The document discusses the importance of spiritual disciplines, particularly engaging with scripture, for spiritual growth and godliness. It provides biblical passages that encourage regular reading, meditating on, and internalizing God's word. Specific disciplines mentioned include setting aside dedicated time and space for Bible intake, having a reading plan, taking notes, and using lectio divina - a method of spiritual reading that incorporates reading, meditating, conversing with God, and resting in scripture. The goal of these disciplines is to move beyond just gaining information to true formation through regularly encountering God in his word.
Rom 8:5-8 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Mt 13:15 For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.'
Rom 8:5-8 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Mt 13:15 For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.'
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already!” – John Buchan
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more & become more, you are a leader!” – John Quincy Adams
Overcoming temptation and hard times in the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. He was full of the Spirit when he began and he went through the temptation in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Walk Wisely, be Filled - Ephesians 5:15-21David Turner
Believers are called Children of Light! But Children of Light must walk in the light and have wisdom to know that they can be drawn in to darkness. The Spirit is the guide that keeps us from darkness. Ephesians 5:15-21 warns Children of Light to depend on the Spirit and not be drawn back into the darkness they once walked. Visit www.BibleGuy.org for free PowerPoint Downloads of Ephesians.
February is National Heart Awareness Month. It is meant to cause the nation to take note of the seriousness of heart disease and to be reminded about those things that promote heart health. It is wise in a spiritual sense to take time and do the same relative to our spiritual hearts. This is what this study is designed to do.
UPRIGHT OR BACKSLIDDEN
TEXT: ISA 1:1-4
INTRO:
1Thess 5:23
Gal 2:11
Gal 2:14
Salvation is simple but, sanctification is a choice.
Isa 1:5-6
I. INDEPENDENCE
REBELLION (SPIRIT) ISA 1:2
Rebellion is not always evidenced by a temper tantrum, sometimes it accompanies a refined smile and smooth cultivated words.
1Sam 15:23
Rebellion is independence from God and his word.
John 6:66 the mark of a beast
John 6:67-68
TO REVERSE REBELLION
Job 23:12
II. IGNORANCE
“doth not know” (Soul) Isa 1:3
Hos 4:6
2Chr 26:16
He should have known about Num. 16, Korah, Dathan and Abiram.
He should have known about 1King 13, Jeroboam’s withered hand.
1Cor 3:16
1Cor 5:6
2Cor 2:11
We should know and major on the fundamentals of the Bible but, if that was all God expected us to know we would have a pamphlet not a 66 book Bible.
1Cor 9:25 (2Tim 2:4-5)
Your soul will naturally strive to master something, either sin or scripture.
III. INVESTIGATION
“DOTH NOT CONSIDER” (BODY) ISA 1:3
Prov 14:7
“CONSIDER” IS TO PERCEIVE (PREDICT OR SEE BEFOREHAND).
Matt 7:3
Luke 6:41
CONCLUSION:
Gal 6:1-4
The upright man has rejoicing.
The backslidden man must boast.
A regular and timely spiritual health check-up reveals how we are doing spiritually as followers of the Lord Jesus.
The Master‘s Health Check-Up is a reminder about being mindful of our spiritual health and being aware of what affects our spiritual temperature.
Us awaken and once obedient to the call that makes us Scripture: It's time for you to wake from sleep. And open our eyes to the divine light, warning hear well aware every day that makes us God's voice. Today, if you hear his voice, harden not your heart”
(San Benito, Rule of Saint Benedict, Prologue)
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already!” – John Buchan
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more & become more, you are a leader!” – John Quincy Adams
Overcoming temptation and hard times in the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. He was full of the Spirit when he began and he went through the temptation in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Walk Wisely, be Filled - Ephesians 5:15-21David Turner
Believers are called Children of Light! But Children of Light must walk in the light and have wisdom to know that they can be drawn in to darkness. The Spirit is the guide that keeps us from darkness. Ephesians 5:15-21 warns Children of Light to depend on the Spirit and not be drawn back into the darkness they once walked. Visit www.BibleGuy.org for free PowerPoint Downloads of Ephesians.
February is National Heart Awareness Month. It is meant to cause the nation to take note of the seriousness of heart disease and to be reminded about those things that promote heart health. It is wise in a spiritual sense to take time and do the same relative to our spiritual hearts. This is what this study is designed to do.
UPRIGHT OR BACKSLIDDEN
TEXT: ISA 1:1-4
INTRO:
1Thess 5:23
Gal 2:11
Gal 2:14
Salvation is simple but, sanctification is a choice.
