SESSION TWO KIT

Mary Bielski

 
 
 

How am I resisting the Light?

Speaking directly into today’s context, Mary will invite participants to consider how they are resisting God’s presence and action in their lives. Specifically,  looking at how we can often “put things on” that are not of the Lord and how those things often need to be taken off before we can be clothed in the armour of Light. This session is a call to personal examination to remove barriers between ourselves and the Lord, to be unveiled before Him. 

Journal/Small Group Questions

Question 1: How has the shaking of this season affected you? What has "washed up on the shore" of your heart ( i.e. unbelief, fear, resentment, judgments?) 

Question 2: Mary shared the power of story. What stories (beliefs) do you have about yourself, your situation, or others that God might want to explore with you?  Share those stories with your group.

Question 3: How do we as women, (moms, wives, employees, or students) put up walls to protect ourselves? What are the lies that keep from receiving love for yourself or others?

Question 4: In Ephesians, Paul prays that they would have a spirit of “wisdom” and “revelation” in knowing the person of Jesus. Read Eph 1:17-19 and reflect (or discuss) what that means for you in the season. How has God's love been revealed to you in the past?  What love or truth does the Lord want to reveal and restore to you now?

Question 5: Returning Home: Mary shared that it is God’s love/mercy which leads us to repentance, (cf. Rom 3:4). What compassion do you need to give to yourself or others? How might God see the brokenness of your past or issues?

Question 6: Finally journal with the Lord asking Him for His wisdom. What might God be asking you to do or surrender to Him? What does returning look like in a practical way today?

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Learn more about Mary and her ministry by visiting her website: marybielski.com

Definition: Theosis, or deification (deification may also refer to apotheosis, lit. "making divine"), is a transformative process whose aim is likeness to or union with God.

St. Athanasius God became man so that man might become like God.

 SCRIPTURE REFERENCES:

Read the full book of Haggai

Haggai 2:6-7 ‘For thus says the Lord of hosts: Once again, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land; and I will shake all the nations, so that the treasure of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with splendor, says the Lord of hosts.’

2 Peter 1:3-4 ‘According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:  Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.’

2 Corinthians 3:18 ‘But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.’

Ephesians 1:17-18 ‘that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,’

Read the full parable of The Prodigal Son

Romans 2:4 ‘Do you not realize that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

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Praise and Worship Songs

I Will Exalt You: Hillsong

Fresh Wind: Hillsong

Out of Hiding: Steffany Gretzinger

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