Body

Seven Steps to Spirituality (from my own experience and in a rough order of importance…)

1. Read the Scriptures Daily

2 Tim 3:14-17

Importance of Scheduling

Opens the lines of communication (invites the Father to speak to us on a personal level)

2. Pray Regularly

Yahweh must speak to us first

Psalm 55:16-17

Five Guidelines to Getting Whatever you Ask for

1. Ask Someone who can help you

2. Ask Specifically (World Peace?)

3. Create Value for the Person You’re Asking (His Honor and Glory)

4. Ask with Focused, Congruent Belief (James 1:6-8)

5. Keep asking until you Get what you Want (Be thankful that sometimes we don’t!!!)

3. Separate Yourself from the World

James 4:1-4

Television

Radio

Internet

Opens the lines of communication (invites the World to speak to us on a personal level!)

4. Spend time in Fellowship with People of Like Belief

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

Appreciation of what we have…

5. Exercise

Sermon on the Mount

Matthew 4:23-5:2

Teddy Roosevelt

6. Diet (There’s more to it than just clean food laws!!!)

Drugs

Gluttony

Numbers 11:1-6

Fasting

7. Live Simply

All of Ecclesiastes

Cain/Abel (Which type of person do we want to be?)

Common Thread = Discipline & Self-Denial

Evidence Procedures (Progress Checks)

Fruit of the Spirit Gal 5:22-23

Works of the Flesh Gal 5:19-21

Which we are producing can be seen in how we apply the Law to our lives.

Romans 8:1-8

Law should be a mirror (James 1:23-25)

Not a tool to lift yourself up and beat others down… (Pharisees)

The ultimate goal of the Law is to foster LOVE, for Yahweh and your fellow man (Matt 22:36-40)

We still apply the Law as a standard between right and wrong but it takes a back seat to living and walking by the Spirit, if we can succeed at that we will naturally fulfill the requirements of the Law. (Romans 8:4)

Conclusion

Battling the flesh and nurturing the Holy Spirit within is a daily battle. We will fail and fall down along the way.

We will only achieve complete spirituality (Mind & Body) thru Almighty Yahweh’s GRACE at the end of this age

1 Corinthians 15:42-49