{"id":10441,"date":"2016-08-17T00:53:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/revivalpersonal-discipleship-spiritual-growth\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T00:53:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:53:06","slug":"revivalpersonal-discipleship-spiritual-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/revivalpersonal-discipleship-spiritual-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIVAL:\nPERSONAL; DISCIPLESHIP; SPIRITUAL GROWTH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Well, here are some suggestions which anyone can follow and which, I am convinced, will result in a wonderfully improved Christian life.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Get thoroughly dissatisfied with yourself. Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Set your face like a flint toward a sweeping transformation of your life.\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Put yourself in the way of blessing.\u2026 There are plainly marked paths which lead straight to the green pastures; let us walk in them. To desire revival, for instance, and at the same time to neglect prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Do a thorough job of repenting.\u2026 Until we allow the consciousness of sin to wound us, we will never develop a fear of evil. It is our wretched habit of tolerating sin that keeps us in our half-dead condition.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Make restitution whenever possible.\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>6.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bring your life into accord with the Sermon on the Mount and such other New Testament Scriptures as are designed to instruct us in the way of righteousness. An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>7.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Be serious-minded. You can well afford to see fewer comedy shows on TV. Unless you break away from the funny boys, every spiritual impression will continue to be lost to your heart, and that right in your own living room.\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>8.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Deliberately narrow your interests.\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>9.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Begin to witness.\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>10.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Have faith in God. Begin to expect. Look up toward the throne where your Advocate sits at the right hand of God. All heaven is on your side. God will not disappoint you.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Psalm 1:1\u20133; Isaiah 6:5\u20138; Acts 1:8; Romans 7:24\u201325; Philippians 3:13\u201314; 2 Timothy 1:6\u20137; 1 John 2:1\u20132<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>The Size of the Soul,<\/i> 16, 17, 18, 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here are some suggestions which anyone can follow and which, I am convinced, will result in a wonderfully improved Christian life. 1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Get thoroughly dissatisfied with yourself. Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.\u2026 2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Set your face like a flint toward a sweeping transformation of your life.\u2026 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/revivalpersonal-discipleship-spiritual-growth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;REVIVAL:<br \/>\nPERSONAL; DISCIPLESHIP; SPIRITUAL GROWTH&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}