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Small Group Leaders Facilitation Worksheet:

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“Expect Good Things To Happen To You”

ICE BREAKER: I once heard someone say, “There reason I sleep so much is because life has a tendency of falling apart and going horribly wrong as soon as I wake up so it is much better if I just keep on sleeping”.

QUESTION: What do you understand from this statement?

[Allow a few minutes for feedback]

Expect Good Things To Happen To You

READ: Ephesians: 6v17

And take the helmet of salvation…

CLARIFY: When the phone rings at odd times, most people think, “Oh dear, it must be bad news.” They don’t think, “I wonder what the good news is that it cannot wait till morning!” When we hear, “The boss wants to see you,” instinctively, we think, “Oh dear, this is not good.” But how do we know that it is not going to be about a promotion? Our minds are inclined toward the negative. So to guard our minds against negative thoughts, we are to put on “the helmet of salvation”, which is “the hope of salvation”.

READ: 1 Thessalonians: 5v8

But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.

QUESTION: How many of you are experiencing a trial, pressure, stress like you have not experienced before?

[Allow a few minutes for feedback]

CLARIFY: If you are going through a trial right now, putting on as a helmet the hope of salvation means that:

• You have a confident expectation of good coming your way.

• It means that you choose to believe that this trial that you are going through is only temporary because God will see you through it.

• It means that you believe that this difficult period will end with your salvation — your preservation, wholeness, wellness, health and prosperity!

READ: Romans: 8v28

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

Isaiah: 43v16

Verse 16 Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea And a path through the mighty waters,

Verse 17 Who brings forth the chariot and horse, The army and the power (They shall lie down together, they shall not rise; They are extinguished, they are quenched like a wick):

Verse 18 "Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old.

Verse 19 Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert.

CLARIFY: You may not know what is going to happen this week.

READ: James: 4v14

whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

CARIFY: But one thing you can do is to put on the helmet of the hope of salvation and tell yourself that you are going to have a fantastic week!

Yet some will still say;

“Well, you know, you never know what to expect. We hear so much bad news these days — another flu outbreak, another company retrenching its workers… I really hope that I will not be retrenched next. But I cannot be sure. I am keeping my fingers crossed.”

No, my friend, biblical hope is not “I HOPE SO” but “I KNOW SO”!

You can have a confident expectation of good happening to you because you are not like the people of the world. You are a child of the living God. You have a Savior watching over you.

READ: Romans: 4v17-22

Verse 17 (as it is written, "I HAVE MADE YOU A FATHER OF MANY NATIONS") in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;

Verse 18 who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, "SO SHALL YOUR DESCENDANTS BE."

Verse 19 And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

Verse 20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,

Verse 21 and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.

Verse 22 And therefore "IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS."

CLARIFY: There are more angels given charge over you than there are demons against you. And greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.

READ: 1 John: 4v4

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

QUESTION: 1. Now can you see that there is every reason for you to have a confident expectation of

good happening to you?

2. How will you put this truth in action in your life?

[Allow a few minutes for feedback]

AMEN

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