Ps soon lee - Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Developing a Rule of Life

Ps Soon Lee 21/7/19 Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Developing a Rule of Life Pathways of emotionally healthy spiritually 1) Know ourself (position: righteousness in Christ) 2)Going bck (reflect and see his hands upon us roman8:28, JOSEPH story, ...u meant it for evil but God meant it for good. Don’t reject /deny or think abt it. 3) journeying through walls (ps 51 Purpose: God wants us to hv a broken and contrite heart) thru crisis. 4) embracing limits and losses. Begin to see the place of transformation. 5. Keeping the Daily office & Sabbath. (We want to learn to be aware of his presence, time off 1-2min) dont miss out on rest on God. Be still and know im God in our daily living. 6. Growing into an emotional mature adult. 7. 7. Developing a rule of life. Live your self, God & others. Contemplative spirituality, to balance emotion & health. Q: How we live as believers? Rom 12: 1,2(Message Translation) So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life-your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life-and place it before God as an offering Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking.Instead, ***fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out.*** Readily recognise what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, ***God brings the best out of you***, develops well-formed maturity in you —-> build up thru the years. Rule of Life- Definition Rule of Life is a set of guidelines that support or enable us to do the things we want or need to do It allows us to clarify our values and what is important to us -relationships, works dreams, priorities It then allows us to live with intention and purpose in the present moment. ~~> focus on God , offers our daily life to him , he will change us! Rule of Life- Definition Rule of Life is a set of guidelines that support or enable us to do the things we want or need to do u (decide what u wants to do for God) It allows us to clarify our values and what is important to us -relationships, works, dreams, priorities. It then allows us to live with ***intention and purpose***(INTENTIONAL) in the present moment Rule of life- cultivation r/ship with God. A Rule of Life, very simply, is an intentional, conscious plan to keep God at the center of everything we do. The starting point and foundation of any Rule is a desire to be with God and to love him ~Peter Scazzero~ "A rule of life is a set of principles and practices we build into the rhythm of our daily lives, helping us to deepen our relationship with God and to serve him more faithfully. ~Pete Grieg~ Being bound to a Rule of life could be very restricting, but it is a voluntary and purposeful restriction. It excludes other possibilities in order to be focused on what is chosen. There are new and demanding priorities, but there is also much joy. ~Andy Raine~ 2 Peter 3:11-18 New International Version (NIV) 11 Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives 12 as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming.[a] That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. 13 But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells. 14 So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. 15 Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. 16 He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction17 Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position. 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen How Then Shall We Live? 1."what kind of people ought you to be? 2.make every effort 2Pet1:5,10.15 3."be on your guard" 4. Holiness in holy conduct- not a position Separation from evil and dedication to God refers to action the way I live my life 5. Godliness piety and worship a life devoted to pleasing God refers to the attitude in which I live my life -spirit of reverence Questions to consider when developing a Rule of Life 1. What disciplines and specific practices are you attracted to and why you are attracted to them? 2. Where do you sense that God is calling you to stretch and grow? Where do you want to change? 3. What kind of balance do you need in your life? 4.If you could hear your own eulogy, what would you want to hear? 5. Is your Rule realistic for you to commit to?