EXTRA! Concepts for Adults – Elisha: Seeing the Hand of God at Work – Session 2

Date: Could 4, 2025 

God’s Hand in Assembly Our Wants 

The Level: God gives for our wants. 

Get Into the Examine

Share the next after discussing Query 1:

Eddie Shed, a deacon of Empowerment Ministries Christian Heart, died defending others when a person opened fireplace at an Easter egg hunt on April 12.

The church-sponsored egg hunt passed off at an area sports activities advanced in Gulfport, Mississippi. The alleged shooter, Tyran Deion Gable, was within the midst of a custody dispute with an unnamed lady attending the egg hunt. Shed stepped in to guard the girl when Gable opened fireplace and was killed. One other individual, additionally unnamed, was injured once they tried to deescalate the scenario. Police shortly arrived and arrested Gable, who was charged with first-degree homicide and aggravated assault.

Shed was recognized for his kindness and repair towards others, and “paid the last word worth for his valor,” in keeping with his pastor, Gregg Magee. Whereas not all of us are known as to step in hurt’s approach to assist others, we’re known as to assist these round us when God calls us. We should at all times be able to reply God’s name as a result of we by no means know after we’re being known as to behave in simply the proper second.

Get Into the Examine (Choice from Grownup Chief Information)

Upfront, play a video clip of somebody displaying up at simply the proper time. Then ask Query #1.

Examine the Bible

Share the next after discussing Query 4:

Inside days of an F2 twister hitting Lone Star, Texas in early April, a number of groups from the Texans on Mission (TXM) ministry had been within the space to help with clean-up efforts. Whereas the injury was extreme, “nice progress” was being made with the assistance of the TXM groups.

The command heart for reduction efforts was Lakeview Baptist Meeting within the affected space, the place volunteers coordinated groups and assist requests. Groups met some bodily wants by cleansing particles and had been geared up with chaplains to assist affected folks determine subsequent steps. Rick Crouch, chaplain of the Bluebonnet workforce, mentioned that one of the best message [TXM] might give was one in every of hope, telling one household that “that is Jesus. We don’t cost something.”

By displaying up shortly to assist and providing hope in a bleak scenario, these groups had been capable of minister to those folks in simply the proper time, regardless that the necessity was nice. We must be searching for how God sends us assist after we want it, and we must be watchful for when He leads us to assist these round us.

EXTRA was written by Emily Duncan, a Southern California native at the moment dwelling in West Georgia together with her husband, daughter, and two canine. God saved her from Wicca when she was sixteen, and she or he now serves alongside her youth pastor husband as a women’ chief at New Hope First Baptist Church in Dallas, GA. Emily spends most of her time tangled in yarn whereas crocheting or studying outdoors within the hammock.

Examine the Bible (Choice for Every day Discipleship Chief Information)

After studying 2 Kings 4:1-2, play the tune “Similar God” by Elevation Worship. Encourage the group to pay attention carefully to the lyrics because the tune performs and think about a scenario of their lives the place they should cry out to God for assist. After the tune is completed, information the group to pair up with one different individual and pray collectively for his or her wants.

Extra Questions

Ice Breaker

• What’s the distinction between being hungry and ravenous?
• How can we belief God’s provision in our time of want?
• When have you ever obtained assist that arrived simply on the proper time?
• When have your profession objectives taken an fascinating flip?

2 Kings 4:1-2

• What’s the distinction in your prayers in occasions of ease versus occasions of determined want?
• How does the extent of our want affect the extent of our belief in God?
• Why is it essential that the girl cried out for assist in her determined scenario?
• Why are we generally hesitant to cry out to God for assist in our time of want?
• What will we find out about God that offers us confidence to cry out to Him in our time of want?
• What different sources of assist will we generally flip to in occasions of want?

2 Kings 4:3-4

• How do our actions exhibit our religion in God’s provision?
• What does this occasion talk to you about our function and God’s function in assembly wants?
• What sources do you have got that God may need to use for His glory?
• When have you ever seen God meet an important want in an surprising approach?
• How can our ‘little’ make an enormous distinction within the lives of others?

2 Kings 4:5-7

• When has God supplied on your wants in a particular approach?
• What’s the correct response from us when God gives for our wants?
• How have you ever skilled God’s care by means of others?
• How can assembly the wants of others level to God?
• What will we study God from this passage about Elisha and the widow?

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