Teaching Outline

GPNAZ TEACHING OUTLINE: August 17, 2025
 Run the Race: “When you do not feel like it.”
The Word of the Lord: Mark 9:2-9
 
The Scriptures reveal insights about discouragement, its causes, 
and what God offers to help us get through it.

• As far as Elisha was concerned, that recent victory over the prophets of Baal amounted to nothing. Why? Because even after that, what could he see as far as Israel was concerned? Nothing good.

• Elisha was profoundly depressed and discouraged in his service to the Lord.

Jesus shows the disciples something: a vision of the goal. Jesus is transfigured before them, in light so powerful and blindingly bright that they are stunned.

Peter reminds them that what they saw on the mountain was Jesus as He would be when He comes in power and great glory at the end of the age.
 
What is our hope in those times of tedious, depressing trials?

• A sure testimony, an eyewitness account of the power, the glory, and the majesty of our Lord’s return to the earth.

• Many times, we also fail, not because we're facing such hardships or threatened by terrible dangers, but because we lose sight of our destination.

John writes at the beginning of his gospel in chapter 1:14, “We beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”