Get Your Feet Wet
Joshua 3 NIV
Have you ever taken a step of faith, trusted God with the outcome, and wondered why nothing seemed to change? Waiting can be one of the hardest parts of following God, especially when the challenges in front of us feel impossible. But just because we can't see God working doesn't mean He isn't. Sometimes the greatest expression of faith isn't taking the first step, it's continuing to trust Him when answers haven't come. Because even in the waiting, God is at work, and His promises are always worth standing on.
1. What was your favorite part or favorite verse in the sermon? Why?
2. What is something new you learned (or relearned) about God?
3. What is something new you learned (or relearned) about yourself/mankind?
4. Please describe a time you waited on God to move.
a. What was your perspective during the wait?
b. When had God begun to move?
c. What happened when he moved?
5. Read Daniel 9:21-23 & Daniel 10:2-3, 12-14. In the first passage Daniel received an answer immediately, but in the second he had to wait for three weeks. What do you think he might have thought during those three weeks?
6. Pastor Ryan said that the first step in dealing with a problem is to see God. How do we train ourselves to see Him instead of the problem? Read Proverbs 3:6 & Proverbs 16:3.
7. Read Joshua 3:5 — The people consecrated themselves first, before packing, before training, before planning. What can we learn from this for us when we are called to do something?
8. Please give some examples of people in our world today seeking the miracle instead of the Miracle- Maker.
9. If you were one of the priests carrying the ark of the covenant, what thoughts would have been going through your head as you approached the raging Jordan?
10. What is the primary battle instruction in Ephesians 6:10-13?
a. How do we accomplish that? Read Ephesians 6:14-18.
11. Read Hebrews 11:1. Did the priests in Joshua 3:13-16 demonstrate faith?
a. On what was their faith standing?
12. Where is God asking you to stand in faith?