Prayer

Prayer

Group Discussion & Life Challenge

Use these notes as discussion prompts for your group, or in your personal time with God.

Connect:

Get to know each other. Connect, warm up to each other, fellowship.

Care:

Carry each other’s burdens. Share life’s challenges and practice Soul Care. Pray together.

Challenge:

Dive into God’s Word. Use these discussion questions. Learn from each other’s insight. 

1. Discuss with the group how you do with your non-Spiritual disciplines, could you share some of those Discipline’s/Habits you find helpful? You could also share some that you tried and have not yet developed into a Discipline.
2. “Rhythms of Grace” These are the Spiritual Disciplines that fuel our counter culture life, and set us apart from living life like everybody else. What Rhythms are you working on right now?
3. Luke 5 describes Jesus regularly taking time to pray and Luke 6 describes Him taking the night to pray. Have you developed a healthy Rhythm for prayer or heard of one that you could share with the group? Does Jesus set the bar too high? is it unrealistic?
4. If you were to devote yourself to a prayer Rhythm, what things do you think would or could get in the way? or prevent it from happening? Could you share that with the group? It is ok to be working on something and to have not yet arrived at perfection. We are all in this together.
5. Stop and pause for a moment and write down a Prayer Rhythm that would be a stretch but also doable and share it with at least one person in the group and pray for those things that might get in the way.

Clarify:

Does anyone need clarity on something? Are there any big God questions you are wrestling with?

Celebrate:
Celebrate life’s successes and God’s provision. Worship God’s presence. Time to brag about God.

Through the Bible in one Year

Join us in reading through the entire Bible in one year. Each day of this plan guides you through passages from both the Old and New Testaments, allowing you to see connections between the history of our faith, and the fulfillment of God’s redemptive plan. Readings average four chapters in length, so it is posible to do. When you use the YouVersion Bible App, you can even have the app read the Bible text to you – very useful when you are in the car or otherwise occupied with your hand.

All you need to do is click the link to the Bible Plan, which should lead you straight to the Bible app. Your two options are now (1) to read the plan on your own, one day at the time. Or (2) you can make it more fun and rewarding, by sharing the plan with one or more friends, and then even “Talk about it”.