Solo Guide
for Just-Do-It Sessions
Power Season, May 29 - August 6, 2025
The "Just-Do-It" method is a way of listening to the Spirit of Jesus through the Bible. Your goal is to receive your personal "Just-Do-It" assignments that the Spirit puts into you to do as your personal participation in God's "People of the Future" Campaign (POTF).
We can't tell you how you know that an assignment comes from the Spirit. You just know it, and different people know it by different means. But we can tell you that as you do your assignments, you bring some of the glorious future Messianic Era into the present. You discover life as a Person of the Future.
The Solo Guide lets you try this method out on your own. You can decide later whether to use the group method in addition or instead.
You do not need any training for the Just-Do-It method because all the instructions are built into the four italicized prayers you use as you go along. Preview these if you wish, or just jump in. See FAQs at the bottom if you need more detail.
The Guide is set up for one solo session per week, but the goal is to get used to reading the Bible or listening to a sermon this way, always on the alert for "Just-Do-It" assignments from God's Spirit.
At first it may feel odd to think of yourself as part of God's POTF Campaign Team, getting assignments from the Spirit. When it starts to feel normal, you may not need these written instructions any more. Just-Do-Its will become your new way of life, with or without written instructions.
The instructions are the same every week during Power Season. Only the Scripture passage changes as shown in the list below.
If you are reading the Bible using the Solo Guide daily instead of weekly, you may choose your own Scripture or follow the "Bible-in-a-Year" Guide that goes with the SYNC seasons. The yearly Guide has much longer readings than the weekly list below. You will read about 1 chapter per day if you use only the New Testament column of the Guide, or about 3.5 chapters per day if you also use the Old Testament column. Click here for "Bible-in-a-Year" Guide
Part 1: Warm-up for receiving your "Just-Do-It"
1. Think of one thing you are thankful for today. Thank God for it.
2. Think of one challenge you are facing today. Hand it over to God, including any anxiety that goes with it. (1 Peter 5.7)
3. Remember or look up your last Just-Do-It assignment. Talk to God about it.
3A. If you completed your assignment: What did you do as you carried out the assignment? What did God do in you, with you, or for you? What did you learn about God's People of the Future Campaign by participating in this assignment?
3B. Didn't do your assignment yet? Ask God to forgive you for the delay and to empower you to get it done today. Leave this Just-Do-It session, and come back to it after you do the assignment you missed. God does not want to pile things onto you. So feel the joy of completing a job, then you will be ready to listen for your next assignment.
3C. Can't remember what your last Just-Do-It assignment was? Ask God to bring it to your mind. If he does, follow 3B above. If he doesn't, go ahead and listen for a new assignment to replace the lost one, but write down the new one somewhere so it won't be forgotten.
4. Prayer
Thank you, God, for creating a global "People of the Future" movement to connect, heal, and bless this hurting world. Thanks for including me in the movement through Jesus and his Spirit. Speak to me today so I understand the Messianic Future better and fit into it better as it arrives. Yes, Jesus, our Messiah, bring it on! Amen.
5. I am holding myself to these rules for solo use of the Just-Do-It method:
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I want a better world, and I am listening for my Just-Do-It assignment from God so I can play my part in making the world better
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During this solo session I will stick to the Bible verses I'm reading and postpone all comparisons and commentaries until later
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My goal is to hear what God wants me to do this week, not satisfy my curiosity or bolster my own opinion
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Once I hear the Spirit's assignment, I do it, and when I do, Jesus brings more of his Messianic Future into my world today
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Part 2: Getting into the Bible
6A. Option: If you kept notes from your previous session of Bible reading, look back over those before you go on.
6B. Prayer
Lord, I am coming to you to listen for your voice in the Bible, which is the story of your arriving future and how to get involved in it. Through these verses today, show me more of what I need to discover as a member of your family of People of the Future. In Jesus' name, Amen.
7. Find this week’s Scripture
May 29-June 4. Acts 1.6-11. Jesus. Power to participate in the Messiah's Campaign (Holiday: Ascension Day, Thursday, May 29)
June 5-11. Acts 2.1-12. The Holy Spirit. Visible signs of the invisible presence of Jesus (Holiday: Pentecost Day, Sunday, June 8)
June 12-18. Acts 3.1-16. Peter and John. The power of Jesus's name heals a lame man
June 19-25. Acts 4.32-37. People of the Future. The power that turns people generous and loyal
June 26-July 2. Acts 7.51-60. Stephen. The power to forgive your killers
July 3-9. Acts 9.1-12. Saul. The power that turns people around
July 10-16. Acts 10.30-36, 44-48. Cornelius. The power that breaks down cultural barriers
July 17-23. 1 Corinthians 12.4-13. The power of organic unity
July 24-30. 2 Corinthians 5.14-21. The power that changes everything
July 31-Aug 6. Luke 9.28-36. The transfiguration of Jesus (Holiday: Feast of the Transfiguration, Wednesday, August 6)
8A. Read (or listen to) the Scripture. Then ask yourself, “What stood out to me?" It could be a main point or just something that jumped out at you.
8B. Option: Read the same Scripture in a different translation before going on to the next step.
