REALLIFE STUDY GROUP

“100% Favor Is In The Forecast!”

 

ICEBREAKER:  What is your favorite ice cream flavor?

 

DEFINITION:  Favor:

1.    Grace

a.    That which affords joy, pleasure, delight, sweetness, charm, loveliness: grace of speech

2.    Good will, loving-kindness, favor

a.    of the merciful kindness by which God, exerting his holy influence upon souls, turns them to Christ, keeps, strengthens, increases them in Christian faith, knowledge, affection, and kindles them to the exercise of the Christian virtues

3.    Acceptance

 

OUTLINE:  3 Things That Favor Fights

1.                Fear

2.                Frustration

3.                Famine

 

TEXT:  Psalm 5:12; Psalm 16:15; Proverbs 8:35, 36; Proverbs 12:2;

 

STUDY GROUP QUESTIONS:

1.    How would you describe the effects of a drought?

2.    What is your weather report right now?

a.    Sunshine above the storm

b.   Partly sunny and partly cloudy

c.    Its pouring down rain but I can see the most beautiful rainbow

d.   Thunder and lightning

e.    I’m watching for the next tornado to hit

f.     __________________________________________

 

3.    Psalm 5:12 says the favor of the Lord is upon me and surrounds me like a shield. What does God’s favor feel like?

 

4.    Luke 2:52 says, And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. Describe some of the ways that Proverbs 3:1-16 tells us how we can find favor with God and man?

 

5.    Favor: Favor Activates Valor (to) Overcome (the) Resistance

What is the greatest resistance in your life right now?

a.    A Person

b.   An Attitude

c.    A Circumstance

d.   Your Environment

e.    Your Thought life

f.     A Habit

g.    ___________________________________________

 

6.    According to Psalm 44:3 how did the Hebrew people receive their promise?

 

7.    Fill in the blank. “If anybody is going to get that _____________, it’s going to be me! (Raise, Promotion, etc..)