REALLIFE STUDY GROUP

“Be Still!”

ICEBREAKER: What is the most boring thing in the world? (If you say listening to Pastor Dana preach God is going to get you.)

OUTLINE: 5 Dimensions of YADA (Hebrew for knowing God)

1. Knowing the details about something or someone

2. Knowing the technical. (How it works, what they are like)

3. Knowing something or someone by having an encounter

4. Knowing someone by having a face to face encounter

5. Knowing someone by having an intimate encounter

TEXT: Psalm 46

STUDY GROUP QUESTIONS:

Why is it so hard for some people to just sit still and get alone with God or anyone for that matter?

Psalm 8:2 declares out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast ordained strength (praise) because of thine enemies that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. In other words your praise is your strength in times of weakness and causes God‘s enemies to shut up. In what area of the your life do you need to send up a praise in advance this week?

Psalm 4:4 says, Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah. When was the last time you couldn’t get to sleep because you had so much on you and tell us why if you can/

Psalm 46 tells us three times to selah or pause and think on this. As a group determine with each selah what you think God wants us to learn or think about.

Psalm 46:10 says “Be Still and know that I am God…” In the stillness of God’s presence there is an experiential knowing. Name one thing that sitting in God’s presence will cause you to know.

Above I have listed 5 different dimensions of of yada-knowing. How does one sustain the highest number 5 level of knowing God?

What is the most amazing thing that you have learned about God?