October

Sometime, you can feel that it hard to obey? King David use to feel the same way sometime, so he pray to God and say: Help me to be willing to obey you. (Ps. 51:12) David really use to love Jehovah. But still, it use to be hard for David to obey sometime. And the same thing can happen to us. Why? First, we were born with the feeling to disobey. Second, Satan always looking for way to make us to disobey, just like him. (2 Cor. 11:3) Third, we living in the world where plenty people can’t want obey, “the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.” (Eph. 2:2) We must not only fight hard to not sin, but we must also fight hard so that Satan and his world can’t make us to disobey. We must also fight hard to obey the people them that Jehovah na appoint over us. w23.10 6 ¶1

Wetin we can learn from the miracle that Jesus perform by turning water to wine? We learn lesson about how to be humble. Jesus not boast about his miracle; in fact, he never use to boast about the thing them he was doing. But he was humble, and he always use to give the glory to his Father. (John 5:​19, 30; 8:28) If we follow Jesus example and be humble, we will not boast about the thing them we can do. We must not boast about ourself, but we must boast about the wonderful God we serving. (Jer. 9:​23, 24) So we must give God the glory. In fact, we not able to do anything good without Jehovah helping us. (1 Cor. 1:​26-31) When we humble, we will not take the praise for the good thing them we can do for our brother sister them. We will be satisfy because we know that Jehovah can see and value what we can do. (Compare Matthew 6:​2-4; Heb. 13:16) We know that Jehovah can be happy when we follow Jesus example to be humble.—1 Pet. 5:6. w23.04 4 ¶9; 5 ¶11-12

In the Bible, the apostle Paul encourage Christians to take interest in other people. How we can do it when we in meeting? We must always remember that other people can want comment too. Think about it this way. Suppose you and your friend them lecturing, you think you will want do all the talking? No! You will let them to talk too. That the same way when we in meeting, we must let other people to comment. In fact, one of the best way to encourage our brother and sister them, that to let them to talk about their faith. (1 Cor. 10:24) So we must make our comment them short, so other people can comment too. Even if that short comment, don’t talk on all the points. Because if you do it, nothing will leave there for other people to talk about. w23.04 22-23 ¶11-13

We must remember that it really important to continue helping other people especially by preaching to them. It good for us to be flexible when we preaching the good news. The people we can preach to get different-different ideas about God. They come from different-different places and they can do things different-different ways. So Paul use to adjust, and we can learn from his example. Jesus appoint Paul to be “apostle to the nations.” (Rom. 11:13) So Paul preach to Jews, Greeks, big-big people in the government, kings, book people and people who not know book. Paul became “all things to people of all sorts.” (1 Cor. 9:​19-22) He use to think good-good about where the people he talk to coming from and what they believe. This one help him to be flexible and to talk to each person in the way that will touch their heart and make them to learn about God. We our self too can improve our preaching if we flexible and try to think about the best way to help each person. w23.07 23 ¶11-12

Mild people strong, they not weak. We need to be strong to be able to control ourself when we facing serious problem. Mildness that one of the quality that part of the “the fruitage of the spirit.” (Gal. 5:​22, 23) Sometime people can use the Greek word for “mildness” to describe the wild horse that they na put under control. Just think about the wild horse that they na put under control. Even though it under control, but it still strong. So, how we can learn to be mild and still be strong? We not able to do it by ourself. The main thing that can help us that to pray for God spirit. We must ask him to help us get this fine quality. Experience na show that plenty people na learn to be mild. Plenty of our brother and sister them na show this quality when people try to argue with them or make them vex. Because of that other people can say good-good things about Jehovah Witnesses.—2 Tim. 2:​24, 25. w23.09 15 ¶3

