Thanks
everyone for participating. It was a good discussion tonight. Next week we’ll
pickup with Chapter 2 and go to Chapter 3. Here’s the homework for next time. I
know they can be difficult but do your best. I truly believe you’ll benefit
from them.
Feel
free to contact me if you have any questions or thoughts on them.
See
you next Thursday!
Homework:
1) List the elements in your life that
keep you distracted. Include both good things and bad things in this list. How
is it that the good things in your life have come to distract you from what is
most important? What would it take to adjust your lifestyle and mentality in
order to put the most important things back in their proper place?
2) Look at your 5 most costly items
(could be assets like a house, expenses like tuition, time consuming like your
job, etc.) and ask yourself what part did God play in your decisions about
these items?
3) Look at last week’s prayer life and
compare it to what you thought it “should” have looked like.
4) Reread James 4:14-17
14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
If James were to say these words specifically to you in the midst of your current life situation, what do you think he would tell you to avoid? What do you think he would tell you to pursue?
14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
If James were to say these words specifically to you in the midst of your current life situation, what do you think he would tell you to avoid? What do you think he would tell you to pursue?
5) Write down what you believe your
prayer life should look like for this coming week.
6) At the beginning of one day, plan out
your schedule. Then ask God how He wants to be glorified in each activity. At
the end of the day, evaluate how you did. Then during your evening prayer, ask
God to evaluate how you did.
7) Look at 2-3 stressful/worrisome things
in your life. Write down how you would handle them if God was in control of
them. Then write down why you struggle to believe that God is in control of
each of them. What can you do to remind yourself of God’s care and your
dependence on Him in the midst of these stressful situations?
8) Spend 30 seconds at the beginning of
each prayer listening to God.
9) Watch the videos for Chapter 3.
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