FOR PERSONAL APPLICATION These aspects of the study can be used in between group sessions on your own, either with your spouse or individually as part of your devotional and confession life.
Do Something During the week ahead, turn your learning into doing.
1. Take some time to journal about a difficult season in your life where you felt the weight of suffering but also experienced God’s grace. Write down both the hard realities you faced, and the ways God’s grace showed up in your life. Be honest about how you handled both aspects. Did you focus more on the pain or the hope? 2. Think about the conversations you have with others, especially when they share their struggles. Do you tend to dismiss their pain by offering hope too quickly? Or maybe you try and relate rather than listen and learn. This week, when someone opens up about their hardship, practice listening with compassion and allow them to fully express their feelings. Then reflect on how easy or difficult that was that for you. Search Me, O God For introspection during the coming week. Pray and ask the Lord to show you areas in your life where you may be denying the reality of your suffering, or you are trying to minimize it. Pray for the courage to be honest about your pain while also allowing space for his grace to be seen. Repent of any tendency to dwell on the hard and painful realities, or of your tendency to avoid bringing those hardships to the Lord. Consider what else is true even as you struggle. Turn your mind in prayer to the kindness of Christ toward you.
Session 3
WOMEN HELPING WOMEN
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