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Day 131: What Are Some Supporting Exercises for Prayer?
Today we look at three practices that can assist in our praying: Simplicity, Confession and Counsel, and Worship. These are three activities that help us focus on the grace and goodness of God.
Read MoreDay 130: What Are Some Supporting Exercises for Hearing and Seeing?
Colossians 1:9[We] have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding… This week, we will explore some secondary or supporting practices and attitudes to help you explore ways to deepen your walk with the Lord. All of these can be…
Read MoreDay 129: How Do We Follow Jesus’ Example?
Jesus asked His first disciples a penetrating question: “What do you want?” (John 1:37-38). Everyone who would follow Jesus must consider this question. Why are we following Jesus? What do we want from Him? That question can only be truly answered by understanding one of Jesus final questions to His disciples : “Do you understand…
Read MoreDay 128: What is The Spiritual Exercise of Serving? (Following)
Serving others is the ultimate expression of our love. Jesus teaches us that love for God and love for others are the foundational and key commandments, they are the very heart of the Lord’s wise instruction to us. Following Jesus means learning to serve in love as He Himself serves us all.
Read MoreDay 127: What is the Spiritual Exercise of Prayer? (Responding)
Today we discuss our second Foundational Exercise of Prayer. Once we have heard from Father God in His Word, we respond to Him, talking to Him, going to Him as the One who knows us best and is leading us to His Kingdom.
Read MoreDay 126: What is the Spiritual Exercise of Hearing And Seeing? (Receiving)
1 Timothy 4:7-8…train yourself for godliness. For ‘physical exercise has some value, but godliness is valuable in every way. It holds promise for the present life and for the life to come. Learning to Hear and See the Father working in Christ through the Spirit and responding in Prayer and self-sacrificial Service are three foundational…
Read MoreDay 125: How Do We Implement Spiritual Exercises?
We each have a choice as to who we will allow to shape us at our core. Father God seeks to transform us from the inside out. He is seeking to change the core of who we are. Through the Holy Spirit, He is transforming, reforming, remaking our thoughts, desires, and emotions so that they…
Read MoreDay 124: How Do We Avoid the Trap of Legalism?
The things that we have been discussing this week are dangerous ideas. Many have twisted these thoughts into legalism—the way of thinking that says, “If I do this, then God must do this …” Father-God will not be manipulated this way and He desires a better way for us. We are working out our salvation, not…
Read MoreDay 123: What Are Spiritual Exercises?
One of the goals that we have for MilktoMeat as a whole is to provide you with both the proper “diet” and “exercise” for spiritual growth. The proper diet for a Christian is the Written and Living Word of God. As Jesus told the Tempter, “A person does not live on bread alone, but on…
Read MoreDay 122: What Habits Did Jesus Practice?
Philippians 2:12–13“… continue working out your salvation with awe and reverence, for the one empowering in youscripleftblue both the desire and the empowerment—for the sake of his good pleasure—is God.” Even though we do not work to earn our salvation or our blessing or our acceptance from God, there are exercises that we can do…
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