Week 1
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ICEBREAKERS
- Share something that God has taught you this week.
- Share your favorite dish to eat on Thanksgiving.
- What is your favorite holiday tradition?
OPEN IN PRAYER
MESSAGE REVIEW
Sometimes church can seem like clouds with no water. A form of Godliness with no power which the Bible warned would be the main struggle of the end time church. It looks, smells, acts, and feels like church but everyone leaves the way they came with no change. If there is no power to change, then what are we doing?
When the pulpit is silent people struggle. We tend to talk about things that are hot topics but there is no mention of the two epic battles right above our heads between good and evil. For every assignment that God gives us, there is an assignment against that given assignment. The problem is that no one wants to talk about it because we don’t want to be weird. All the while we are trying therapy and medicine to take care of all our problems.
Many believe that evils look like what is depicted in movies, when oftentimes they show up as something that looks good or as a person. When God wants to bless you, He sends a person. When the enemy wants to curse you, he normally sends a person. The Bible even addresses things as who, “who shall separate you from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus.” “O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you?” When the right people enter my life, the right things start happening. When the wrong people exit my life, wrong things quit happening. Many of us are dealing with things and we don’t know why.
Let’s dive deeper into exposing this darkness that is affecting our lives.
LET’S TALK ABOUT IT!
· Read Deuteronomy 28:1-8
1“Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth.” 2 “And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God:” 3 “Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country. 4 “Blessed shall be the [a]fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.”5 “Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.”6 “Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.” 7 “The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.” 8 “The Lord will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.”
The blessing was built into the system, there are laws that work in the earth that God has put in place. These laws have their built-in reward and their built in discipline. God has designed a system and when we flow with it, blessing follows you. What we ignore and rebel against has consequences. Just because we don’t physically see the laws, does not mean they are not there. It’s like gravity, we don’t see it but if we jump off a roof it is guaranteed that we will have broken bones because we did not flow with the gravity. If we do not cooperate with the flow, we can miss out on our blessings that are provided by God.
Share a time when consequences took place in your life because you chose to ignore the laws of God.
· Read Deuteronomy 28:15-18
15“But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:” 16“Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country.” 17 “Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.” 18 “Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.”
If you ignore God, it will affect your offspring because these blessings are transportory to the next generation. Generational curses are also transportory to the next generation. When you go to the doctor, the first thing that they ask you about is your family because whatever health issues you have, they know that it was most likely passed down through the bloodline…the life of the thing is through the blood. Curses will come up on you and they will pursue you then they will overtake you. We have to give something legal rights to operate in our lives…curses occur when something happens to give them permission to invade our lives. Curses cannot start without a cause. There is something bigger going on than what we see. There is something going on that is hidden in plain sight! Just because you cannot see it, does not mean it is not real.
Share a time when God showed up in your life even when you were not obedient.
God wants to deliver you and your family from all generational curses, we will not let the enemy take over our lives! Let’s take away the opportunities for curses to take place in our families!
PRAYER FOCUS & REQUESTS
Support one another in sharing prayer requests and celebrate praise reports. Share prayers in which you are “standing in the gap” for someone or something to happen.