EXTRA! Concepts for Adults – Elisha: Seeing the Hand of God at Work – Session 2

Date: Might 4, 2025 

God’s Hand in Assembly Our Wants 

The Level: God gives for our wants. 

Get Into the Examine

Share the next after discussing Query 1:

Eddie Shed, a deacon of Empowerment Ministries Christian Heart, died defending others when a person opened fireplace at an Easter egg hunt on April 12.

The church-sponsored egg hunt happened at a neighborhood sports activities complicated in Gulfport, Mississippi. The alleged shooter, Tyran Deion Gable, was within the midst of a custody dispute with an unnamed lady attending the egg hunt. Shed stepped in to guard the girl when Gable opened fireplace and was killed. One other individual, additionally unnamed, was injured once they tried to deescalate the state of affairs. Police shortly arrived and arrested Gable, who was charged with first-degree homicide and aggravated assault.

Shed was recognized for his kindness and repair towards others, and “paid the final word value for his valor,” in line with his pastor, Gregg Magee. Whereas not all of us are referred to as to step in hurt’s approach to assist others, we’re referred to as to assist these round us when God calls us. We should all the time be able to reply God’s name as a result of we by no means know after we’re being referred to as to behave in simply the fitting second.

Get Into the Examine (Choice from Grownup Chief Information)

Prematurely, play a video clip of somebody exhibiting up at simply the fitting time. Then ask Query #1.

Examine the Bible

Share the next after discussing Query 4:

Inside days of an F2 twister hitting Lone Star, Texas in early April, a number of groups from the Texans on Mission (TXM) ministry had been within the space to help with clean-up efforts. Whereas the injury was extreme, “nice progress” was being made with the assistance of the TXM groups.

The command heart for aid efforts was Lakeview Baptist Meeting within the affected space, the place volunteers coordinated groups and assist requests. Groups met some bodily wants by cleansing particles and had been outfitted with chaplains to assist affected individuals work out subsequent steps. Rick Crouch, chaplain of the Bluebonnet crew, stated that the most effective message [TXM] may give was one among hope, telling one household that “that is Jesus. We don’t cost something.”

By exhibiting up shortly to assist and providing hope in a bleak state of affairs, these groups had been capable of minister to those individuals in simply the fitting time, though the necessity was nice. We needs to be on the lookout for how God sends us assist after we want it, and we needs to be watchful for when He leads us to assist these round us.

EXTRA was written by Emily Duncan, a Southern California native at the moment dwelling in West Georgia together with her husband, daughter, and two canines. 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 exterior within the hammock.

Examine the Bible (Choice for Day by day Discipleship Chief Information)

After studying 2 Kings 4:1-2, play the tune “Identical God” by Elevation Worship. Encourage the group to pay attention intently to the lyrics because the tune performs and take into account a state of affairs of their lives the place they should cry out to God for assist. After the tune is completed, information the group to pair up with one different individual and pray collectively for his or her wants.

Further Questions

Ice Breaker

• What’s the distinction between being hungry and ravenous?
• How can we belief God’s provision in our time of want?
• When have you ever acquired assist that arrived simply on the proper time?
• When have your profession targets taken an attention-grabbing flip?

2 Kings 4:1-2

• What’s the distinction in your prayers in occasions of ease versus occasions of determined want?
• How does the extent of our want affect the extent of our belief in God?
• Why is it vital that the girl cried out for assist in her determined state of affairs?
• Why are we generally hesitant to cry out to God for assist in our time of want?
• What can we find out about God that provides us confidence to cry out to Him in our time of want?
• What different sources of assist can we generally flip to in occasions of want?

2 Kings 4:3-4

• How do our actions reveal our religion in God’s provision?
• What does this occasion talk to you about our function and God’s function in assembly wants?
• What assets do you could have that God would possibly need to use for His glory?
• When have you ever seen God meet a terrific want in an surprising approach?
• How can our ‘little’ make a giant distinction within the lives of others?

2 Kings 4:5-7

• When has God offered in your wants in a particular approach?
• What’s the correct response from us when God gives for our wants?
• How have you ever skilled God’s care via others?
• How can assembly the wants of others level to God?
• What can we study God from this passage about Elisha and the widow?

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