Learning Objective: Learn why God never wastes our pain and how to navigate a trial with faith over fear.
Scriptures:
Matthew 25
Prayer: Dear Lord, I want to be filled with your joy and use the talents you have blessed me with to serve others. Make this possible for me today as I choose to put you first, gain clarity around the gifts you have given me and show me my give back project today. Prayer shared in the podcast: “It is out of love for thee, oh Lord, that I do surrender all that I think and believe I am, including life itself. To Thee O Lord, do I surrender my being.”
By the end of this Bible study, participants will be able to:
Examine Hannah’s prayer of praise to understand God’s character and His sovereignty over every circumstance.
Compare the lives of Eli’s sons and young Samuel to identify the difference between outward religious activity and inward devotion.
Recognize how pride, selfishness, and spiritual complacency can influence our relationships and decisions.
Apply the Emotional Intelligence in Christ (EIC) Framework to evaluate personal attitudes, behaviors, and motives.
Develop practical habits that cultivate humility, obedience, integrity, and faithful stewardship before God.
Commit to honoring God in everyday choices by allowing Christ to shape both character and behavior.
Scriptures: 1 Samuel 2:30 | Luke 16:10 | James 4:10
The book helped them understand five key areas:
God Honors Those Who Honor Him
Character Is Built Long Before Leadership
Humility Positions Us For God’s Purpose
Prayer:
Heavenly Father,
Thank You for inviting us into Your presence today.
As we study 1 Samuel 2, help us understand what it truly means to honor You with our hearts, our attitudes, and our actions.
Teach us to recognize pride before it grows, to embrace humility before You, and to choose obedience over convenience.
Reveal any behaviors within us that are not pleasing to You, and through the Holy Spirit, transform us into people whose lives reflect the character of Christ. May this study not simply increase our knowledge but deepen our relationship with You.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen.
Learning Objective: Learn why God never wastes our pain and how to navigate a trial with faith over fear.
Scriptures:
James 1:2-4
1 Peter 2:19
Romans 8:18-23
Prayer: Dear Lord, help me to interrupt false beliefs and fear that often slither in when I’m facing an undesirable situation with faith and the power of your presence and word.
By the end of this study, participants will be able to:
Examine the leadership of Samuel, Saul, and David to identify the qualities of a God-honoring leader.
Analyze how 1 Samuel contrasts outward appearance with inward character.
Evaluate the dangers of comparison, pride, and seeking human approval.
Differentiate between Saul’s superficial obedience and David’s repentant heart.
Apply the principles of 1 Samuel 16:7 to cultivate humility, integrity, and obedience.
Reflect on your own heart using the EIC (Encounter–Identified Behavior–Course Correct) Framework.
Scriptures: 1 Samuel 16:7 | Proverbs 4:23 | 1 Samuel 15:22 | Jeremiah 29:11 | Samuel Chap. 1-7/ 8-15/16-31
The book helped them understand five key areas:
God Values Character More Than Appearance
Obedience Always Matters More Than Performance
God’s Calling Is Based on His Purpose, Not Human Expectations
Prayer:
Heavenly Father,
As we begin our study of 1 Samuel, open our hearts, minds, and spirits to receive what You desire to teach us. Help us move beyond outward appearances and develop hearts that seek Your wisdom above human understanding.
Teach us to value humility over pride, obedience over performance, and faithfulness over popularity. As Israel transitioned from divided tribes into one nation, unite our hearts in love, purpose, and devotion to You.
Lord, help us see ourselves and others as You see us—not through outward appearance, but through the condition of our hearts.
May Your Holy Spirit guide our discussion, deepen our understanding, and transform our lives through the truth of Your Word.
Thank You for Your grace, Your mercy, and the countless blessings You provide—both seen and unseen.
Learning Objective: Hijacked by the Hustle? Discover how cravings, the pursuit of power, and pride create stress and pull you off God’s path—and how anchoring your identity in Christ leads to lasting peace.
