12 Ways To Grow Spiritually
Cleanse Yourself and Grow Spiritually
Are You Spiritually Dehydrated?
These 12 ways will help you to cleanse yourself and grow spiritually. Jesus will help you to do each one of these, so make sure you pray to Him and ask Him for guidance. If you should have any questions about any of these lessons, please don’t hesitate to contact me at: thetruth@itrustgodonly.com – in the subject line please put “12 Ways”.
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1. Powerless Over Ourselves – Read More…
“How Can I Be Powerless Over Myself?” Our ways are different than God’s way. We are governed by our pride. We want things that will please our bodies and make our lives pleasant. We want the things of the world. This is our human nature, it’s the way our minds work.
2. Sanity or Insanity? – Read More…
Most of us like to think we are sane people right? We don’t act bizarre or we’re not in an institution, so we must be sane, right? Wrong. There’s a kind of insanity that, as we look through our carnal eyes we just don’t see. We usually look at insanity as people who lost touch with reality.
3. Your Will and Your Life – Read More…
You Did Accept Jesus As Your Personal Savior? When we accepted Jesus as our personal Savior, did we not do this to save ourselves from damnation? Some of us chose Jesus because our life was a mess from trying to live it our way.
4. Take An Inventory Of Ourselves – Read More…
Our Behavior Is Pretty Much Ruled By Our Pride. Our emotions and our actions are of self-will. We want our lives to be in perfect order as WE would like them. We do not care about what others want or need or even if we do, so long as it doesn’t interrupt our way of life, the life WE want.
5. Acknowledge Your Sins – Read More…
Pray For Forgiveness. 1John 1:8,9 – If we say we have no sin in us, we are deceiving ourselves and refusing to admit the truth; but if we acknowledge our sins, then God who is faithful and just will forgive our sins and purify us from everything that is wrong.
6. Remove Character Defects – Read More…
Now that we have taken a look at ourselves by making a list of things we did wrong and told them to another individual, it’s time to work on removing these defects for good. Remember to always talk to Jesus about these things we need removed and let Him help us to overcome these defects.
7. Humility and Pride – Read More…
Humility Is The Opposite Of Pride. Luke 2:7 And she gave birth to a son, her first-born. She wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger because there was no room for them at the inn. This is a true act of humility. God could have provided all the comforts of home for Joseph, Mary and Jesus, but He didn’t.
8. List Of Wrongs – Read More…
Made A List Of Our Wrongs and Any Resentments. When we did something wrong to someone did we do it intentionally or did we do it out of ignorance? Sometimes we aim to harm people and some of the reasons we do this is for personal gain, that we don’t like the individual, or because we like to stir things up between others.
9. Making Amends – Read More…
Make Amends To The People You Have Harmed. Now that you have made your lists, it’s time to make amends. First, you have to understand that sometimes it’s not good to open up old wounds. We don’t want to harm others again, but this doesn’t mean that we’re off the hook from making amends.
10. Daily Evaluation – Read More…
We Need To Evaluate Ourselves Daily. Now that we have made amends, it’s time to keep from doing the same things that we had to make amends for over again. We can do this by overcoming our pride. It begins by the way we think and how we bring into ourselves the actions of others.
11. God’s Will – Read More…
About God’s Will For Us. The bible is a great book, it’s God’s word. It’s full of instructions for us. It has God’s promises that He gives us. Each promise has a stipulation attached to it. God will keep His promise provided we do our part.
12. Growing Spiritually – Read More…
Face Life One Day At A Time With God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. After following Jesus and working the past 11 lessons, one should have gained a lot of knowledge about oneself. Such things as the way you think and act, how you treat people and the way you treat them.
Sanity or Insanity
Most of us like to think we are sane people right?
We don’t act bizarre or we’re not in an institution, so we must be sane, right? Wrong. There’s a kind of insanity that, as we look through our carnal eyes we just don’t see. We usually look at insanity as people who lost touch with reality.
Reality as we know it is based on a majority of people who live their lives within the law of reason as human nature perceives it, but is this sanity? Reality means the real nature of. So, believe it or not, we are not living reality. God did not create us to live in sin. What we actually see and know can be deceptive.
Insanity: to be extremely foolish, lacking good sense or judgment; unwise.
Sanity: of sound mind; moderate; sensible: having or showing wisdom or common sense.
We like to think that we are sensible and we show good common sense. Well, let’s see where we really stand. Let’s take driving for example: man, made laws so that when we do operate a motor vehicle, we drive one with regards to our safety as well as others. If we break these laws we know we can be punished for it by either receiving a ticket or worse, depending on the severity of the law(s) we broke. So why do we intentionally break these laws? We lack common sense, that’s why.
Common sense is nothing more than making a decision to do something right, it’s wisdom. People put up warning signs, stop signs and speed limit signs and did studies so they can write a rules and regulations book so our driving experience would be a safe one, but we choose to ignore all this knowledge because we don’t expect to get caught or we foolishly don’t think about the consequences of our actions until it’s too late.
Let’s take a look at God’s side of this. We are either too lazy (sloth) or too impatient to come to a complete stop at a stop sign or when we turn right on red. There’s two deadly sins right there. We speed to get somewhere faster (impatience) or we don’t want somebody getting in front of us (pride). When we get caught, do we get angry (deadly sin)? Or do we make excuses (pride)? Or do we try to lie our way out of it (pride)?
This is just a small example of the things we really don’t see because of our carnal nature, so in a sense we are all insane. Look at the seven deadly sins, they’re called deadly because that’s exactly what they’ll bring us – Death. So, how we see things might not be anything to be bothered about, but in God’s eyes, these things could cause us death.
We need to contemplate on what we do in our daily lives. Think of all the things you do daily, your thoughts and your actions. What eyes are you looking through – yours or God’s? We like to think that these so-called little things we do aren’t wrong or are just minor things that don’t hurt anyone. We get adjusted to doing these wrongful things because we see them as being so minor and frivolous and we think we get away with it. This is wrongful thinking, insanity.
Everything we do and think is being recorded. We have this tendency to deceive or lie to ourselves and we can’t cover up the truth with lies, this principal is not wisdom that comes down from above, it is earthly and devilish. Revelation 21:8 ‘ But the fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whore mongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all Liars, they shall have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. So here we have all types of insanity and there’s plenty more but the main one is not following God’s law.
We need to come to our senses and believe in God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, not so much from our lips but in our hearts and by our actions by trusting in the Holy Trinity. By walking with Jesus and letting Him show us the way to restore us to sanity by giving us the Spirit of Truth as it says in John 14:15-17.
Many are slothful by not giving up their petty, meaningless lives to follow Jesus in the way He has mapped out for them. It’s a hard road for sure, but look at the gain in the end, everlasting eternal life not death.
We’ve worked hard for temporary things of the world which bring us nothing in the end. If you would like to find out what real sanity is, then call on Jesus Christ, don’t let His life which He came here for you to give you life, to be just thrown away and rejected by you because you would rather have the worldly life which will result in death.
May God Bless You Dearly
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