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Read 1 Thessalonians 5:4-5 and Ephesians 5:8-16 slowly and out loud if possible.
Ask the Holy Spirit to speak this truth to your heart.
What do you think it means to be a child of the light? (think back to the sermons in 1 John!)
How are the deeds of darkness fruitless, but light brings fruit?
Where is an example from your own life that illustrates this truth?
Read 1 Thessalonians 5:4-5 and Ephesians 5:8-16 slowly and out loud again.
Sit quietly after you read.
What are you sensing the Spirit saying to your heart?
Set a phone reminder for midday and evening to review these verses and quiet your heart for a few minutes.
This will help us to be reminded of His presence with us all day long.
Read Colossians 3:12-17 slowly and out loud if possible.
What does it mean to your heart that you are:
Chosen.
Holy.
Dearly Loved.
As a result of this (therefore)… How does this impact how we live?
Read Colossians 3:12-17 slowly and out loud again.
Sit quietly after you read.
What are you sensing the Spirit saying to your heart?
Set a phone reminder for midday and evening to review these verses and quiet your heart for a few minutes.
This will help us to be reminded of His presence with us all day long.
Read Colossians 3:1-4 slowly and out loud if possible.
What truth do you learn about yourself from these verses?
What do you learn about God?
What is there for us to do as a result of knowing this truth?
What does God do for us?
Read Colossians 3:1-4slowly and out loud again.
Sit quietly after you read.
What are you sensing the Spirit saying to your heart?
Set a phone reminder for midday and evening to review these verses and quiet your heart for a few minutes.
This will help us to be reminded of His presence with us all day long.
Read 1 Corinthians 12:12-19, 27 slowly and out loud if possible.
Ask the Holy Spirit to speak this truth to your heart.
How does Paul explain the body being arranged or assembled?
Have you seen in yourself a unique way that you are fitted into the body of Christ?
At Riverside, how do you see all the parts of the body being valued?
Read 1 Corinthians 12:12-19, 27 slowly and out loud again.
Sit quietly after you read.
What are you sensing the Spirit saying to your heart?
Set a phone reminder for midday and evening to review these verses and quiet your heart for a few minutes.
This will help us to be reminded of His presence with us all day long.
Repeat these slowly, out loud, pondering each truth that you’ve soaked in this week.
Is the Holy Spirit saying anything to your heart right now?
How has knowing these things that are true of yourself impacted your daily life?
Read 1 Corinthians 1:2 slowly and out loud if possible.
Ask the Holy Spirit to speak this truth to your heart. It says in the ESV:
To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours
Depending on the version of the Bible in your hand or on your phone, the word for saints also gets translated as God’s holy people.
Many of Paul’s letters open addressed to the ‘saints’ (Ephesians 1:1, Romans 1:87, Colossians 1:2)
What does it mean to you that you were chosen and called a saint in God’s eyes? Think back to yesterday and our work on the word sanctified.
Read John 15:1-8 slowly and out loud again.
Sit quietly after you read.
What are you sensing the Spirit saying to your heart?
Set a phone reminder for midday and evening to review these verses and quiet your heart for a few minutes.
This will help us to be reminded of His presence with us all day long.
Read 1 Corinthians 6:11, Hebrews 2:11 slowly and out loud of possible.
Ask the Holy Spirit to speak this truth to your heart.
Look up the definition of the word sanctified.
The Bible tells us that we are (past tense) sanctified, but also that we are presently undergoing the process (present tense) of sanctification.
Explain what this means to your life.
Read 1 Corinthians 6:11, Hebrews 2:11 slowly and out loud again.
Sit quietly after you read.
What are you sensing the Spirit saying to your heart?
Set a phone reminder for midday and evening to review these verses and quiet your heart for a few minutes.
This will help us to be reminded of His presence with us all day long.