Week 31
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Spiritual Disciplines / The Psalmist says, “Blessed is the man who…delights in the law of the Lord, and on His word meditates day and night. He will be like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.” (Psalm 1:1-4) Though a list of spiritual disciplines is not found directly in scripture, nor is the term spiritual discipline, the principles can be found throughout scripture and the continuity of practices throughout the Old and New Testament, as well as in the practices of church fathers. These are prayer, study, evangelism, worship, fasting, meditation and stewardship.
The goal of participation is that you give yourself wholeheartedly into the effort of such practices so as to expose the areas of weakness and vulnerability in your life in order to grow and develop the characteristics that accommodate those weaknesses.
Each spiritual discipline has a particular function on how it develops in the heart and mind of a believer. First by engaging a weakness, and then by developing a characteristic to accommodate that weakness. The end goal in this is growth, like an athlete who will change the way they lift weights in order to develop or strengthen new muscles for the competition ahead. Each of us needs to develop these disciplines to be strengthened and to build endurance for the race in which we run.
What Spiritual Discipline can you work on this month?