REALLIFE STUDY GROUP

“God’s Master Plan!”

ICEBREAKER: Who is your favorite comedian, funny actor or the most humorous person you know? What makes them funny?

OUTLINE: God’s Master Plan for You

1. Always put God first

2. Change the things you can change

3. Forgive & forget the past

4. “Unlimit” yourself

5. Be a giver and a tither

6. Raise your level of faith expectation

7. Live, Walk, Talk positive everyday

8. Believe God in every situation

TEXT: 1 Kings 17:1-15, Jer 1:5, Jer 29:11, Matthew 6:33

STUDY GROUP QUESTIONS:

1. God used a brook to supply Elijah with water but finally even the brook dried up. Describe a time when your supply dried up on you and you had to do something different.

2. Why do you think God allowed the brook to dry up?

3. Elijah could have just stayed at the dry brook until he died but he realized God had another plan for him. God has a master plan for everyone but we can abort God’s plan for us. What are some of the ways we do that in life?

4. The battle is not our choice but what we do with it is. You choose your habits and your habits choose your future. Elijah chose to make a habit of obeying God no matter what the circumstances. Everyone faces challenging situations. Describe one of the most challenging situations that Christians face in America today?

5. Identify a habit that you need to change in your life?

A. Always being negative

B. Always being late

C. Always making excuses or blaming others

D. Not being a good time or money manager

E. Using food or other things to fill up the void

F. Being bitter or unforgiving

G. __________________________________________

6. Sometimes we need to help someone else in order to get our eyes off of our problems. Elijah helped a widow. Who can you help?

7. Elijah had to “un-limit” himself by believing God for something unusual like clay vessels that just refilled themselves with oil. What is the greatest limitation in your life right now?