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
Project 2A
Making the Most of My Life
The noble make noble plans, and by noble deeds they stand.
(Isa 32:8 NIV)
This week you are being encouraged to make several commitments. Making and keeping these “noble plans” will probably be very difficult for you. Life is busy. It is difficult to focus. And we simply will not always feel like doing something even as wonderful as spending time with God or a group of Christians.
And on top of all that, your “struggle” to do anything spiritual, “is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” (Eph 6:12 NIV). You have a spiritual enemy working in you and around you to stop you from doing anything for God, including God Times and Barnabas Group. So you had better be serious right now about doing these for God no matter how you feel or what happens.
You will do this by making “noble plans” and standing on those commitments. Think about many of the most important accomplishments and blessings in your life. Your education, career, marriage, children, ministry, etc. They all depended on making a commitment, a decision that required work and faithfulness. But it was worth it! And so it will be for any “noble plans” by which you “stand.”
If you are willing to commit to the following, please sign below.
During the next 8 weeks of this study I will do my best to:
- Love God by spending time with Him following the P.O.W.E.R. plan.
- Complete the weekly readings and projects of the study.
- Attend the weekly Barnabas Group times.
- I addition, I will never share personal things shared within the Barnabas Group without the person’s permission.
Signed: ______________________ Date: ________
Now pray and ask God to help you be among “The noble [who] make noble plans, and by noble deeds they stand” (Isa 32:8 NIV).