EXTRA! Concepts for Adults – Elisha: Seeing the Hand of God at Work – Session 3

**EXTRA helps the group plans within the Bible Research for Life chief guides.**

Date: Might 11, 2025

God’s Hand in Assembly Others’ Wants

The Level: God blesses as we serve others.

Get Into the Examine

Share the next as you focus on Query 1:

President Trump and First Woman Melania hosted the annual White Home Easter Egg Roll on April 21, with an estimated 30 thousand folks in attendance. Actions included the namesake egg roll relay race, a coloring station, hopscotch, and studying nook.

Each the president and first woman loved spending time with the youngsters in attendance, with President Trump becoming a member of in on the coloring station and the first woman studying “Bunny with a Massive Coronary heart.” The kids’s actions targeted on Melania’s “Be Greatest” marketing campaign, which highlights the significance of kids’s social, emotional, and bodily well being.

Simply as sharing these actions with the attending kids was a enjoyable expertise for President Trump and First Woman Melania, we must also discover pleasure after we give to others. 2 Corinthians 9:7 tells us that God loves a cheerful giver, and the enjoyment of becoming a member of in God’s kingdom work ought to make blessing these round us a enjoyable expertise for us.

Get Into the Examine (Choice from Grownup Chief Information)

Prematurely, play a video clip of somebody having fun with giving to others. Then ask Query #1.

Examine the Bible

Learn the next after discussing Query 3:

In early April, Pastor Josh Sullivan was kidnapped at gunpoint whereas preaching a sermon at Fellowship Baptist Church, the place he serves as a missionary in Africa. Although the thirty folks attending the church service had their telephones stolen, nobody else was injured or taken captive. Fellowship Baptist Church was threatened in 2024 and the abductors referred to Sullivan by identify. One other pastor serving within the Gqeberha space was involved that Sullivan was focused for his religion, however stated the kidnapping was doubtless financially motivated.

5 days after the kidnapping, Sullivan was rescued after a “excessive depth shootout” and was “miraculously unhurt.” The South African Police Service reported that the shootout occurred at a safehouse within the space, with the suspects ready in a automotive on the premises. The suspects tried to flee and opened fireplace, and the officers responded with “tactical precision.” Three suspects have been fatally wounded, and Sullivan was discovered unhurt within the automobile.

It was an surprising blessing that Sullivan was unhurt throughout his ordeal. Whereas not all blessings are fairly as dramatic or require such intense circumstances, God blesses believers in surprising methods typically. We must always hold our eyes opened and our hearts softened to see how God could bless us or these round us in surprising methods.

EXTRA was written by Emily Duncan, a Southern California native at present residing in West Georgia together with her husband, daughter, and two canine. God saved her from Wicca when she was sixteen, and he or she now serves alongside her youth pastor husband as a ladies’ chief at New Hope First Baptist Church in Dallas, GA. Emily spends most of her time tangled in yarn whereas crocheting or studying outdoors within the hammock.

Extra Questions

Ice Breaker

Who are you aware who serves others sacrificially? / When have you ever seen somebody serve others sacrificially?
How can believers discover methods to serve others?
When has giving to somebody been a joyful expertise for you?
When has giving to somebody been a enjoyable expertise for you?

2 Kings 4:8-10

The place do now we have a chance to be a blessing to others in our church or group?
What do you respect about this Shunammite lady?
What’s your preliminary response to this lady’s unprovoked generosity?
How can believers develop a godly sensitivity to the wants of others?
What can distract believers from being a blessing to others?

2 Kings 4:11-17

How has God used somebody to bless you in an uncommon method?
How have you ever been blessed on account of assembly one other’s wants?
When has God given you an surprising blessing?
How was the Shunammite lady blessed with greater than the beginning of a kid?
When have you ever seen somebody blessed in a shocking method?

2 Kings 4:32-37

What’s troublesome about trusting the facility of God to deal with our largest wants and fears?
What are a few of the methods God’s energy would possibly present itself in our lives by God’s folks?
When have you ever trusted God to behave regardless of unattainable circumstances?
How would you describe an individual who trusts in God’s energy?
Who are you aware that fashions a way of life of trusting in God’s energy?
What are some obstacles to trusting in God’s energy in our lives?