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?

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?