Spiritual Disciplines

[Snacks]

1. Meditation
Get quiet and listen to God through your feelings and intuition.

I liked your entire list but for the above. People’s feeling get in the way of good discernment.

 

[Godsgirl1983]

Different bible verses my dear but if you look at Matthew 6 most are captured there too

Please explain which verses in Matthew 6 coincides specifically with each numbered point you have listed.

For example:
1. Meditation
Get quiet and listen to God through your feelings and intuition.
Comes from Matthew 6:??? (what book, chapter and verse are you specifically getting each point from?)

 

[Pilgrimshope]

I would like to know please, what verses of scripture are you basing each point from?

I don’t think they claimed it was in scripture but does seem to be some pretty sound advice and is captured in scripture in general

 

[Pilgrimshope]

Its not about disciplining the Holy Spirit. It is about the self discipline inclined toward the spiritual, i think you are over thinking this. The ideas is that being inclined toward the spirit is against our flesh, so we discipline our flesh to obey the spirit by certain disciplines.
Hope that Helps.

Amen

“Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”
‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭9:24-27‬ ‭KJV‬‬

 

[oyster67]

And I'm also not confessing to others my deepest, dark secrets. I release the shame to Jesus.

When I think of confession, I think of more of sharing the Gospel (not so much the RCC type.)
Tell others what Christ has done for us...

Philippians 2:11
“And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

Matthew 10:32
“Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.”

1 John 4:15
“Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.”

Romans 10:9
“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”

2 John 1:7
“For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.”

Luke 12:8
“Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:”

 

[Blik]

I liked your entire list but for the above. People’s feeling get in the way of good discernment.

Meditation is listed as the first discipline, and I heartily agree. There are countless verses in the OT telling us to meditate on scripture, but the word meditate is not used in the NT.
Yet the NT tells us to be quiet before the Lord and to listen to the Lord. That is meditation.

I agree that saying we use feelings to meditate rather than use the word of the Lord is not quite accurate. There are feelings of both unrightous anger and feeling of love of God, so it depends on the feeling used in meditation on scripture.

 

[Nehemiah6]

When I think of confession, I think of more of sharing the Gospel (not so much the RCC type.) Tell others what Christ has done for us...

Yes, and that would be the same as "profess" (the same Greek word is translated as confess).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3670: ὁμολογέω (homologeo)
3. to profess (the difference between the Latin profiteor (`to declare openly and voluntarily') and confiteor (`to declare fully,' implying the yielding or change of one's conviction; cf.pro fessio fidei, confessio peccatorum) is exhibited in Cicero, pro Sest. 51, 109), i. e. to declare openly, speak out freely (A. V. generally confess; on its construction see Buttmann, § 133, 7): (followed by an infinitive, εἰδέναι Θεόν, Titus 1:16); τίνι (cf. Buttmann, as above; Winer's Grammar, § 31, 1 f.) followed by direct discourse with ὅτι recitative, Matthew 7:23; one is said ὁμολογεῖν that of which he is convinced and which he holds to be true (hence, ὁμολογεῖν is distinguished from πιστεύειν in John 12:42;

 

[Blik]

When I think of confession, I think of more of sharing the Gospel (not so much the RCC type.)
Tell others what Christ has done for us...

Philippians 2:11
“And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

Matthew 10:32
“Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.”

1 John 4:15
“Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.”

Romans 10:9
“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”

2 John 1:7
“For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.”

Luke 12:8
“Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:”

Thanks so much for bringing this side of confession up. We are to confess our sins, also.

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us
James 5:16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Psalms 32:5 I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

Proverbs 28:15 Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

 

[oyster67]

Thanks so much for bringing this side of confession up. We are to confess our sins, also.

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us
James 5:16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Psalms 32:5 I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

Proverbs 28:15 Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

We certainly cannot hide our sin.
Numbers 32:23
“But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.”