In one powerful vision, the apostle John saw 24 elders in heaven worshipping Jehovah. They praise God and say, that Him get the right to receive “the glory and the honor and the power.” (Rev. 4:​10, 11) The faithful angel them also get plenty reasons to praise Jehovah. They living in heaven with him and they know him good-good. They can know his quality them from the things he can do. When they see the thing them Jehovah can do, they can want praise him. (Job 38:​4-7) We want praise Jehovah in our prayer too. We must tell him what we like about him and why we respect him. When you reading and studying the Bible, try to look for Jehovah quality them that you really like. (Job 37:23; Rom. 11:33) Then tell Jehovah how you feel about this quality them. We can also praise Jehovah because he can help us and help all our brother and sister them.—1 Sam. 2:​1, 2. w23.05 3-4 ¶6-7

In 1919, God people was free from false religion. That year, the “faithful and discreet slave” start working hard so that people who really want learn about Jehovah can start traveling on the “Way of Holiness.” (Matt. 24:​45-47; Isa. 35:8) We grateful for the work that other people did way back. Because of that, it na help plenty people today to start traveling on that road to learn more about Jehovah and his purpose. (Prov. 4:18) They were also able to obey what Jehovah say. Jehovah was not expecting his people to make all this changes one time. But small-small, Jehovah been helping his people. We will really be happy when we able to do everything that will make God happy! They need to fix every road from time to time so it can be in good condition. Since 1919, they been working on “the Way of Holiness” so that more people can move from Babylon the Great. w23.05 17 ¶15; 19 ¶16

The Governing Body theirself been training people to help on the different-different committees of the Governing Body. Now-now, this helper them faithfully taking care of plenty responsibilities in the organization. They really-really prepare to continue taking care of Jesus sheep when all the anointed go to heaven. When all the anointed go to heaven near the end of the great tribulation, true worship will continue on earth. We grateful because Jesus will be leading us, so Jehovah people on earth will continue to worship Him faithfully. That true, the group of nations the Bible call Gog of Magog will attack God people. (Ezek. 38:​18-20) But that short attack will fail, it will not stop Jehovah people from worshipping Him. He will surely save them! In one vision, the apostle John saw the “great crowd” of Jesus other sheep. John hear in the vision that the “great crowd” will come “out of the great tribulation.” (Rev. 7:​9, 14) So we convince that Jehovah will save them! w24.02 5-6 ¶13-14

Wetin we can do to get holy spirit? We can pray for it, study the Bible, and worship Jehovah with our brother and sister them. When we do it, it will help us to get “the fruitage of the spirit.” (Gal. 5:​22, 23) God can give holy spirit to people who can keep their thinking clean and do good-good thing them. He will not continue to give us his spirit if we keep thinking on bad things and doing them. (1 Thess. 4:​7, 8) Also, for us to continue to get God holy spirit, we must “not treat prophecies with contempt.” (1 Thess. 5:20) In this verse “prophecies” mean the message God can give us through the holy spirit. For example, the Bible prophesy about Jehovah day and how the world will soon end. We will not be thinking that Jehovah day will not happen in our lifetime. Instead, we will show that we expecting it to come soon by keeping ourself busy with “deeds of godly devotion.”—2 Pet. 3:​11, 12. w23.06 12 ¶13-14

Wetin we must do in case rude-rude picture just come on our phone or tablet? We must stop looking at it quick. It will be easy for us to do this one if we remember that our friendship with Jehovah more important to us. Even some picture them that not showing naked people can still make our heart to go on man and woman business. Why we must not look at them? Because we not even want think on anything that can make us to do bad thing. (Matt. 5:​28, 29) One elder in Thailand name David say: “I can ask myself: ‘Even though the picture them not showing naked people, but Jehovah will be happy if I continue looking at them?’ When I think like this it can help me to make good decision.” When we scare of doing anything that will make Jehovah feel bad, it will help us to do the right thing. Fear for God that “the beginning,” to get wisdom. w23.06 23 ¶12-13

