Matt talked about Jeremiah 17:9. NLT
“the human heart is the deceitful and hard to understand.”
- How has your own heart deceived you in the past?
- Experience is a good teacher, share a time when you knew God was telling you to make a certain choice and you chose differently? How did that turn out?
- Like question 2, experience is a good teacher, share a time when you did choose what God wanted and how that turned Out?
- Proverbs 16:2 NLT says, “people may be pure in there own eyes but the Lord examines the heart”. How are you wired to make choices? (God, money, family, time) What influences your choices most?
- If you are comfortable enough, talk about the choices you are struggling with right now.
- Do you believe God has my best interest at heart?
Matt Carder - August 2, 2015
Conviction
Doing the right thing is sometimes very difficult to do. As believers however, decisions we make should be judged on more than their consequences - they should be evaluated on whether or not they honor God. This week we dig into Daniel's story to see how his conviction and unwillingness to take shortcuts is something we can model.
