REALLIFE STUDY GROUP

“Be the Alarm”

ICEBREAKER: If you could do one adventurous thing in your life what would it be? (Skydiving, bungee jumping, repelling off the side of a building, mountain climbing, NASCAR racing, ride a rollercoaster, fly a plane, run a marathon, preach the Gospel in a foreign land, go jet skiing in the ocean, go on a wild safari, travel to the seven wonders of the world, go camping for a month, etc....)

CONFESSION: I will become an alarm to alert others that the ways of this world are dangerous and painful. I am anointed to change my world.

DEFINITIONS: Anointing: (1) to pour on, (2) to smear or paint on, (3) to completely cover, inundate, and permeate.

OUTLINE: Our Destiny: We are the...

Fathered fathering the fatherless

Delivered delivering deliverance

Carried carrying the courageous

Broken bringing the breakthrough

Healed healing the hurting & oppressed

Empowered empowering the powerless

Activated activating activation

Apostled apostling the orphans

Ordered ordering order

Treasured treasuring the undervalued treasure

Prophets prophesying promotion

Prototyped prototyping prototypes

Cherished cherishing the unloved

A Delivery Room of travailing, warring midwives

House of spiritual legislation

Embassy of kingdom demonstration

Pentagon of fivefold activation

Hospital of physical & inner healing

Worldly Priorities

· Lifestyle has become more important than life

· Wearing the brand is more important than becoming the brand

· Getting riches is more important than getting righteous

· Building Empires of Men is more important than building the Kingdom of God

· Services is more important than service (What can you do for me rather than what can I do for you)

· TV is more important than JC

· Hollywood is more important than Holy ways

· The outward is more important than the inward

· Tangibles are more important than intangibles

· Finite is more important than The Infinite

· Pleasure is more important than the real treasure

· Vessel is more important than the contents

· Conformation is more important than transformation

· Our aspirations (dreams) are more important than God’s affirmations

· Messenger is more important than the message

· Saving animals is more important than saving the babies

· Temporals are more important than the Eternals

· The façade and fantasy have become more important than veracity and reality

Worldly Philosophies

· Work so we can rest rather than resting so we can work

· Give so we can get rather than getting so we can give

· Live so we can eat rather than eating so we can live

· Empowering the provocative while emasculating the preservative

· Feed the physical but starve the spiritual

· Elevate the wrong and put down the right

· Promote the flesh and demote the spirit

· Emphasize the nonessentials and de-emphasize the essentials

· We sugar coat the poison and strip the soil of its minerals

· What should be alarming has now become alluring

· Repelling has now become appealing

· Detestable has now become suggestible

· Wrong has now become right

· Illegitimate has now become legitimate

TEXT: Malachi 1:11 (The Message Bible)

STUDY GROUP QUESTIONS:

1. If you were to change your world, community, or neighborhood where would you start and what would you do?

2. Do you think the world’s priorities have crept into the Church, and if so, in what ways?

3. Identify a way that wrong has become right in today’s society.

4. What is your favorite thing about God’s church? What would you like to change if you could?

5. How has the anointing of the Holy Spirit changed your life?

PRAISE & PRAYER REQUESTS: