Ultimate Christmas Party: Fashionably On Time

Selected Scriptures

Connect:

• Share how you have seen God in the Highs and Lows of your week.

Prayer:

Pray that God would lead your discussion time and bring fresh insight, conviction, and hope through your time together.

Review:

This series moves us into the Christmas Season, culminating in the Sone of God, Jesus Christ’s birth as a baby in Bethlehem! This weekend we looked at how God does not always work on our time table, but He has a plan of His Own (which is probably what we would choose if we knew ALL the details!).

The Grand Tour of the message: Thinking back on what you heard this Sunday…

o What did you learn about God?

o What did you learn about people?

o What did you learn about yourself?

o What do you want to commit to putting into practice?

Reflection:

Personal Experience:

• Describe your relationship with “TIME”! Are you an ‘always on time’ person or a ‘there’s never enough time’ person or a ‘whatever’ person?! Share WHY you think about time that way.

  Group Discussion:

• Read Galatians 4:4-5

  • Between the old an new testaments, there were 400 years often called the 400 years of “silence” (no prophetic work happening, etc). Share about a time where God seemed “silent” in your life.

    • What was happening,

    • What Scriptures did you hang on to,

    • How did God work in you during that time?

  • We heard a story about a person struggling with Cancer who decided “not to let the Enemy have a foothold in [her] life”. At that point, she felt her faith come back to life again.

    • Talk about how our Spirit led faith and our conscious choices can work together.

    • Discuss examples in the life of David (1 Samuel 30:1-6), Elijah (1 Kings 19:1-9), the apostle Paul (2 Corinthians 1:3-11) and others in Scripture.

• Read Hebrews 4:14-16.

  • Jesus came as a baby. Why do you think God chose for the Savior to come in that way?

  • How was Jesus, literally God incarnate (John 1:1-3) “tempted in every way, just as we are…”?

  • Jesus is the only Person Who has ever lived Who is without sin. Why would God give us a law that He already knew we could never live up to? (Romans 11:25-36)

  • Galatians 4:5 presents a stark contrast between “Slaves to the law” and “His very Own children”.

    • Talk about that— compare those two states.

    • What is changed? What did not change?

Response: 

God is God of time. He is the One who sets up and takes down kings and kingdoms, and only His Kingdom remains forever. We get so caught up in the moment that we can lose sight of the fact that God’s timing is perfect— not for the execution of our hopes and dreams, but for His purposes in and through our lives. Spend some time in prayer that we will reinvest the energy we spend on worry, redirecting that attention to the God Who has a plan of His Own.

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