We pray the holy spirit uses this resource to help you and your people go beneath the surface so your hearts may be strengthened by the gospel of jesus christ, for the sake of your relationships with god, others, and yourself. Use this list as a spiritual checkup to evaluate your walk, and then let us know how we might pray for you. The goal of this checkup is to identify problem areas, affirm positive areas, and help us see ourselves as god sees us. It is the gateway the wormhole if you will bringing the spiritual into your physical life experience. With that thought in mind, we developed a spiritual health chart in order to provide godgiven markers against which to compare the spiritual health status of an individual. Aug 14, 2015 i am speaking to more than just medical heart issues, but spiritual and emotional heart issues.
Pastor greg laurie serves as the senior pastor of harvest christian fellowship, which has campuses in southern california and hawaii. This brings us to the second part of the verse grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our lord and saviour jesus christ. These conditions come out of ignoring the spectrum of heart experiences in life. Discovering spiritual illness must precede the cure. If you adopted an annual reading plan at the beginning of 2014, is your reading up to date. The heart, according to the bible, is part of mans spiritual makeup. If you will come to christ and surrender your heart to him, god says, ill take out the old heart. Spiritual checkup evaluating our spiritual health 2. Cardiology is the branch of medicine that deals with diseases and abnormalities of the human heart. How can we know if we are making real spiritual progress, and not merely deceiving ourselves with spiritual activity. Describe any areas of transformation not just change 3. No matter what your circumstances the outside are, if your heart the inside is right, youre going to be okay. We all need a spiritual healthcheck from time to time. Freedom from spiritual heart disease truth or tradition.
Dealing with a spiritual heart condition the christian post. As they become habits, your heart will be healthier. All of the files are on the cdrom in microsoft word and adobe pdf formats. Open as pdf billy sunday once said some people take so many pills their joints look like ball bearings. Those who are saved by grace are called to grow in grace 2 peter 3. To be spiritually disciplined, you must prepare yourself for your spiritual heart checkup. Each year many of us will go through a physical checkup, a.
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your. Did you find a strong, robust spiritual pulse found only in jesus. When there is an irregular beat in your heart, it disrupts the rhythm and flow of how the blood distributes oxygen to all the bodys organs. Growth in grace must take place alongside growth in knowledge, which clearly means biblical knowledge, and especially the great doctrines of the faith. If you adopted an annual reading plan at the beginning of 2014, is. What or where have you surrendered something or someone to gods will, not yours, and stepped through a gate. In the same way we need a regular physical checkup, we need a regular spiritual checkup. When someone has a physical appetite, that is a sign of health. Five ways to know if your spiritual heart needs healing.
David shares his personal, professional and spiritual application of these lifechanging tools, as he illuminates the process of accessing heart s wisdom in ways that are vivid, vibrant, memorable and easy to apply on first reading. Healing the heart is not about its gradual reformation, but its permanent restoration. Here are 3 questions to ask yourself for a spiritual heart checkup. Either jesus or satan rule in our imagination and direct and control our lives by the true person jesus has placed on our memory or the counterfeit person satan has placed in our memory. When we go for a checkup, the doctors examine our bodies in order to determine the state of our physical condition. Those who are saved by grace are called to grow in grace 2 pet. In the bible the heart is mentioned 987 times and almost all of these refer to our spiritual heart. Spiritual healthcheck is a help to christians to evaluate our spiritual health and get a proper reading on the pulse of our spiritual hearts. The lord has revealed to me that the spiritual heart is made up of the imagination, memory, mind, and emotions. The only hope for this unsaved soul is surrender to jesus in contrition to moisten a heart of belief.
The bible says, create in me a clean heart, o god, and renew a right spirit within me. Both require a willingness to deal with them as they are found. Sometimes illumination occurs spontaneously or, as ram dass experienced, in a heartwrenching moment of opening. The heart has actually two aspects one is physical and another is spiritual. It is the camp i attended every summer for five years while growing up. We made our enneagram spiritual formation plan available on saturate because its formed and shaped our people. The interesting is that most of them never think about hearts spiritual aspects. The spiritual heart is the metaphysical heart connecting mind, body, and spirit. Spiritual growth check up christian dependence on gods grace christian self examination. Before you commence the checklist, pray the prayer of the psalmist. Taking a personal spiritual checkup university presbyterian. These heart conditions arise coming out of people neglecting the tending of their hearts.
