REALLIFE STUDY GROUP

“Winning: It’s your Choice!”

ICEBREAKER: If you could win any award, trophy, or medal what would it be? (You can make one up if you need to. Like: The best pizza maker award.)

OULTINE: 7 Choices of a Champion

1. Choose to be a reader especially of God’s Word. Psalm 119:11

2. Choose to surround yourself with a winning team.

3. Choose to learn from your mistakes.

4. Choose to never quit. Proverbs 24:16

5. Choose to capitalize on your opponents weaknesses.

6. Choose to pursue, overtake, and recover all.

7. Choose to refuse comfort over character.

TEXT: Isaiah 59

STUDY GROUP QUESTIONS:

1. Identify something that God is driving you to address in your life?

A. The way you treat people

B. Your attitudes and moods

C. The way you take care of yourself

D. A past situation that you have been in denial about

E. The way you feel about yourself: your self esteem

F. _____________________________________________________

2. Describe an obstacle that is detouring you from dealing with these issues. For example, if your issues are dieting maybe the lack of planning and your hectic schedule has become an obstacle to your good health?

3. What is the most influential book besides the Bible that you have read and what impacted you most about it?

4. It is important to surround you self with a winning team. What we are talking about is a good support system to help you accomplish your goals and hold you accountable. People on your winning team should be honorable, available and teachable. Why are those attributes important?

5. Describe a time that you wanted to quit but you didn’t and what was the result.

6. Identify a weakness of our enemy the Devil?

7. What do you need to pursue, overtake and recover in your life?

8. What are some of the ways or things in our lives that God might use to get our attention?