DISCIPLESHIP ESSENTIALS 1

SESSION 4

 
 

Session 4: Seek God Passionately

Summary of Video Content

  • The passionate pursuit of God provides momentum to persevere and endure to the end. 

  • Personal, heartfelt love for God is the key motivator of a heart after God. Loving Jesus is the sweetest, richest, most rewarding part of the experience we call life.

  • Seeking after God can be compared to thirst, e.g. ‘…As the deer pants for water …’ (Ps 42:1), ‘If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink…’ (Jn. 7:37)

  • Seeking God and finding Him results in abundant satisfaction and fullness of joy. (Ps. 36:8-9, Ps. 16:11)

  • When we seek after God, we are in actuality, responding to Him seeking us and inviting us to meet with Him. The impetus is God’s. (Ps. 27:8, 27:4, Jer. 29:13, Ps. 63:8)

  • Four helps towards a pursuit of God: 1) Get up, 2) Give up, 3) Gaze up 4) Go up

 

Discussion

1. An essential requirement of a disciple of Jesus Christ is to possess the self-motivation that comes from a personal love for God.  Ps Jack stated: “I don’t need anyone else to motivate me to seek God … “

What difficulties arise for individuals or those that lead them when such self-motivation is not present? 

2. Why is ‘thirst’ a good description for the pursuit of God?

Why are some people for thirsty for God and others are not?

What can we do to continue to be ‘thirsty’ for God?

3. Discuss the four helps: Get up, give up, gaze up and go up.

In what way do you sense that God is telling you to get up? What might you need to give up to allow more time or energy for your pursuit of God? What sort of shift do you need to make in your focus so that you can gaze up?

To ‘go up’ is a Bible phrase used to describe going up to the place of worship - both physically and metaphorically. How could you make room in your life for more worship of God?

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