YOLO Session 2: It's All In Who You Know: Ephesians

Session 2
It’s All In Who You Know
Ephesians 1:17-20
Today we're going to talk about one powerful principle that has the ability, to change your life, and change your whole entire relationship with God. By understanding this one concept your entire spiritual life can move to another level.
A lot of times we think about thriving in our Christian life. We think I need to do more, I need to do a better job obeying the Ten Commandments, I need to serve God more, or I need to give more. While those are important things, what we're going to talk about today is even more important than all of those things, in fact, it's the foundation for everything that a Christian does. I want to see you be a person that is filled with joy, a person who is filled with excitement, a person that is on the edge of what God is doing in our community and even in your life. When we begin to apply this one thing, and we begin to live by this one mantra, we begin to thrive.
In Ephesians 1:17-18 Paul says the greatest thing in life is to know God. When we know God, he will grant you wisdom to make the right decision, strength to overcome obstacles to keep fighting even when we don’t have the energy to do so.
Discuss in your Home Group how knowing God in each situation can empower your life.
Discussion Starter
Share a time when you met someone famous. What did you talk about? What was it like to meet them and talk with them?
Verse to Remember
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints. Ephesians 1:17-18 (NIV)
Discussion Questions
1. What is the one key truth to thriving in our spiritual life? (Ephesians 1:17-18) Why is this so important to spiritual growth?
2. What two things does God give us once we begin to know Him? How can these two things enhance our relationship with Him? (Ephesians 1:17-20)
3. What’s the difference between knowing about God and really knowing God? Why is it important to experience God beyond the superficial?
Application Questions
1. What can you do this week to know God more intimately?
2. What do you hope to learn from God as you spend time with him this week?
Prayer Focus
As a group pray for God to radically change how you know Him today and that He will reveal more of himself to you each day you spend with him.