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Sermon Study Guide “Maintaining SL Confidence” June 28-29, 2014 For individual, family or group study
Icebreaker How seriously do you take board games with family or friends? Q&A Who was the greatest leader of all time (excluding Jesus) and why? Did they ever fail?
Read Out Loud (1 Samuel 30:1-8) 1. What did the Amalekites do to David’s people? (vs 1) 2. What was David and his men’s reaction to what happened? (vs 4) 3. What did David feel his men were going to do to him? (vs 6)
Talk It Over 1. Do you agree or disagree that the enemy’s favorite weapon is discouragement? Discuss why. 2. How did David deal with discouragement? “David found strength in the Lord his God.” Underline the last line of 1 Samuel 30:6. How do you suppose David found that strength to go on (vs 8)?
DAILY READING & DEVOTIONS Memory Verse “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?” Hebrews 13:6 Bible Reading Plan Reading through the Bible is a rewarding experience, and this plan can help you do it! [Bible Reading Plan taken from The You Version app at “Bible.com”]
Daily Devotional Verses Our Daily Devotional Verses correspond to the current sermon. As you daily study the scriptures from our weekly sermons, you will go deeper in your understanding of God’s Word! Bible Reading Plan John 6:22-44 John 6:45-71 John 7:1-31 John 7:32-53 John 8:1-20 John 8:21-36 John 8:37-59
Daily Devotional 1 Samuel 30:6 Exodus 15:2 Joshua 1:9 2 Chronicles 15:7 Psalm 28:7 Psalm 29:11 Romans 12:11
Work It Out 1. Share a time in your life where you were discouraged and walked away from your calling, your purpose, or your pursuit of a dream – or were tempted to. 2. What spiritual disciplines or routines could you use to “keep your spiritual fervor” (Romans 12:11)? 3. Is there any situation today that you are discouraged about and ready to quit? Discuss and pray for one another. Pray It Through Heavenly Father, we come to you concerning these needs. Thank you for always coming to our aid and providing for us. We ask you to restore spiritual fervor to our hearts and we determine right now “we will keep going in Jesus name”. Amen
Personal Challenge This week practice one of the spiritual disciplines you have discussed in order to keep your spiritual life energized. Share it this week with a spiritual partner or your small group.
The Importance of Reading God’s Word For a Christian, nothing should seem more natural than reading the Bible. Peter, one of Jesus’s first disciples, compared it to a baby’s natural craving for milk: “Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good” (1 Pet. 2:2–3). As a newborn depends on milk to survive and to grow, we should equally depend on the words of Scripture for our spiritual survival and growth. The words of the Bible have impacted millions of lives over thousands of years, and God wants it to change our lives as well. If you don’t already love the Bible, pray that you would. It is through the Bible that we learn about God’s power, justice, mercy, wrath, love, kindness, anger, faithfulness, jealousy, holiness, compassion, etc. Because God is already described in the Bible, we are left with no room to formulate our own opinions. We should all study in order to understand God better. We search diligently to know the truth about God and to rid ourselves of any misconceptions we hold about Him.
Icebreaker How seriously do you take board games with family or friends? Q&A Who was the greatest leader of all time (excluding Jesus) and why? Did they ever fail?
Read Out Loud (1 Samuel 30:1-8) 1. What did the Amalekites do to David’s people? (vs 1) 2. What was David and his men’s reaction to what happened? (vs 4) 3. What did David feel his men were going to do to him? (vs 6)
Talk It Over 1. Do you agree or disagree that the enemy’s favorite weapon is discouragement? Discuss why. 2. How did David deal with discouragement? “David found strength in the Lord his God.” Underline the last line of 1 Samuel 30:6. How do you suppose David found that strength to go on (vs 8)?
DAILY READING & DEVOTIONS Memory Verse “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?” Hebrews 13:6 Bible Reading Plan Reading through the Bible is a rewarding experience, and this plan can help you do it! [Bible Reading Plan taken from The You Version app at “Bible.com”]
Daily Devotional Verses Our Daily Devotional Verses correspond to the current sermon. As you daily study the scriptures from our weekly sermons, you will go deeper in your understanding of God’s Word! Bible Reading Plan John 6:22-44 John 6:45-71 John 7:1-31 John 7:32-53 John 8:1-20 John 8:21-36 John 8:37-59
Daily Devotional 1 Samuel 30:6 Exodus 15:2 Joshua 1:9 2 Chronicles 15:7 Psalm 28:7 Psalm 29:11 Romans 12:11
Work It Out 1. Share a time in your life where you were discouraged and walked away from your calling, your purpose, or your pursuit of a dream – or were tempted to. 2. What spiritual disciplines or routines could you use to “keep your spiritual fervor” (Romans 12:11)? 3. Is there any situation today that you are discouraged about and ready to quit? Discuss and pray for one another. Pray It Through Heavenly Father, we come to you concerning these needs. Thank you for always coming to our aid and providing for us. We ask you to restore spiritual fervor to our hearts and we determine right now “we will keep going in Jesus name”. Amen
Personal Challenge This week practice one of the spiritual disciplines you have discussed in order to keep your spiritual life energized. Share it this week with a spiritual partner or your small group.
The Importance of Reading God’s Word For a Christian, nothing should seem more natural than reading the Bible. Peter, one of Jesus’s first disciples, compared it to a baby’s natural craving for milk: “Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good” (1 Pet. 2:2–3). As a newborn depends on milk to survive and to grow, we should equally depend on the words of Scripture for our spiritual survival and growth. The words of the Bible have impacted millions of lives over thousands of years, and God wants it to change our lives as well. If you don’t already love the Bible, pray that you would. It is through the Bible that we learn about God’s power, justice, mercy, wrath, love, kindness, anger, faithfulness, jealousy, holiness, compassion, etc. Because God is already described in the Bible, we are left with no room to formulate our own opinions. We should all study in order to understand God better. We search diligently to know the truth about God and to rid ourselves of any misconceptions we hold about Him.
