We are the giant killers of our generation.
Moses was called by God to awaken the Giant Killers in Egypt who had forgotten who they were. If a lion is caged long enough, he doesn’t even believe he’s a lion any more.
Exodus 6:9 So Moses told the people of Israel what the LORD had said, but they refused to listen anymore. They had become too discouraged… NLT
The Israelites had become so discouraged they couldn’t hear God’s Word.
Discouragement is a funny thing. Just by looking at the word you see it is the loss of courage. Largely it deals with the embrace of a bad attitude that becomes an overall perspective that has no room for anything other than rehearsing limitation and confinement.
If your revelation never gets bigger than your environment, you’ll always live a life of confinement.
Discouragement is more common than most people realize. It comes and it goes but God remains the same! Moses is trying to get these Israelites to shake off discouragement and believe God’s word. Moses himself will later face such discouragement that he asks God to just take his life.
Two other prophets in the Bible were discouraged to the point of wanting to die, Elijah and Jonah.
Jonah’s situation fascinates me. He was disobedient and God was gracious. He delivered the word to Nineveh and it worked! They repented! And Jonah’s response was that he got mad about God’s grace for the disobedient – which he had just experienced himself.
Discouragement isn’t logical so if you find yourself not understanding why you’re feeling discouraged just realize you were born for more than living in the world’s system. Giant Killers don’t belong in Egypt!
Jonah 4:1-8 But it greatly displeased Jonah and he became angry. 2 He prayed to the LORD and said, “Please LORD, was not this what I said while I was still in my own country? Therefore in order to forestall this I fled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity. 3 “Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life.” NAS
God is doing something remarkable in our world right now and we must prepare our minds to operate on the level of our anointing realizing it takes steady work! Stay in the word! Stay in prayer! Stay connected to believers! You are easy prey when you are isolated. It is not good for man to be alone and we truly do need you in this fight!
The Bible speaks of how God is doing a new thing! He’s not asking us to do a new thing. He’s doing a new thing and we need to pay attention!
Major revival is happening among Muslims in our world and these descendants of Ishmael suddenly find themselves loving Jesus. They are realizing the heritage of Christ that came through the Jews and now there is a movement happening where Muslims are beginning to win Jews to Christ. The orphan son is redeeming Abraham’s sons.
God is able! No matter what your situation may be, you must shake off discouragement so you can hear God’s Word and take heart for what’s ahead. Giant Killers don’t belong in bondage in Egypt!
We Bring GP2RL Action Point:
Give thanks to God for what he’s brought you from by sharing the story of God’s grace in your life with someone this week.
The Abundant Life: Giant Killers
DISCUSSION GUIDE
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Our 2022 New Year’s Revelation as a church family is EVERYONE IS CREATED FOR ABUNDANT LIFE! The devil comes to steal, kill and destroy but realize the aim of death is not to kill you but to keep you from the ful- ness of life until you die. Distraction is destruction of what could have been in your life.
John 10:10b “...I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it over- flows].” Amplified
We are called to be the giant killers of our generation. Some giant killers still live in Egypt, some live in the wilderness and some are moving into the Promised Land. The greatest tragedy of indifference is the life you never live and the difference you never make in the lives of other people.
The more consumed we are with the purposes of God the more difficult it is to be distracted and discouraged from our destiny!
Exodus 6:9 So Moses told the people of Israel what the LORD had said, but they refused to listen anymore. They had become too discouraged... NLT
The Israelites had become so discouraged they couldn’t hear God’s Word. The people were discouraged and God sent a prophet to release a word from heaven in their hearts awakening hope for something more than they’d known in their lives.
Great encouragement comes from rehearsing God’s Word. This is why God’s plan is for us to hear his voice together as a family. That’s why we start each group with this question first:
DISCUSSION QUESTION:
1. Where are you reading in your Bible and what are you sensing from God?
Ask each person in your group to answer the discussion questions below after reading the verses. Realize there is great power in just reading the Bible together and allowing the Holy Spirit to awaken his conversational nature in the group.
Jonah 4:1-8 But it greatly displeased Jonah and he became angry. 2 He prayed to the LORD and said, “Please LORD, was not this what I said while I was still in my own country? Therefore in order to forestall this I fled to Tar- shish, for I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity. 3 “Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life.” 4 The LORD said, “Do you have good reason to be angry?” 5 Then Jonah went out from the city and sat east of it. There he made a shelter for himself and sat under it in the shade until he could see what would happen in the city. 6 So the LORD God appointed a plant and it grew up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. And Jonah was extremely happy about the plant. 7 But God appointed a worm when dawn came the next day and it attacked the plant and it withered. 8 When the sun came up God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, “Death is better to me than life.” NAS
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
2. Have each person give a 60 second summary of what these verses are saying, in their own words.
3. What do these verses teach us about God?
4. What do these verses teach us about people?
5. What should you do this week in response to what we are reading and what God is revealing?
6. Who comes to mind when considering a person you might share this with this week?
We Bring GP2RL Action Point:
Give thanks to God for what he’s brought you from by sharing the story of God’s grace in your life with someone this week.