. Now, He is alive and active through the Holy Spirit with His miraculous power to heal. Jesus was crucified and resurrected to reconcile us to Him. Salvation is the greatest miracle any of us will experience. Do you know Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior?

LIFE APPLICATION: The greatest miracle was God coming to earth, born of a virgin, as fully human.

CONCLUSION: It is not God’s will that we should be sick. It is clear that Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil (1st John 3:8). We know that Jesus was used to heal many people. God wants us to be healthy, not just healed.

LESSON TWENTY NINE (29)
TOPIC: THE REVELATIONAL GIFT 1: WORD OF WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE

BIBLE TEXT: Acts 27:5-16

MEMORY VERSE: 1 Corinthians 12:8, “for to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit.”

LESSON AIM: To let the children know the importance of the gift of word of wisdom and word of knowledge.

CENTRAL TRUTH: God is all-knowing.

INTRODUCTION: Apostle Paul appealed unto Caesar for judgment and so he sailed to Italy with some other prisoners. The angel of the Lord revealed to him about an impending danger, he warned the captain of the ship and they didn’t listen to him.

STUDY GUIDE
WHAT IS THE WORD OF KNOWLEDGE
A. This is supernatural gift of the Holy Spirit that is impacted to a believer to have knowledge of what has happened in the past and what will happen in the future.
It also has knowledge of the cause of a problem in a challenging situation.
It involves understanding truth with an insight that only comes by revelation from God.

B. WHAT IS WORD OF WISDOM?
This is supernatural gift of the Holy Spirit that is impacted to a believer to have a practical way out of the problem that the individual is facing.
The spirit of God will give solution of what to do to come out of the situation. (Wisdom is good judgment based upon knowledge.)

C. BIBLICAL EXAMPLES OF WORD OF KNOWLEDGE

Agabus gave a word of knowledge by the Holy Spirit that there will be famine throughout the entire world. It came to pass during the reign of Claudius Caesar (Acts 11:28)
Mark 2:6,8 Jesus received a word of knowledge about what the scribe were thinking and reasoning in their hearts
John 1:47 Jesus received a word of knowledge that He saw Nathaniel under a tree through a vision before He ever met Him.
Jesus received a word of knowledge that the woman at the well had 5 husbands and the one she was with was not truly her husband. John 4:16-19
Peter received a word of knowledge that Simon the Sorcerer was poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity. Acts 8:23

BIBLICAL EXAMPLES OF WORD OF WISDOM (2 KING 5:10)
Elisha gave a word of wisdom to Naaman the Syrian to go and wash himself in Jordan seven times for him to be cleansed of his leprosy (2 kings 5:10)

D. PURPOSE FOR THE WORD OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM
The purpose for both the word of wisdom and the word of knowledge is the same. It is to build up Christ’s body. These two gifts often work together, but the word of knowledge may come before the word of wisdom. By the word of knowledge Jesus told the Samaritan woman about her past life. Then, by the word of wisdom He gave her the solution to her problem. John 4:1-25

LIFE APPLICATION: Before you can exhibit the gift of word of knowledge and word of wisdom, you must be born again and be baptized of the Holy Spirit.

CONCLUSION: With these revelational gifts, it will be easy to defeat the activities of the devil.

LESSON THIRTY (30)
TOPIC: THE REVELATIONAL GIFT 2: DISCERNMENT OF SPIRIT

BIBLE TEXT: Acts 16:16-19

MEMORY VERSE: 1 John 4:1, “Beloved, believe not every spirit. but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many prophets are gone out into the word.”

LESSON AIM: To let the children know the importance of discernment of spirit

CENTRAL TRUTH: To test every spirit speaking through a person whether it is of God or not.

INTRODUCTION: Paul and Silas went to pray in a place and they encountered a young girl that had spirit of divination. Apostle Paul could discern she was not being used by the spirit and so he commanded the unclean spirit to come out of her and she was delivered. She could no longer be able to bring gain to her master through divination.

STUDY GUIDE
A. WHAT IS DISCERNMENT OF SPIRIT?

