Reflection On My Spiritual Discipline

On a personal note, I practice reading the Bible through the process of observation. For instance, I practice learning what to look for in the text; interpreting the meaning; I prayerfully seek God and through the power of the Holy Spirit I can apply what I read. Nevertheless, I feel Ferrin’s process of inductive Bible study might prove more productive and edifying both personally and in a group.

Always have compassion, be humble in what my assigned duties are, give respect and reverence unto God, and continue to equip myself for mission work unto God. Keep up with my prayer life, daily devotion and meditational times.

That is one of the areas of my life that I know God is really working on right now; the idea that I will probably never find time, but that I need to make time for these disciplines to happen in my life. With that being said, I have decided that I will start off by journaling once a week. My goal will be to work through the example questions that are offered on page 52 of Calhoun’s book Spiritual Disciplines Handbook. For example, the first two questions that I will aim to answer are: “For what moment today am I most grateful? For what moment today am I least grateful?.” Just because I know that Tuesdays, next semester, are filled with less activities than other days of the week, I am going to try very hard to journal every Tuesday. I would love to see the amount that I journal increase every few weeks, but I know that a goal like that would not be attainable for me. My ambition is to allow myself thirty minutes every Tuesday to analyze my walk with the Lord and others; however, I hope to allow the Spirt to lead me to think about other things in my journals. In other words, I hope that what I write when answering the predetermined questions will inspire me to begin writing other burdens that may be on my

I noticed in the Fall term my directees did not fully understand what spiritual direction session was about. Hence in the Winter term, I provided them with the article "Spiritual Direction - A Brief Introduction" written by Dahlia Fraser. Fraser mentions in it what spiritual direction is, the process, the history and the goal of spiritual direction. I note for those directees with major in counselling they will find it helpful as Fraser provides a brief explanation that spiritual direction is not counselling.

It started off slow and by slow I mean really slow. My father was a deacon and my mother was the Sunday school teacher for the kids and adults, My Spirituality was something I don’t think much about as a kid. I was more in to Power Ranger and Ninja Turtle that anything else. My mom and dad tried to make god a part of my life but it don’t work. I was just a little kid and all I want was to play.

Bois Du was the writer of “Our Spiritual strivings”. He was saying he was a black man telling how he was speaking for blacks including himself. Then you have booker T.Washington who was explaining his disagreements between South American and others . However, in Washington's blacks will not protest for equality or civil rights and whites would provide He asked whites to hire negros instead of immigrant torrent According to Du Bois he's explaining how blacks didn't have many opportunity. Also how blacks were fighting for their lives. Even though they still didn't get peace they still fought but not only has not found freedom his promise land. Booker T. Washington was born a slave in Franklin County , Virginia Booker T. Washington became

Most of the Bible is just that, stories with another meaning to them, and a lot of them I had no idea about before ministry. The prayer services taught me how to think when I looked at passages in the Bible and I’ve got the hang of it somewhat. A lot of the Bible and it’s ideals make much more sense when you can make those connections. I like to think of the Bible as not just our religion’s doctrine, but also as the “How to Live a Pretty Solid Life” guide. The messages really just want to keep us in line and respect everyone

I would like to define the meaning of spiritual discipline is? According to Dallas Willard in his book title ?The Spirit of the Disciplines?, on page 151, he define spiritual disciplines as follow; in the embodied personality that is the carrier of our abilities (and disabilities!) a readiness and an ability to interact with God and our surroundings in a way not directly under our control; wanting to have our self in the condition of our body and mind to secure the Father in assistance to stand as firmly as Jesus did. The mark of a disciplined person is one that is able to do what needs to be

Growing up, my family and I went to church every Sunday, to learn more about God and how to have a strong relationship with Him. I also went to various conferences and outings with my church friends. Every time I listened to a speaker, I would take notes and read the Bible. This newborn relationship that I accepted with God also presented the opportunity to spend time with Him everyday in a daily devotion, which consists of reading the Bible and writing in my journal. I started reading the Bible and writing in a journal during elementary school. On Sunday mornings at church, throughout the school year, my church has Sunday school. In these classes, the teachers helped with literacy rates and taught about God’s love and power. I have been practicing the Eight Habits of Mind, which consist of Curiosity, Openness, engagement, creativity, persistence, responsibility, flexibility, and metacognition (Council of Writing Program Administrators et al. 5). For example, I learned and desired to receive more knowledge about the world since creation, which addresses the “Curiosity” aspect of the habits. Additionally, the Bible gave me a new sense of investment and involvement in learning more about God and how He loves me, with “Engagement”. This literacy sponsor has prepared and strengthen my college preparation literacy level skills. Primarily, learning outcome: Critical Thinking, Reading, Writing, and Research: Reading, “Understand, analyze and evaluate arguments in research-based texts” (Kalish 2). Today, I still am a Christian and continue to read the Bible and write in my journal daily. Growing up as a Christian has encouraged and increased my literacy levels. I not only have the chance to practice reading and writing everyday, but to learn about my God and the great things that He has done. My faith has supported my increasing literacy levels, but also challenged it. There

