Getting Started
- What made you laugh today?
- Would you rather talk to your best friend or eat your favorite food?
- Would you rather watch a movie with no sound or go to a concert and only be able to hear?
- Would you rather have a personal chief or a personal butler?
Digging In
- At the beginning of the message Jesse stated that sacrifice is the key to growing closer to God? What did he mean by that?
- Would you say your prayer life is where you want it to be? Why or why not?
- What sacrifice might be needed to make room in your life for a more intimate prayer time with the Father?
- Prayer is a one way communication with the God of the Universe. Is this true or false? What needs to be added if you think it’s false? (Leader Hint: It is false…bc prayer involves listening..)
Discuss
- Was there anything that added to your understanding of prayer tonight?
- What action did God take to make a way for us to have the gift of Prayer?
- Does it ever feel like God isn’t listening? Why? (or use the phrase, Tell me more…)
Read Psalm 8
Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory
in the heavens.
2 Through the praise of children and infants
you have established a strongholdagainst your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?[
5 You have made them[d] a little lower than the angels[e]
and crowned them[f] with glory and honor.
6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
you put everything under their[g] feet:
7 all flocks and herds,
and the animals of the wild,
8 the birds in the sky,
and the fish in the sea,
all that swim the paths of the seas.
9 Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Q:.What does this say about how the God of the inverse views you as one of His creations?
Prayer
Break up into 3’s (or if your group is smaller remain together)and pray for each other. Pray that God would be real in your life this week..and anything else that comes up.
Reminders
10 Days to Fall Retreat! Its never too late to go! But ya got sign up by Midnight tonight?