Week 6

I’VE RESIGNED FROM RESIGNING (Part 1)

By Sandra Clifton, D.Min.

 

Begin your study by reading “I’ve Resigned From Resigning” by Barbara Wentroble (SpiritLed Woman, Oct/Nov 2007).

 

Introduction

How busy are you these days? If you are like most people, you are busy and often pulled in many directions. Nothing wrong with that, but are the directions where you are pulled keeping you from focusing on where you ought to be?  

            Are you spending any time cultivating God’s calling and perfect will for your life? God’s Word will help you to get back on track into His calling and perfect will for you! You can start now!

 

What God Says

Read: Psalm 142:3.

Write it out.

 

Deeper Insight

Read the following Scriptures (in New King James Version, as the exercises to follow will be based on that). Make brief notes of how each passage reveals something important about God’s direction, which is His perfect will for your life.

 

Psalm 142:3: ________________________________________________

Psalm 143:8-10: _______________________________________________

Proverbs 8:32-33: _______________________________________________

John 15:16: _________________________________________________

 

 

Application

Fill in the blanks of the four Scriptures (or portions of Scriptures) below (which are in NKJV), taken from the previous Deeper Insight section. Afterward, check to see how you did by looking up the Scriptures. Put them on 3x5 cards or enter them into your computer (perhaps as a screen saver). Keep yourself reminded through God’s Word of His direction and perfect will for your life.

 

Psalm 142:3: “When my ____ was ________ within me, then You knew my ___.”

 

Psalm 143: 9: “The ____ is good to ___, and His tender _____ are over all His ______.”

 

Proverbs 8:32: “Now therefore, ______ to me, my ______, for ____ are _____who keep my ____”

 

For Group Study

Begin your group time by first reading aloud Psalm 142:3. Encourage members of the group to share a moment of when each was overwhelmed, and how this verse would (or did) encourage them not to be

            Divide up into two’s and play act in brief scenarios (decided by each team of two) a scene where one is overwhelmed or discouraged by a situation and the other encounters her and encourages with this Scripture (may read it from the Bible). Afterward, discuss all the scenes and give comments on how in daily life they can be encountered and the people might be ministered to.

            Close the meeting with prayer, and thank the Lord that in his Word and through His presence in prayer, He gives daily direction, and with it, the power and strength to do His perfect will.

 

Prayer

Memorize Psalm 142:3. Read it aloud as part of your prayer, and thank the Lord that He not only knows the path in which you should go, but He will make a way for you to fulfill it! Thank Him for His love and mercy are with you as you make that journey of His perfect will.