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The Spirit-Led Life: Embracing Spiritual Disciplines

Explore the transformative power of the Spirit-led life through the practice of spiritual disciplines. Learn to cultivate a mindset guided by the Spirit, crucify fleshly desires, and imitate Christ in daily decisions. Discover how engagement in prayer, study, worship, service, and more can lead to a deeper connection with God.

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The Spirit-Led Life: Embracing Spiritual Disciplines

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  1. The Spirit-led Life – Part 1 Romans 8:12-13

  2. Review • Philippians 2:12–13 • ...work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to desire and to do His good pleasure. • “Walk according to the Spirit...” • The “mindset” of the Spirit • Patterns of thinking; preoccupation, fixation, dedication • “Worldview”: what I believe is true, valuable, enduring • How do we change our “mindset”?

  3. The Spirit-led life • But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil. Hebrews 5:14 • Spirit-guided practice (8:12-13) • Crucify

  4. The Spirit-led life • “The battle is a spiritual one, but it is fought, and won or lost, in the daily decisions the believer makes about how to use his body.” Douglas Moo • Spirit-guided practice (8:12-13) • Crucify

  5. The Spirit-led life • ...I discipline my body and make it my slave.... 1 Cor 9:24 • Spirit-guided practice (8:12-13) • Crucify

  6. The Spirit-led life • But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts. Romans 13:14 • Spirit-guided practice (8:12-13) • Crucify

  7. The Spirit-led life • ...discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness. 1 Timothy 4:7 • Spirit-guided practice (8:12-13) • Crucify • Cultivate

  8. The Spirit-led life • “The disciplines are activities of mind and body purposefully undertaken, to bring our personality and total being into effective cooperation with the divine order. They enable us more and more to live in a power that is, strictly speaking, beyond ourselves, deriving from the spiritual realm itself, as we ‘yield ourselves to God....’” Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines • Spirit-guided practice (8:12-13) • Crucify • Cultivate

  9. “Spiritual” Disciplines • Engagement • Prayer • Study, meditation • Worship • Service • Fellowship • Abstinence • Solitude, silence • Fasting • Frugality, giving • “In and of themselves, the disciplines have no virtue, possess no righteousness... The Disciplines place us before God; they do not give us ‘brownie points.’” Richard Foster

  10. The Spirit-led life • Spirit-guided practice (8:12-13) • Crucify • Cultivate • Imitate • “Walk”

  11. The “flesh” and addiction • “How We Get Addicted,” M. Lemonick • [S]cientifically speaking, addictions are repetitive behaviors in the face of negative consequences and they are often fueled by the addict’s manipulation of the brain’s reward system [pleasurable activities or substances release dopamine, a neurotransmitter]. Anything that can manipulate that reward system can, in a sense, become addictive including drugs, alcohol, food, sexual stimulation, and a host of other behaviors.

  12. Application Crucify Cultivate Imitate

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