Wednesday, January 27, 2010

12 Life Group Notes–January 24, 2010

G12 Life Group Notes–January 24, 2010–6:30 a.m. Pastor Goudeaux (Pg 1 of 2)
Open in Prayer Song Testimonies Prayer of Three
Witnessing Closed Cell


Ephesians 6:10-18
10Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: 18Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
 The key words are: strong, power, and His might.
 Armor means to be wholly armed in full armor.
 Our life is about warfare.
 We need to step up our game and not be thin-skinned and give up on people.
 The word wiles refers to having an opening where Satan can attack our emotions.
 We must not allow the enemy to manipulate us.
 The devil is looking for any weakness.
 The Bible tells us to examine ourselves.
 What makes you angry? What makes you want to gossip?
 We as men and women must work on ourselves.
 If our eyes could be opened right now, we would be able to see demonic spirits.
 Demonic spirits are waiting for an opening to attack us.
 When we are under attack, we should look at where we might be missing it.
 We must fortify the armor with knowledge or the revelation of who we are in Christ.
 When it says take the whole armor, it means you can be operating in less.
 We must oppose or resist the attack of the enemy.
 If we have the shield of faith, we can prevail through all of the fiery darts.

I Timothy 1:18
18This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;
 The only good warfare is the one we win.
 The enemy attacks our attitude more than anything else.
 We have a responsibility to keep a good attitude.
 Sometimes we have to work very hard to keep a good attitude.


G12 Life Group Notes–January 24, 2010–6:30 a.m. Pastor Goudeaux (Pg 2 of 2)

I Timothy 6:12
12Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

 Our warfare has everything to do with living right.
 Sometimes this means breaking off certain relationships.

II Timothy 2:3
3Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

 People can make wrong decisions, but they cannot continue in willful disobedience.
 We must take our share of suffering.
 We should learn something from everything we go through.
 Satan will use anything he can to separate us from God.

John 16:33
33These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

 Sometimes we think because we are saved we will not have difficulties.
 We must keep our attitude right.
 We cannot let anything in our lives get ahead of God.


Ask for Prayer Requests Receive Offering Close in Prayer

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

G12 Meeting Sunday (1/3/2010) 6:30 a.m. Pastor Goudeaux

Open in Prayer Song Testimonies Prayer of Three
Witnessing Closed Cell

Moving In His Power, Receiving His Promises

• This year will be focused upward and God will then be focused downward.
• Our job as leaders is to push the vision or the cause.
• We need to go out witnessing and encourage others to help our new campuses.
• We are going to continue operation PUSH, but also we will be going out through the week.
• Success comes from being on one accord.

Decision-Change-Transition-Transformation

• We are making decisions today about change.
• We should desire that this year will be an exceptional one. However, it will not happen if we do the same thing.

2 Chronicles 7:14
• This will be a theme scripture for this year.

Ephesians 6:10 -12

• “Be strong in the Lord”, this not a suggestion, it is a commandment. If we are going to live victorious, we must work on ourselves.
• Too often we try to work on someone else, instead of ourselves.
• Be strong means to have the ability of God.
• Our goal is to be endued with God’s ability. This is moving in God’s power.
• “Put on the whole armour of God” means to be fully armoured.
• Every day we have to be ready to stand against the devil. The wiles of the devil speak to his trickery and craftiness.
• If a young convert does not have a mentor, the percentage of him/her succeeding is very small.
• Satan uses every trick to get the new convert off track and us off track.
• We must remind ourselves we are not wrestling with flesh and blood. When we get angry, the enemy pulls us off track.
• Satan only attacks those who are next in line for a promotion.
• People make a decision, and begin to change, but it will be lost unless they go through transition.
• We must never let our guard down. If we leave our guard down, we will be down.




Jeremiah 1: 17-19

• God is saying he is going to fortify us.
• God’s power and ability will work on our behalf when we are lined up correctly with his word.

Jeremiah 51: 20-23

• Anytime you are working to help and encourage men/women, God is saying that anything that is against us, is against him.

