SESSION 3 Suffering
FOR GROUP PARTICIPATION These elements of the study are best used with others in a group setting.
How Did It Go Last Week? Share your successes and trials with the group. (10 minutes) • Have you been able to put into practice any of the action points related to living a spiritually rich life instead of a poor one? • How have you seen the Lord working in your life this past week to transform your desires, thoughts, decisions, and actions? Did you ask the Lord to remove any guilt, fear, or shame related to your desire for change? How did the Lord answer that prayer? Did God use any circumstances or people this week to answer that prayer request? In what ways might you have overlooked something God was trying to tell you? • How has meeting with a trusted friend or family member to help you live the gospel in a practical way? • In what ways have you been able to discover your gratitude for God's grace in your life and the ways he has specifically transformed you? And God Said… Read aloud Psalm 27:1–4 and Romans 8:18–39 . What is the Point? Read these statements aloud and keep them in mind during the video. When suffering comes into your life, God will meet you with his grace…and that grace is manifested in specific ways to help you grow and understand his character and active role in your life. He gives you:
• God’s Preparing Grace • God’s Intervening Grace • God’s Unstoppable Grace • God’s Providing Grace • God’s Inseparable Grace Petition Pray this together aloud.
God, I confess that in my suffering, I am tempted to question you and distrust you. When life is difficult, when I’m in pain, when I’m faced with confusing circumstances, when there is hurt, injustice, abuse, betrayal, and loneliness, I come to the end of myself and need to be reminded that you are still near and very much in loving control of my life. I admit that I don’t understand so much about this world and my life, but I need your grace to help me put my trust in the fact that
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