Big Plans--Lesson 3--The Future Spoken

Discussion Questions:

1. What kinds of situations or needs make you feel like you need more than God? How does

His interaction in history show that He is our shield and great reward?

2. Why is God’s plan dependent upon our faith? How is it also true that God’s plan will be

accomplished even if we do not walk by faith in Him?

3. How did God provide everything Abraham needed to develop and grow in faith? How

have you seen Him provide what you need for your own faith development and growth?

How do the stars offer a reminder of God’s provision?

4. Why would God’s plan include darkness, oppression, vultures, and other difficulties? How

did these things assist Abraham and his descendants in walking by faith and remembering

their need for God?

5. Describe how freewill and God’s provision of a path through history work together. How do

these things make it possible for us to rest in peace and feel security?

Big Plans--Lesson 2--Fearfully & Wonderfully Made

Discussion Questions:

1. What are the advantages to having a God who is omniscient, omnipresent, and

omnipotent? What are the disadvantages of this?

2. Why is it unsafe to get close to God? Why then, does He call us to get close to Him?

3. How would you explain to someone that God has a plan for your life, that your days are

foreordained, and yet you also have free will?

4. When looking at the message of Psalm 22 in contrast to the closeness portrayed in Psalm

139, what makes this such a beautiful message? Why is it important that this is part of the

days foreordained by God?

5. How does the blessing of God help with the balance between God’s sovereign will and our

free will? What does the blessing of God mean to you?

Big Plans--Lesson 1--A Plan Before a World

Discussion Questions:

1. How have you seen God be inconsistent in the way He deals with people? Does this

undermine or bolster the idea that He has a plan for everything? How so?

2. How do difficult circumstances provide a litmus test of what we believe about God having

a plan for our life?

3. Have you ever wished that God left a breadcrumb trail or provided a pillar of cloud/fire for

you to follow through your life? What kind of trail or guide do you see in the Scriptures?

4. What kind of connections do you see between what God did to rescue Israel from Egypt

and then leading them through the wilderness with what Paul talks about in Ephesians 1:1-

14? What do these comparisons say to you?

5. How does Paul demonstrate that God is over the past, present, and future? How does this

provide security for you as He works in your life?