Scripture : Job 41 : When You Withhold The Wood, The Fire Dies

Beautiful, bright, powerful, and at times dangerous—fire is one of, if not the most, entrancing elements.

The fire element is the force that motivates and drives all living things. Fire gives energy because it is a transformation of the suns powers (Sabrina 67-81). Even though fire can be a very powerful thing one has to be careful when using because of it is neither logical nor stable to work with. Fire and air create energy, it’s what gets us going and produces stamina. Learning to direct energy is learning to contain fire to use it correctly (Sabrina 67-81).

Oxygen, O2, is a kind of gas. A lot of the air we breathe as human beings is oxygen. Which is good since we need oxygen to stay alive. Oxygen is also a primary element in fire. Fire is a chemical process. Three elements are needed for this process: oxygen, heat and fuel. Without one of those

1. Lungs depend on the oxygen that is derived from water in order to keep the cells alive in our body.

The element of air gives humans life. Air represents new life and new possibilities. Life is what allows humans to think, feel, see and have emotions. In The Wars by Timothy Findley the element of air pushes humans to reach their full potential. Robert Ross illustrates this with his desire to live, desire to leave a mark and his desire to overcome hardships. Soldiers did not want to just live; but to live for something and leave a legacy in history.

(1) You pay attention to your spiritual life: You remember that the whole aim of your search is to fill that “God-shaped” void in your life —

The word here is stoicheo, to keep in step with the Spirit if we are of the Spirit, born again. We are to be walking step by step, hand in hand, keeping pace with God's Spirit. God wants us as believers to live a Spiritual, Spirit-filled life. To do this we have to keep in step with His Spirit, nothing else. How do we do this? Another aspect of this is commanded us in several

I am not passively receiving and serving in the gifts of the Spirit, I am actively pursuing, receiving, and cultivating them. And all of this requires an ongoing transformation of my inner being. Spiritual formation lays the foundation and provides a suitable framework for the exercise of gifts of the Spirit by the individual and group, and the appropriate exercise of those gifts by the individual for the group, and by the group for the individual, is necessary if the spiritual formation is to go forward as it should. Gifts by themselves do little to form the spirits of those who exercise them. Gifts of the spirit are not substitutes for spiritual formation, though they must be involved in

Christians are all prescribed the same things in our spiritual lives to get closer to God, which consists of quiet time and going to church. But, what if that is not working for you in your spiritual journey? In this book Sacred Pathways, it addresses different ways we can rekindle our relationship with God through the nine spiritual temperaments.

So often in my own life, I make excuses for not spending time with God. In my readings of Saint Benedict, he has talked so many times on the structure a spiritually formed life should live according to. Often in life, I would say that me days are busy, but in reality, my days are a pointless business. I frequently see myself bored, yet during that time I find myself watching Netflix as opposed to reading my bible. Spiritual Formation is necessary for this sense as it opens me up to the things I put first in life and urges me to grow in my

Thus, I need a guidance from the Spirit in both aspects of my spiritual journey – "being" and "doing". I want to deepen my connection with God and bring a good

"For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones." (Ephesians 5:30)

First, and practically, I would remind Josh spiritual disciplines are still disciplines – meaning they are, at times and in the moment, neither thrilling nor invigorating, but they will, upon Christ, produce great riches. Hebrews 12:11 reminds us, “For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.”

44 The body seeded in corruption is raised in spiritual body. 45 The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 47 The first man was earthy: the second man was the Lord from heaven. 48 There are the earthy, and there are the heavenly. 49 Those in Christ were borne the image of the earthy, but shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Accepting Jesus as savior is a graduate into the heavenly, same as Christ Jesus.

In the human body, the oxygen is absorbed by the blood stream in the lungs, being then transported to the cells where an elaborated change process takes place. Oxygen plays a vital role in the breathing processes and in the metabolism of the living organisms. Probably, the only living cells that do not need oxygen are some anaerobic bacteria that obtain energy from other metabolic processes.The nutrient compounds, inside of the cell, are oxidized through complex enzymatic processes. This oxidation is the source of energy