"Spiritual Fervor" Discussion Guide

Main Thought

Our God is amazing! People who have a thriving relationship with Him, or “spiritual fervor,” testify of this fact. King David did that when he declared, “Taste and see that the Lord is good!” God promises that if we would abide in Him, then He’d cause us to be so full of His Spirit that we would overflow. Still, some believers seem to grow in hunger for God while others do not. How do we stay hungry for the things of God? We must first receive good things from Him, then give out good things out by engaging the unreached and serving others. Then, we’ll have room in our souls to receive from God and restart the process. Hunger for God occurs over and over again this way.

Main Passage

7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
- John 4:7-10

13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again,14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
- John 4:13-14

8 Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
- Psalm 34:8

Discussion Questions

  1. How would you characterize your relationship with God at this moment? Is it strong, average, or weak, and why?

  2. What stops you from experiencing God’s presence and receiving good things from Him? How can you begin to remove that obstacle to encountering God?

  3. Christians are called to engage the unreached, outside the walls of the Church. We’re also called to serve God’s people within the church. Which one of these things do you gravitate toward naturally? How can you grow in the other, and take a step of faith there this week?