Resources
Memory Verse:
On your smartphone, long press this image to download and set as your background image (if it doesn’t download the current verse, try clearing out your cache).
Spiritual Growth Tool:
Woodlands in the Word & Prayer: November 22 – 26
Click the image above to see the Bible reading and prayer prompts!
Tools:
For You This Week
To Try This Week:
As you read Scripture this week, pay special attention to any place where God shares his plans for the nations or what His goals are in relation to the world. Answer the question: What in the world is God up to?
This Week’s Reading:
Monday: 2 Peter 2, Ezekial 28-30, Psalm 135
Tuesday: 2 Peter 3, Ezekial 31-33, Proverbs 24
Wednesday: Ezekial 34-36, Psalm 136
Thursday: 1 John 1, Ezekial 37-39, Proverbs 24
Friday: 1 John 2, Ezekial 40-42, Psalm 137
For You + Others
-
- Open your time in prayer: As you enter into your discussion time, ask God to give you His heart for the nations. Ask Him to reveal places in you where you aren’t in alignment with Him.
- Community Builder:
- If you could travel to any other country (nation), where would it be? Why? What would you do there?
- Share an illustration you have recently heard which shows God is at work reaching people with the Gospel in our world today.
- Look to the Word:
- Describe your first encounters with the Gospel. Include who, what, when, where, and how.
- Summarize your answer to the question: “What in the world is God up to?”
- How do you think God is going to accomplish this? Use Matthew 28:18-20, Colossians 1:28-29, Romans 1:5, Matthew 16:13-20 to aid in your discussion.
- Review the study of “nations” that Brian walked through on Sunday. \ Who does God mean when he says nations? See Genesis 12:1-3; 15:1-6; 17:1-8, Psalm 2; Matthew 24:14; Revelation 5:9-10 and Revelation 7:9-10.
- How do you view the future of our world? Read Psalm 2 together. How should the promise in Psalm 2 that God’s Son will someday possess the nations impact how Christians should view current national and world events?
- How do Revelation 5:9-10 and 7:9-10 impact how you view people who are different than you, culturally, racially, socially, immigrants, refugees, our enemies, etc…?
- What hope does Matthew 28:18-20 give you as you seek to follow Jesus?
- To what (place, people, person, priority) might God be calling you? Why not go?
- Faithfully Follow: Use the other resources on this page to choose an application that aligns with what you are learning about God and about yourself.
Dinnertime Discussion:
How are you seeing that God is at work reaching people with the Gospel in our world today?
Starting November 21, pick up a copy of our Woodlands Supported Missionaries and pray through them at dinner.
Songs for encouragement:
Gospel in Everyday Life:
Take an honest look at your heart. Are you excited about and in agreement with God about reaching all the nations? Or is there something in you that thinks some people are a lost cause and not worth the effort? What’s a step you can take toward sharing God’s love with that person or group of people?
Developing Disciplines:
Download Operation World’s app on your phone and pray through the world using the daily prayer guide available there. On November 21, we will have a prayer resource for Woodlands missionaries available to pray through next week. You can also check out our missions display by the world map and pick out a family to support in prayer.
For Further Study:
Videos:
- Keliko: Wycliffe’s & SIL’s 1000th New Testament (1-min, 20 sec video). And the amazing dedication and celebration of the Keliko Scriptures (9-min video).
- Jesus in Athens is a documentary that helps paint the picture of how God is working in refugee populations.
Prayer Resources:
- International Fellowship of Evangelical Students: You’ll find ways to learn about and pray for the university students all over the world. You can sign up for regular prayer updates.
- Compassion International Prayer Guides:
- Prayer geared for sponsors
- Praying generally for children
Apps:
- Operation World App
- Unreached of the Day