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?

Big Plans--Lesson 5--Plans That Include the Wicked?

Discussion Questions:

1. How does the Tabernacle show us God’s plan for relationship with us? What part belongs

to God’s sovereignty, and what part belongs to man’s free will?

2. Why do our plans need God’s final word? Why is flexibility important in planning? How is

flexibility a sign of life?

3. How have you seen God orchestrate events in your life? How does He orchestrate things

while still allowing free will?

4. How has God’s use of darkness and evil opened the door for doubt, skepticism, or a

struggle of what to believe? What kinds of things help to place things in a proper

perspective?

5. How is God’s sovereign reign demonstrated by events throughout the Scriptures? What

kind of peace does this give you as you live in a world filled with chaos, danger, pain, and

loss?

Big Plans--Lesson 4--For Such a Time as This--Esther 4

Discussion Questions:

1. How hungry are you to learn more about the LORD and to serve the LORD? Where does

zeal for the LORD come from? How does one develop it and maintain it?

2. How have your choices gotten in the way of God’s plan?

3. Why do we get it in our mind that going to the King is dangerous? How has this affected

your walk with the LORD and service to Him? How has He shown you that He is holding

out the golden scepter to you?

4. How has gathering community together and informing them of what you are dealing with

helped you overcome?

5. How do you see God’s big plan and your personal plans intersecting? Why is freewill a

huge responsibility?