Week 6

GOD’S TIME IS NOW (Part 1)

By Sandra Clifton, D.Min.

 

Begin your study by reading “God’s Time is Now” by Chuck D. Pierce and Rebecca Wagner Sytsema (SpiritLed Woman magazine, Feb./Mar 2007).

 

Introduction

It does not matter how bleak or troubled or “bad” your past has been. God has a better future for you—and His best for you is yet to come! His great plans and purposes for your life are always far better and beyond what you could possibly imagine! His Word assures you of this.

 

What God Says

Read Jer. 29:11.

 

Write it out.

 

Deeper Insight

Read the following scripture sections (in New King James Version, as the exercises to follow will be based on that). Make brief notes of how each section reveals a promise or a model of how the Lord has made provisions and a future for you.

 

Jer. 29:11-12: ___________________________________________________

Ezek. 36:24:__ _________________________________________________

Eph. 3:20:________________________________________________________

Heb. 7:25_______________________________________________________

 

Application

See if you can recall what the following scriptures say, word by word (NKJV), as taken from the previous section (Deeper Insight). Afterward, check to see how you did by looking up the scriptures. Write them on 3x5 cards and carry them with you into your day, drawing strength from the promises of God for your future.

 

Ezek 36:24

Jer. 29:11-12

Heb. 7:25

Eph. 3:20

 

For Group Study

Begin your group time by reading aloud Jer. 29:11-12, and, verse by verse, share ideas as to what each verse means and how each verse has been evident in the lives of the group members. Encourage testimonies.

            Close the group session with prayer, thanking the Lord for His great thoughts, great plans, and purposes for each and every group member. Thank Him that regardless of their pasts, the Lord has a great future ahead for them.

 

Prayer

Memorize Eph. 3:20, and read it aloud as part of your prayer. Thank the Lord that He is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that “we ask of think, according to the power that works in us.” Thank Him that He not only has your future in His hands, but that it is one blessed beyond measure!