Women of Faith
(Week Eight, End of the Week)
End of the Week Study Questions: Women of Faith
End of the Week Study Questions: Women of Faith
The lesson we learn amidst our journey is that God uses who He will according to His plan and His design, not according to our own. As much as we may perhaps think of our own understanding, it is limited in its comprehension of things divine and, so often, it misses the big picture.
God never does though...
While man was still struggling with the concept of equality, God saw it with the perfect wisdom that can only come from above, choosing women of an effective faith to lead His people and to show a path of righteousness even when all the men had fallen away. It is here that we see the deeper lessons of God’s Word that tells us even when we can’t grasp the nature of His truth He works to open our eyes through a glorious triumph according to His will, a will that looks at the heart, not any of the barriers of the physical that we see.
Empowering women of a transcending righteousness, God made foolish the wisdom of this world, a wisdom and He showed unto us deeper lessons we were meant to learn through their lives and in their lives. Uplifting them He kept His hope alive through them according to His blessings that our heritage in His Word may be kept secure.
Study Questions for Women of Faith:
1. How does the prayer of Hannah teach us how to pray? What does it teach us about the earnestness and the openness we need when we lift our voices up to the Lord?
a. Hannah poured her heart out to the Lord, silent with words but crying out with her yearning, and God blessed her for it. Do you trust God in the same way, or do you look for the right words to use before you come to Him?
b. How do you put aside the worldly wisdom you have to trust God and His will in your prayers?
c. Do you trust that God’s answer to your prayers are the best answers, even when it goes against what you want, understanding that He knows best what is meant for your life?
2. A Prophetess, a Judge and the mother of Israel who marched with Barak to battle, Deborah led the people of God by His trust during a time when it was thought that only men could lead. By looking to Deborah and understanding she was God’s chosen though, Barak led the people to triumph. How do you look upon the face of others with equality, understanding the barriers we put on people are not the limits God puts on them?
a. How are you guided by the equality that comes in the Spirit, letting it lead you to understand that God’s leadership is not limited to only some?
b. How do you need to improve in that understanding?
3. How do you live by the example of Ruth’s loyalty? How does that guide you to show the proper compassion as you show a willingness to forsake the luxury and comfort of this world to uplift others in the love God tells us to show?
a. Are you willing to give us your own ease in order to maintain the integrity of life of the widows and the orphans, the poor and the downtrodden?
b. How do you do that? Name three ways in the last week you have sacrificed for the lives of those in need.
c. In what ways have you fallen short and how do you intend to improve? Name three ways you would improve your own commitment to the lives of others.
4. Esther would be raised up to the greatest of heights for the deliverance of her people, still she would have to be reminded that God never sets us up to fail and that He uplifts us for a purpose and a meaning. How is it that God has blessed your life? How has He given unto you and what does He tell you to give back to help others?
a. How has God maintained you and the integrity of your life as He has asked of you to work for the hope of others?
b. What has God asked for you to give unto others of the blessings He has given you? Have you given as He has asked?
c. Do you trust God will provide for you that you will not fail or fall when you listen to His command and offer back of those blessings He has given you?
d. How would you improve that aspect of your walk in faith?
5. God shows us through the life of Rahab that there are none undesirable to Him as He works within our lives according to His will. He shows this to us in that we were all lost sinners, but through Christ we are called to redemption. How then do you view the lives of others? Do you see all people with kindness and hope, knowing they are God’s blessed creation or do you consider them lesser because of their lives?
a. Do you strive to understand the circumstances of people’s lives and in that the plan and the hope God can work in them? How?
b. How would you improve how you look at others so you can see them the way God intends you to see them even when the world rejects them as unclean and undesirable?
c. How do you maintain the integrity of their lives?
6. What is the deepest lesson of faith you have learned from the lessons of each of these blessed women of righteousness?
Rahab –
Esther –
Ruth –
Deborah –
Hannah –
