1. How would you summarise the message of the Old Testament in your own words?
  2. How does having to wait on the Lord challenge your faith?
  3. How does having to wait on the Lord encourage your faith?
  4. What are some things you are waiting on the Lord for?
  5. The author of Chronicles and all the Israelites to whom he was writing died before they experienced the fulfilment of their hope for a Messiah. How does this encourage or discourage you?
  6. Why might God fulfil the hopes we have in this life or delay fulfilling his promises to us until after we died?
  7. Read Hebrews 11, how does this help us understand this dilemma?