SUNDAY MESSAGES

1. How do you react when God breaks into your life and surprises you with something unexpected?
2. When you pray for things to happen in His time, in what ways can you still be so impatient when it takes longer than you want it to?
3. You are not insignificant! What do you need to change in your life to really surrender to Jesus and be used how He is calling you to be used for His glory?
4. ‘NO Jesus, No Peace – KNOW Jesus, KNOW PEACE. What is stopping you from experiencing peace in your life?

Questions from the message:

1. Are there areas of your Christian life where you’ve ‘wandered’ from? Have you ‘drifted’ and haven’t even realised it?
2. Recognising that we all ‘fall short’, are there people in your family/friendship groups life with whom God might be calling you to have the ‘bring ‘em back’ conversation?
3. In 2020, with everything that has gone on in and around your life, what are you doing to ensure that it isn’t you who might be falling away?

Questions from the message:

1. What are we acknowledging about God when we pray?
2. Is the key then – in how we pray – to allow and acknowledge that God is the ultimate decision-maker and not us?
3. When we pray ‘God-willing’, are we genuinely content to accept that the answer to that prayer is then firmly placed in His hands?
4. What can prayer accomplish? Can you recall times in your life that your prayers have been answered?In your haste to ‘do’, do you at times, forget to seek the voice of God in whatever it is you’re preparing to undertake?
5. Prayer accomplishes many things – How is your prayer life keeping your relationship with Jesus Christ intimate, healthy, open and honest?

Questions from the Message:

1. How is ‘speaking’ in good faith but being unable to follow through unhelpful as representatives of Jesus?
2. Can you recall times in your life when you have said things you haven’t meant or made promises you haven’t kept? How did you feel? What about times when others have made promises to you?
3. Nobody gets it right all the time, but how can I change the way I speak so that I can develop a reputation of being a person of my word?
4. Is revisiting Jesus’ words in Matthew 5:37 – ““Just a simple, ‘Yes, I will,’ or ‘No, I won’t’ – something you need to consider applying in your life?

Questions from the Message:

1. Are there areas in my life where my actions say to God that I know better? What do you sense they might be?
2. James puts under the spotlight our words (slander), our ways (self-confidence) and our wealth (hoarding & greed) and he challenges us to live differently with God taking his rightful place in our lives. Which warning do you feel God challenging you most about today. Given our lives are a mist, what steps do you need to take to make the most of the mist that is your life?

Questions from the message:

1. How are you intentionally seeking to change your attitude towards sin; towards others; and towards God’s law in regards to how you might be judging others?
2. Do you need to reconsider where your ‘loyalty’ lies? “Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world.” (James 4:8)
3. How much ‘resisting’ are you doing when the urge comes to stray from the path God has set before you? What does that look like?
4. How are you practicing genuine humility in your life?

Questions from today’s message:

1. Does your prayer life (or lack thereof) reveal the focus of your heart?
2. When You pray, are you intentionally of unselfishly seeking God’s will?
3. Both sin (Hebrews 11:25) and God promise pleasure (Psalm 16:11). Should we seek pleasure or seek God? Is there a difference?
4. Is all conflict wrong? When, and how do we know when we are fighting for the right reasons, and not for sinful reasons?
5. Who are you in conflict with?
6. Where do you need to deny yourself to seek reconciliation?

Questions from the Message:

1. The beautiful thought James puts forth is that humility, is the natural accompaniment of wisdom. Where there is no humility, there is no wisdom. How do you display wisdom in a humble way?
2. Think about some of the wise people who have influenced your life? In what practical ways were they able to model wisdom to You?
3. Gentle wisdom will always make allowances for others. Are you a ‘giver of gentle wisdom?’
4. What kind of wisdom characterises your life? Is it a false wisdom that is selfish, ego-centred, and inconsiderate toward others? Or is it a wisdom existing in you because Jesus Christ, the essence of true wisdom, lives in you?

Questions from today’s message:

1. How do you like being spoken to?
2. What impact are your words having in the lives of those around you?
3. Will the effects of your words hurt someone or encourage them?
4. When you speak, who might you be letting down? God? Others? Yourself?
5. Do you need to seek forgiveness from someone for the way you’ve spoken to them in the past?

Questions from the Message:

1. Where are you professing, and ‘proving’, your faith?
2. How are you evaluating a living faith in Jesus which surpasses word with deed, knowledge with relationship, and importance with obedience. Is your faith dead or alive?
3. If you were to be put on trial today for being a Christian would there be enough evidence to convict you?