- What causes you the most anxiety?
- What tactics do you generally use to alleviate your anxiety?
- In what ways can prayer affect your view of the future?
- Of the things we are told to meditate on in verse 8, which ones resonated the most with you as needing more attention in your thought life?
- What would you consider to be the greatest blessings in your life?
- What are some of the truths that Job 1:21 force us to wrestle with?
- What would you say to Job when he lost everything?
- How can you greater appreciate what God has blessed you with in light of Job 1:21?
- What does the idea of Jesus suffering for you do to affect your everyday life?
- Of all the things Isaiah mentions (rebellion, twisted perspective, a lack of peace, a need for healing, a wandering heart, a selfishness) which are the ones that hit you the most personally, relative to the cross?
- Why do you think we focus so much on heaven and the future, as the point of Christianity, when the Bible emphasizes our changed lives in the here and now?
- What verses in Isaiah 53, other than verses 5 and 6, hit you the most?
- What does the best rest look like for you?
- What are the typical barriers that prevent you from getting the rest you need?
- Have you ever had a “Eureka Moment” where you recognized your need for rest?
- Do you need to schedule more strategic rest times in your life this week? What will that look like?
- What kinds of things do you tend to trust other than the Lord?
- How does trust sometimes disappoint you?
- Can your thought processes sometimes paralyze you?
- What does knowing God more look like for you?
- How have you seen God directing your path to get you where you are today?
- Take a moment to browse over the characters in Hebrews 11. Which of these characters can you most relate to and why?
- In what ways does Jesus give us something better in our faith than what the characters of the Old Testament had?
- What have you endured because of your faith?
- If you knew you could change one thing in this world by your faith, what would it be?
- In light of Hebrews 11, how can your faith greater change how you are living your life?
- What causes people to lose their passion in life?
- Why do we often pretend we are fine when we really aren’t?
- What do you try to get from people that you should really be getting from God?
- What does fellowshipping with Jesus look like for you?
- Why do you think Jesus didn’t say anything critical about the Church of Philadelphia?
- What are some of the things that churches often substitute for the Word?
- In what ways can we adopt methodology that misrepresents the character of Jesus?
- What doors have been opened for you?
- Why is “a little strength” actually a blessing?
- Has there ever been a time in your life where you felt more spiritually alive than you do now?
- What kinds of things usually rob us of our spiritual vitality?
- What are you doing differently now, spiritually, than in the past?
- What makes self examination easy to neglect?
- What do you need to start doing more?
- What makes Christians want to imitate the idolatry of the world?
- How can a culture of idolatry create a distance between people and God?
- Do we act like pride is the worst of all sins?
- Why do you think the working class people of Thyatira were susceptible to the pitch of this Jezebel?
- What would “Jezebel’s” defense be to these charges?