New Covenant Christian Church
God's Messengers
Discussion questions and verses for the week of December 6th
Locations & Times
New Covenant Christian Church
3318 5th Ave S, Fort Dodge, IA 50501, USA
Sunday 8:00 AM
Chapter 15
God's Messenger
1. What do you learn about faith from Elijah's ups (victory over the prophets of Baal) and his downs (depression in the desert)?
2. God revealed himself to Elijah in a gentle whisper. What does this tell you about God's character and methods of communication?
3. What steps can you take to hear the gentle whisper of God?
4. In what ways did the prophet Elisha live a life of faith?
5. Identify the ways God was faithful to Elisha.
6. How has God been faithful to you?
7. What specific message of social justice and spiritual faithfulness do you think the prophets Amos and Hosea would proclaim today?
God's Messenger
1. What do you learn about faith from Elijah's ups (victory over the prophets of Baal) and his downs (depression in the desert)?
2. God revealed himself to Elijah in a gentle whisper. What does this tell you about God's character and methods of communication?
3. What steps can you take to hear the gentle whisper of God?
4. In what ways did the prophet Elisha live a life of faith?
5. Identify the ways God was faithful to Elisha.
6. How has God been faithful to you?
7. What specific message of social justice and spiritual faithfulness do you think the prophets Amos and Hosea would proclaim today?
1 - We are never closer to apparent defeat and fear than in our moments of greatest victory
1 Kings 19:9-15 (NIV)
There he went into a cave and spent the night. And the word of the LORD came to him: "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
He replied, "I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too."
The LORD said, "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by." Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.
After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.
When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a voice said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
There he went into a cave and spent the night. And the word of the LORD came to him: "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
He replied, "I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too."
The LORD said, "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by." Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.
After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.
When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a voice said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
2- We are never as alone as we may feel; God is always there
3 - God speaks more frequently in persistent whispers than in shouts
3 - God speaks more frequently in persistent whispers than in shouts
2 Corinthians 5:19-20 (NLT)
For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.
So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”
For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.
So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”
Ambassador - the highest-ranking person who represents his or her own government while living in another country
RECONCILE
1) restore friendly relations between.
2) cause to coexist in harmony; make or show to be compatible.
1) restore friendly relations between.
2) cause to coexist in harmony; make or show to be compatible.
4 - When we come out of the cave our purpose remains the same.
James 5:16-20 (MSG)
Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with.
Elijah, for instance, human just like us, prayed hard that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't—not a drop for three and a half years.
Then he prayed that it would rain, and it did. The showers came and everything started growing again.
My dear friends, if you know people who have wandered off from God's truth, don't write them off. Go after them. Get them back and you will have rescued precious lives from destruction and prevented an epidemic of wandering away from God.
Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with.
Elijah, for instance, human just like us, prayed hard that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't—not a drop for three and a half years.
Then he prayed that it would rain, and it did. The showers came and everything started growing again.
My dear friends, if you know people who have wandered off from God's truth, don't write them off. Go after them. Get them back and you will have rescued precious lives from destruction and prevented an epidemic of wandering away from God.