Pew2U
Pew2U
Carpenter Series 301
Lesson 14 Life Experiences
Pastor Phil Vance
March 5, 2017

Highlights

1. Types of Life Experiences

• Spiritual Experiences
• Educational Experiences
• Painful Experiences
• Experiences of Failure
• Succesful or Victorious Experiences
• Vocational Experiences
• Family Experiences

2. When failure happens in your life, remember that a failure is an event, not a person. You are not a failure! You just failed.

3. Steps in Making the Most Out of Your Life Experiences.

• Evaluate them – be honest and objective
• Acknowledge that you survived and thrived.
• Write down any lessons that you learned.
• Clean up some things from the past.
• Update your story.
• Get God’s vision for your life and move towards it.

Discussion Questions

1. Which types of life experiences do you believe have been most formative in your life?
2. How have you seen God’s hand and leading in your life experiences? Based on all of your life experiences, what would you say God’s vision for your life?
3. In what ways could you “update your playlist” to help you navigate the seasons of life?

Key Scriptures and Quotes

-And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:28 NIV

-You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
Genesis 50:20 NIV

-The boy Samuel ministered before the Lord under Eli. In those days the word of the Lord was rare; there were not many visions. One night Eli, whose eyes were becoming so weak that he could barely see, was lying down in his usual place. The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the house of the Lord , where the ark of God was. Then the Lord called Samuel. Samuel answered, “Here I am.” And he ran to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.” But Eli said, “I did not call; go back and lie down.” So he went and lay down. Again the Lord called, “Samuel!” And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.” “My son,” Eli said, “I did not call; go back and lie down.” Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord : The word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him. A third time the Lord called, “Samuel!” And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.” Then Eli realized that the Lord was calling the boy. So Eli told Samuel, “Go and lie down, and if he calls you, say, ‘Speak, Lord , for your servant is listening.’ ” So Samuel went and lay down in his place. The Lord came and stood there, calling as at the other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” Then Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant is listening.” And the Lord said to Samuel: “See, I am about to do something in Israel that will make the ears of everyone who hears about it tingle. And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba recognized that Samuel was attested as a prophet of the Lord . The Lord continued to appear at Shiloh, and there he revealed himself to Samuel through his word.
1 Samuel 3:1‭-‬11‭, ‬20‭-‬21 NIV

-Saul coverted Acts 9:1-18

-“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city. I studied under Gamaliel and was thoroughly trained in the law of our ancestors. I was just as zealous for God as any of you are today.
Acts 22:3 NIV

-Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
2 Corinthians 1:3‭-‬4 NIV

-Now Peter was sitting out in the courtyard, and a servant girl came to him. “You also were with Jesus of Galilee,” she said. But he denied it before them all. “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he said. Then he went out to the gateway, where another servant girl saw him and said to the people there, “This fellow was with Jesus of Nazareth.” He denied it again, with an oath: “I don’t know the man!” After a little while, those standing there went up to Peter and said, “Surely you are one of them; your accent gives you away.” Then he began to call down curses, and he swore to them, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately a rooster crowed. Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken: “Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.
Matthew 26:69‭-‬75 NIV