TDPM Life Groups Mini Assembly : What's Stopping You? : Being ENSLAVED to the Patterns of Our Past
Read Scripture
John 5:1-15 New International Version (NIV)
Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. [4] 5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 10 and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”
11 But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ”
12 So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”
13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.” 15 The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.
Pivot to the discussion by encouraging the group members to share how unholy, unhealthy and unhelpful patterns (habits) from their past has become the source of some of the present problems they might be currently struggling to overcome.
Tell us about how you think unholy, unhealthy and unhelpful patterns (habits) from your past has become a source of some of the present problems that have potentially impacted your life.
How is God helping you to overcome these unholy, unhealthy and unhelpful patterns (habits) from your past?
What are some of your automatic habitual responses against the Kingdom of God?
What are you doing in effective cooperation/interaction with God to address old habitual patterns of thought, feeling and action in your life?
Announcements
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b. The Main Assembly is on July 19, 2020 at 11am Pacific at live.thedwellingplaceministries.com
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Ministry Focus
We are currently involved in a series that focuses on three major areas that enslave us by stagnating, slowing or stopping our spiritual growth and advancement in God’s Kingdom:
These three areas are:
1. Being ENSLAVED to the SIN of Our Past (Sin we committed or that was committed against us).
2. Being ENSLAVED to the PAIN of Our Past
3. Being ENSLAVED to the PATTERNS (unholy, unhealthy and unhelpful (habits) of Our Past
Remember, the Enemy knows that Patterns (Habits) are very powerful tools to manipulate and enslave people. He uses these PATTERNS (unholy, unhealthy and unhelpful (Habits) of our past to slowly and secretly creep into our lives to become demonic strongholds and stumbling blocks that eventually are impediments (Demonic Blockers) to our spiritual growth and development.
We must be committed to recognize these unholy, unhealthy and unhelpful Patterns (Habits), renounce them and reject their authority over the direction and destiny of our lives.
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