Sunday, February 25

· How does your life reflect minimalism?
· When have you operated under the belief that more is better?
· “I lack nothing” When have you felt a sense that you lack nothing? What did it have to do with your external situation?
· What is your wilderness? How are you keeping your bearings in this wilderness?
· Why must we experience wilderness?
· What emotions do you feel in wilderness? What role does joy play?
· When have you found the shepherding love of God in a time of wilderness?
· Read Deuteronomy 8:1-3.
What do you hear in this passage?
What surprises you?
What gives you comfort?
· What are you learning about God in your wilderness? What are you learning about yourself?
· Are there ways that you are trying to go around a wilderness? Is there a conversation you are avoiding? A decision you are postponing? What is at stake?
· How do you try to meet deep needs in shallow or distracting ways?
· What keeps you from believing that God is your Provider? Are there times when you see God’s provision as a provider? Your paycheck? Your significant other? Spouse? What shift must take place for you to see only God as Provider and everything else as provision?
· How deep is your dependence on The Shepherd? What do you need to entrust to Him?