GROUP GUIDE
Leading a group through these questions? Here’s a simple guide for 1.5-2 hour GROUP meeting.
Welcome and Opening Prayer. (5 minutes)
Read the passage aloud. (5 minutes)
Guide the group through the questions. (30-60 minutes)
Take time to share prayer requests and pray for each other. (15-30 minutes)
TEACHING RECAP
Summary: What do you do when it feels like there just isn’t enough—enough money, enough energy, enough margin, enough certainty? Exodus 16 shows how easily need can turn into anxiety, striving, and trying to take control. But in the wilderness, God begins teaching his people a different way to live—one day at a time, learning to trust him.
Main Points:
We are needy, but God faithfully provides.
When we handle provision our own way, it doesn’t work.
Our deepest needs can only be satisfied by Jesus.
On-Ramps:
Bring your needs to God each day in prayer.
Choose contentment instead of hoarding or striving.
Practice Sabbath each week as an act of trusting God. (3 months)
Look to Jesus to satisfy your deepest hunger.
Discussion
What stands out to you from this passage? How does this passage most challenge or encourage you?
What words or themes are repeated throughout Exodus 16:1–18? What do those repetitions emphasize about Israel? About God?
How do you see anxiety about ‘not having enough’ shaping the way people live in our culture today? How are Christians called to be different?
Where in your life today is contentment hard to find? How can you trust God in that area?
How do you want to respond to this passage in your daily life?
PRAYER
How can we pray for you as a group?
Next week: Exodus 17:1-7
