Big Plans - Lesson 8 - Set Apart From The Womb

Discussion Questions:

1. What are some things that God has established and also set you apart to accomplish from before you were born?  How does knowing this help you face daily issues?

2. What danger have you seen with becoming more enamored with ancestral traditions than experiencing the living, active Word of God?  Why do ancestral traditions have the power to shipwreck our faith?

3. How does God use goads today?  What pain have you seen people (yourself included) experience because they refused to follow the direction of the Master?

4. How has the Gospel offered you a change of direction and reason to hope?  Since this is what God did for Paul, does that mean you also are set apart from the womb for ministry?  What motivates you to use your life as a witness to others?

5. How have you seen God waste NOTHING—even the rebellious actions against Him?  What kind of hope does this give you?

Big Plans--Lesson 7--A Prophet to the Nations--Jeremiah 1

Discussion Questions:

1. What is God’s plan for your life? How do you know this is His plan?

2. How has God consecrated you and appointed you to the ministry you do for His glory?

What difference does it make to be consecrated and appointed?

3. What does it mean that God chose you to be given away? What does being given away

look like in your specific circumstances?

4. What problems have you had with aiming for the wrong target? What kinds of things cause

us to lose focus on our own target and aim at someone else’s?

5. What struggle have you had with not seeing God and thinking He is doing nothing, or with

seeing evil and thinking it has more control than it really does?

6. How does God’s word supply you with power and authority to do what He has consecrated

you and appointed you to do? What kinds of things could you do to tap into the power of

God’s word even more?

Big Plans--Lesson 6--The Gold Standard of Temporary

Discussion Questions:

1. Tell of a time when a situation or person seemed out of place, like they were selling neck

ties, only to find out that they were offering a blessing for your future?

2. Why does God provide a dream of the future to a person who doesn’t believe in Him

instead of to Daniel or his friends? How has God used adversity in your life to reveal His

ultimate plans to you?

3. God’s plans make no sense to Nebuchadnezzar until God provides the interpretation. Why

is this an important aspect to remember in developing our own understanding of God’s

plans for us?

4. Why are we tempted to believe our human efforts will result in the progress of building

utopia? How is utopia properly named?

5. Why is it important that the final Kingdom comes from a stone not cut by human hands?

How is this fulfilled in Jesus?