Spiritual disciplines will prepare us for our journey in Christ. I feel if understanding correctly, the classical Christian Pilgrimage remind us that we all have issues requiring regular examination. In chapter eight, the classical Christian Pilgrimage tells us we are at different stages on the path of wholeness in Christ. However, in my thoughts some areas of our Christian journey we may be doing well, but in other areas we have not touched at all. Not to mention, these are the place we are not ready or capable of handling yet, however, as we mature in God and He knows what we can handle, then we are awakened. God awakens us to our true selves which have not been completely revealed. In reality, once we reach maturity to God, he reveals all that is hidden deep inside of us (the real us/you). By the same token, he let us see the inner behaviors, attitudes, desires, in fact how we measure up in them being Christ-like. I feel the awakening stage deals with the comfort of being set free of these issues that are holding us back also causing detours on our path to wholeness in Christ. Equally, the threat is being afraid to see who we really are; also how far from Christ-like we really are. We must first be awakened from our separation also alienation from God (Mulholland 79-82).

This paper starts with a description of how to make godly decisions through prayer, the Holy Spirit and reading biblical scriptures. It will explore spiritual discernment using the bull’s-eye method. The literature will discuss my past and present experiences of discernment, a counselor and clients experiences and my comments on my personal position of this client’s supplication.

First and foremost, I have always believed that I needed to be grounded in God’s word. The Bible states in 2 Timothy 3:16 that “All scripture is God-breathed

Richard Foster’s Celebration of Discipline, was first published in 1978. It presented sets of Disciplines that, if followed, would serve as vehicles for a deeper relationship with Christ as well as preparation for service. These disciplines are divided into three broad categories: the Inward Disciplines, the Outward Disciplines, and the Corporate Disciplines (Foster, 2003). Each category contains four Disciplines, which indicated by their titles, moves the disciple from the very personal to the larger congregational community (Foster, 2003). Recognizing humanity’s trend to make any process a law or regulation to follow, Foster warned against this by reminding the disciple that to do so would turn

Throughout the semester I have developed an understanding for the spiritual disciplines; silence, solitude, and Sabbath; which has taught me how to live an intention Christ-centered life. The disciplines have not only helped my personal daily life, but they have also helped me better understand Christ himself. I can, without a doubt, say that I know that God gave us the gifts of spiritual disciplines to help guide us in the crazy culture we live in. I have gained a new appreciation for the maker of our world as He has gone out of His way to love on us, and all He asks us in return to practice disciplines and grow closer to him. The disciplines have have taught me that seeking God is about more than just saying a prayer before bed. Instead, it is practicing the disciplines and seeing His faithfulness through the actions. My practice of silence has taught me that the world is a loud place full of so many distractions. This specific practice has helped me seek God, in a deep way, by committing to listening to him in silence rather than wondering why I could never here him in the midst of the crowds. My practice of solitude has become a sort of Bible study time for me. A time to be alone and remember all the good our King has done and will continue to do for us. My practice of Sabbath has helped me start of each week with a positive outlook. Surprisingly it has also given me a deeper understanding of academics as well as it forces me to get my homework done before my day of

I’d like to state the most obvious observation that I’ve made about spiritual formation; that is that I will always need to be seeking for ways to nurture my personal spirituality throughout my life. I know that to most people this may sound like a “duh” statement, but for me it has truly become a reality and one that I must admit I have been struggling to embrace. I was brought up in a church that, like most traditional churches, stayed happy living in the “comfort zone” of their Christianity. They took everything that the Bible said at face value without digging in to find out why they believed what they believed. I had never been challenged to look deeper into the text. In the past few years I have felt the need to tunnel out of this