This Week In Recovery Lesson
Before you begin your TWIRL activity, please read the FREEdom from MEdom Series article, Sound Investment Strategy (Ridin’ with the King). Then come back to TWIRL and observe the following Scripture.
Delight yourself also in the LORD, And He shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. Psalm 37:4-5 (NLT)
Do what the LORD wants, and he will give you your heart’s desire. Let the LORD lead you and trust him to help. Psalm 37:4-5 (CEV)
7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. 9 “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. 11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. 12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. John 15:7-14
May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Ephesians 3:19-20 (NLT)
The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life. John 10:10 (NLT)
1. Having read, Sound Investment Strategy, what did you learn about God’s economic principle of sowing and reaping?
2. How would you say the world’s (society’s) economic principle for sowing and reaping is similar to God’s way?
3. How would you say that worldly principles for sowing and reaping are different than God’s economic principles?
4. What would you say it means when the Bible instructs you to “Delight in the Lord”? (HINT: see the CEV version above of Psalm 37:4)
5. What would you say Jesus was talking about when He said, “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you”?
6. What was it about the words of Jesus that you need them to be abiding in you, whatever that means?
7. Why would you say that Scripture always seems to tie a condition to getting what you want?
8. Why is it so important to DO what God wants in order to receive what you want from God?
9. What does God want for you to do, and how is it tied in to what you want?
10. What does it mean to you to be a friend of Christ?
11. How do you get to be a friend of Christ?
NOTE: To get the full context of being a friend of Christ/God, read John 15:1-17.
12. According to John 10:10 above, what is the flipside, or inevitable consequence, of not being in right relationship with Jesus Christ as our friend? Who else is out there? What is the opposite of a friend?
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