In-Law Probz
God will use difficult seasons with difficult people as a tool to form our [character].
Sometimes it's a dysfunctional [family].
God will use those people if you allow them to as instruments to help form your [character].
- Think about a difficult person or season in your life right now. How might God be using this to shape your character?
- What would it look like for you to trust God's purposes in the middle of a hard relationship or circumstance?
Do not miss the sovereignty of God and how he [orchestrated] this event.
If you'll take a step, God can [orchestrate] every event that needs to happen.
All we're responsible for is taking that [step].
- What is the next step God is asking you to take, even if you can't see the full picture?
- Reflect on a time when God orchestrated circumstances in your life. How did that strengthen your trust in Him?
A person never knows what type of servant they are until others treat them like a [servant].
If service is beneath you in any form, then faithfulness to God will always be [beyond] you.
God will often shape our character by putting us in positions that we would never [choose] for ourselves.
- Is there an act of service you've been resisting because it feels beneath you? What's holding you back?
- How can serving someone else—even in small ways—become an act of worship this week?
When you give your life to Jesus, he does not promise the absence of [problems].
What he promises is his [presence] in the middle of your problems.
He can give [meaning] to your problems.
He can use those things to shape you in ways that the best days cannot shape you [in].
- Where are you struggling to see God's presence right now? Ask Him to reveal Himself to you in fresh ways.
- How has God used pain or problems in your past to grow you? How does that give you hope for today?
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than [pleasant].
But later it yields the peaceful fruit of [righteousness] to those who have been trained by it.
We have a choice to either be [trained] in the midst of it or to reject it.
To those who submit to it, it says you will produce the peaceful fruit of [righteousness].
- Is there an area where you're resisting God's discipline instead of leaning into it? What would change if you submitted?
- Write out a prayer of trust, telling God that you believe He is working all things for your good—even the hard things.