It possible that the “inner rooms” referring to our congregation them. During the great tribulation, Jehovah promise that he will protect us if we continue serving him with our brother and sister them. So, now-now we must work hard to get strong love for our brother and sister them. It will help us to survive! During “the great day of Jehovah” things will be hard on everybody. (Zeph. 1:​14, 15) Jehovah people will suffer too. But if we get ready now-now, we will not worry too much and we will be able to help other people. We will endure any problems that will come. When our brother and sister them suffering, we will do our best to help them by feeling sorry for them and giving them the thing them they need. And if we learn to love our brother and sister them now-now, we will show love to them in the future. Then Jehovah will bless us with everlasting life in the new world where we will not remember any of the bad thing them that happen.—Isa. 65:17. w23.07 7 ¶16-17

Most of the time, the Bible can describe faithful men to be strong. But they not always use to feel strong. For example, sometime King David use to feel he was strong like mountain, but sometime he use to feel weak and get scary. (Ps. 30:7) God spirit made Samson to be strong bad way. But he knew that if it was not for God spirit, he will get weak and be like any other person. (Judg. 14:​5, 6; 16:17) This faithful men them were strong only because Jehovah gave them power. The apostle Paul say that he too needed strength from Jehovah. (2 Cor. 12:​9, 10) He was having health problems. (Gal. 4:​13, 14) Sometime, it was hard for him to do the right thing. (Rom. 7:​18, 19) And sometime he use to worry and be scare of what will happen to him. (2 Cor. 1:​8, 9) But when Paul was weak, he got the strength he needed. How? Jehovah gave Paul the strength he needed to bear his problem them. w23.10 12 ¶1-2

If sometime we can feel that we not important, we must remember that Jehovah himself draw us close to Him. (John 6:44) He can see the good qualities in us that we can’t see in ourself sometime, and he know us more than the way we know ourself. (2 Chron. 6:30) So when Jehovah say we important to him, we can trust him. (1 John 3:​19, 20) Before we learn the truth, some of us use to do things that still making us to feel guilty. (1 Pet. 4:3) Even faithful Christians get weakness that they still fighting against. Sometime you can still feel guilty? If you can feel like that, it can encourage you to know that some of Jehovah faithful people use to fight with this same type of feelings. For example, the apostle Paul really use to feel bad when he think about the mistakes he made. (Rom. 7:24) That true, Paul repent from his sins and got baptize. But still, he call himself “the least of the apostles” and the “foremost” sinner.—1 Cor. 15:9; 1 Tim. 1:15. w24.03 27 ¶5-6

One lesson we can learn from King Jehoash bad decision that to choose friend them who will make us to do good things. And this friend them must love Jehovah and try to make Him happy. We can make friends with people who older than us or who we older than. Remember that Jehoash friend Jehoiada was older than him. So if you want be friendly with somebody, ask yourself this question them: ‘They will help me to get strong faith in Jehovah? They can encourage me to live by God laws? They can talk about Jehovah and the good-good thing them he put in the Bible? They can show respect for God laws? They can just tell me what I want hear, or they can counsel me when I make mistake?’ (Prov. 27:​5, 6, 17) To talk the truth, if your friend them not love Jehovah, no need to be friendly with them. But if you get friends that love Jehovah, stick to them because they will always help you!—Prov. 13:20. w23.09 9-10 ¶6-7

In the Greek alphabet, alpha that the first letter and omega that the last letter. By saying that he “the Alpha and the Omega,” Jehovah helping us to see that anything he start, he will finish it. After Jehovah made Adam and Eve, He said to them: “Be fruitful and become many, fill the earth and subdue it.” (Gen. 1:28) Right there, it was like Jehovah say, “Alpha.” He made his purpose clear. He say: The time will come when Adam and Eve children them that obey him will be perfect and they will fill the earth and make the earth paradise. During that time, it will be just like Jehovah say, “Omega.” After Jehovah finish making “the heavens and the earth and everything in them,” He say something to show that he will surely fulfill his promise. He set the seventh day aside to fulfill his purpose for human being and the earth. So when he made the seventh day holy, it was just like he was saying he will finish doing everything at the end of the seventh day.—Gen. 2:​1-3. w23.11 5 ¶13-14

