Week 4 – Chasing Your Dreams
Discussion Guide
Have you grown weary working towards a dream? Maybe like Kurt Warner, you’ve been overlooked, underused, and feel as if you will never achieve your goal. Let's learn how we can apply Biblical truths to keep chasing our dreams and to remain content in the waiting.
What you will need: A Bible or your Bible app, a notebook, pen, and highlighter. The verses highlighted below are linked so that you can easily access them during your study time.
Jump Start
1. Have you purposefully modified or curtailed your dream because people told you it was too big or not worth achieving?
2. Every dream has a price tag, including the dreams God has given you. Read Proverbs 24:27. What does this verse tell you to do—very practically—in your life? What is the hard work you have done (or need to do) to reach the next step in your goal?
3. “Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do until you get to do what you wanna do.” Read Galatians 6:9. When is “enough” enough and it’s time to give up? How do you decide? Can doing the “right” thing ever get tough? What “mental weariness” is bearing down on you? (It’s different for each one of us.) Share it with your group and ask them to pray for you in that area.
4. Read Proverbs 21:31. How is this like “the Lord helps those who help themselves”? How is it very unlike that saying? Why does this type of thinking get us into trouble? What humble task (preparing the horse) might be your next step towards God’s plan for your life? How can your life experiences shape you into the person God wants in that next stage?
5. Read Psalm 109:30. In the middle of the trial, the long haul, or “the throng,” what positive thing can you do? Why is it an “out loud” action? How does Paul echo this in the New Testament? Read 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18. What do you (personally) do to praise God amid your circumstances?
6. Action Step: Do you have a God-given dream? How do you know it is from Him? Is Your priority God and His eternal kingdom, or are you hoping and striving for temporal things, maybe even contrary to His will? Ask God: Do I need to quit striving and wait on You? Do I need to double down and recommit to this path? Do I need to realign my will to Yours? Write down what you hear from God about your dreams, any changes He would have you make, or promises that He gives you.
Deeper
If you are weary from pursuing what you believe is a God-given dream, take time to read the Scriptures below. Ask God to speak to you, comforting and encouraging your soul or revealing next steps.
On the other hand, you may can say with King David, that God has brought you through to a broad and pleasant place (Psalm 16:6, 18:19). If so, turn and help lift up your brother or sister still in the difficult place.
7. Look at the following verses and what they reveal to you about chasing your God-given dreams, encouraging others who are struggling and weary, and waiting on God.
• Isaiah 40:30-31:
• Hebrews 12:1-2:
• James 1:2-4, 12:
• Proverbs 13:12:
• 1 Peter 1:20-21:
• 1 Samuel 23:15-18:
• Hebrews 10:24-25: