• All Reflection/Discussion and Get Alone with God questions for all video sessions are available in the downloadable Going Deeper PDF guide below.

    1. Watch Video Session 1

    2. Complete the reflection/discussion questions on your own or, with a small group.

    3. Schedule 20 minutes to get alone with God within the next 3-5 days and go deeper.

    4. Click “COMPLETE & CONTINUE”

  • These questions were created to help you explore more of your own personal story to prepare you for being used by God. 

    (If you have the opportunity to get together with others, share what God has been speaking to you about and what responding with faith and action looks like.)

    1. Cultivate: As a child, what gift were you given that you were the most excited about? Describe how you received it. 

    2. Grow: Read John 1:12 and Luke 18:17. What can you learn from the way you received gifts as a child when it comes to receiving from God? 

    Flourish:What are you trying to achieve that God is inviting you to receive? How can you posture yourself more like a child in this season?

    Click "Complete" once you are finished. 

  • Answer the following questions in your Bite-Size Bible Study® Companion journal (or another space if you don't have one).

    1. Cultivate:On a scale of 1 (impossibly difficult) to 10 (incredibly natural) where would your ability to receive? Explain your answer. Which of the reasons below (or what other reasons) do you identify with? How have these beliefs trickled into your relationship with God?  

    • Defense Against Intimacy

    • Letting Go of Control

    • Fear of Strings Attached

    • We believe it’s selfish

    • Pressure to Reciprocate

    • Receiving Exposes Our Vulnerability

    • We believe we should be independent

    • Afraid of longing for love or connection

    • Suspect people’s motives

    Taken from 5 Reasons Receiving is Harder than Giving, and 4 More Reasons Why Receiving is Harder Than Giving.

    2. Grow:  Read Luke 18:17-30. Consider how the posture of the rich young ruler might’ve been different if he had come to Jesus with nothing. What would it look like for you to come to Jesus as a receiver rather than an achiever?

    3. Flourish: What impossibility is God asking you to believe is possible with Him this season?