Week 3

 

If you’re going through this material on your own before meeting with your small group, please read the following passages of Scripture and answer the questions that follow them. 

When you gather with your small group – before you begin sharing your baseline testimonies with each other – please take just a few minutes to read the Scriptures together and encourage each other with their words.  Then, once you’ve finished sharing your baseline testimonies with each other, please read aloud the last paragraph in this section (the one that begins, “Over and over in the Old Testament...”).  Finally, take some time to pray for one another.  Ask the Lord to open doors for each of you to begin to share your stories often.  And pray for the empty chair.

Study Questions

Acts 1:8

  1. According to the Lord Jesus in this verse, what two things will happen to you when the Holy Spirit comes on you? 

    Psalm 26:7 

    2.     What, specifically, does David tell of as he proclaims aloud the Lord’s praise?

     

    Psalm 66:16

     

    3.     In this verse, what does the psalmist invite people to come listen to?  What, specifically, does he intend to tell them about?

     

    Psalm 107:1-2

     

    4.     Verse 2 instructs the Lord’s redeemed to “say this.”  What is the “this” God’s people are supposed to be saying?

     

    Psalm 145:11

     

    5.     According to David, what do the saints of God speak about?  Why do they share these things?

     

    I Chronicles 16:8

     

    6.     In this psalm of David, there are three directives.  The first two are, “Give thanks to the Lord,” and “Call on His name.”  What is the third?  It’s definitely worth noting that this verse puts sharing what God has done right there with praise (thanksgiving) and prayer. 

     

    Jeremiah 51:10

     

    7.     What are the people of God here exhorted to “tell” in Zion?

Over and over in the Old Testament, the Lord’s people were instructed to share His story (to tell of His greatness) and to share their own stories (to tell of the great things He’d done for them).  And in the New Testament, Jesus promised grace and power from the Holy Spirit in order to do exactly that.  Living as a witness for the Lord Jesus Christ puts you squarely in obedience to the Scriptures and right in the heart of God’s plan for your life.