Good morning! This will be a beautiful day in the Lord! I am pressing in to Him to help me with several sin strongholds....but I am only documenting time management and diet and exercise here. I am happy to report that yesterday was a great day. While I did not get my power walk in (I will make it up on Saturday), I did stay within my calorie/fat gram limits. Of the eighteen things I would liked to have done I completed ten and got nearly all of my housework done. I will do even better today.
I am documenting my journey to freedom from sin strongholds as a way to prove to myself and others that God's way really does work! When we submit our entire lives to Him, lock, stock and barrel, and we steadfastly pray to be released from the chains that bind us, He is there with the strength that we need when we need it.
Growth in the Lord (not perfection, mind you), IS POSSIBLE! While there is no formula for seeking God, as He is a spirit and we need to abide in him daily, loving on him and just seeking Him like water in the desert, there ARE a few things that we can do to help us grow spiritually. I wrote them in my journal a year ago when I needed to know I was headed in the right direction.
Here is my list:
1) Understand that love must form the basis of all of my actions.
2) Pray
3) Read the Bible
4) Study good Bible teaching
5) Go to church
6) Spend time with Christians who are more mature than I am
7) Guard my mind from wrong media influences
8) Continually lay out the welcome mat of my heart to the Holy Spirit
9) Continually empty myself before the Lord and ask Him to fill me with his Holy Spirit.
10) Continually give all of myself back over to the Lord (all of my sins and failures, inviting Him to change me)
11) Listen to worship music
12) Engage in small group biblestudy
13) Go to Christian concerts
My goal in life is to love the Lord with all of my heart, soul, mind and strength. Everything else is gravy.
I am documenting my journey to freedom from sin strongholds as a way to prove to myself and others that God's way really does work! When we submit our entire lives to Him, lock, stock and barrel, and we steadfastly pray to be released from the chains that bind us, He is there with the strength that we need when we need it.
Growth in the Lord (not perfection, mind you), IS POSSIBLE! While there is no formula for seeking God, as He is a spirit and we need to abide in him daily, loving on him and just seeking Him like water in the desert, there ARE a few things that we can do to help us grow spiritually. I wrote them in my journal a year ago when I needed to know I was headed in the right direction.
Here is my list:
1) Understand that love must form the basis of all of my actions.
2) Pray
3) Read the Bible
4) Study good Bible teaching
5) Go to church
6) Spend time with Christians who are more mature than I am
7) Guard my mind from wrong media influences
8) Continually lay out the welcome mat of my heart to the Holy Spirit
9) Continually empty myself before the Lord and ask Him to fill me with his Holy Spirit.
10) Continually give all of myself back over to the Lord (all of my sins and failures, inviting Him to change me)
11) Listen to worship music
12) Engage in small group biblestudy
13) Go to Christian concerts
My goal in life is to love the Lord with all of my heart, soul, mind and strength. Everything else is gravy.
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