Prepare your heart for our Sunday Morning Gathering by looking through these suggestions that will assist you in making the most of our time together.

You will find tangible suggestions for putting scripture to action in your personal life and in our corporate body, links to the songs we will sing, and lyrics for you to prepare for our corporate singing.

Sermon Text for Sunday: Proverbs 2:1-4

Critically Think

• Read Revelation 2:1-4.
• Read Proverbs 1:8, 3:1, 4:1, 5:1, 6:1, 7:1. What pattern is being set in these first several chapters? 
• Compare three to five different English translations of Proverbs 2:1-5. What differences do you notice? (For example: Compare the NASB 1995, ESV, NIV, and CSB) 
• Read Proverbs 2:1-4 out loud. Notice the punctuation in verses 1-4. Are these complete sentences? Explain. What are these phrases leading you to expect? (Note: this may be slightly clearer in a translation like the ESV). 
• There are a series of “if” statements made in these four verses that make up a string of conditions. What are all the conditions that ought to be met?  
• What does it mean to “seek” as described in verse 4? Is this an active or passive activity? 
• What intensity is being described in verse 4? Read Matthew 13:44-46. How does this illustration provide a picture to understand the meaning of Proverbs 2:4?  

Prayerfully Meditate

• Are these conditions here because they are supposed to be optional? Consider Proverbs 1:32.  
• Consider the implication of these conditions. Do these conditions mean that the “then” coming in verse 5 and following is promised? Is the “then” a guarantee?  
• List the verbs found in these four verses. In what ways are these verbs similar? In what ways are they distinct?  
• Do a quick investigation of the word “treasure” from verse 1 (consider using blue letter bible or the literal word app). Consider Psalm 119:11 which uses this word again, and the echo of these themes in Proverbs 3:1, 3:3, and Proverbs 7:1. What does this word, “treasure” mean? 
• Based on your working definition of treasuring from the previous question, how would someone practically fulfill the condition of treasuring these commandments? What activities would put into practice this kind of treasuring? 
• Read Genesis 45:2. How does this inform the meaning of “lift your voice” in verse 3? 
• What adjectives would you use to describe hidden treasures and silver? How do those adjectives speak to the condition being made in verse 4?  

Intentionally Act

• How would one accomplish the task of making their ear attentive?  
• How can a heart be inclined toward something? What would it look like to practice this? 
• Read James 1:5. How does this describe the response of God to those who do cry out and do lift their voice to God for discernment and understanding?  
• What excuses do people make for not completing these conditions? What excuses do you make? How might these lead you to confession and repentance this week? 
• Are you treasuring God’s commandments within you? What passage of scripture could you work on memorizing in the coming weeks as a means of applying this Proverb? 
• Pray asking for discernment, understanding, and wisdom from the Lord in various areas of your life.  
• Click the links below to find the lyrics and recordings of the songs planned for our gathering this Sunday; learn the songs, study the lyrics and sing them with others.
• Pray for those leading our corporate gathering this week and for the Holy Spirit’s work as the Word of God is further explained and applied: Dawson Bryant: music; Dalton Vansell: elder prayer & scripture reading; Josh Mills from Cornerstone Bible Church, 

   McPherson, KS: teaching.

Songs for Sunday

Morning Gathering

• Only a Holy God (sheetmusic)
• Holy, Holy, Holy (sheetmusic)
• Alas, and Did my Savior Bleed (sheetmusic)
• Jesus, Lover of My Soul (sheetmusic)
• Whate'er My God Ordains is Right (sheetmusic)

Lyrics

Lyrics Morning Gathering - March 2, 2025 by Summit Woods Baptist Church