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First Baptist Church of Lee's Summit, MO
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Listen to the Word Train yourself to be godly.
(1 Timothy 4:7)
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The same is true in spiritual growth. We assume that the key to
becoming like Christ is to try really hard: I will do my best to be
compassionate, joyful, patient, and so on. But no matter how hard
we try, we fail. It just isn't in us. If we want to be like
Jesus, we must enter a life of spiritual training. If we
rearrange our lives around spiritual exercises like prayer, worship,
soaking in Scripture, fellowship, solitude, and service, God uses those
practices to develop our spiritual muscles and make us capable of
living as Jesus would live if He were in our place.
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Live the Word
As
an act of spiritual training, declare a fast. Choose something
you normally enjoy as a part of your daily life (perhaps food, or
television, or the internet), and choose to refrain from experiencing
it for the rest of this day. Ask God to use this exercise to show
you that He is the only thing you can't live without.
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