Total Time: ~2.5 to 3 hours
Focus: Discovering the beauty of being fully known, deeply loved, and purposefully made by God.
✨ Session 1 - Known and Loved Before Birth (45-60 mins)
📖 Reading
Psalm 139 - God’s intimate knowledge and formation of us from the womb.
📖 Key Passages
- Psalm 139:13-16 - “For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb… I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”
- Psalm 139:1-2 - “O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me… thou understandest my thought afar off.”
📖 Additional Passages
- Jeremiah 1:5 - “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee… I sanctified thee.”
- Isaiah 49:1, 5 - “The LORD hath called me from the womb… to be his servant.”
🧠 Study & Reflection
God does not begin to care for us at birth—His knowledge and love go back before time. Psalm 139 reveals that we are not accidents or afterthoughts, but handcrafted by a God who knows us intimately. He saw us when we were unformed; His thoughts toward us are precious and uncountable.
Even Jeremiah’s calling reminds us that God’s purposes for us begin before we take a breath. We are known, we are formed, we are called.
🔍 Word Study Suggestions
| KJV Word | Original Language | Original Word |
|---|---|---|
| Knit | Hebrew (OT) | רָקַם (rāqam) |
| Formed | Hebrew (OT) | יָצַר (yāṣar) |
| Known | Hebrew (OT) | יָדַע (yādaʿ) |
💎 Session 2 - Grace & Election (45-60 mins)
📖 Reading
Ephesians 1-2 - Chosen before the foundation of the world, saved by grace through faith.
📖 Key Passages
- Ephesians 1:4-5 - “He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world… having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself.”
- Ephesians 2:8-9 - “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”
📖 Additional Passages
- Jeremiah 31:3 - “Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love… with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.”
- 2 Timothy 1:9 - “Who hath saved us… not according to our works, but… according to his own purpose and grace… before the world began.”
🧠 Study & Reflection
Paul shows us that grace is older than time—it was God’s plan before creation. We are chosen, loved, and called not because of who we are, but because of who He is. We are His workmanship, His poem (poiēma), made to display His grace.
God’s love is not a reaction—it is the eternal initiative of One who knew and loved us before we existed. Grace secures our beginning, our present, and our future.
🔍 Word Study Suggestions
| KJV Word | Original Language | Original Word |
|---|---|---|
| Elect | Greek (NT) | ἐκλέγομαι (eklegomai) |
| Predestinated | Greek (NT) | προορίζω (proorizō) |
| Workmanship | Greek (NT) | ποίημα (poiēma) |
| Grace | Greek (NT) | χάρις (charis) |
🌿 Session 3 - God’s Purpose and the Poetry of Your Life (30-45 mins)
📖 Reading
Romans 8:18-39 - God’s plan to conform us to Christ and glorify us.
📖 Key Passages
- Romans 8:28-30 - “Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate… them he also glorified.”
- Romans 8:35-39 - “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?…”
📖 Additional Passages
- Isaiah 55:8-11 - “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth… it shall accomplish that which I please.”
- Philippians 1:6 - “He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.”
- Matthew 13:45-46 - “A merchant man, seeking goodly pearls… went and sold all that he had, and bought it.”
🧠 Study & Reflection
Romans 8 is the great crescendo of God’s promises to His people: called, justified, glorified, inseparable from His love. Isaiah’s prophecy shows the certainty of God’s Word accomplishing its purpose. And Jesus’ parable hints at God’s valuation of us—we may be the pearl He gave everything to redeem.
What God begins, He finishes. And what He values, He preserves forever. You are part of a divine poem being written by grace.
Consider the parable of the pearl — what if you are the pearl? What does it mean that God gave up everything to purchase you?
🔍 Word Study Suggestions
| KJV Word | Original Language | Original Word |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose | Greek (NT) | πρόθεσις (prothesis) |
| Glorified | Greek (NT) | δοξάζω (doxazō) |
| Word | Hebrew (OT) / Greek (NT) | דָּבָר (dābār) / λόγος (logos) |
| Pearl | Greek (NT) | μαργαρίτης (margaritēs) |
| Bought | Greek (NT) | ἀγοράζω (agorazō) |
✝️ Closing Encouragement
📖 Memory Verse
2 Timothy 1:9 - “Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.”
🙏 Prayer Prompt
- Thank God that you are not forgotten, but handcrafted.