Devotions:Prayer Attitudes

Regarding healing; think especially of the part of the body that most needs to be well.
See it well and perfect and shining with God’s light.
Now give thanks that this is being accomplished.

To receive God’s life in the body, we must be able to forget the body so that we can quiet the mind and concentrate on the spiritual energies of God.

We receive God by forgetting ourselves and thinking about Him.
We begin our prayer not by clamoring for this or that, but by thinking about him in a way that makes Him real to us.

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Devotions: Prayer Attitudes

Attitudes for a faith prayer:
1. Choose the same time and the
same place each day, make your
self comfortable and relax.

2. Remind yourself of the reality of
God’s life outside yourself.

3. Ask that life to come in and
increase life in your body.

4. Make a picture in your mind of
the answer to your prayer.

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Devotions: Personal Spirit

The Spirit in the Gospels
The Greek word for spirit (pneuma) in the
New Testament means both a powerful wind
and a personal spirit.
John said that Jesus would ‘baptize with the
Holy Spirit and with fire’
recorded in Matthew 3: 1-12; Mark 1:1-8 and Luke 3:1-18

John says that this baptism of the Holy Spirit is Jesus’ single most important task
Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world..
….is he who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.
(John 1:29-34)
In the O.T. fire was understood to have
purifying qualities
(Isaiah 1:25; Zech. 13:9 and Malachi 3:2-3)
or to make holy (Isaiah 4:3-6)

The baptism of Jesus’ Holy Spirit
to his followers is to provide both
hurricane power and holy purity.

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Sunday School: Attitude

We don’t see things clearly.
We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist.

But it won’t be long
before the weather clears and the sun shines bright!

We’ll see it all then,
see it all as clearly as
God sees us,
knowing him directly just as he knows us!

But for right now, until that completeness,
we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation:
Trust steadily in God,
hope unswervingly,
love extravagantly.
And the best of the three is love.
1 Corinthians 13:12-13
From The Message –
New Testament in Contemporary Language

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Devotions: Important Truths

The Christian is to partner with the Holy Spirit to be ready to receive new power and vitality; to submit to the Holy Spirit.

Without God’s direction no amount of effort from us will work.1

He directs and enables. We cannot control or manipulate God. He uses us. Yet He does not mechanically over-ride our free will.

The degree to which we submit is the degree to which the Spirit can be effective in us.

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