REALLIFE STUDY GROUP

"The Secret To Success Is In The Sequence!"

ICEBREAKER: What language sounds the most unusual or strange to you?

INTRODUCTION: The secret of success is often found in the sequence. Many times the reason you have been able to achieve something great can be found in your routine. The fact that you keep working at something until it is completed proves you have the tenacity for what lies ahead. Today's lesson reminds us that order and sequence are very important. You cannot go into second grade studies until you have completed the first grade material. Life is a series of stepping stones that prepare us for each new day or season. You must appreciate where you are now in order to value where you will be tomorrow.

CONFESSION: I will trust God to help me re-prioritize my life. I choose to set things in the right order...

· Seed before the promise

· Test before the testimony

· The dream before the reality

· Death before Resurrection

· The Type or shadow before the genuine

· Alignment before the illumination

· Training before the reigning

· Honor before promotion

· The battle before the breakthrough

· The bulge before the birthing

· The sowing before the reaping

· The conflict before the conquest

· The heat & pressure before the diamond

· The irritation before the pearl, cultured

· The digging before the oil

· The work before the reward

· The code before the opening of the safe

DEFINITION: Sequence: A particular order in which related movements, events or things follow each other.

OUTLINE: Creation unfolds in a sequence

1. The Holy Spirit hovers, broods over empty, dark, unstructured places, atmospheres and circumstances

2. The Spirit moves over the water (The Earth and even our bodies are made up predominantly of water)

3. God speaks creation into existence

4. God creates something from nothing

5. God separates or divides or prioritizes what He creates

6. God names what He has created to identify its purpose and function

7. God starts in the darkness and brings illumination

8. God appreciates, values and affirms that each day is good even though He is not finished

9. God speaks to that something and creates something from something

10. Whatever comes forth bears the seed within it to keep reproducing after its own kind

11. God created the object of His affection last because everything up to this point was created to sustain mankind. God is a master planner!

12. God rested upon the completion of His work

TEXT: Genesis 1 (Read after question #1)

STUDY GROUP QUESTIONS:

1. As a group, without reading Genesis 1 first, name what God created on each day of creation.

2. What area of your life could use a little more order or structure?

3. Name something you must do in life that has to be done in a certain order for it to work or be successful.

4. When God speaks worlds are created! We were created in his image and likeness. One of the greatest gifts and responsibilities He gave us was the gift of language and speech. Speak a blessing over some area of your life that you would like to see some improvement.

5. When was the last time you created, built, or developed something?

6. On the seventh day God rested. In many ways in our fast-paced world we have forgotten how to rest. What do you do to unwind or rest?

7. What does success look like to you? In other words how do you define success?

PRAISE REPORTS & PRAYER REQUESTS:

ACTION POINT: This week I will ask God to help me order my life! The Bible says the steps of a good man/woman are ordered of The Lord.