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Key Thought:

How will you build a big life?



Key Quote

“God doesn’t put a small dream in anyone, God puts big dreams in us.” – Pastor Bil Cornelius 



Start talking. Find a conversation starter for your group.
  • What’s your favorite thing to do on a rainy day?
  • What’s the most unusual food you’ve ever tried and liked?
  • What’s the most random fact you know?


Start thinking. Ask a thoughtful question.
  • How does staying "planted" in a community of faith contribute to personal growth and flourishing?
  • How can the idea of "God's power working within us" help overcome obstacles in pursuing big goals?


Start sharing. Choose questions that create openness.
  • How do you stay focused on your vision even when challenges arise?
  • What’s one God-sized goal you’ve set for yourself that feels beyond your own strength?


Start doing. Commit to a step and live it out this week.
  • How can you create a clear vision for your life and trust God to make it happen?
    • This week claim something for yourself and create a clear vision statement.

Scriptures

“This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.”  Genesis 6:15 NIV

“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.”  Ephesians 3:20 NIV

“Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it.”  Habakkuk 2:2 NIV

“..make yourself an ark...”  Genesis 6:14 NIV

“The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.  They are planted in the house of the Lord; they flourish in the courts of our God.”  Psalm 92:12-13 ESV

“One day in the courtyards of your Temple is better than a thousand days anywhere else.  I would rather be a doorkeeper in the Temple of my God than live in the homes of the wicked.”  Psalm 84:10 NCV

“One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek:  That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord And to meditate in His temple.”  Psalm 27:4 NAS

“And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth...on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.  And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.”  Genesis 7:10-12 NIV

“One male and one female of every living thing came, just as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord closed the door behind them.”  Genesis 7:16 NCV

“But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.”  Genesis 8:1 NIV


 


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