- Where are you tempted to seize what you need instead of trusting God to provide? - How might an experience of sabbath rest increase joy in your life?
- Out of five Zones (Zone 1 being at rest and Zone 5 never at rest), how would you describe the pace at which you live your life? - What would it take for your life to be run predominately in Zone 2?
- What current circumstances are your eyes fixed on? What would trusting God look like in the midst of what you’re going through? - Where in your life is God inviting you to give up control? How does God want to transform you through this current moment?
- Describe a time when you wondered if God really cared. How did God reveal Himself to you? - Where in your life right now do you need to allow God to care for you?
- Do you trust God enough to stand out? - Do you trust God to resuce you?
Is there an area in your life where you are struggling to trust God? How might Jesus be inviting you to seek to know Him more so that your trust in Him has an opportunity to grow? Discuss and pray together.
- Where have you seen God’s power revealed through prayer over the last year?
1. What is your typical response when your schedule gets disrupted? 2. What are ways that you could work to incorporate margin in your schedule? 3. What are ways that you have experienced Jesus' mercy in your life?
1. As you consider how intentionally available Jesus was with people, how do you feel challenged to grow to reflect His heart and care for people in this way? 2. Are there people, or groups of people you feel Him encouraging you to build relationship with that you feel nervous about or experience some internal resistance to? Why? Share and pray together.
1. What are two things Jesus is asking you to contribute to His community? 2. Spend some time with Jesus. Who is He asking you to invite into His community? Name two people that Jesus brought to your attention.
1. What Has been your experience with silence and solitude as a way to connect you with God? 2. What keeps you from engaging in silence and solitude? 3. What helps you engage in silence and solitude?
1. Have you encountered the grace of Jesus? 2. Who in your life does Jesus want you to spread his grace to?
1. What are some of the narratives that hold us back from living as a royal priesthood? 2. Who do you have in your life that is reminding you of who you are in Christ? 3. Who are you reminding of their identity in Christ?
1. Are there places in your life where grace has brought disruption? 2. Are there places where God’s grace has confronted you? 3. Where are the places where God’s grace is transforming you?
1. Are there any subtle compromises currently in your life or that you are vulnerable to that are threatening to lure you away from being fully committed to Jesus? 2. What is one way that you nurture your relationship with The Lord that stirs your affection for Him and deepens your devotion to Him?
1. What do our spending habits say about our what is important to us? 2. Are there ways Jesus is inviting you to grow in your trust of his provision in your life?
1. When you think about your own brokenness, which cause comes to mind more: your own decisions, or the decisions of others that have affected you? What does this tell you about your brokenness, and your perceptions of it? 2. How do you view God in relation to that brokenness? How might God want to rebuild you in this season, and what part is he calling you to play in it? 3. If worship is the response of the rebuilt, how are you needing to worship God in this season?
- What do your actions and behaviours reveal about your belief in God? - How does your life confess the holiness and salvation of God?
What needs to be re-formed in your life to make space for renewal and deeper in intimacy with Jesus?
- What is distracting you from God and your holy discontent? - What is the fear at the root of your distraction? - What is keeping you from trusting God?
- Where am I out of alignment with what God is doing? - What am I lacking the courage to confront? - What needs to change in me?
