17/09/2023

GOD LISTENS TO YOU

Theme: “God listens to you”

This format is a guide to you for your small group meeting. Feel free to change and adapt it according to the needs of your group. The objective is for you to build authentic relationships within the group, relationships that enable you to learn to love others who are different to you, and to discover as a reality the treasure of relationships built on the foundation of a relationship with Jesus, his life, and his teaching.

Meeting and Greeting:

Begin with general conversation and sharing about how the past week has gone.

Worship and Prayer

Click on the link below on your smartphone, Smart TV, or computer, to select songs to sing; and then spend a few minutes in song and prayer.

PLETT METHODIST YOU TUBE CHANNEL SONG’S PLAYLIST:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbsAkwbV_S1vXdZVPkZ0_tQW5n9RqeZX0

And if you need to check on the Message for the week again, then click on:

PLETT METHODIST YOU TUBE CHANNEL (MESSAGE): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU1X4YYw1KLpda1yGnqKgfw/videos

This time of worship and prayer will encourage you to move your thoughts from daily worries and pressures to our time of Bible study and prayer.

You do not have to answer all the questions below.

READINGS:

Psalm 139:1-4,13-16

John 11:41-42

Luke 11:1-13

Discussion and Sharing

  • What is your experience of praying? How does praying work/or not work for you?
  • Do you believe that God listens to you when you pray? Do you feel that God is sometimes deaf?
  • Read Psalm 139 (especially verses 1-4,13-16). What does this Psalm tell us about the knowledge and connection God has with us? Does this Psalm help you understand that “God gets you…”, that God understands you? If God knows you so well, why then should you still pray?
  • Do you pray honestly to God from the perspective of how your life is really going?
  • What does it mean to say we must confess our sins to God? Are you prepared to share honestly with God in this way? Do you think keeping a prayer diary might be helpful for you?
  • Do you ask God for what you need when you pray? Does God listen to you and give you what you ask for?
  • Take your time with Luke 11:1-13. Why do you think Jesus taught the disciples to pray in this way?
  • What do you need to ask God for today?

Prayer: Share prayer requests and then pray together.

Benediction Prayer:  And now may the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Love of God, and the Fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with us all, now, and forever more. Amen

Have a wonderful week.

God bless.

Tim.