Table of Contents
1 Making the Most of My God Times
2 Making the Most of My Group Times
Project A Making the Most of My Time
Project B Appendix C: “Barnabas Group Project”
Project C Appendix E: “Testing My Spiritual Power”
Project D Appendix G: “The Nine Powers of God, the Spirit, and the Spirit-Controlled Christian”
Project E Counting My Blessings
7 God’s Love Through God’s People
Project F Experiencing God’s Love through God’s People
Project G Comparing Christ
10 Jesus is Your Real Identity
12 Loving False Gods Rejects the Real God
13 Cursed are Those Who Worship People
14 You are Filled through Christ
Project H Facing My Idols
Appendix A P.O.W.E.R. Plan for God Times
Appendix B P.O.W.E.R. Plan for Barnabas Groups
Appendix C Barnabas Group Project
Appendix D Memory Verses for the FOUNDATIONS Study
Appendix E Testing My Spiritual Power
Appendix F An Outline of the Christian Essentials & The “Transformation Triangle”
Appendix G The Nine Powers of God, the Spirit, & the Spirit-Controlled Christian
Appendix H The Seven Types of Faith in Scripture (optional reading)
Appendix I The Seven Emotional Needs of Humans
Appendix J Recommended Resources for Further Study
Appendix A
“P.O.W.E.R. Plan” for God Times
Praise for your Dad’s character and blessings (≈2 minutes):
- Consider kneeling for this portion of your God Time.
- What are things about your Dad to worship Him or thank Him for?
- How has your Dad answered your prayers?
Openness to your Dad about any negative emotions (≈2 min.):
- Are there any bad feelings you are struggling with today such as worry, anger, apathy, discouragement? Talk to God about these. Or thank Him that the powers of the Spirit are controlling you today like love, joy, and peace.
Word from your Dad (≈20 min.):
- If you are struggling with bad feelings: Ask why you are feeling that way. Our feelings are always based on what we are believing. Bad feelings not of the Spirit are always based on believing lies. Try to understand the lie that is causing your anger, fear, or discouragement. Then “take up the shield of faith” which is believing the truth of God and use “the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God” to confront the lie (Eph 6:16-17). If you believe the truth, “the truth will set you free” (John 8:32).
- If reading the Christian Essentials study: Answer the questions at the beginning of the chapter and follow the instructions at its end.
- If reading the Bible: Pray the Bible, thanking God for promises and blessing in the text and asking for help to obey commands. Make God Times a two-way conversation with God!
Entreaties and prayer for yourself and others (≈5 min.):
- What are 2-3 specific things you are asking God to do in your life right now?
- What family and friends can you pray Eph 3:14-19 for?
- What lost people in your life can you pray for?
- What is happening in your life today that you want God’s blessing for?
Resolutions to your Dad (≈3 min.):
- How can you be kind to someone today?
- What commitments do you need to be faithful with?
- What is something that could be better with more planning?