The trip from Babylon to Israel use to take about four months and it was not easy to make that trip. But Jehovah promise that he will move anything that will want stop them from going back to Israel. The faithful Jews knew that the benefits they were coming get if they go back was coming be more than any sacrifices they make. The most important blessing that was to worship Jehovah. They was not having any temple in Babylon to worship Jehovah. They was not having altar in Babylon for the Israelites to offer the sacrifice them that the Moses law talk about. And they was not having priest them that was organize to make the sacrifice for them. Beside that one, the people that was worshipping false God was plenty pass the people that was worshipping Jehovah. So plenty of the Jews who love Jehovah was happy to go back to Israel to start worshipping Jehovah the right way again. w23.05 14-15 ¶3-4

We need God holy spirit to help us to continue behaving “as children of light.” Why? Because it not easy to remain clean in this immoral world. (1 Thess. 4:​3-5, 7, 8) Holy spirit can help us to avoid the thinking of people in the world because they can’t think like Jehovah. Holy spirit can also help us to produce “every sort of goodness and righteousness.” (Eph. 5:9) One way we can get holy spirit that by praying for it. Jesus say that Jehovah will “give holy spirit to those asking him.” (Luke 11:13) And when we praise Jehovah together in meetings, we also get holy spirit. (Eph. 5:​19, 20) God holy spirit can help us do things that can make Him happy. w24.03 23-24 ¶13-15

You want be more patient? If so, pray to be more patient. Patience part of the fruitage of the spirit. (Gal. 5:​22, 23) So we can pray for holy spirit and ask Jehovah to help us get the quality them that part of the fruitage of the spirit. If we face any problem that make it hard for us to be patient, we must “keep on asking” for holy spirit to help us to be patient. (Luke 11:13) We can also ask Jehovah to help us look at things the way he can look at them. Then after praying, we must do our best to be patient every day. The more we pray to be patient and keep trying our best to be patient that the more this quality will be part of us. Thinking good-good on Bible examples can also help us. The Bible get plenty examples about people who were patient. By thinking good-good on this example them, we can learn how to show patience. w23.08 22 ¶10-11

Jesus help the apostle Peter to see that Jehovah will take care of him. After Jesus came back to life, he perform miracle for Peter and the other apostle them to catch plenty fish. (John 21:​4-6) We sure that this miracle remind Peter that it easy for Jehovah to give them the things they need. Maybe it made Peter to start thinking about what Jesus say about Jehovah providing for people who will continue putting the Kingdom first. (Matt. 6:33) All this one help Peter to put the preaching work first in his life instead of his fishing business. On Pentecost 33 C.E., Peter preach with courage and help plenty people to accept the good news. (Acts 2:​14, 37-41) After that, he help the Samaritans and people from other nations to learn about Jesus and follow him. (Acts 8:​14-17; 10:​44-48) Jehovah use Peter to help different-different people to come in the congregation. w23.09 20 ¶1; 23 ¶11

About two years after the Babylonians destroy Jerusalem, Nebuchadnezzar the king for Babylon, dream about one big statue that make him scary. He tell his wise men them and Daniel to tell him the dream and what it mean. He say if they not do it he will kill all of them. (Dan. 2:​3-5) Daniel needed to do something about it quick or else plenty people were going to die. He went to the king and ask the king to gave him some time so he can give the meaning of the dream. (Dan. 2:16) This one show that he was having courage and faith. Why? Because nowhere in the Bible say Daniel na give meaning for dream before. He ask his friend them “to pray for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this secret.” (Dan. 2:18) Jehovah answer their prayers. Jehovah help Daniel to gave the meaning for Nebuchadnezzar dream. Because of that Daniel and his friend them not die. w23.08 3 ¶4

