Yes, we are deserving...

As a small group leader, do you feel we are we producing the groups we deserve? I ask this, as I often wonder how long people retain the knowledge and truth that we as leaders share with them. Certainly, if there has been an investment in someone’s life that would make a significant difference, you would tend to think that Satan would quickly come to sift away that truth from their life.

Luke 22: 31-32 Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail.

God does set a line or hedge of protection around His people to protect them from Satan’s attacks, but this does not mean that we will not experience temptation or spiritual attacks. Of course the enemy cannot go beyond what God allows or what people themselves allow into their lives. This protection should not be taken for granted, since this hedge actually grows through prayer and a life devoted to a relationship with God through His Son Jesus.

Leaders are the key to the spiritual vitality of a small group. Just as Jesus prayed for Simon, that his faith would not fail, we too should be praying for those we are given to invest in, that their faith would not fail. As Pastor of small groups at Tiffany Fellowship Church, I want to invite you to our Sunday night prayer service that I may join you in praying for that hedge of protection to grow in your life and in the life of your small group members.

Of course we can intercede for each other at anytime and God will hear our petitions, though I feel we would all benefit from the encouragement of a group setting as we raise our voices in unity to God. Come join us this Sunday, March 29th at 6:00pm.