In your Spiritual Spring Training, what Spiritual Discipline needs your most immediate attention? Prayer? Fasting? Tithing? Bible Study? Meditation? Solitude? Other?
All Scripture is inspired by God…. That’s how the New Living Translation of the Bible translates 2 Timothy 3:16a. The New International Version translates it like this: All Scripture is God-breathed…. What does this mean to you? What is the connection between God and this book we call The Holy Bible?
Sanctifying grace is that aspect of God’s unconditional love that draws us ever closer to God’s holiness. What is it in your life that needs to change to allow you to better realize God’s holiness in you? In other words, what is it that is keeper you from getting closer to God?
If you limit [Jesus] by your experience, your theology, and your hopes and expectations, your will end up with something less than a Savior and more like a carpenter.
M. Craig Barnes
An Extravagant Mercy (p. 214)
How are you limiting Jesus? What is it in your life that is keeping your from experiencing all that Jesus has to offer? Are you looking for the carpenter to fix things in your life, or are you calling on the Savior to transform your life?
For God so loved YOU that he gave his one and only Son, that when YOU believe in him YOU shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16 (NIV w/ some minor adjustments)
What’s keeping you from fully accepting this verse? Can you pray to God to remove whatever it is that’s keeping you from making it yours?
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