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Scriptures and questions
Read 1 Thessalonians 5:23 and Ephesians 4:15. What is sanctification?
Do you have new year resolutions? Is once a year enough? Should we be making weekly or even daily resolutions? What is our primary goal in life?
Read 1 Corinthians 12:4-7. What are your gifts? Have you asked others? What are your “activities”[1] [ESV]? How are we manifesting the Holy Spirit in serving one another?
Read Psalm 139:11-12 and John 1:5. What is the darkness? What is the darkness in your life? What or who is the only light that can ultimately over the darkness?
Read Ephesians 2:10. What are the disciplines we need to nurture to maintain a passion for our callings?
Jesus was at a very dark place on the cross [Matthew 27:46]. What would happen on the third day? What is the only complete remedy to death and the dark consequences of sin?
Read Jonah 2:1-10. There is more going on here that we might at first notice. Noah thinks of the world as an ancient Hebrew. What is below the foundations of the mountains [v6]? Where is the temple in Jonah’s cosmology [v4] [Hint: Genesis 15:5]?
Read Jeremiah 1:11-12. In Hebrew almond and watching rhyme. Jeremiah had vision to see that God was doing what he had promised. What does that look like in your life? Do you have a vision for 2022?
[1] Some translations have ministry. The word, διακονία, is derived from deacon, διάκονος. We are all to be deacons or servers.