Walking by the Holy Spirit

I've been memorizing Galatians 5:13-26. I've learned many things. Today I read and read an E-mail resource  from the same passage with NLT version. It challenged me to reflect on my ability to walk by the spirit so I can make right, small choices because I am being led by the Spirit.

So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives.
Then you won't be doing what your sinful nature craves."
Gal. 5:16 (NLT)

If I am walking and living by the Spirit, then I am able to choose wisely each moment of the day. The acts of the flesh are not even an issue, and I am walking and exuding the fruits of the spirit...love, joy, peace, kindness, forbearance, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

So I must choose to the live the fruits and not give in to the fleshly acts. I can choose not to be angry and resentful, not to dwell on my hurts, not to gossip, not to spend unwisely. 

I do choose to follow the Spirit's leading in every area of my life!

2014 Goals

My goals for this year:

Spiritual
1.  Pray for at least 3 hours weekly (1/2 hour to 1 hour) 6 times early morning.
2.  Read through the Bible
3. Continue to memorize and review Scripture. Currently I am reviewing 1 Cor. 13 and finishing memorizing Gal. 5:13-26.

Family
Do the Love Dare for Parents
Take Ann out 1x each month
Do something/spend time with Ben 1x each month
Do something/spend time with Mom 1x each month
Weekly family prayer/sharing
Evening Scripture/prayer

Physical
Run at least 12-15 miles each week
Do cross training 2 times each week and start incorporating Pilates
Do the 1/2 Marathon in September

Prayer...for an hour

Praying for an hour is what the Lord is challenging me to do each day. I was thinking...I should get up earlier to pray before I run, and then Steve started doing it. He's getting up at 4:30. I tried today...heard his alarm at 4:30...vaguely, then mine at 5:00...again vaguely, and I got up at 5:30 and missed my opportunity.

Challenged again with the book, The hour that changes the world by Dick Eastman.

Today at work, trying to take that hour.

Prayer for trust w/o fear

When we are in difficult circumstances, it is difficult not to live in fear and anxiety. I think of my sister and her son and the long road to healing and the fear he will not be whole. I pray for her, for him. But I am reminded that ultimately we have to trust Jesus. I read today Matthew 17:7, "Get up, don't be afraid." It was in a different context and situation, but that's ok. I can apply it to my life!

May I be able to not be afraid! May my sister and her family too. Another verse, "When I am afraid, I put my trust in You." 

Jesus, keep me turned to you, trusting in you and not the circumstances around me!

Prayer for Revelation

1)    For revelation (divine direction).

  
2)    For an infilling of wisdom (divine perception) and the knowledge for how to implement it. 

3)    For the knowledge of what the Father has for me and the how, when, where, and with whom.

4)        For a revelation of God’s holiness so I will walk worthy of the Lord and please Him in every way. 

5)    For a revelation of the pleasure God finds in me and my obedience.

6)    For Jesus to become my chief pleasure.


I took the idea for these prayers from a book by Dick Eastman, Love on its knees.

Invited through the narrow door...

Sunday, November 24

   2 Cor. 3:16-18 "But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit."

Praying for some friends - that they would turn to the Lord so that the veil is gone and they are transformed into His image.