Recommended Reading:

Book by Steve Fararr: “Finishing Strong”

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

G12 Meeting Sunday (12/27/2009) 6:30 a.m. Pastor Goudeaux


Open in Prayer Song Testimonies Prayer of Three
Witnessing Closed Cell


Decision-Change-Transition-Transformation

• For people going through the change process, it is about changing the heart and mind.
• Until people go through the process, they are in a stage of wandering, like the children of Israel.
• Some people are changed for Sunday, but go back to their same old ways during the rest of the week.
• It is easier to get someone born again than making a disciple.
• There are different levels of warfare: 1) getting someone saved, 2) getting us to witness, and 3) getting someone to go through the process.
• We must not only think of conversion, but getting people through the process.

Hebrews 10:32

• If you are locked in, you still have a great fight.
• If a man/woman that has been pulled out of the world does not go through the process, Satan will use the old lifestyle to try to bring them back. Satan wars like hell to prevent them from becoming a disciple.
• If you are not discipleship minded, the devil will use someone to try to take you back into the world.
• There is a great fight of affliction after illumination.

Revelation 12:17

We are the remnant. Satan hates the woman because she gives birth to the seed.

Genesis 3: 12-15

• The serpent originally walked upright. His hands and feet were taken by God.
• Once people make a decision to get saved, the warfare begins.
• Most people that get saved don’t make it through the process because there is not enough discipleship.
• The number of people that go out and witness is small and even a smaller number will disciple.
• Satan wants to keep us complacent. We must go into fasting and break the spirit of complacency.


Romans 7:23

• Your flesh still desires worldly things.
• The enemy does not want us to be productive.
• Once a decision is made to change, the war is on.
• We must understand what we are NOT doing, and what satan IS doing.


Matthew 12:43-45

• The blood cleaned the house.
• The person that God saved, when there is no one to disciple them, is attacked by the enemy.
• Satan is determined that they will not be saved and will attack them harder and try to make them worse off than they initially were.

Ephesians 6:10-11

• Wile means strategy, trickery, and craftiness. Wiles relates to a road that is traveled on to attack your emotions and attitudes.
• The attacks continue until we are committed to discipleship.
• The power of his might is God’s word.
• It is not the amount of word ”know.” But word “activated”.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

G12 Life Group Notes–December 20, 2009–6:30 a.m. Pastor Goudeaux (Pg 1 of 2)
Open in Prayer Song Testimonies Prayer of Three Witnessing Closed Cell

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Decision-Change-Transition-Transformation
• You cannot have any of the steps in the process out of order.
• We must be men/women of honor.
• The test of life is when people survive the attacks of satan.
• In order to get to transformation, you must go through the process.
• Change starts the process of transition.
• Transition takes place on the inside. Change takes place on the outside.
• Renewing of the mind has to take place in order for transition to take place. It takes time to get from decision to transition.

Ephesians 4:18 - 23
• Satan’s job is to alienate and keep your understanding darkened.
• If a man/woman makes a decision to receive Christ in their life, it is satan’s job
to alienate them from what God has for them.
• Verse 22 – once you make a decision for Christ, change is going to take place. However, there is a lot of baggage that you have that you cannot take with you. Satan tries to get you to keep the baggage that God has said you must get rid of.
• We must help brothers/sisters through transition because that is where satan fights the hardest.
• He knows people are watching you and he does not want you to be victorious.
• Satan opposes transformation, so he fights transition.
• That is where G-12 come in. G-12 helps men/women through transition to get them to transformation.
• The new man is not going to be put on without a fight.

