The Holy Spirit in us give us inner peace that concurs all

Songs

Romans 8

Songs 8

John 15

Who is this belovered, who is Jesus

1. Giver of life

John 1

Gen 2

2. Sustainer of life

Hebrews 1

God didn't give life to the world and leave us alone... he is still giving and sustaining 

We maybe overwhelmed and drown by our situation, but God will not leave us alone

   God don't bring us so far to leave us there

Isiah 46 4

God will not abandon us half way

3. The resurrection and the life

Failure is not fatal, not final

Learn to draw strength form the beloved.. strengthen ourselves from the Lord

1. Thought

Romans 8

Our thinking can either bring life or death

   Thoughts of faith hope and love that brings life

We can choose the things of our thinking

2 Cor 10

2 Tim

Thoughts of faith, hope and love

2. Word

Proverbs

Our words can bring joy or cause miserable

   Again, we can choose

John 6

Words Jesus spoke are of life

Hebrews 10

Profess = to speak the same way

   Choose to speak the scriptures of Bible and accept them as truth... 

Job 1

It's the natural that when we go though though times, we will complain or even becomes bitter

Job 2 1

Job's wife responded

Job 2 10

Job didn't sin with His words

Job 1 , 13, 19

Job accepted that God is good!

Guard our words!

3. Action

Romans 8 13

John 4

John 4

John 4 34

Doing the will of the Father brings norishment, like food to the body

John 5

Jesus only does the will of the Father

What Jesus do, we also do

Luke 4

Whatever Jesus practice, we must make it our practice

#Strength, failure, thinking

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The devil don't have to worry that their patients believed in God cos their habits and mental is not changed.. will soon fall back to darkness

   

James 2 19

Salvation is not only knowing God, but also a change of habits and practices of our life

   Imitate Jesus' way of life.. this is where spiritual discipline is required

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Have to do with our body... 

   Involve the entire being.. not just the mind

1 cor

Members = our hands and feet are Jesus' hands and feet

Our body are to be in union with Christ

   Our body and spirit must be in sync

Gen 2 7

Inner transformation happens when there's contact

Our soul and body is very tightly linked tgt as one

Matt

Embedded in our body are cravings...

Have we trained our body to submit to the will of God

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Flesh = cravings

This cravings stop us from cultivating rhe fruitbof the spirit

Romans 7

Flesh cos it got to do with the body... Gossip, shy away, sexual cravings

   Being a Christian won't make this go away automatically

Jesus has victory over the flesh.. partly is cos He is born sinless and has spiritual disciplines

Jesus says to follow and imitate Him

Gal 6

We will be be transformed into Christlikeness

Sowing and reaping takes time... Keep on sowing...

   With no conditions, no strings attached, set no time limitations

Romans 6 13

To present = to keep doing

There will be some point where the bondage is broken

Faith always require action.. exercise unto godliness

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Spirital disciplines are not auto even to Jesus

Hebrews

Obedience is also not automatic to Jesus

Read and think about Christ doesn't help us to be more Christlike... But we need to exercise 

Romans 5 10

If we imitate Jesus how he lives, there will be transformation

1 cor 6

Gen 2

When God created, He spoke and it happened.. galaxy, animals, plants

Only for man, God created differently.. 

   When the breath of the holy Spirit tt touch the dust of the body and the soul comes alive

Gen 1

Life is worth living only when we have joy... Life is not just for prestige and wealth

1 cor 9

1 Tim 4

We need to train / exercise our soul

   Bring our soul to the divine

Pic solitite

In solitude will break all stubbornness

The Holy Spirit brought Jesus to solitide to be prepared for the challenges he will face to be the savior of the world

Phil 4

Only practice will change our life

1 cor 9

To Paul, self control is the most important.. beating his body to be his slave, not giving in to moral cravings

We don't serve for ppl.. we serve for our inner life

Paul said imitate me in my spiritual disciplines as I imitate Christ

Songs 8 5

Relationship between the believer an the Lord

Romans 8 37

Lean on the Lord... And we will rise again

Isiah

God is always near for us to lean on

If we want God to help, we need to decide to lean on God.. God doesn't force

   We need to make a decision 

What it means to lean upon the Lord

1. Surrender

Surrender ownself

John 13

Luke 9

John is a angry person

Luke 9 55

The spirirt of Christ is mercy

Luke 9 56

John

1 John

John day by day surrender.. John didn't get angry with Jesus' rebuke

Yielding in the Lord is not a one time event.. 

1. 

Are we still holding to Jesus? Just the branches on the vines, even though the wind is so strong, the branch holds tight

John 19

Jesus entrusted His mother Mary to John, and John stayed with Mary until she died without leaving

   John just wants to live his life Jesus wants him to live

2. To join

Jeremiah 50 5

Matthew was at first joined to the world, being a tax collector joined himself to the Romans and oppressed his own ppl

Luke 8

Matthew gave up his own life (surrender) and joined (followed) Jesus

   From Levi (tax collector) to Matthew (gift of God)

2. -to what we have joined ourself with?

3. Delight

Song

Psalm 149

We make God happy.. we are good enough for God

God takes delight in His people

Is God our delight? 

Psalm

To David, being in God presence is his delight

Jeremiah

To Jeremiah, God's word is his delight

Pleasure in the world come and go.. only delight in  God is everlasting

Psalm 1 1

Give time to delight in Gods word, we will be blessed and rise from the wilderness

Happy is the man who delights in the Lord