Scriptures: Genesis 3:2-7 | Luke 4:1-13 | 1 John 2;15-18
Prayer: Dear Lord, too often I am hijacked by the hustle as I hook into cravings fueled by pride that knock me off the path you have created for me to walk on. Help me to unhook and hook back into you.
Learning Objective: By the end of this episode, participants will be able to recognize that healing is a God-guided process requiring time, identify emotional and spiritual behaviors that may hinder healing, and apply the Emotional Intelligence in Christ (EIC) framework—Encounter, Identify the Behavior, and Course Correct—to respond with faith, patience, and trust in God’s promises.
Thank You for being our Healer, our Comforter, and our constant source of hope. When healing feels slow, help us to trust Your perfect timing. Renew our minds, strengthen our bodies, restore our hearts, and deepen our faith. Help us by giving us patience to embrace the process and confidence to know that You are always working for our good. Let the message in the teaching help all those who need healing, by reminding us all that in each day we never walk alone because You are with us every step of the journey.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Learning Objective: By the end of this lesson, you will explore how the Book of Ruth reveals God’s providence, restoration, and faithfulness in everyday life—even when circumstances feel uncertain or delayed.
Key Learning areas:
The book helped them understand five key areas:
God Works Behind the Scenes
Faithfulness Creates Pathways
God Restores What Seems Lost
Obedience in Small Steps Leads to Divine Alignment
Your Story Can Become a Legacy of Hope
Prayer
Heavenly Father,
Thank You for another day to praise and honor You. Even when our attention drifts and our focus becomes distracted, You remain faithful and never forget us.
As we begin our study of the Book of Ruth, open our hearts to recognize Your restoring power at work in our lives. Help us see that even during seasons of loss, disappointment, uncertainty, and waiting, you are still working behind the scenes for our good.
Give us discernment when bitterness, discouragement, fear, or hopelessness try to take root in our hearts. Teach us to replace those thoughts with trust in Your promises and confidence in Your faithfulness.
Strengthen us to choose obedience over compromise, faith over fear, and hope over despair. Help us trust that You are the God who restores what has been lost and renews what has been broken.
Learning Objective: Increase self-awareness by identifying modern-day idols that compete for their attention and affection and practice aligning their thoughts, emotions, and decisions with God’s truth.
Scriptures: 1 Kings 18 ? Colossians 1:9-14
Prayer: Lord, too often I seek answers, security and fulfillment from the world. Grant me the grace to reorder my disordered focus so that I am undivided in my desire to pursue what YOU want me to pursue.
Learning Objective: By the end of this lesson, You will explore how the Book of Judges reveals the cycle of compromise, self-rule, and spiritual drift, and how believers can use self-examination through an EIC lens to return to God’s guidance and truth.
We come before You with humble hearts, acknowledging that without Your guidance, we are prone to wander and rely on our own understanding.
As we enter this reflection on the Book of Judges, we ask that You open our eyes to see the subtle ways compromise can enter our thoughts, choices, and desires. Search our hearts and reveal anything that has drawn us away from Your truth.
Teach us to recognize where we have been doing what is right in our own eyes rather than seeking Your wisdom and leadership. Give us the courage to face ourselves honestly, without shame, and the grace to respond with repentance and willingness to change.
Through this time, form in us a deeper awareness of Your presence. Strengthen our emotional and spiritual discernment so that we may respond with wisdom rather than impulse, and with obedience rather than resistance.
Help us to walk in alignment with You, surrendering self-rule and embracing Your righteous leadership over every area of our lives.
May this reflection bring clarity, conviction, and transformation—not through condemnation, but through Your loving correction and truth.
Learning Objective: Explore attachment in your life and learn how to release it so that you become a lighter version of yourself.
Scriptures: Matthew 11:29, 19:27-30 | Colossians 1:9-14
Prayer: Lord, grant me the ability to remove from my life those things that do not have any lasting value. Those things that block my ability to tune into what you have planned for me. I want your will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding to be done.
