Religion & Spirituality
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens. Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NIV) Now Is A Perfect Time... 1. Time to reset. If anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NRSV) Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him. Colossians 3:10 (NLT) 2. Time to take inventory. Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! 2 Corinthians 13:5 (NASB) What are my passions: _____________________________________ What is God leading me toward: ____________________________ What character traits do I want to develop: ____________________ What needs exist in the world around me: _____________________ What do I need to surrender to God: __________________________ Let us examine and probe our ways, and let us return to the LORD. Lamentations 3:40 (NASB) 3. Time to make a spiritual growth plan. Train yourself to be godly. “Physical training is good, but training for godliness is much better, promising benefits in this life and in the life to come.” 1 Timothy 4:7-8 (NLT) We should make plans—counting on God to direct us. Proverbs 16:9 (TLB) 4. Time to reconnect with God. Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort? Galatians 3:3 (NIV) “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without me.” John 15:5 (HCSB) ‘You will not succeed by your own strength or by your own power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD. Zechariah 4:6 (NCV)