Pew2You
August 12. 2018
What to Expect When You’re Expecting
Aaron Schlueter
August 12, 2018
HIghlights:
Sweat the Secret Stuff:
Invest energy and effort into meeting with God in secret…make it a priority.
God is IN the secret place.
You can expect to meet with God in the secret place and that is very rewarding.
Sowing Machines
Sowers expect the seeds to grow.
It is our job to sow, it is God’s job to bring the growth.
Submit Your Circumstances to His Sovereignty.
Discussion Questions:
What effect has time you’ve invested in “the secret place” had on your expectancy?
Where are you sowing? What does it mean to you that the sowing is our responsibility but the growth belongs to God?
What effect does submitting your circumstances to His sovereignty have on your expectations?
Key Scriptures, Quotes and Definitions:
-Proverbs 13:12 “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.”
-Matthew 6:2-4 “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
-Matthew 11:28-30 “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
Matthew 12: 1-9 “on the same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the sea…….”