This is a supernatural ability enabled by God’s Holy Spirit that allows a person to determine the source of a spirit manifestation whether it emanates from God, the devil, world or man.
This is a spiritual gift that God gives to believers in order recognize lying spirits and to identify deceptive and erroneous doctrines.

B. THE PURPOSE OF THE GIFT OF DISCERNMENT

Detect Spirits. 1 John 4:1-3, 2 Cor. 11:13-15.
Expose Deceivers. Romans 16:17-18, Jeremiah 29:8-9
Save the Deceived. Matthew 24:11-13, John 10:10-13.

C. THE KEYS TO RECEIVING THE GIFT OF DISCERNMENT

Walking in the Spirit, Galatians 5:16
Denying our Flesh through prayer and fasting. Matthew 17:21.
Studying the Voice of God through his Word. Romans 10:17.
Humble yourself before God
Have the right motive
Ask for the infilling of the Holy Spirit
Live a Holy Life

D. BIBLICAL EXAMPLES

Judgment between the two harlots, King Solomon was able to discerned the owner of the child.(1 King 3:9)
Slave girl using spirit divination(Acts 16:16-19)
Sanballat and Tobiah plot detected (Nehemiah 6:9-13)

LIFE APPLICATION. As children of God pray that Holy Spirit should let you discern.

CONCLUSION: This gift gives us information about the presence or absence of Holy Spirit.

LESSON THIRTY ONE (31)
TOPIC: INSPIRATIONAL GIFT 1: PROPHECY

BIBLE TEXT: 1 Kings 13:1-3

MEMORY VERSE: 2 Peter 1:21. “For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”

LESSON AIM: To let the children know there is a gift of prophecy.

CENTRAL TRUTH: 0nly recognize the prophecy that come from God.

INTRODUCTION: A prophet of God came from Judah and prophesied of the birth of a child that will be born in the future that will destroy idolatrous worship in Bethel and it came to fulfillment in 2 Kings Chapter 22 & 23.

STUDY GUIDE
A. WHAT IS PROPHECY?

Divinely inspired utterances.
Ability to receive a divinely inspired message and deliver it to others in the church.

B. WHAT ARE THE REASONS FOR PROPHECIES IN THE BIBLE?

To warn of potential consequences. Jeremiah 18:5-10.1 Samuel 2-3
To expose common pitfalls of human nature.
To help us understand the future. Revelation 13:11;
To give us hope. Revelation 22:12-14, Revelation 21:3-4.

C. OLD/NEW TESTAMENT PROPHETS
In the Old and New Testaments we are introduced to several male and female prophets.
Among the Old Testament prophets:

Miriam (Ex. 15:20; Num. 12:2)
Deborah (Judges 4:4, 6)
Joel (Joel 2:28-29)
Prophet Jeremiah. (Jer. 23:9-40, Matt. 7:15-23)

Among the New Testament prophets are the following:

Anna (Luke 2:36)
Elizabeth (Luke 1:39-45);

D. MARK OF TRUE PROPHET:

They prophesied in the name of the Lord, not in their own name (2 Pet. 1:21)
They did not give their own private interpretation of prophecy (2 Pet. 1:20)
They pointed out the sins and transgressions of the people against God (Isa. 58:1);
They warned the people of God’s coming judgment (lsa. 24:20)
They edified the church providing godly counsel and advice in religious maters (1 Cor. 14:3-4)
Their words were in absolute harmony with the words of the prophets that preceded them (Isa. 8:20; Gal. 1:8-9)
They acted in accordance with the will and approval of God (Deut. 18:19).

LIFE APPLICATION: Whenever the prophecy of God comes to you it is to guide you in the right path.

CONCLUSION: There are so many prophecies in the scriptures which have come to pass and some are yet to come to pass. Like the second coming of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. This will definitely come to pass at the appointed time.

Open Heavens 2021 Daily Devotional guide was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the largest evangelical church in the world and also the President of Christ the Redeemer’s Ministries. The Open Heavens devotional application is available across all mobile platforms and operating systems: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Nokia, Windows Mobile and PC.

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