I encourage you to be intentional in making these spiritual exercises part of your daily life. How to open your spiritual eyes the prophetic training. This book is so helpful that im already thinking about ways to get all the members in our church to read it. Partridge spiritual growth in the christian life comes through awareness. Click the pdf button for a pdf version of our annual spiritual checklist. Once ones heart is opened, and spiritual light has dawned, that old book springs to life, showing us the temptations, pitfalls and triumphs of the. Spiritual check up is where youre going where you want to be when you get there. A teachable heart treasures the truth and protects it from satans deceptive tactics of doubt.
Just as plaque slowly settles in our arteries and leads to heart problems, so does sin as it creeps into our lives. To achivee this, some sort of spiritual checkup is needed. Sermon summary the christian life is meant to be one of progress and growth. Spiritual healthcheck carl laferton the good book company.
Paul tells the church at corinth, examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Do you not know yourselves, that jesus christ is in. If you are up for it, lets have a spiritual checkup today be sure you have time to prayerfully consider each item and to allow gods spirit to penetrate your heart. Your hearts condition depends on the things you allow into your heart. At this stage, the heart has lost its ability to believe. Since 1999, we have been developing this spiritual health assessment and.
If not, click here to meet the saviour of the world, jesus christ. Jun 28, 20 there are times you will go through a spiritual check up 12. However, jesus tells us that there are 3 conditions to beware of because they prevent gods word from flourishing in your heart. He is the author of more than 70 books, hosts the nationally syndicated radio broadcast a new beginning, and is the founder of harvest crusades, largescale evangelistic events attended by millions of individuals worldwide. The spiritual health assessment and spiritual health planner measures your.
So, his heart is held up as a model for us to examine. Youve just finished reading the post 10point checklist for spiritual health on the stepping up mens blog. Are you experiencing the lifechanging power of christ. Before you can know and apply the metaphysical aspects of mind and body, you must open the gateway to spirit and experience heart intelligence, inner. People think that heart is only a piece of flesh located within the center of everybodys chest. I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of god, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to god, which is your spiritual worship. These 16 devotions will help you to see where and how to grow in faith and joy. These things form your thoughts and attitudes, and ultimately, shape the deepest part of your being. If you passed the pulse test, then you may move on to the next test in your spirituality health checkup. The heart of man the temple of god or the workshop of satan 1 john 3. Its especially important to get an exam if we are experiencing unusual aches and pains, or. This bible lesson today will be some additional information on a subject. Thats why i encourage you to do a spiritual heart checkup on a regular basishave a meeting with yourselfand be honest with yourself about your motives.
Are you taking good care of your heart, especially your spiritual heart. These lessons are some of the essential foundational concepts found in the bible that permit us to understand many other more advanced subjects found in the bible. But when we neglect this, we develop another dangerous conditiona hard heart. Recently i was asked, how does one know whether one merely has a head knowledge of christ or has been truly born again and has a true heart relationship with the lord jesus christ. The 6 stages of spiritual heart disease charisma news. The spiritual life checkup ct pastors christianity today. Having a very poor appetite for food is a sign that someone. Apr 10, 2017 a hard heart is unable to receive scripture into its proud, fallow soilonly by humility and faith is it softened. The federal government calls it the leading cause of death in the united states for men and women. An irregular heart beat and shortness of breath are two physical symptoms of a heart attack. Man looks at the outward appearance, but i look at the heart 1 sam. With such a lot of medical problems around, it is always a good idea to get a physical checkup at least a couple of times a year.
Fat and other junk builds up plaque on our arteries, slowing down the flow of blood to the heart, causing bad issues. The repair of our heart cannot be attained through any process of mental or emotional amendment, but only through spiritual replacement. King david was called a man after gods own heart acts. Which of the nine evidences of the spirit most reflect you. Let each one search diligently, and inquire, is my heart free from all these. A heart in trouble is a painful thing, and when the heart goes bad, life stops. The 6 stages of spiritual heart disease mark dejesus. Introduction just as we go in for a regular physical checkup, we need to regularly get a spiritual check up as well. A healthy heart pumps blood to all the vital organs. Billy sunday once said some people take so many pills their joints look like ball bearings. When we refer to the heart, we do not mean your physical heart but your non physical spiritual heart, which is the center of your subtle feeling. You might choose, if necessary, to adjust your plan but still read. Hard heart hope deferred can be healed by walking through each of the previous stages and releasing the fears and anger we have towards others and ourselves. We must see the impossibility of trying to realize a whole heart by adding things to it, regardless of how sublime.
A spiritual health check sermons illustrations higher praise. Symptoms related to spiritual heart failure world, the and. Work with the holy spirit and he will help you keep your heart pure and in good condition so you will glorify him with your actions. Each year many of us will go through a physical checkup, perhaps do a. Once we develop that awareness of the spiritual deficiency, we can commit ourselves to change with the help of the holy spirit and the application of gods word.
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