Nothing Wasted (Kasey Van Norman)

Here are the notes and words for the fill-in-the-blanks in our “Nothing Wasted” women’s Bible study with Kasey Van Norman (via DVDs or via Amazon Prime). You are welcome to join us any time for this study @ 7:00-9:00pm on Thursday evenings!

Week 1 (April 18th, 2024) - God Doesn't Waste Your Life, part 1

DVD: Session 1 – 00:00-09:55

Romans 8:29-32

1. It’s not enough to say God uses our life if he does not also design it.

2 Corinthians 4:8-9

2 Corinthians 4:7

Deuteronomy 32:4

2. All of life’s dismantling will eventually be seen for what it truly is: The good will of God

Romans 8:28

3. If we don’t believe our life is designed and purposed by God, we will waste it.

This session covers p. 8-24

Week 2 (April 25th, 2024) - God Doesn't Waste Your Life, part 2

DVD: Session 1 – 09:55-18:29

Acts 17:26-27

Romans 8:26

4. God is using our location, time in history, parents, and experiences to speak to us!

5. Never forget! This life is just one big set up by God!

6. God knows, the closer we are to him, the closer we are to who we are meant to be.

7. When God asks us to obey him, he does so only from love, and always for our good.

This session covers p. 24-36

Week 3 (May 2nd, 2024) - God Doesn't Waste Your Relationship, part 1

DVD: Session 2 – 00:00-11:22

Genesis 1:26-27

1. We are made to delight in a personal, intimate God.

Genesis 2:18

2. We cannot grow in the image of God without community.

Hebrews 3:12-15

Genesis 2:23

Hebrews 3:14

3. It’s one thing to believe in God, but a much different thing to believe him.

4. God refers to any of our unprocessed pain as a debt.

Romans 13:8-10

This session covers p. 37-51

Week 4 (May 9th, 2024) - God Doesn't Waste Your Relationship, part 2

DVD: Session 2 – 11:22-25:26

Genesis 3:6

Genesis 3:7

Genesis 3:8

5. We know we are struggling to love fully, if we are hiding out.

Genesis 3:9-10

6. Our greatest fear is that we will be rejected.

Genesis 3:11-13

7. What do we desperately need in relationships? A new heart.

Ezekiel 36:26

Isaiah 53:4-5

8. God can extend his love without needing anything from us in return.

Psalm 139:4-5

This session covers p. 52-64

Week 5 (May 16th, 2024) - God Doesn't Waste Your Regret, part 1

DVD: Session 3 – 00:00-08:37

1. Once our reality rests in God, our sinful behaviors eventually work themselves out.

1 Samuel 16:7

Genesis 3:1

2. Our greatest regret and rebellion find their beginning in four words: Did God really say?

Hebrews 4:12

Genesis 3:11

Hebrews 4:13

Genesis 2:15-17

3. We are free not to be God.

This session covers p. 65-79

Week 6 (May 23rd, 2024) - God Doesn't Waste Your Regret, part 2

DVD: Session 3 – 08:37-19:16

4. The light of Jesus ruins us for the things that live in the dark.

Philippians 2:12

5. Only in the place of our honesty will our purity be restored.

Luke 22:31-32

1 Corinthians 5:5

6. We wouldn’t know our delights were so weak if we hadn’t tested them out in the first place.

7. God gives us over to our sin that we may finally be done with it.

This session covers p. 79-92

Week 7 (May 30th, 2024) - God Doesn't Waste Your Pain, part 1

DVD: Session 4 – 00:00-10:25

1. Sometimes the love of Jesus lingers.

2. The most unexplainable and awful hardship is fixed to convince our heart where we stand with Jesus.

3. God will never linger out of wrath or anger, but out of pure and holy desire for us to trust him more today than we did yesterday.

This session covers p. 93-106

Week 8 (June 6th, 2024) - God Doesn't Waste Your Pain, part 2

DVD: Session 4 – 10:25-20:53

Mark 14:34-36

4. It is only good and right for God to remind us: his will is at work no matter how much we whine.

5. His process is the point.

6. Satan is only allowed to mess with us to the degree our sin is sifted and defeated in our life.

7. To the degree we doubt our position is the degree we disbelieve God’s promise.

8. Without laying claim to the gift rightfully ours in God, we will never be fully whole.

Matthew 27:51

1 Corinthians 6:19

Hebrews 4:14

Hebrews 4:16

Ephesians 3:17-19

This session covers p. 106-116

Week 9 (June 13th, 2024) - God Doesn't Waste Your Nature, part 1

DVD: Session 5 – 00:00-10:40

1 Peter 5:6-8

1. He imprints his nature in to us.

2. One problem keeping us stuck in old ways: ignorance.

1 Peter 5:9

3. It is hard to resist what we don’t recognize.

4. First, we can be ignorant of Satan’s schemes.

1 Peter 5:9

1 Peter 5:10

5. Despite our differences, one thing connects us: pain.

This session covers p. 117-132

Week 10 (June 20th, 2024) - God Doesn't Waste Your Nature, part 2

DVD: Session 5 – 10:40-18:43

6. Second, we can be ignorant of our own shape of self.

Proverbs 19:11

7. God wants to show us who he is, so that we will know fully who we are.

8.1. We can act outside our knowledge, but we can never act outside our belief.

8.2. Just because a way seems right, doesn’t mean it is best.

8.3 People cannot make us do anything, but they can suggest our mood.

8.4 Time is not the truth-teller.

9. When we delight in God, our nature can roam freely as our gauge, not our guide.

10. Our story is God’s raw material for the new thing he is building.

This session covers p. 132-145

Week 11 (June 27th, 2024) - God Doesn't Waste Your Confession, part 1

DVD: Session 6 – 00:00-11:56

This session covers p. 147-161

Week 12 (July 11th, 2024) - God Doesn't Waste Your Confession, part 2

DVD: Session 6 – 11:56-23:52

This session covers p. 162-173

Week 13 (July 18th, 2024) - final session

DVD: none today