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:
1. Recharging can be hard, but is absolutely important for all of us to do. What do you do to recharge? Share your favorite things and places for personal recharge time.
2. What is a way that you see God providing you care and refreshing? Is it different?
3. Verse 3 speaks of God’s care and concern for us, what other verses come to mind as you think about how God cares? Share and read those verses with one another aloud. Take time to share how they comfort you or have comforted you in the past.
4. Can you share with the group a time where you knew God was redirecting you? Or getting your attention to help you from wandering?
5. Take a moment and read Psalm 119:10-11 and note the two words “stray” in verse 10 and “hidden” in verse 11. One is absent-mindedness, the other is intentional and powerful. Which of these echo your desire today? What is one way you stay intentional? If you feel up to it, share your stray habbit?
6. Isaiah 30 says that God is ready to say “this is the way, walk in it, ” what needs to shift in your life for you to be refreshed, and to hear His leading this week?
Pray for one another in this.
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.
BibleApp
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”.