Life Group Questions
- Pastor Ryan explained 5 practical ways that we can cultivate a lifestyle of gratitude:
• Speak up --- Don’t just think it; say it.
• Sing out --- Combining the power of expressing gratitude with the power of worship.
• Kneel down --- Training our hearts to filter everything through the goodness of God.
• Privately & publicly --- Quick to give thanks when no one is looking & when everyone is looking.
• When & where --- Morning & evening, and transforming parties & celebrations into deliberate moments of gratitude.
Which of these 5 was the biggest for you, and why?
- The following are some of the key quotes from this teaching:
• Real gratitude is doing grateful things out of a grateful heart.
• All too often, we let thoughts in our mind suffice for gratitude.
• Gratitude is the tune that we sing & dance to.
• Is the overall makeup of your prayers out of balance? (not enough giving thanks)
• Did you really celebrate your anniversary (give thanks to God & to each other), or just go out to dinner?
Which of these impacted you the most, and why?
- The following are some of the verses we looked at in this teaching:
• Hebrews 13:15 – “Let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God; that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge His name.”
• Psalm 145:4 – “One generation will commend Your works to another; they will tell of Your mighty acts.”
• 2 Samuel 12:20 – “Then David got up from the ground, and he washed and anointed himself and changed his clothes. And he went into the house of the Lord and worshipped.”
• Psalm 35:18 – “I will give You thanks in the great congregation; I will praise You among a mighty throng.”
• 1 Chronicles 23:30 – “The Levites are to stand every morning, thanking and praising the Lord, and do the same in the evening.”
Which of these speaks the loudest to you in this season of life, and why?