REALLIFE STUDY GROUP

"How To Get The Most Out Of 2013"

ICEBREAKER: What are your new year’s resolutions this year?

INTRODUCTION: Wise men make positive, productive choices. Wise men build on solid foundations. Wise men prepare for the storms but save for sunny days. Wise men don't take the easy route. Wise men count the cost and buy the best. Wise men live like there's no tomorrow but prepare like there will be ten thousand tomorrows. God is looking for wise people to steward his vision for 2013!

CONFESSION:

I decree in 2013 that...

1. The favor of The Lord is upon me and surrounds me like a shield

2. The protection of The Lord is around me and keeps me in times of

harm, danger and temptation

3. The blessing of The Lord is over me and is equipping, preparing,

enabling and training me to become a blessing

4. The healing of The Lord is upon me and I walk in restoration,

recovery, wholeness and divine health

5. The provision of The Lord is with me and opens doors of opportunity,

resources, rewards, increase, dividends, bonuses and inheritances

6. The wisdom of The Lord is upon me and brings me into stewardship,

stability, balance, honor, right relationships, integrity and helps me

make quality choices

7. The creativity of The Lord is in me and is giving me access to

divine ideas, witty inventions, supernatural revelation and divine

appointments

DEFINITION: Resolution:

The state or quality of being resolute; firm determination.

A resolving to do something.

A course of action determined or decided on.

A formal statement of a decision or expression of opinion put before or adopted by an assembly such as the U.S. Congress.

OUTLINE:

Getting the most out of 2013!

I will...

1. Do the most with the least

2. Live in the present not the past anticipating the future

3. Focus your energy on what you have left not what you have lost

4. Expect the best while making the best of the worst

5. Stop blaming and start claiming

6. Make no little plans! To fail to plan is to plan to fail

7. Instead of reinventing the wheels, drive them to the next level

8. Turn mistakes into stepping stones. Learn from other people's mistakes

TEXT: Matthew 7:24-29

PRAISE REPORTS & PRAYER REQUESTS:

ACTION POINT: I will get an accountability partner and my first step toward my goals will be to ____________________.

STUDY GROUP QUESTIONS

1. Why do we so often give up on our new year’s resolutions?

2. What in your life are you planning on doing the most with the least?

3. What has been the biggest past issue you have had to deal with?

4. Name one thing you need to claim or take ownership of in 2013.

5. If you were to make a big plan or goal to accomplish for God or your family what would it be?

6. Name one difference between the wise man and the foolish man in our text.