Once you have discovered where your friend’s desires, problems, goals, and motivations are, it will be time to get them started. To do this, have your friend read the benefits of Bible Life Counseling, while meeting with them once a week. If they need your help getting started, your journey through The Special Features program in Growing: Year Two will have your ready to help them.

While your friend is going through their week with The Benefits of Bible Life Counseling, you will be going through your week with The Purpose of Growing: Year Two again. After the week comes to an end, set a time to go over their week’s studies with them. Take out time to answer any questions they may have. But, stay on the subject as much as possible.

You don’t need to be rigid in trying to stay on track; but, they will only grow spiritually, when you are talking about the things of the Bible and Jesus. But, talking about the things of the Bible and Jesus, need to be those things that help them grow. There are subjects in the Bible that are interesting, but won’t help them grow spiritually.

If your friend asks questions that are important to them, but off the subject, ask them if it would be okay to discuss that at a later time. If there is an issue you don’t know the answer to, tell them that you will check it out and get back with them on it. If they have a question that will be addressed later, assure them that it will be discussed at the appropriate time. If it is an issue that is blocking off their desires to study, then pray and ask Jesus to help you know how to solve it for them.

The first and most important thing you need to look at is, what is your friend already using to get their needs and desires met? This means it is important for you to understand the difference between how Jesus provides happiness and your friend’s method for seeking happiness. Your friend has already decided what method they think they should use to get the happiness they seek.

Typically your friend has confused pleasure or extreme pleasure, as being happiness. Ask Jesus to help you show them the pitfalls of worldly pleasure and extreme pleasure. Ask Him to help you have a clear understanding of the difference between pleasure and happiness. Ask Him to help you with worldly pleasure and godly pleasure.

If your friend is already addicted to some kind of extreme pleasure such as sex, drugs, alcohol, pornography, gambling, witchcraft, or accomplishments, you may think you need to get additional help from someone who is a minister. However, this is what Bible Life Counseling is all about.

Bible Life Counseling is ministering to them and teaching you how to minister to them. It will give them Jesus’ supernatural power to be set free. Jesus will use Growing: Year Two to give you hands-on training, so you will be able to minister to those who are addicted. The more you go through Growing: Year Two with more friends, Jesus will be increasing your ability to yield to Him and His power.

Being a minister means you will be dealing with issues, in your friend, that you may have never had to deal with in your own life. Mentoring, in Beginning: Year One, only deals with breakthroughs you have had in your own life. However, Jesus will take into account the possibility that this is your first time to be a minister to a friend. And, even if you have been a minister for a long time, Jesus will be able to increase your training and skills through this time of study and prayer.

Just because your friend is going through the material, doesn’t mean they are understanding what they are being exposed to. Since you are farther along in your spiritual growth, you will see things in their studies that they will miss. Some things they miss won’t matter that much because there will be repetition; but, some things will be vital to their current situation. Even though your pages and prayers are very similar to your friend’s, you will be getting special revelations from the Holy Spirit that will help you minister to them.

As you are going through that day’s study and prayer pages, Jesus will help you pick up on vital concepts. Jot down relevant questions to see if your friend learned those vital pieces of truths. Your friend may not know how to allow themselves to be examined. They have been trained with self-esteem and self-confidence procedures that often block off any correction, advice, suggestions, or outside help.

Your friend’s esteem, confidence, and believing in themselves may pose a real barrier to the process of learning, growing, and being healed. They will resist you, the Bible, and Jesus, not because they want to be contrary; but, because they are being crushed by all the information that is pointing out wrong, bad, and maybe even evil things in their life. God esteem and God confidence solves that problem.

Self-esteem and self-confidence may be found in you. Just because you understand the material in Bible Life Counseling, doesn’t mean you don’t need to grow. Jesus will use your Study and Prayer Pages to help you learn things you desperately need training in.

As a student of Bible Life University and Growing: Year Two, Jesus will use them to make you into a better minister and Christian. He will show you important Biblical principles that will help you grow spiritually and grow as a minister/friend to those around you.

As you are going through The Special Features program, it will help you get the “My Friends Power Growth Record.” It will provide you with instructions, so you can document your progress with each friend you are ministering to. It is important to print yourself a copy for each individual friend, because their progresss may be different. On the last page of the record sheet, you will find instructions on how to dedicate an internet browser to staying on your next page of study.

Some of your friends will be very competent with browsers and others may fear them. As you expose yourself to both Growing: Year Two and Bible Life Counseling, it will help you be relaxed and helpful with your friend. Your friend will be encouraged to get and print a copy of “My Power Growth Record.” If you are going through Growing: Year Two and Bible Life Counseling by yourself, you might print a copy of that record for yourself.

If you aren’t going to be there, when your friend starts their studies, make sure they already know how to access them. You might take the six steps on the last page of their “My Power Growth Record” and see if they can follow the instructions. Let them do their best without your help, as you watch them follow the instructions. Then, if they need assistance, explain the instructions better and see if they can do it on their own. They need to feel comfortable navigating the website.

Be encouraging, relaxed, and patient with your friend. Allow Jesus to help you yield to the Holy Spirit’s fruit of the Spirit: Gal 5:22-23 (NIV) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Ask Jesus to help you allow these power-emotions to flow in and through you. The more excited you are, the more your friend will enjoy the study process.