6/18 Barnabas Life Group

@ JP/Maria's home, start-time 5:30pm - 7:45pm. *Our June gathering for our Barnabas family has arrived this Saturday, 6/18! Potluck dinner - bring a gift to share the love of and living bread of Jesus Christ! Lord-willing, see you! Bless you.

*6/18/2022*  Barnabas Life Group guide  
Life-Sharing

• What has God been teaching you through ISAIAH chapters 6-7 during our Lord’s Day services? Pick one of the prior week’s central truth and explain how the LORD spoke into your life.

 
Here I Am! Send Me
(ISAIAH 6:8-13)
CENTRAL TRUTH:
God is looking for someone willing to be sent, taking-up the task of going. Just be available, teachable, faithful – touched by His holy presence. Once convicted and cleansed, we are commissioned by God, even to a fruitless, difficult, and lengthy mission.
KEY VERSE: 8 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.”
 
Do Not Let Your Heart Be Faint
(ISAIAH 7:1-9)
CENTRAL TRUTH:
Temporary solutions are not permanent answers. God reveals a permanent future to realign our temporary present decisions. Be careful, be quiet, do not fear, do not let your heart be faint. Christ within you is stronger than what overtakes you.
KEY VERSE: 3 And the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer's Field. 4 And say to him, ‘Be careful, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smoldering stumps of firebrands
 
You Shall Call His Name Immanuel
(ISAIAH 7:10-25)
CENTRAL TRUTH:
When God challenges us to trust in Him, He invites us to ask for a sign. The signs show that He indeed is truly the God with us (Immanuel). These signs are fulfilled both presently within our life and ultimately in Jesus Christ –  who is the constant sign of Immanuel.
KEY VERSE: 12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not put the Lord to the test.” 13 And he said, “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you weary my God also? 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
 

• If you’ve been able to join us on Wednesday’s Walk into the Word, how has the Lord spoken to you through JOHN chapters 8-10 so far?​
• How has your walk with the Lord grown since last month? What areas of your spiritual health have been nourished? What areas are still in need of growth that we can treat together with the Word and Spirit?
• What hardships, difficulties, trials, and/or unanswered prayers are you going through that we can all carry together as one body in Christ?
• From inflation, Uvalde shooting, Ukraine war, Capital riot investigations, etc – “In this world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world,” says Jesus (JOHN 16:33). How can we take heart today and overcome?

 
Life-Praying

• What requests of prayer are still left unanswered, and God is asking to wait for His time?
• What requests of prayer have been answered by God in the last month?
• Read the following Scriptures about prayer, and close by praying for one another!

Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. (1 THESSALONIANS 5:16-18)
… do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (PHILIPPIANS 4:6-7)