REALLIFE STUDY GROUP

“HEAVENLY RAINS”

ICEBREAKER: Tell us about the worst storm you have ever experienced.

DEFINITION: Rain down: To shower, to pour, to fall upon

OUTLINE: We Need The Rain

1. RAIN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS: HOSEA 10:12

2. RAIN OF THE TRUTH: DEUTERONOMY 32:1-2

3. RAIN OF THE SPIRIT: JOEL 2:23-29

4. RAIN OF PROVISION: PSALM 78:24-29

5. RAIN OF LOVE: ROMANS 5:5

6. RAIN OF THE FEAR OF THE LORD: 1 SAMUEL 11: 6-7, 2 CHRONICLES 17:10

7. RAIN OF ANSWERED PRAYER: JAMES 5:16-18

TEXT: Joel 2:23-2:29; Isaiah 55:10,11; Mark 8:22-25

STUDY GROUP QUESTIONS:

1. Name some of the ways that rain represents the work of the God’s Spirit in our lives?

2. What are some of the results of the lack of rain in nature?

3. What would a shower of righteousness change in our lives?

4. Why are we so afraid of the rain of truth?

a. It forces us to deal with our issues

b. It exposes the injustices in our land

c. It reveals our ignorance of God’s ways

d. _______________________________________________

5. Like the rainforest the church is called to be a place of life. And like the rainforest is diminishing so is the church in America. What can be done to save the rainforest of the church in America?

6. Jesus healed a blind man by spitting in his eye. Spitting is one of the most offensive things that someone can do. Sometimes God offends us before he helps us. Describe a time when a Scripture verse or a sermon has offended you.

7. Before we are completely healed we often see men as trees walking. In other words, seeing people for what they can do for us rather than for who they are. In what area of your life do you most need God to give you sight or insight even if it offends you at first?