Numbers 13: 1,2; 26-32
• The land of Canaan represented transformation or where God wanted to take the children of Israel.
• The biggest obstacle to transformation is a lack of vision.
• Verse 26, 27- God was trying to give them vision to help them through transformation.
• The percentage of people successfully making it through transformation without vision is very small.
• Verse 28-31 – God never told them they had to fight. God was able to take them out of Egypt, so he could certainly handle the Canaanites.
• The biggest hindrance to transformation is what you are focused on.
• You must see yourself victorious, winning, conquering, overcoming, etc.
• You must be able to see things as God sees it.
• Only 2 men out of 3 million people could see what God had for them.
• Anything put out to stop you, is put out there by satan.
• You can’t move forward if you are looking out the rear view mirror.
• If you could really see it, nothing would stop you.
• You would fight through all obstacles.
• However, you cannot get there taking all of your baggage with you.
• If you know the why, you can endure the what.
• If I can see it, God knows I can have it
• Transition takes place on the inside and it take place from the renewing of your mind.
• That is why life groups, closed cells, and the encounter are so important.
• Verse 31 - God did not tell the children of Israel to look at the inhabitants.
• Anything that goes against your transformation is an evil report.
• From verse 31 to verse 32, the report got worst. The enemy will magnify the opposition.
• Grasshopper Complex – “defeats you from the inside.
• Enemies are really unnecessary since you choose to become your own worst enemy because you allow the complex in you.” –Pastor Goudeaux,

I Cor 10:13
• If you are going through transition, God will give you a break from temptation, but you must still pass the test.
• The greatest hindrance to transformation is vision. If you cannot see it, you will always be stuck in change.







G12 Life Group Notes–December 20, 2009–6:30 a.m. Pastor Goudeaux (Pg 1 of 2)
Open in Prayer Song Testimonies Prayer of Three Witnessing Closed Cell

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Decision-Change-Transition-Transformation
• You cannot have any of the steps in the process out of order.
• We must be men/women of honor.
• The test of life is when people survive the attacks of satan.
• In order to get to transformation, you must go through the process.
• Change starts the process of transition.
• Transition takes place on the inside. Change takes place on the outside.
• Renewing of the mind has to take place in order for transition to take place. It takes time to get from decision to transition.

Ephesians 4:18 - 23
• Satan’s job is to alienate and keep your understanding darkened.
• If a man/woman makes a decision to receive Christ in their life, it is satan’s job
to alienate them from what God has for them.
• Verse 22 – once you make a decision for Christ, change is going to take place. However, there is a lot of baggage that you have that you cannot take with you. Satan tries to get you to keep the baggage that God has said you must get rid of.
• We must help brothers/sisters through transition because that is where satan fights the hardest.
• He knows people are watching you and he does not want you to be victorious.
• Satan opposes transformation, so he fights transition.
• That is where G-12 come in. G-12 helps men/women through transition to get them to transformation.
• The new man is not going to be put on without a fight.

Numbers 13: 1,2; 26-32
• The land of Canaan represented transformation or where God wanted to take the children of Israel.
• The biggest obstacle to transformation is a lack of vision.
• Verse 26, 27- God was trying to give them vision to help them through transformation.
• The percentage of people successfully making it through transformation without vision is very small.
• Verse 28-31 – God never told them they had to fight. God was able to take them out of Egypt, so he could certainly handle the Canaanites.
• The biggest hindrance to transformation is what you are focused on.
• You must see yourself victorious, winning, conquering, overcoming, etc.
• You must be able to see things as God sees it.
• Only 2 men out of 3 million people could see what God had for them.
• Anything put out to stop you, is put out there by satan.
• You can’t move forward if you are looking out the rear view mirror.
• If you could really see it, nothing would stop you.
• You would fight through all obstacles.
• However, you cannot get there taking all of your baggage with you.
• If you know the why, you can endure the what.
• If I can see it, God knows I can have it
• Transition takes place on the inside and it take place from the renewing of your mind.
• That is why life groups, closed cells, and the encounter are so important.
• Verse 31 - God did not tell the children of Israel to look at the inhabitants.
• Anything that goes against your transformation is an evil report.
• From verse 31 to verse 32, the report got worst. The enemy will magnify the opposition.
• Grasshopper Complex – “defeats you from the inside.
• Enemies are really unnecessary since you choose to become your own worst enemy because you allow the complex in you.” –Pastor Goudeaux,

I Cor 10:13
• If you are going through transition, God will give you a break from temptation, but you must still pass the test.
• The greatest hindrance to transformation is vision. If you cannot see it, you will always be stuck in change.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

G12 Life Group Notes–December 13, 2009–6:30 a.m. Pastor Goudeaux (Pg 1 of 2)
Open in Prayer Song Testimonies Prayer of Three
Witnessing Closed Cell

 We should expect a greater anointing on our lives.
 People have minds that have not been renewed. Therefore, you cannot take them where they need to go.

