ICEBREAKERS
Make sure to start off with prayer. Then choose one or more questions to open up with.
- Do you typically like to read the instructions before using something, or do you tend to "wing it?"
- What is your best creation?
- What is your least favorite thing to do?
Message Review
Main points and scriptures from this week's message.
This weekend, Pastor Kevin shared with us how to release our portential, because it's our time and our turn.
Ecclesiastes 3:1 (CEV)
Everything on earth has its own time and its own season.
POINT 1: KNOW THAT YOU HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO DO WHAT GOD HAS PLANNED FOR YOU TO DO.
2 Peter 1:3 (KJV)
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness . . .
POINT 2: CONSULT YOUR CREATOR.
If you want to know the potential of an automobile, there’s a manual written by the creators of the automobile.
If you want to know your potential, the Bible is the manual written by the Creator.
Psalm 100:3 (NIV)
It is he who made us.
Colossians 1:16 (MSG)
Everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him
POINT 3: LEAN IN TO LEARN.
Proverb 4:7 (KJV)
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore, get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Proverb 4:20–22 (NIV)
My son, pay attention to what I say; turn your ear to my words. do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart; for they are life to those who find them and health to one’s whole body.
POINT 4: WORK YOUR WORK.
Potential is released when you push past the resistance and insist on doing your work better than your doing it now.
POINT 5: SEE PAIN AS HAVING PURPOSE.
There’s some potential that can only be discovered and released in a time of trial.
POINT 6: MAKE THE MOST OF EVERY OPPORTUNITY.
We often don’t recognize opportunity, because it comes dressed in work clothes.
POINT 7: PRAY THE POTENTIAL.
Mark 11:24 (KJV)
. . . What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
POINT 8: BE A CONTRIBUTOR NOT A CONSUMER.
Releasing your potential means that you give what you have now to make room for God to give you more.
Leviticus 26:10 (NIV)
You will still be eating last year's harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new.
TALK-IT-OUT
The following questions will help guide your discussions and give your group some opportunities to open up and share.
- Have you ever thought you could not release your potential, because you were lacking something? What was it you felt you were lacking?
- Can you recall a time where you made the wrong decisions, because you failed to consult the Creator?
- What pain in your life has God turned around to use for the good?
- How can you be better at working your work? Be specific.
- Is there an area that you want to go from being a consumer to a contributor?
- What potential do you want to pray for? It could be for you or someone else.
WRITE-It-Out
Encourage your group to start writing things down. In a journal or on paper, do the following exercises.
- List out all 8 points from this week's message. Next to each point write down how it applies to you.
Live-It-Out
Encourage your group to start doing. Commit to a step and live it out this week.
- Read Proverbs 4 and memorize 2 verses from it. Recite those verses each day.
- Complete Growth Track. Every Sunday at all of our campuses. Bellevue 9:45am & Tacoma 11:30am.
- Serve together as a group. To view serving opportunities with Champions Foundation, click HERE.
Closing Thoughts
- Finish group with prayer requests and praise reports.
- More resources are always available here: Group Resources.