Think about the benefits you will get when you patient. When we patient, we will be more happy and our heart will lay down. So, patience can help us to be alright in the mind and body. When we patient with other people, we will get good friendship with them. Our congregation will be more united. If somebody pick fuss on us, patient will help us to not get vex quick and we will stop the problem from getting big. (Ps. 37:​8, ftn.; Prov. 14:29) But the most important one that, we will be following Jehovah example and even get more close to him. Yes, patience that fine quality that can benefit all of us! It not always easy for us to be patient. But with Jehovah help, we can continue trying hard to be patient. And when we continue holding our heart and wait for the new world, we can be sure that “the eye of Jehovah watches over those fearing him, those waiting for his loyal love.” (Ps. 33:18) Let all of us continue doing our best to be patient. w23.08 22 ¶7; 25 ¶16-17

James say that maybe somebody will say they get faith, but their actions not prove that they get faith. (Jas. 2:​1-5, 9) James also talk about somebody who see their brother or sister with no clothes or food but not do anything to help them. Even if that person say they get faith, his actions show that he not get faith. (Jas. 2:​14-16) James use Rahab example as somebody who was having faith by the thing them she do. (Jas. 2:​25, 26) She hear about Jehovah and she knew that he was supporting the Israelite them. (Josh. 2:​9-11) Her action prove that she was having faith. She protect two Israelite spies when their life was in danger. Because of that, Jehovah call this woman righteous. That the same way He call Abraham righteous even though they were not perfect and they were not following Moses Law. Rahab example show that it important for us to show our faith by the thing them we can do. w23.12 5-6 ¶12-13

Christians must not only want understand the basic teaching in the Bible. With the help of God holy spirit, we must also really want learn “even the deep things of God.” (1 Cor. 2:​9, 10) You not think it will be good to do some deep study that will help you get more close to Jehovah? For example, maybe you can study about how God show his love for his servant them way back and how it prove that he love you too. You can also study about how Jehovah wanted for the Israelite them way back to worship him and compare it to how he want for us to worship him today. Or maybe you can do deep study on the prophecy them that Jesus fulfill when he was on earth preaching. You will really be happy when you use the Watch Tower Publications Index or the Research Guide for Jehovah Witnesses to study this topic them. When you do deep Bible study, it can make your faith strong and help you to “find the knowledge of God.”—Prov. 2:​4, 5. w23.10 18-19 ¶3-5

The word Peter use for “intense” mean to “stretch.” The second part of the verse talk about what we will do if we get intense love for each other. Intense love will help us to cover our brother them sins. We can think about it like this: We can hold our love in our two hands just like cloth that can stretch. And then we stretch it and stretch it until it cover not just one or two sins. But until it cover plenty sins. To cover mean to forgive. The same way piece of cloth can cover mark on our clothes, that just how love can help us to cover our brother them mistakes. Our love for our brother them must be so strong that we able to forgive their mistakes—even if it hard sometime. (Col. 3:13) When we forgive our brother them, we show that we get strong love for them and we want make Jehovah happy. w23.11 11-12 ¶13-15

When King Josiah was 26 years old, he started fixing the temple. When the work was going on, the priest found “the book of Jehovah’s Law given through Moses.” When the king hear what it say, he take action right away by obeying the thing them in the book. (2 Chron. 34:​14, 19-21) You want read the Bible every day? If you already trying to do it, you enjoying it? You think you can mark some Bible verse them down that will help you? When Josiah was about 39 years old, he made one mistake that made him to die. He trust himself instead of asking Jehovah to direct him. (2 Chron. 35:​20-25) We can learn lesson from this one. No matter how we old or how long we been studying the Bible, we must continue to get close to Jehovah. This one mean we must always pray to Jehovah for direction, study the Bible, and listen to the advice from mature Christians. Then it will be hard for us to make any serious mistake and we will be happy.—Jas. 1:25. w23.09 12 ¶15-16

The Bible talk about plenty wonderful women them who use to love Jehovah and serve him. They were “moderate in habits” and “faithful in all things.” (1 Tim. 3:11) Beside this one, sisters can find in their own congregation other mature sisters who they can learn from. Young sisters, yor know any sister who setting good example that yor can follow? Try to see the fine-fine quality them they get and then think about how you can show that same quality. One important quality that will help us to be mature Christian that to be Humble. If woman humble, she will get good friendship with Jehovah and other people. For example, the woman who love Jehovah will be humble and choose to follow what 1 Corinthians 11:3 say about headship. In that verse, Jehovah talk about who the head for the congregation and the family. w23.12 18-19 ¶3-5

