RECAP: 2020 feels like something to just get past. From murder hornets, pandemics and elections, to crazy schedules, work-from-home, and virtual learning. Ugh. The temptation is to just pack it in, hunker down and just survive. For a lot of us we’ve felt stuck and like we’re spinning our wheels going nowhere, but the longer you stay stuck the harder it is to get moving again. The Hebrew people felt that same thing and the author of the letter to them encouraged them to keep moving forward in faith. To not “shrink back” because God was with them and He has the ultimate victory. But to thrive, not just survive we actually have to move! We need to take steps forward in faith. When we cling to God in faith, even if we go through the worst places, we have the best company! When we keep moving forward with God, the place of frustration can turn into the place of transformation.

QUESTIONS:
(1)Are you typically a glass half full or glass half empty kind of person? Has this season affected that?
(2)Has there been some areas in your life where you have felt “stuck” or the uncertainty left you feel like you’re spinning your wheels and not moving forward?
(3)Read Hebrews 10:36-39. What do you think it means to “live by faith” (remember “by faith” literally means to “hold on to”? Who or what are we supposed to hold on to?
(4)What do you think it looks like to “not shrink back”?
(5)When we’ve lost inertia and gotten stuck, it’s hard to get moving again. Where have you seen that in your life in the past? Where have you seen that during this season, even spiritually?
(6)Read Isaiah 43:1-2. What words of hope do you see in those verses when we’re going through hard times?
(7)Even when we go through the worst places, we have the best company! God is with us. How should knowing this promise give you courage in a season like this?
(8)What baby steps can you take this week to get moving again? Turn this place of frustration into a place of transformation.

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please help me to not stay stuck, to not shrink back. I don’t want this uncertainty to keep me spinning my wheels. I want to have forward movement, I want to live “by faith”. Thank you that you are with me. That you promise to not leave me. Help me to turn this place of frustration into a place of transformation. Today, I commit to take a step forward in my faith, to take a step forward in my life. I need your help to get moving again. In Jesus’ name, Amen.