Tools for Change

Here is the PowerPoint from Rich D's preach a few weeks back. I thought people find the list of disciplines/ideas helpful.

From a position of grace…How do we engage with the change process?
1.  Intentionality
2.  Not Sowing to please the sinful nature
3.  Sowing to please the Spirit = saying yes to whatever strengthens my Spirit-inspired desires
- Bible reading
- Prayer
- Worship
- Community
- Service

Sowing to the Spirit: Bible
  Bible study (Follow references, word study with concordance etc)
  Memorisation
  Imagination
  Close Reading
  Bible in a year
  Meditation on scripture
  Reading a chapter on waking
  Bible audiobooks/podcasts

Sowing to the Spirit: Prayer
  Requests in the morning
  Thanks in the evening
  Intercession
  Praying in tongues (1 Corinthians 14)
  Palms down / breathing out = surrender
  Palms up / breathing in = receiving
  Opposite prayers when tempted
  Receiving prayer ministry
  “Dialogue with God” (Mark Virkler)

Sowing to the Spirit: Worship
  Re-focuses on God’s worth
  Draws us into an awareness of God’s presence
  Can bypass the brain
  Can be individual (with dancing, crying, lying down, kneeling)
  Can be corporate

Sowing to the Spirit: Service
  Sin is essentially orientation towards self
  Serving God & others helps us to look outwards

Sowing to the Spirit: Community
  Reminding one another of truth
  Praying together
  Accountability
  Opportunities for serving
  Model change and holiness to one another