Big Plans--Lesson 9--I Know the Plans I Have for You

Discussion Questions:

1. What struggles have you had with keeping a soft heart and teachable spirit? Would you

say you are a slow or a fast learner? Why?

2. What part can you play to make the community and the world around you better? How can

you invest in this culture to provide a witness of love and truth instead of escaping it?

3. In what ways has a rhetoric of God being angry and full of wrath hindered your drawing

close to Him? How does Jeremiah’s message help you see things differently?

4. How have you seen a voice of false prophecy arise against the plans of God? What kinds

of things try to persuade you to not engage in the plans of God?

5. Jeremiah emphasized relationship with God as “you will” and “I will”. What are your parts

and what are God’s parts of carrying out His Big Plans in your life? How does entrusting

yourself to His Big Plans help you feel connected to God?

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?