Women of Grace Fall Semester ‘03

With the Master in the Upper Room

Homework for Lesson Eleven: John 14:27-31

Five Peace Stealers

Your Homework is Not Only to Sharpen Your Understanding of the Bible but a Ministry to Others in Your Small Groups! Be Faithful to Give Careful Thought to Each Answer with the Expectation of Sharing with Others What You have Discovered.

 

Memory Work-John 14:27

1) (a) Read John 14 and list your favorite promises.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b) How are these a personal comfort to you?

 

 

 

 

 

 

(c) Spend some time thanking God for each promise.

 

 

 

 

(d) How could you use them in helping someone going through troubling times?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2)) What did Jesus mean in verse 28, "for my Father is greater than I," especially in light of John 10:30 which says, "I and the Father are one"? Prove your answer from the Scriptures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

3) (a) What do the following verses say about peace?

Ps. 29:11

 

 

 

Ps. 72:7

 

 

 

Ps. 85:10

 

 

 

Isaiah 9:6

 

 

 

Isaiah 26:3

 

 

 

Isaiah 32:17

 

 

 

John 16:33

 

 

 

Romans 5:1

 

 

Romans 8:6

 

 

 

(b) What comfort do these verses give?

 

 

 

 

 

 

3) Read Philippians 4:6-7. (a) What is God's remedy for anxiety?

 

 

 

(b) How does God's peace affect a believer's heart and mind?

 

 

 

 

 

 

4) (a) What is the requirement to acquiring peace according to John 16:33 and I Peter 5:14?

 

 

 

 

(b) What does the God of peace desire to accomplish within you according to I Thessalonians 5:23 and Hebrews 13:20,21?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5) (a) Write down all the things that could steal peace in your life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b) What is the remedy for peace in each one of these things?

 

 

7) (a) What is stealing the peace in your life?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b) Write down your need in the form of a prayer request.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Come with a request so that we might pray for you.