Nicki Koziarz - Flooded Study Guide: The 5 Best Decisions to Make When Life Is Hard and Doubt Is Rising

Read: Chapter 1 of Flooded and Genesis 5:2831.

Write down one thing you are trusting God for today:

Verse -of-the-Week Daily Challenge: Read this out loud three times today to help memorize it.

He said to them, Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, Move from here to there, and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.

Matthew 17:20

I love the first day of a new Bible study. The crispness of the unused pages. The hope for all I will learn. And the determination to stay focused for a few weeks on one subject of the Bible.

The reality is, as you are opening these pages today, there are things fighting for your attention. Your to-do list wont get shorter by the end of this. I know my laundry piles are staring at me.

Yet theres a longing to be still, just for a few minutes, isnt there? To grow. Change. And challenge your faith.

Can I just go ahead and give you permission to invest in yourself today and all the days to come during this study?

The only way to become spiritually healthy and stronger is by taking time to do the work your soul needs. Im tired of us not believing holy work isnt worth it. It is.

You may not feel up to wrestling through some hard things, or maybe you do. Regardless of where were all starting today, there is something I dare say we all need more of: faith .

Ive come to understand that the opposite of faith is doubt. And defeating what doubt can do to a soul is our focus in this study.

What better person in the Bible to teach us about defeating doubt than a man named Noah?

Hes my favorite teacher on this subject. Hes taught me valuable lessons. And hes helped me understand there are decisions we can make that can defeat the destruction of doubt. These five decisions we can see through his journey are small and simple, but they have an impact that reaches into eternity.

Heres my question for you as we begin: How s your faith? Its not a question we ask ourselves very often. But our faith should always be increasing, not decreasing.

If weve found ourselves in a season of seeking faith, its okay, well find faith. Or if we are feeling like were in a season of settling, its okay, well find faith that moves us. And if your faith feels fine, then lets try to go from fine to fulfilled.

In fact, lets start off today with a little self-evaluation of your faith. Here are a few questions Id like for you to answer as we begin this process.

1. On a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the best its ever been), where would you say your faith is today? ______
2. Have you ever found yourself praying for someone and wondered if your prayers really mattered? Yes or No
3. Do you feel like you have a healthy perspective on what it means to obey God? Yes or No
4. What does it mean for you to obey God?
5. Who is someone whose faith inspires you?

Now that youve taken inventory of yourself, I always like to take inventory of how much I think I know about a passage of Scripture before I begin. This is helpful because at the end youll be able to look back and see how much youve learned.

Most likely you have heard of Noah. Youve heard of the ark, the animals, the flood, and the rainbow. In the space below, write down everything you know about Noah, and then below that, I want you to write down anything you want to know by the end of this study. Theres no right or wrong answer to this.