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?