9. Try to summarize what you read without looking back at your Bible. Pretend you are doing this to tell a friend about today's Bible verses. Your summary doesn't have to be complete or perfect.
10. Ask yourself, “What would I know or guess about God's POTF Campaign and strategy if these verses were all I had heard about it?”
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Part 3: Your Personal Assignment
You have done the warm-ups and used the Bible. Now listen for the Spirit. (OPTION: if the Spirit has already prompted you by putting a Just-Do-It item into you, skip to step 13.)
11. Pray
Jesus, I am at your service. Please give me an assignment that will bring some of your perfect future down to earth right now in ways people can see and feel.
Let your resurrection power flow into me so I can make a difference in your world, and make it obvious that your power is at work, not mine. By your Spirit make your thoughts my thoughts and your will my will so I can just do it. Amen.
12. Allow time for the Spirit to speak to you. When you sense what your Just-Do-It assignment is, go to the next step.
Note: If you don't sense anything, read the Bible passage again; also remind yourself how you started the session with a point of thanksgiving, a point of challenge, and a review of your previous Just-Do-It assignment. See FAQs below for additional options if needed. Beware of making up your own idea instead of waiting for/listening for the Spirit's instruction.
13. Set a reminder about your new Just-Do-It assignment on your device or write it down. Show God you are taking this seriously. If any friend asks you what your Just-Do-It is, you want it ready on the tip of your tongue.
14. Pray
Thank you, Lord, for giving me my assignment for the week. Now please give me the courage, skill, and spiritual power I will need to get it done. Please prepare the opportunity for me so that people get connected, healed, or blessed as I do my "Just-Do-It". Let my action be my small contribution to a better world because I listened to you today. In the name of Jesus, the holder of all power in heaven and on earth, I ask all these things. Please let them happen.
Don't forget your Just-Do-It.
Don't over-think it.
Don't avoid it.
Don't wait till you feel like it.
Just do it.
15. Option: Buddy system
To expand the value of using the Solo Guide, you may opt to connect weekly with one or two friends who use it too. Face to face or virtually, tell each other the following four things:
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What you are thankful for
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A challenge you are facing
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How your Just-Do-It went last week
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What your Just-Do-It is for this week
This can work even if you didn't read the same Scripture.
16. Option: Just-Do-It group
Using the Group Guide with 2 or 3 friends provides some benefits that the Solo Guide and the buddy system cannot give you. God is in the connection business, and groups forge connections.
Of course, the Group Guide requires a longer session than the Solo Guide even though the steps are basically the same. And scheduling is never easy.
If the Spirit steers you toward starting or joining a weekly group, just do it, but don't initiate a group just because you think it might be a good idea. Without the Spirit prompting you and motivating you, a group will fizzle out, and everyone will feel like a failure. So don't run ahead of the Spirit, but don't lag behind either. Stay in SYNC. Click here for the Group Guide directory by date.
FAQs
What is Power Season?
The fourth of the seven seasons in the SYNC annual cycle.
You don't need to know the season or the cycle in order to use the Just-Do-It method, but if you use it for more than one SYNC season, you may notice that the solo instructions change slightly with the seasonal emphasis.
If you want more details about Power Season, see "Power Tool Kit" in the menu under "Resources", but don't get bogged down there. The main thing is listening to the Bible and the Spirit, not figuring out the SYNC structure from top to bottom.
What is God's People of the Future Campaign?
The Campaign is what gradually brings God's perfect future into this world not by force but by turning willing people into "People of the Future." Using the Just-Do-It process is one way of participating in the Campaign, but you can be use it even before you sign up for the Campaign. For more details see the "God's POTF Campaign" in the menu.
Does God really have a personal assignment for me this week?
Ask him. It's his Campaign. What if he does have one and you have not been listening for it?
Isn't it more authentic to pray in our own words than to read a prayer?
Usually it is. In this case, please at least read through the prayers ahead of time in order to see how Just-Do-It groups work as part of God's arriving future. Everything people need to know to participate in a Just-Do-It group is built into the prayers, so if you use your own words, make sure none of the key ideas gets lost.
Why must I postpone my study of other Bible passages and resource books while seeking my Just-Do-It assignment?
When we start comparing verses, our brains often take over and our ears get blocked. We start figuring things out, studying things, and if we are not careful, we get so interested in our hypothetical questions that we forget to listen for what God is specifically assigning us to do right away.
There is a time and a place for comparing various Scriptures to develop our theological knowledge, but a Just-Do-It session is not it.
Where do I find another Bible translation?
One source (leaving this site) is biblegateway.com. It has a long pick list of translations. Two of the most popular and easy-to-understand are “The Message” and the “Good News Translation.”
What if you don't hear or sense any Just-Do-It assignment even though you are listening carefully?
If the suggestions in the note on item 12 do not help you, then your Just-Do-It assignment for this week is simply to stay alert until you get the guidance you did not get today. Sometimes the Spirit may create a particular situation during the week and you will realize that God is prompting you with a Just-Do-It opportunity. Besides watching for something like that, you may want to reread the same Scripture later and spend some more time praying and listening.
While you are waiting, remember that it is God's job to communicate our Just-Do-Its, not our job to figure them out. He's very good at communicating to each and every one of us because he knows how we are wired. He customizes his communication, and his timing is impeccable.