Week 9. Tuesday: What Is Your Life? PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: James 4:14 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. UNDERSTAND: get a deeper understanding of the key words Begin by underlining nouns with a single line, double underline verbs, and circle descriptive words. Make a list of the keys words/phrases and think about what they mean. SNAPSHOT: I

Week 9. Monday: Making Plans PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: James 4:13 13 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” UNDERSTAND: get a deeper understanding of the key words Begin by underlining nouns with a single line, double underline verbs, and circle descriptive words. Make a list of the keys words/phrases and think about what they mean. Snapshot: In this passag

Week 8. Saturday: Prepare for Sunday REVIEW: Take a few minutes to make a list of what you’ve learned this week. PRAY: Ask God to use this time to help you get familiar with Sunday’s scripture passage. READ: James 4:13-17 13 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while

Week 8. Friday: Who Are You to Judge? PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: James 4:11-12 11 Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. 12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor? UNDERSTAND: get a

Week 8. Thursday: Submit and Resist PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: James 4:7-10 7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. UNDERSTAND: get a deeper under

Week 8. Wednesday: Friends and Enemies PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: James 4:4-6 4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us? 6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the pro

Week 8. Tuesday: Ask God PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: James 4:2-3 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. UNDERSTAND: get a deeper understanding of the key words Do not have, so you kill: This is violent language fo

Week 8. Monday: The Cause of Conflict PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: James 4:1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? UNDERSTAND: get a deeper understanding of the key words Fights and quarrels: At the end of chapter three, James teaches us to be peacemakers. Then he begins chapter four with an explanation of why we have conflict. Too often we deal with conflict at the surface level. It’s eas

Week 7. Saturday: Prepare for Sunday REVIEW: Take a few minutes to make a list of what you’ve learned this week. PRAY: Ask God to use this time to help you get familiar with Sunday’s scripture passage. READ: James 4:1-3 1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.

Week 7. Friday: Peacemakers PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: James 3:18 18 Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness. UNDERSTAND: get a deeper understanding of the key words Peacemakers: Being a peacemaker is active and not passive. We seek to make peace where there is conflict. As followers of Christ we are called to peace (Colossians 3:15). Jesus taught in Matthew 5:9 that peacemakers will be blessed and called children of God. When w