Isa 1:5-6
I. INDEPENDENCE
REBELLION (SPIRIT) ISA 1:2
Rebellion is not always evidenced by a temper tantrum, sometimes it accompanies a refined smile and smooth cultivated words.
1Sam 15:23
Rebellion is independence from God and his word.
John 6:66 the mark of a beast
John 6:67-68
TO REVERSE REBELLION
Job 23:12
II. IGNORANCE
“doth not know” (Soul) Isa 1:3
Hos 4:6
2Chr 26:16
He should have known about Num. 16, Korah, Dathan and Abiram.
He should have known about 1King 13, Jeroboam’s withered hand.
1Cor 3:16
1Cor 5:6
2Cor 2:11
We should know and major on the fundamentals of the Bible but, if that was all God expected us to know we would have a pamphlet not a 66 book Bible.
1Cor 9:25 (2Tim 2:4-5)
Your soul will naturally strive to master something, either sin or scripture.
III. INVESTIGATION
“DOTH NOT CONSIDER” (BODY) ISA 1:3
Prov 14:7
“CONSIDER” IS TO PERCEIVE (PREDICT OR SEE BEFOREHAND).
Matt 7:3
Luke 6:41
CONCLUSION:
Gal 6:1-4
The upright man has rejoicing.
The backslidden man must boast.
A regular and timely spiritual health check-up reveals how we are doing spiritually as followers of the Lord Jesus.
The Master‘s Health Check-Up is a reminder about being mindful of our spiritual health and being aware of what affects our spiritual temperature.
Us awaken and once obedient to the call that makes us Scripture: It's time for you to wake from sleep. And open our eyes to the divine light, warning hear well aware every day that makes us God's voice. Today, if you hear his voice, harden not your heart”
(San Benito, Rule of Saint Benedict, Prologue)
RCIA presentation on "Praying the Scritpures for a Change", presented on 26 Oct 2010 by David Jensent at St. Patrick Catholic Church, Colorado Springs, CO.
A ‘Lectio Divina’ ou Leitura Orante da Biblia e o esforço de conjugar a Palavra de Deus com a vida da gente. Na Palavra que e ‘lampada para os pes’ e ‘luz para o caminho’ (Sl 119,105), o (a) discipulo (a) de Cristo encontra motivacao para construir no mundo o reino de Deus como reino de amor, justica e liberdade.
Lectio Divina (Praying with Sacred Scripture)Mike Potter
This is a live presentation given at the 2009 Annual Conference of Contemplative Outreach, Ltd. on September 9, 2009 to introduce participants to the practice of Lectio Divina (Praying with Sacred Scripture).
God's word is life, it judges, it is powerful.
It is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, & training in righteousness to prepare us for every good work.
The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.
The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.
Meditating on the Lord can be one of the easiest yet at the same time most difficult activities we can do to draw closer to God and grow spiritually. (James 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.)
Presentation to a group of pastors Full Gospel Church and Pentecostal Church pastors detailing the process of going from a text to a sermon using an inductive Bible study method.
Observation, Interpretation and Application is redefined as See God's Truth, Understand God's Truth, Live God's Truth.
And then a Puritan matrix of application to Unbelievers, Seekers, Backsliders, New Converts, Believers and Old Saints seeking to Engage their Minds, Stir their Emotions and Call on their Wills is demonstrated.
Three texts are handled, Psalm 1, John 21:15-17 and Revelation 3:1-6.
A verse by verse commentary on Ephesians 4 1-16 dealing with Paul's teaching on the unity of the body of Christ, the ascension of Christ, and how to grow up to be like Christ. Paul goes on to deal with living as Christians of light with a host of instructions on how to do it.
Similar to Ps 1 Bible Intake p2 (Lectio Divina) (20)
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
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In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way
SBs – Sunday Bible School
Adult Bible Lessons 2nd quarter 2024 CPAD
MAGAZINE: THE CAREER THAT IS PROPOSED TO US: The Path of Salvation, Holiness and Perseverance to Reach Heaven
Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
Presentation: Missionary Celso Napoleon
Renewed in Grace
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
Homily: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday 2024.docxJames Knipper
Countless volumes have been written trying to explain the mystery of three persons in one true God, leaving us to resort to metaphors such as the three-leaf clover to try to comprehend the Divinity. Many of us grew up with the quintessential pyramidal Trinity structure of God at the top and Son and Spirit in opposite corners. But what if we looked at this ‘mystery’ from a different perspective? What if we shifted our language of God as a being towards the concept of God as love? What if we focused more on the relationship within the Trinity versus the persons of the Trinity? What if stopped looking at God as a noun…and instead considered God as a verb? Check it out…
The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2g_43NEa0
