Proven: Week One ~ Are You Tired?

The theme verse for this study is John 7:37-38 "Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them."

Jesus is all, everything we need. We need to continually come to Him, He gives us what we need. I want to be so full of Jesus that it pours out of me!  Throughout this study we are going to learn how to live like Jesus, have you ever noticed Jesus worrying about anything, stressing out about life (and He had plenty to stress about)?  He lived a life overflowing, a life of abundance and He called us to live like Him.  I know what you're thinking...that He's Jesus, of course He lived an awesome life, He's God!  And we let our humanness creep in and keep us from the life God has called us to, we keep ourselves trapped, believing the enemies lies that we can never live like He intended.  Let's quit trying to be enough or trying to get enough from this world or numbing out and just going through the motions and miss it...miss the abundant life Jesus wants for us. 

Jeremiah 2:13 "My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water."

I don't want to wake up one morning and look back and wonder where the years went and wish I would've lived my life differently, lived fully for my Savior.  And we make it difficult, at least I do...I put so much pressure on myself, so many expectations...I need Jesus' rhythms of grace...I need to rest in Him, to realize I'm not enough and that I don't have to be because Jesus is enough.

This week:

Watch the Lesson 1 video  ~ Click Here ~

Proven Study Guide - Lesson 1

Read NTP (Nothing to Prove) Chapters 1-4

Answer questions:

What consumes most of your thoughts? Why?

What consumes most of your time? Why?

What are you most afraid of? Why?

Are you striving? In what ways?

Are you numbing? Why?

How are you and Jesus right now?

A Vision for Proven (from the study guide)

A person who holds even a smidgen of faith can be a powerful, radical, dangerous force in the kingdom of God, seeing the impossible take place (Matt. 17:20)

A sincere faith in Jesus and all He wants to do around us wakes us up, rattles our lives, shifts every perspective, issues hope in pain, and ignites mission.

I am praying that this Bible study would make our God so big that any moment we miss of Him and the life He has for us is the greatest loss to us.

Jesus, move a generation to draw near to You and believe You at Your word.

from Jennie Allen

Let's dig in, let go, and seek Jesus.

Proven: Introduction

Good Morning!  Let's begin!  Here's how this is going to work, each week I will write posts that will include video lessons, scripture reading, what lesson to study in the Proven study guide, chapters to read in the Nothing to Prove book (if you're reading that as well), and questions to participate with or at least ponder.  I'll also try my best to genuinely share my heart with you, to be honest and open and so real with how I struggle with the very things you are struggling with, how I overcome or try and overcome different obstacles and most importantly how Jesus is changing my life through it all.

For today:  Take a look at the "Nothing to Prove" Manifesto

Watch: So Thirsty clip

http://bcove.me/wsfy0csj

Read: Matthew 11:28-30, John 8:31-32

*Read: Nothing to Prove (NTP) Introduction "Admitting Our Thirst"

Pray: Pray throughout this study that Jesus will become more in your life, that you will find your identity in Him.  I pray that you will find real rest in Him and that you will live life differently knowing you have nothing to prove because Jesus has already proven everything.

Nothing to Prove

Prepare for tomorrow today by watching this short video and reading the Introduction in "Nothing to Prove" - if you have it :)  Looking forward to tomorrow, June 2nd at 10am at Panera!

http://bcove.me/drs70gpp

Proven Study Promo

Just a few short days until we officially begin! I hope you are praying for God to move, to become more in your life! Below is a promo video and a sample of the Proven Study Guide of chapters 1 & 2.

Bless you all!



Proven Study Guide Sample

Proven Bible Study

Join me for this 8-week Bible/Book Study!

You don’t have anything to prove.
 
Too many of us walk through life feeling as if we don't measure up. We always seem to thirst for more. We think if we could only work harder or be better, we could be enough. But the truth is, we will never be enough. And thankfully, we don’t have to be.
 
In this 8-session study, Jennie Allen walks through key passages in the Book of John to demonstrate how only Jesus is enough. We don't have to prove anything because Jesus has already proven everything. Discover how our thirsty hearts can only be quenched by the living water.

This study will be mainly online but we will kick it off at Panera Bread in Sedalia, MO on June 2nd at 10am!  But don't fret!  If you can only participate online, that's ok!

I'm going to be using the "Proven" Bible Study book above and Jennie Allen's book "Nothing to Prove", you can purchase one or both or follow along online only if that's all you can manage.  I hope you will dive in and dig deep during this study.  Let me give you a disclaimer...I will pour my guts out during this study.  I will be transparent and vulnerable and I hope you will be too.  Start praying about how God is going to reveal more of Himself to you and how He is going to change you to live more like Jesus! Because remember...you have nothing to prove!  If you are planning on participating please let me know, email me @ christyhoagland.sing@gmail.com or contact Embrace Women's Ministry @ embrace@cornerstonesedalia.com.