Learning to Believe the Promises of God - Further Study Questions

This past Sunday's lesson was titled Learning to Believe the Promises of God. Take time to continue studying, considering and applying the lesson through the following questions and Scripture passages.

The Impact Statement this week was, “God can be trusted to fulfill His promises to us.”  On a scale from 1-10 with 1 being I don’t believe and 10 being I believe on all levels, how would you rate your overall faith in regards to God’s promises?

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                  1                                           5                                                10

On Sunday, Mike Grine said that fear is a result of not trusting God in a given area.  What areas of your life would you say you have fear?  Is that fear a direct result of not trusting God?  Meditate on that thought for a few minutes. Ask God to reveal His plan for your life as it relates to this area of fear.

Abram had established a pattern with God by not believing, hearing from God to reemphasize a particular promise and then believing again. Is this true of your life? What steps could you take to break this cycle?

What are some of the promises in the Bible that you are absolutely trusting God for? Write down the references and create a 3x5 card for each one. Make sure that you have it thoroughly memorized in your mind, so you can utilize it when needed.

Name some promises in your life that you know God has made but you have not seen them fulfilled yet. Ask yourself why haven’t they been fulfilled? Are you still trusting God to make good on them? Pray and ask Him for faith to continue to trust Him.

Do a Bible search and write down the names of people that God made a promise to and then later fulfilled that promise to that person.

Write down a list of everyday items that you find yourself trusting in to do something for you  (i.e.  a light switch, your ignition in your car, your bank account balance). After writing down these items, reflect on how much trust you place in them and how little you trust God to fulfill His promises to you. Confess any unbelief you have to Him and ask Him to give you more faith to believe.