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Intro - One must always keep up with your health.
Now think about this for a minute.
How often do you go to the doctor for a check up?
Just how often do you participate in this type of event?
For me for instance, I see my regular family doctor every six months to hopefully insure I am doing fairly well.
Now when I do this, they check my blood work, kidney function, sugar, thyroid, and various others functions.
The hope is to ensure and get a handle on any problems that might be there or discover any thing that might be new to me.
I do this to hopefully be better.... Physically keeping a tab on me.
I bet you all do this as well....
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Now let me ask you an additional question...
Do you keep tab’s on your spiritual life?
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I think it is just as important to keep tabs on our spiritual health to make sure we are not dead as well
So how do we do it?
Well here is what I think, just as we present ourselves to the doctor downtown or up in Norton, we need to present our self to the true doctor, to the Lord to make sure our vessel is healthy, inside and out.
There is no set list for what to do and how to do, but we are given several thoughts from the Scriptures themselves to remind us of what we need to be invested in if we are doing to be all that God has planned for us...
1) Prayer
Spending time in God’s presence, with or without words, empowers us.
It is a privilege and a gift to be able to commune with God through prayer.
The disciples knew Jesus prayed and they asked the Master to teach them how they might pray.
And from , he gave them a model of prayer
Jesus gave them a clear and purposeful template for prayer.
And it one they could understand and follow as they lived in front of God
And as we look at Luke chapter 18, we see that Jesus taught them that they should always pray, never give up in prayer and always be in a state and purpose of prayer day in and day out.
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In this parable, Jesus speaks of the parable of the persistent widow.
Just as she refused to give up, we need to never stop approaching the throne of grace to ask our loving Father for help.
And closely related to this idea of persistent prayer is the mindset to stop and listen to God.
Listening to God is just as important as praying to God.
So the second thought is
2) Listening to God; spiritual journaling:
Listening-paying attention-to God’s whispers in our hearts reminds us that God is active in our lives.
2) Listening to God; spiritual journaling:
Listening-paying attention-to God’s whispers in our hearts reminds us that God is active in our lives.
Writing down prayers, thoughts, questions, longings and hopes proves meaningful to many people of faith.
So we know without a doubt that God speaks to us, he communicates with us for a variety of reasons, but we know this, When god speaks it is important.
So why not write it down...
So we know without a doubt that God speaks to us, he communicates with us for a variety of reasons, but we know this, When god speaks it is important.
Writing down prayers, thoughts, questions, longings and hopes proves meaningful to many people of faith.
Writing down prayers, thoughts, questions, longings and hopes proves meaningful to many people of faith.
Writing down prayers, thoughts, questions, longings and hopes proves meaningful to many people of faith.
Why would it help us to write it down?
It would help us to not forget, it would help us to have it to reference and reflect on later at a time when we have had time to consider and think about His words,
This also helps us act on what we hear from God.. James reminds us that we must do what we hear…
Hearing and doing go hand in hand, to have one and not act on it is a poor decision, and failing to act has meant that we have deceived our self terribly.
And then we must practice / participate in worship...
3) Private and corporate worship:
3) Private and corporate worship:
Praising God opens us to the Holy Spirit, reorders our priorities and redirects our paths.
Worship connects us to God on a wholistic level.
Worship is one of the most important accepts of our Christian life.
And as such it must have a two fold action in our life, private and corporate.
Private worship begins with us, in prayer each day.
We give thanks, we praise and we lift up the name of Jesus.
Praising God opens us to the Holy Spirit, reorders our priorities and redirects our paths.
Worship connects us to God on a wholistic level.
And we must participate with a corporate level as well.
According to Don Whitney, “There’s an element of worship and Christianity that cannot be experienced in private worship or by watching worship.
There are some graces and blessings that God gives only in the ‘meeting together’ with other believers” (Spiritual Disciplines, 92).
Surely, many more could be given, but here are five such “graces and blessings” that we experience uniquely in the context of corporate worship.
According to Don Whitney, “There’s an element of worship and Christianity that cannot be experienced in private worship or by watching worship.
There are some graces and blessings that God gives only in the ‘meeting together’ with other believers” (Spiritual Disciplines, 92).
Surely, many more could be given, but here are five such “graces and blessings” that we experience uniquely in the context of corporate worship.
In worship we have the opportunity to see the truth and plan of God more clearly.
, David was troubled at the advance of the wicked but as he worshipped , the fog cleared and he was able to see their true end.
We have assurance when we worship, Elijah feared he was alone in his fight but in worship and prayer God told him he had 7000 reserved who had not bowed thier knee to baal.
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We also have great joy in Worhisp…
As the Swedish proverb says, a shared joy is a double joy.
In corporate worship, the “graces and blessings” In worship we have the accentuated joy of deeper and richer and greater adoration and awe, since our delight in Jesus expands as we magnify him together with others.
4) Bible-reading and study:
4) Bible-reading and study:
Meditating on God’s Word keeps us focused on God, rather than on our problems and wants.
Through the Bible God speaks to us and guides us personally.
Meditating on God’s Word keeps us focused on God, rather than on our problems and wants.
Through the Bible God speaks to us and guides us personally.
Verse 2 is really key, His delight is in the Word The Word of God is where Joy comes from, for it shares with us the one who brings true life and true joy.
And He mediates on it day and night… The word mediate you have heard me share so many times before.. but it it truly the intake of God’s word and the ultimate focus upon it
And then I will come to the last thought today....
Meditating on God’s Word keeps us focused on God, rather than on our problems and wants.
Through the Bible God speaks to us and guides us personally.
6) Loving God and our neighbors:
Putting our faith into practice increases our joy.
This is one of the paradoxes of faith: when we submit ourselves to God, we find ourselves-and in an odd way, we are freed.
6) Loving God and our neighbors:
Surrendering to God leads us to a life of love.
God is love, and when we live and serve in Christ, we experience love ourselves.
Surrendering to God leads us to a life of love.
God is love, and when we live and serve in Christ, we experience love ourselves.
The Greatest Commandment is the fullest expression in the law.
The greatest blessing of life is to live and love God, and allow that to outpour it self to those around us....
Nothing greater
8) Fasting, not necessarily from food-perhaps from TV or something else:
Finding time or space to pay attention to God by giving up something else blesses us beyond measure.
We need to guard our hearts as well as our time from distractions.
9) Serving others:
Reorienting our attitude away from self keeps us on the right track.
Following Jesus in serving others heightens our own experience of grace.
10) Fellowship with other believers:
Building and being part of a Christian community equips us for sharing and caring, within and beyond that community.
The values of God’s kingdom are different than those of the world, so we need the support and encouragement of other believers in order to truly live as Christians in our daily lives.
It’s important to remember that disciplines are not ends in themselves but means to the end of knowing God more deeply.
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