Always as Clear as Mud: Absolute Surrender Discussion Questions CHAPTER 3

Monday, June 17, 2013

Absolute Surrender Discussion Questions CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 3

Separated Unto The Holy Ghost

1. What is the great lesson of Acts 13:1-4?

Thought #1 (pgs. 22-23)

2. Explain what the author meant by the following statement: Our great Commander organizes every campaign, and His generals and officers do not always know the great plans. They often receive sealed orders, and they have to wait on Him for what He gives them as orders. God had certain plans and intentions with regard to Asia, and with regard to Europe. He had conceived them; they were His and He made them known to His servants.

3. According to the author, God has His plans clearly mapped out, and our position is to wait, that God should communicate to us as much of His will as each time is needful. What is our role as workers in carrying out this plan?

Thought #2 (pg. 23)

4. How does God reveal His will to us? What is our role in hearing Him? (Psalm 46:10, Psalm 37:7, Exodus 14:14)

Thought #3 (pg. 23)

5. Describe the heart that God is desiring to manifest Himself in.

6. What is fasting? (Matthew 6:16-18, Isaiah 58: 3-7)

Thought #4 (pgs. 24-25)

7. What is needed that the power of God should rest upon us more mightily?

8. What does it mean to be separated unto the Holy Spirit?

Thought #5 (pg. 25-26)

9. What is our call to action, our job, in this blessed partnership with the Holy Spirit?

Thought #6 (pg. 27)

10. How can we be blessed by the Holy Spirit? Conversely, why have we not experienced more blessing in our relationship with the Holy Spirit?

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I set up this blog some time ago in hopes that I might begin to exhort and encourage and comfort other Believers through my struggles (1 Cor 14:3) In hopes that they might find comfort in my struggles and therefore confidence in the God that we serve. This blog has risen from the muddy waters I so often find myself in. I have struggled to hear the voice of God and feel His breath against my cheek. I have struggled to feel the very beating of His heart and to find the quiet confidence in Him I have had in the past. Most of my walk with Him has been in complete darkness. I have struggled to understand when He is speaking and when it is me hoping that I hear His voice. I have struggled to understand when it is God moving and when it is me hoping that He is moving. In reality, I have had to learn to walk by faith because my sight is so often as clear as mud. And yet, amidst these muddy waters, God has been faithful to speak to me. To remind me that I should walk by faith and not by sight (2 Cor 5:7). To remind me that though life so often seems as clear as mud I need to step out confidently and boldly even when there is seemingly no place to set my foot. God has taught me to be still and to wait on Him. I have learned through Psalm 23 to literally sit back and watch the show. I have learned through Lamentations 3 to sit back quietly and confidently and wait for God to reveal His character. I have learned through Psalm 46 to still myself in order that He might reveal Himself as the True and Living God. God speaks to me through writing. He pours out His Spirit and it overflows on the pages of my life. My prayer is that these humble excerpts, though they come through muddy waters, will cause you to draw near to God. And so...

¹⁴For this reason I kneel before the Father, ¹⁵from whom every familyin heaven and on earth derives its name. ¹⁶I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, ¹⁷so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, ¹⁸may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, ¹⁹and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
²⁰Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,²¹to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
(Ephesians 3:14-21)