Be Rich Series, “Serve & Love”
November 13, 2022

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Message Review

Growing in our trust in God doesn’t happen by accident, when we choose to be rich our trust in God richly grows. One way to Be Rich is to love extravagantly by serving sacrificially. When we accept Jesus’s invitation to do what we can and serve, we’re are paving the way for our trust in God to grow, because it’s the only way we’ll ever see what he can do. When you feel the nudge to serve others and your follow through, not only will your trust in me grow, but people will see and experience God’s love for them through you. 

Main Point | When we serve sacrificially, our trust in God grows exponentially. 

Scripture References | Matthew 14:13-33; 1 Timothy 6:18 

Questions

  • Share a time that your trust in God exploded. Did it involve serving someone else?   

  • Matthew 14: 13-21 is the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000. How is this a good illustration of serving and doing only what you can do then letting Jesus do what only he can do? 

  • Pastor Ronnie Said: “When we serve sacrificially, our trust in God grows exponentially”. Why do you think that serving correlates to trust in God growing?  

  • Share a time that you felt an internal nudge to serve someone sacrificially. What did it do in you if you decided to say yes?  

  • What are some of the excuses that we use to disregard the nudge to serve others? What can we do to combat those excuses?  

  • Jesus wants a lost world to know that He loves them extravagantly, we do this by serving sacrificially. How does this show Jesus’s love through our actions?  

  • What area is Jesus nudging you to serve sacrificially? What is the next step towards doing that?  

Challenge Question | Where, how and who is Jesus inviting you to Be Rich and serve sacrificially? 

Application

Pray and ask where, how, and who Jesus is inviting you to serve sacrificially then whatever the next step that is put on your heart simply say YES.

Verse to Remember: 

1 Timothy 6:18: 18 Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share.Matthew 14:19-21: 19 And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. 20 They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. 21 The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.

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