Decision-Change-Transition-Transformation

• You should not be saved for many years and not know anything.
• Some time in prayer is not enough. Prayer is important, but we must apply the transition process to prayer.
• G12 with prayer helps take men/women to victory.
• There is a saying “Work like it’s all up to you and pray like it’s all up to God.”
• A spirit of selfishness puts God on the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th burner.
• Some men/women will not move to the level of greatness until they get through the process of transition.
• We need to get off our butts!
• The renewal of our mind is necessary to get through the transition process.

Hosea 4:6
6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

• Our minds must be renewed.
• Some time we reject knowledge with excuses. This occurs when our priorities are mixed up.
• We must show patience when helping people go through the transition process.
• Satan fights our forward progress.
• We don’t know all of the struggles that Satan threw at the children of Israel after they left Egypt that caused them to deviate from the plan that God had for them.
• We are here to keep men/women focused and on track.

Isaiah 5:13
13Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

• Satan fights men/women from making a commitment to God.
• Our priority should be to move forward to God.
• God wants us to be educated in the Word (renewal of the mind).
• You can be a good man/woman. Good and ignorant.
• We have a responsibility to the world to help save those that are lost.
• We should have our 144. We need to take our responsibility to another level.



G12 Life Group Notes–December 13, 2009–6:30 a.m. Pastor Goudeaux (Pg 2 of 2)

Hebrew 5:11-14
11Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. 12For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. 13For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. 14But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

• We should be matured.
• Dull of hearing refers to lack of perception or recognition. It also refers to being slow to learn. This goes back to the renewing of our minds. We must have growth in our spiritual lives.
• When you should be at an advanced stage of knowledge, you find yourself in kindergarten instead of college.
• If we understood righteousness, we would understand why we need to grow up.
• We should read the Bible each day, just like we should exercise each day.

I Corinthians 3:1-3
1And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. 3For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

• The scripture talks about our spiritual man being unable to handle certain things because of immaturity.
• When you are too immature you are easily offended and easily get into strife.
• The carnal nature still dominates. That is why prayer cannot be the only thing we utilize.
• We must help people through the transition process.
• We must be consistent with our open cell and closed cell.
• We must be growing and feeding ourselves.
• God cannot fully use a carnal spiritual babe when that person has so many issues themselves.


Ask for Prayer Requests Receive Offering Close in Prayer
G12 Life Group Notes–December 13, 2009–6:30 a.m. Pastor Goudeaux (Pg 1 of 2)
Open in Prayer Song Testimonies Prayer of Three
Witnessing Closed Cell

 We should expect a greater anointing on our lives.
 People have minds that have not been renewed. Therefore, you cannot take them where they need to go.

Decision-Change-Transition-Transformation

• You should not be saved for many years and not know anything.
• Some time in prayer is not enough. Prayer is important, but we must apply the transition process to prayer.
• G12 with prayer helps take men/women to victory.
• There is a saying “Work like it’s all up to you and pray like it’s all up to God.”
• A spirit of selfishness puts God on the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th burner.
• Some men/women will not move to the level of greatness until they get through the process of transition.
• We need to get off our butts!
• The renewal of our mind is necessary to get through the transition process.

Hosea 4:6
6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

• Our minds must be renewed.
• Some time we reject knowledge with excuses. This occurs when our priorities are mixed up.
• We must show patience when helping people go through the transition process.
• Satan fights our forward progress.
• We don’t know all of the struggles that Satan threw at the children of Israel after they left Egypt that caused them to deviate from the plan that God had for them.
• We are here to keep men/women focused and on track.

