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Esther 4:1-17
1. “God has a plan for your life.” Do you believe a person can know the plan before it actually happens?
“Providence is the hand of God in the glove of history.” – Jay Vernon McGee
2. Talk about a time in your life when God seemed absent, but in reality, He was there and working the whole time.
3. Read Esther 4:10-11. Sometimes we start to see the things God gave us as our comfort and so we try to hold on to it, protect it, cling to it. When we do that, they can become our identity. (Example: The Rich Man) Share examples of this you have seen in your own life.
4. Read Esther 4:12-14 & James 4:13-15. How does that kind of trust in God change the way you view your life? In what areas of your life do you need to surrender to the Lord and step out into the wild and risk?
"I shall bet my life on the assumption that this world is not idiotic, neither run by an absentee landlord, but that today, this very day, some stroke is being added to the cosmic canvas that in due course I shall understand with joy as a stroke made by the architect who calls Himself Alpha and Omega." C.S. Lewis
Take some time together and pray for two things; releasing comfort that holds you back from doing what God is calling you to do, and a willingness to risk, stepping into the wild (answers to #4).
For Further Study: Read Acts 17:25-28 and discuss the details of your life that have shown the Lord is providentially at work.