It takes practice to keep God in the forefront of our minds. Getting a focus is easy. Keeping a focus is what produces true transformation.
Intentional practices become strategic patterns forming priorities that endure. Spiritual strength comes from conditioning your spirit man in these practices: sabbath, serving, fasting, simplicity, generosity, solitude and community. We’ll be looking at these core values and core practices in the first 40 days of the year. It’s a pattern for us and our patterns reveal our priorities.
Some things God desires to reveal cannot even be contained by your imagination (exceedingly abundantly above and beyond all we can ask or imagine). They must be cultivated in your spirit, and this is why conditioning your spirit man is so important!
Ephesians 3:14-21 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 (you) may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. 20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think (or imagine), according to the power at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen. ESV
Together we are filled with all the fulness of God! We are rooted in this loving unity with all the saints to know the depth of God’s love that is beyond our own comprehension. We need each other. Your gifted life is incomplete without the other gifts at work in the body of Christ. This is why we need every one of you to be awake and engaged in this fight!!!
You are divinely purposed and uniquely gifted by God!
Let’s be the church of Acts! Yes! But we see 28 chapters spanning over 30 years with only 14 miracles. Even in Acts there are 700 ordinary days to every extraordinary miracle. Intentional practices become strategic patterns forming priorities that endure.
Getting a focus is easy. Keeping a focus through the rhythm of consistent practices is what will unlock the weightier things in life producing true transformation for us and for the world around us. Intentional practices become strategic patterns forming priorities that endure. Keeping a focus!
Some things God desires to reveal must be carried in your spirit. This is why conditioning your spirit man is so important!). There is a price to pay to advance God’s Kingdom.
GP2RL: Read the book of Ephesians this week and continue to Invite people into your life, your love and your faith journey as the Holy Spirit directs.