Do you know what a spiritual disciple is?

You would probably say, reading the Bible or praying. .

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You would be correct. .

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But did you know that there are over 20 more different disciplines that a Christians could practice during a season of seeking God? .

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🌸Quietness, stillness and silence

Such a necessary discipline in this hurried life .

🌸Generosity, thankfulness and giving

Give over-and-above with out questioning motives. .

🌸Fasting and obstaining

Not focusing on the pleasure of food during a certain period of time reminds us of our weakness. .

🌸Scripture memory

It’s one thing to read the word- it’s a whole nother thing to commit longer passages to memory. .

🌸Praying the scripture, setting times for prayers, prayer journaling

If you don’t make time to pray and slow your mind and heart down, it’s going to be difficult to hear the still small voice of God. .

🌸Sabath and rest

Nobody wants to talk about this one. It means planning a day for no work. It means not doing chores. It means having a date night. It means taking time for solitude and stillness. .

🌼We need to get in the habit of coming back to what makes us human beings, not human doings. Stillness, rest, sabath and moments of peace remind us of our creator, our humanness and our weakness so that He can make us strong. .

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Love the Lord Your God with all Your Very Muchness

One of the most famous passages of scripture is Deuteronomy 6:5

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[a] 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

Do you know what it’s really like to Love the Lord with all your strength?

Does it mean that he want’s us to be in the gym lifting as much as we physically can?

What does it mean to truly LOVE the Lord your God? Write him love songs? Send him flowers? Memorize his favorite love languages?

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This word “strength” is really the Hebrew Word Me’od. This doesn’t mean “Strength” but rather “very” or “muchness”.

Ancient-Hebrew.org has a great little excerpt about this:

This word is used throughout the Hebrew text as an adverb, intensifying a verb, and is usually translated as very, greatly, or much. This is the only time this word appears as a noun and is best translated as "muchness." This idea of muchness is expanding on the previous two ways we are to love Yahweh, first with our mind, then with our body, and now with everything we have.

This is literally saying “Love the Lord your God with all your VERY ESSENCE, Your Very Everything.

So LOVE the Lord with you very inner being- your hopes, your passions, your thoughts, your wishes and EVERYTHING you have in you.

What are you doing in the of-season

What are you doing in the off-season?

When I was in high school, I did year-round softball and basketball.

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In the off-season of either one of the sports, I remember waking at 5:00 every morning to run 6 miles before school. During academic hours, I did weight lifting for my gym credit and after school, I did more drills and practice.

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That way, during the season, I knew that would be conditioned for whatever case during the games.

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I good athlete knows that it’s not what you do on the field that wins the game, but how much time you worked on your craft during off -hours, off-season runs, early morning workouts and lifestyle mindsets that wins championships.

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Kobe Bryant was a legend in Basketball. But it all started at 4:00AM EVERY Morning doing basic drills and practicing fundamentals. He didn’t win championships by just showing up that day- he won them by pure discipline during the off-season.

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Everything is at a stand-still now. It’s very easy to get complacent, lazy or unmotivated.

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But this is the right time for conditioning. Condition your heart through prayer. Workout your mind through trust. Flex your faith through the word.

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2 Timothy 4:2 says, “Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.”

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Get back to fundamentals of the faith like quiet times, walks with God, tithing and daily worship.

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How are you conditioning your self during this time? Discipline yourself- set alarms, wake up early- do whatever you have to to be prepared for the next season.

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