Bible Study Series Replenishing My Soul: Pt. 2 RE-Alignment
2 Corinthians 13:3-9
Phase 2: Realignment: the action of restoring something to a different or former position or state. To become intimately connected and actively connected with God.
Spiritual Alignment involves 3 Fundamental Law: thought– Involves choices | Emotions- Involves Feelings | Actions- Involves Decision
2 Corinthians 13:5 – Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? — unless indeed you are disqualified.
A. PRACTICAL SIGNS THAT YOU ARE OUT OF ALIGNMENT:
- THE ENEMY SEEKS TO KEEP YOU OUT OF ALIGNMENT
- Reprobate- morally depraved; unprincipled; bad demeanor
- Created War Between Flesh And Spirit: Your mind, spirit, emotions –
- Not Sensitive To God’s Presence–
- Your Words- Watch your mouth.
- Willfully rejecting God
- No limits or restrictions on sinful behavior
- Demonstrating no desire to change
B. James 4:13-16 NIV – “13 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” 14 Why you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.”
Let God have Lordship over your lips. Don’t think what to say, the Holy Spirit will speak for you
C. Luke 9:23-24 NIV – “23 Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. 24 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.”
D. Luke 22:31-34 NIV – “31 “Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat. 32 But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.” 33 But he replied, “Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.” 34 Jesus answered, “I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me.”
III. HOW TO ACHIEVE SPIRITUAL REALIGNMENT
A. Spiritual Meditation:
- 1 John 5:14-15 NIV – “14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.”b. Hebrews 4:16 NIV – “Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.”
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- Romans 8:26 NIV – “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.”
- Practice Gratitude:
- Philippians 1:3-11 NIV – “3 I thank my God every time I remember you. 4 In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy 5 because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, 6 being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. 7 It is right for me to feel this way about all of you, since I have you in my heart and, whether I am in chains or defending and confirming the gospel, all of you share in God’s grace with me. 8 God can testify how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus. 9 And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, 10 so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.”
- Philippians 1:6 NIV – “Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
- Change the Narrative:
- Micah 6:8 This is what the Lord Requires of you: To do Justly, To Love Mercy, To Walk Humbly
- Be Committed To The Best Version Of Yourself:
- 2 Corinthians 13:8-9
- THREE NECESSARY EXAMINATIONS FOR PROPER ALIGNMENT
- The Signs:
- How You Got Out Of Alignment:
- Your Technique Vs. Timing: