• One of the biggest dangers of believing “God will never give you more than you can

handle” is that it teaches you to be self-sufficient. • Read John 15:5

John 15:5 — 5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”

• Jesus doesn’t call us to be self-sufficient. He calls us to be dependent. Our

strength comes directly from Him through our dependence on Him—minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

• God wants us to be dependent on him so that we learn to have faith! • Faith is something that you learn to have, and you learn to have faith in the valleys

not on the mountaintops.

1. What is challenging about this statement? 2. Why don’t we learn to have faith on the mountaintops? 3. Why are the mountaintop experiences still necessary?

• God is good, but he isn’t safe.

1. What are some of the ways we try to make God safe? 2. How do we make faith too easy?

• Pray that you would learn to trust God instead of trying to get through difficult

situations on your own!