Isaiah 5:13
13Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

• Satan fights men/women from making a commitment to God.
• Our priority should be to move forward to God.
• God wants us to be educated in the Word (renewal of the mind).
• You can be a good man/woman. Good and ignorant.
• We have a responsibility to the world to help save those that are lost.
• We should have our 144. We need to take our responsibility to another level.



G12 Life Group Notes–December 13, 2009–6:30 a.m. Pastor Goudeaux (Pg 2 of 2)

Hebrew 5:11-14
11Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. 12For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. 13For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. 14But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

• We should be matured.
• Dull of hearing refers to lack of perception or recognition. It also refers to being slow to learn. This goes back to the renewing of our minds. We must have growth in our spiritual lives.
• When you should be at an advanced stage of knowledge, you find yourself in kindergarten instead of college.
• If we understood righteousness, we would understand why we need to grow up.
• We should read the Bible each day, just like we should exercise each day.

I Corinthians 3:1-3
1And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. 3For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

• The scripture talks about our spiritual man being unable to handle certain things because of immaturity.
• When you are too immature you are easily offended and easily get into strife.
• The carnal nature still dominates. That is why prayer cannot be the only thing we utilize.
• We must help people through the transition process.
• We must be consistent with our open cell and closed cell.
• We must be growing and feeding ourselves.
• God cannot fully use a carnal spiritual babe when that person has so many issues themselves.


Ask for Prayer Requests Receive Offering Close in Prayer
G12 Life Group Notes–December 13, 2009–6:30 a.m. Pastor Goudeaux (Pg 1 of 2)
Open in Prayer Song Testimonies Prayer of Three
Witnessing Closed Cell

 We should expect a greater anointing on our lives.
 People have minds that have not been renewed. Therefore, you cannot take them where they need to go.

Decision-Change-Transition-Transformation

• You should not be saved for many years and not know anything.
• Some time in prayer is not enough. Prayer is important, but we must apply the transition process to prayer.
• G12 with prayer helps take men/women to victory.
• There is a saying “Work like it’s all up to you and pray like it’s all up to God.”
• A spirit of selfishness puts God on the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th burner.
• Some men/women will not move to the level of greatness until they get through the process of transition.
• We need to get off our butts!
• The renewal of our mind is necessary to get through the transition process.

Hosea 4:6
6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

• Our minds must be renewed.
• Some time we reject knowledge with excuses. This occurs when our priorities are mixed up.
• We must show patience when helping people go through the transition process.
• Satan fights our forward progress.
• We don’t know all of the struggles that Satan threw at the children of Israel after they left Egypt that caused them to deviate from the plan that God had for them.
• We are here to keep men/women focused and on track.

Isaiah 5:13
13Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

• Satan fights men/women from making a commitment to God.
• Our priority should be to move forward to God.
• God wants us to be educated in the Word (renewal of the mind).
• You can be a good man/woman. Good and ignorant.
• We have a responsibility to the world to help save those that are lost.
• We should have our 144. We need to take our responsibility to another level.



G12 Life Group Notes–December 13, 2009–6:30 a.m. Pastor Goudeaux (Pg 2 of 2)

Hebrew 5:11-14
11Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. 12For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. 13For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. 14But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

• We should be matured.
• Dull of hearing refers to lack of perception or recognition. It also refers to being slow to learn. This goes back to the renewing of our minds. We must have growth in our spiritual lives.
• When you should be at an advanced stage of knowledge, you find yourself in kindergarten instead of college.
• If we understood righteousness, we would understand why we need to grow up.
• We should read the Bible each day, just like we should exercise each day.

I Corinthians 3:1-3
1And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. 3For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

• The scripture talks about our spiritual man being unable to handle certain things because of immaturity.
• When you are too immature you are easily offended and easily get into strife.
• The carnal nature still dominates. That is why prayer cannot be the only thing we utilize.
• We must help people through the transition process.
• We must be consistent with our open cell and closed cell.
• We must be growing and feeding ourselves.
• God cannot fully use a carnal spiritual babe when that person has so many issues themselves.


Ask for Prayer Requests Receive Offering Close in Prayer