Jehovah expect the husband to love his wife, take care of her, be good friend to her and help her to stay close to Jehovah. How to think the right way, having respect for women, and showing that people can depend on you, will help you to be good husband. After you get marry, maybe you will born children. Wetin you can learn from Jehovah about how to be good father? (Eph. 6:4) In front of people, Jehovah tell his Son, Jesus, that he love him and he happy with him. (Matt. 3:17) If you become father, make sure to always tell your children that you love them. Always tell them thank you for the good-good thing them they can do. Fathers who can follow Jehovah example can help their children to be mature Christian men and women. You can start preparing now-now for this assignment by taking care of your family and other people in the congregation. And also by telling them that you love them and that they important to you.—John 15:9. w23.12 28-29 ¶17-18

Even though we serving Jehovah faithfully, we can still go through the same problem them other people can face. But beside this, sometime we can bear the bad treatment from people who against us. Even though Jehovah can’t stop problems from coming on us, but he promise to help us go through them. (Isa. 41:10) With his help, we can continue to be happy, make good decisions, and remain faithful to him when we going through problems that really hard. Jehovah promise to give us “the peace of God.” (Phil. 4:​6, 7) This peace talking about the feeling we can get when our heart lay down because we get close friendship with Jehovah. This peace “surpasses all understanding.” This feeling of peace more wonderful pass any feeling we can imagine. You na really pray to Jehovah before and then you were surprise to see the way your heart lay down? You feel like that because Jehovah gave you “the peace of God.” w24.01 20 ¶2; 21 ¶4

People who love Jehovah will want praise his name with their whole heart. King David knew that praising Jehovah name that the same as praising Jehovah. When we hear Jehovah name we can think about the way he kind, all the fine-fine qualities he get and the wonderful thing them he can do. David wanted to treat his Father name holy and to praise it. He wanted to do it with “everything within” him, that mean with his whole heart. That the same way the Levites use to take the lead to praise Jehovah. They were humble to say that their words were not enough to really give Jehovah holy name the praise it deserve. (Neh. 9:5) We sure that humble praise from the heart like that, use to make Jehovah happy. w24.02 9 ¶6

Jehovah will not feel bad about you just because you was not able to reach your goal that was not possible. (2 Cor. 8:12) Learn from the problems. Try to remember the goals you already na reach. The Bible say, God that not unrighteous person to forget all the thing them we na do. (Heb. 6:10) So you must not forget too. Think about the goal them you already na reach, like getting friendship with Jehovah, telling other people about him, or getting baptize. Just how you work hard and reach your spiritual goals before, you can do the same thing by working on the goal you get now-now. With the help of Jehovah, you able to reach your goal. You must always try to see how Jehovah helping you. It will help you to be happy when you working hard to reach your goal. (2 Cor. 4:7) Jehovah will really bless you if you not give up.—Gal. 6:9. w23.05 31 ¶16-18

Jehovah can look for ways to show his people that he love them and that he happy with them. The Bible talk about two different times that Jehovah tell his Son, Jesus that He love him and He happy with him. (Matt. 3:17; 17:5) You will like for Jehovah to tell you that he happy with you? Jehovah can’t talk to us from heaven but he can talk to us through the Bible. When we read Jesus words in the four Gospel books, it can be like Jehovah saying that he love us. Jesus really follow his Pa example. So when we read about how Jesus tell his faithful disciples that he was happy with them, we can just imagine Jehovah saying the same thing to us. (John 15:​9, 15) When we going through problems, it not mean Jehovah not happy with us. But problems can give us the opportunity for us to show our deep love for God and that we really trust him.—Jas. 1:12. w24.03 28 ¶10-11