The first year of Bible Life University is called “Beginning: Year One.” It presents the Scriptures that deal with how to BEGIN sharing the miracles, breakthroughs, successes, and training you received from Jesus through Devotions With Jesus. If you haven’t already gone through Devotions With Jesus, then you will need to spend some time getting acquainted with it first.

There will be two things you will need to learn from the Scriptures Jesus provides you in Devotions With Jesus. First, you need to know those Scriptures so you can make sure they are already being applied to your own life. Second, you will need to know them so Jesus can use Beginning: Year One to show you the steps that He and the Bible will use for bringing miracles, breakthroughs, successes, and transformation to your friends' lives.

We all need to be involved in Bible devotions everyday. Rather than studying information that doesn’t prepare you for your day, Beginning: Year One offers the very things you, as a mature Christian and as a mentor, will need for the challenges of that day. After you have benefitted from the Scriptures in Devotions With Jesus and have STARTED getting victories and successes for your own life, you will need to allow Jesus to show you when you are ready for the training of Beginning: Year One.

Jesus will take Beginning: Year One to start providing you with the Biblical principles that show you how to use Devotions With Jesus with your friends. By providing you with the Bible passages you need through Mentor Devotions, you will be helped to continue growing in your relationship with God. If the Scriptures in Mentor Devotions are dealing with areas you are not ready for, then you need to spend some time with Jesus finding out why.

Jesus will use Beginning: Year One to take the things He has done in your life and show you how to yield to Him so He can work through you to help others. If you are still struggling and failing in most of the areas of your Christian life, then you may have a lot of information rather than transformation. Beginning: Year One isn’t a program that teaches you a whole lot of Biblical information so you can pass it on to others as information; Jesus is ONLY using it to deal with transformation.

Let’s say you went to church for twenty years and learned most of the Scriptures in the Bible. But, when you left the church each Sunday, you went out and used worldly, humanistic systems to live your life. You told little white lies; you sold things to people they didn’t need; you made money on them that you shouldn’t have; you misled them into thinking you meant one thing when something else was the truth; you cheated some of them; you said and did things that hurt them and their reputation; and you talked about them behind their backs.

In the above illustration where you knew most of the Scriptures in the Bible but weren’t living them, you just had information. Because you WERE living a different life than what the Bible teaches, you didn’t have transformation. Transformation takes the desires provided you in salvation and helps you become a whole NEW person in your thoughts, feelings, conversations, and activities of your everyday life.

Jesus wants to work through the real you that is wanting to treat yourself, others, and Him with good behavior. He takes the good character and attitudes found in the Bible and uses them to push out the bad character and attitudes found in your life. He empowers the new core motivations of your heart and leads you into being able to handle financial, emotional, relational, and physical issues by using Biblical principles. Jesus and His Biblical principles are the answer to ALL of life’s needs, issues, and challenges.

If you haven’t at least started heading in the direction of transformation, then you will need to start praying about getting involved in Devotions With Jesus and Beginning: Year One. Jesus will use the Scriptures presented in them and will train you and empower you to see great miracles, breakthroughs, successes, and changes in the daily activities of your own life. Then once you are starting to have these things taking place on a regular basis, you will be ready to share them with those around you.

During this year’s study in the Bible, God will assist you in learning how to be helped and how to help others with mild to moderate difficulties with life. He will be using the Bible to address all the major aspects of life and help you and your friends with winning at them. As Jesus teaches you the step-by-step procedures for living His Word, He will use Beginning: Year One to add additional Scriptures to your life that will aid you in working with Him by sharing all of them with those around you.

Through it Jesus will be providing you with one year of lectures, notes, visual aids, comments, and prayers. He will address the foundational, spiritual concepts for making sure you are living the life God wants you to live. He will cover your relationship with Him through the powerful provisions of salvation. You will learn what all your responsibilities, rights, and privileges are as a child of God and a citizen of His Kingdom. And then He will give you Biblical instructions on how to duplicate the victories for your life in the lives of others.

It is recommended that you first start going through Devotions With Jesus for yourself. Then as you start getting successes, breakthroughs, miracles, and blessings from Jesus for your life, you may want to start sharing them with your friends. Then, if you and Jesus feel you are ready, this would be the time for Him to start using Beginning: Year One to train you on how to share the victories in your life with your friends.