70 Day Bible Reading Challenge (Luke 22.31-32) Jesus prays for you

GROWGROUP QUESTIONS

SOAP: Luke 19-24 (SOAP Focus Luke 22:31-32)

The One Thing: Jesus prays for you

 

Growgroup questions

Take time to allow each person in the growgroup (split off into smaller groups if the group is too large) to share one of their SOAP passages this week:

• S: what SPECIFIC Bible verse stood out to me?
• O: general OBSERVATION. What is the Bible passage saying?
• A: APPLICATION. How do I apply this to my life?
• P: PRAYER: Write a 1 or 2 sentence prayer, telling God what’s most on my heart and mind today.

Discussion questions / personal growth questions about Sunday’s message.

Know

• K1 Think of a challenging time in your life that brought about something unexpectedly wonderful in your walk with the Lord.

Grow

• G1 Satan asked to sift the disciples “like wheat”. This means being “taken apart”, “picked apart”, or “shaken down”. At the time, we might not notice when Satan is sifting us. Think back on your life: looking back, can you think of a situation in which you would now say that Satan sifted you like wheat?
• G2 Does the fact that Satan had to ask Jesus’ permission either encourage or discourage you? Talk through your response.
• G3 Jesus obviously had a purpose in allowing Satan to sift the disciples. What do you think Jesus’ deeper purposes might have been?
• G4 Think about other scriptures that talk about God using hardship to bring us to maturity (e.g. pruning, purifying, burning). Meditate on these verses and ask God to reveal Himself through them to you.
• G5 Imagine you are talking to one of the following:
  • Joseph still in jail after 10 years.
  • Moses still wandering in the wilderness after 35 years
  • Esther having been taken from her home and forced to married a King.

Knowing what you know about how the story ends, what would you say to them? How would you encourage them? Counsel them?

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• S1 By yourself, take time in silence to imagine Jesus praying for YOU (Romans 8:22, Hebrews 7:22). Thank Him for this wonderful truth.