Monday, 06 July 2009
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What's the Best Spiritual Tip You've Ever Gotten?
My confirmation sponsor once told me "Thank God when you make mistakes." That tip has helped me out immensely. It has made it easier to repent when I not only sin but also when I make a stupid mistake.When I thank God, I think of Jesus' sacrifice and the gift of the Holy Spirit. God said, "Be perfect, even as I Am perfect." I believe perfection is in our future. God also said Noah was perfect. He was the only one, though. I believe that was partly because he admitted he was a sinner. God said if we claim to be without sin we deceive ourselves and The Truth is not in us. Jesus Christ is The Way, The Truth and the Life.
What is the best spiritual tip you've ever gotten?
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Give your problems to God, it makes things a lot less stressful. :P
If I wish to know the creator better I should more closely examine his creations for the heart of the artist is in his art.........
I don't know about the 'best' sayings, but a few things impacting things off the top of my head:
"Live in a way that demands an explanation."
If you haven't heard the gospel in your wallet, you haven't heard the gospel at all."
Trust in His plan. Trust. really TRUST in it - and His goodness that He has planned for you. Don't worry, you're in His hands and He'll take care of you.
I was transformed by a variation of this statement:
"Our goal as Christians is not to have God make sense in light of who we are, but to make our lives make sense in light of who God is and what he is doing in the world."
This really hit home with me:
"Don't always ask God for help, take some time to thank Him for what He has given you."
"There is a fruit in obedience [to God's will]"
best advice anyone has ever given me.
@Theophilus166@xanga - I like that tip. I carry around a copy of the sinner's prayer just to make sure I can lead someone in it and not forget any of it. I know there are different versions of it, my version is the longest I know of because I want to make sure that when I do get the opportunity, included is everything I believe in.
"Remain in Me, as I remain in you." Jesus
"The man who is made obtuse by sin is not conscious of it." Oswald Chambers
It's not one I've gotten but something I just try to apply to myself. Don't allow emotions to effect or govern my faith.
@designandart - I don't think that's what Theophilus was referring to. I think he means that if you don't honor God with your money (wallet), then you haven't heard the full gospel.
@musterion99@xanga - Oh, I see.
1) Don't tell God how big the storm is. Tell the storm how big your God is!
2) Someone told me once to pray this prayer: "Lord, be good to me, your ocean is so big and my boat so small!"
In terms of advice that did the most good for me, it might be the time someone recommended I listen to what Ron Hutchcraft had to say.
Go Big, or Go Home.
"Your religion is meant to enhance your life, not fix it, or make it worse. Don't stick with a belief system out of habit, or fear that you could be wrong."
- my mom, when i was debating remaining a Christian. her blessing to become otherwise helped me out a lot.
Actually the best spiritual tip I ever got that actually soaked in a little, came not from blessed Sister Mary Genevieve or good Father O'Bryne, but from Tony Robbins!
I spend the first hour of my day, everyday, walking or running in the hills awash in profound gratitude for every single blessing I can think of.
I think the biggest thing for me was when I was told i should be discipled by someone older then me. It helps so much :)
It was in the book, 'Body Life' by Ray C. Stedman. In the chapter named 'Power' he said to start each morning by faith believing that Christ lives in us with His resurrection power working and adding the divine plus to everything we do during the day.'
I suppose this could be considered a spiritual tip....maybe it's not. Either way its good to keep in mind considering we live in such a lust-drenched society:
"Eros ceases to be a devil only when it ceases to be a god."
-C.S. Lewis (Christian Reflections, "Christianity and Culture") (1940)
@TropicalOceanSunset@xanga - I like C.S. Lewis. He has a lot to say about our nature.
there are a lot but this one stands out for me:
"to see how much you love God, you don't look at how much you have given but at the things that you are not willing to give"
i read it in some devotion book at it is scary and so true. sometimes it is scary, what it means to follow Jesus. i'll be honest, i really don't do a good job of following Him at all because it is so scary and painful. on one hand i know it is as easy as trusting in Him, knowing that He will hold my hand even if it feels like i am doing to drown (thinking of Peter sinking into the water right after he walked on water but became scared when he saw the waves). on the other hand i know i am like the young, wealthy man that came to Jesus, he thought he had been doing a good job as he was counting the things that he was doing for God, but Jesus pointed out the one thing he did not want to let go of and it was his wealth, and his response to Jesus was turning his back and walking away sadly. i think he was sad because he knew Jesus was right but and that he was not ready/willing to leave his comfort zone for God.
it is always about God versus the comfort zone. that is what faith is all about, and it is scary.
A good tip is do not bother to discuss spiritual things with people who merely spout bible quotes without including what they think the words mean in their various possible interpretations. To someone who knows there are different ways to interprete just about every term or even mere word in scripture; it reveals a lack of depth that is very hard to bypass to reach their minds.
A speaker was going over that portion of Romans 7 about wanting to do right vs the sinful nature, and he said this, which I wrote along the edge of that page in my Bible:
"Don't try to stop sinning. Be so connected with Christ that sin loses its grasp."
It's nearly impossible to "go and sin no more" when I try to just DO it, on my own. I always fail, and the enemy uses that opportunity to tell me, "See? You can't overcome it. You might as well just stop trying." And too many times, I've listened to that. But this saying reminds me that it's not about how hard I try. It's about how good God is. When I'm close to Him, sin's power suddenly isn't so powerful anymore.