REALLIFE STUDY GROUP

“The Story of Sarah”

 

ICEBREAKER: What is your favorite ice cream?

 

DEFINITIONS: Interfere: To be or create a hindrance or obstacle, to intervene or intrude in the affairs of others, to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in walking or running.

 

OUTLINE:  The Motive Test

         1. Frustration verses Desperation

         2. Fear verses Faith

         3. Guilt verses Grace (Your gifts and calling)

         4. Worldly Wisdom verse Godly Wisdom

         5. Insecurity verses Confidence

         6. Rejection verses Approval

 

TEXT: Genesis 15:1-3, Genesis 16

 

STUDY GROUP QUESTIONS:

1.    Describe a time in your life when you have had to operate in faith and be patient while you were waiting on the Lord?

2.    Share as a group at least five reasons why Sarah offered her servant to Abraham to be a wife to him.

a.                                                                                               

b.                                                                                              

c.                                                                                               

d.                                                                                              

e.                                                                                               

f.                                                                                                

g.                                                                                               

3.    When we have an encounter with God, we usually receive a word that is a promise but it also must become a weapon. How can a Word from God also become a weapon?  Name a time when you have had to war with a personal promise or a scripture from God’s Word.

4.    Sarah interfered with God’s plan to give her and Abraham a son by giving her maid to Abraham as a wife. Have you ever thought that you were doing an act of kindness to bail somebody out and later realized you were just interfering with God’s plan to build character and patience in their life? Explain.

5.    Anytime we give birth to the counterfeit, we delay the exact fit.  In other words that which is not the promise often becomes an enemy to the promise, as was the case with Sarah and Hagar. Name some ways people abort or delay God’s plan for their lives.

6.    Identify some examples of the difference between Godly wisdom and worldly wisdom?

7.    Guilt, fear, insecurity and rejection are often the reason we respond the way we do and behave the way we do? Sarah gave up at one point because of her fear that she could never bear Abraham a child. What has been one of the biggest fears in your life?