The GT Weekend! ~ Nations Week 2
Rest your soul through reflective journaling,
praying Scripture,
and worshiping the Creator who
longs for intimacy with each of us!
John 17:20-21
Reflective Prayer
Only in You can I find freedom from these sins I have clung to again and again! I’m bringing You my ugly pride in thinking I have no room to grow and nothing to change in order to build Your kingdom here. I’m bringing the lie that my way is best, and that other parts of the world, true members of Your Body, aren’t as important as my corner of the globe.
Forgive me for ignoring those different than me, for elevating myself and my vantage points over others. Forgive me for claiming to love Your Word, but shunning, shaming, and refusing to engage others crafted in Your image just as I am.
Lord, here in this place of forgiveness, let me see Your face and the faces of the nations. Teach me to love like You, Jesus. Teach me to pray fervently alongside them. Break down my walls, that together, we may bring Your kingdom here.
Worship Through Song
Reflection One
If you were to make a similar summary statement for your country, your city, neighborhood, or even extended family, what would it state? What biases or bents can you identify from your statement? In what ways do you feel your personal journey with God has been influenced by the prevailing spiritual attitude in the culture around you?
If you had the ability to radically shift your culture over the next decade, what areas would you intentionally influence and why? How does your prayer life and everyday choices reflect this desire for deep cultural impact?
As you consider the nations of the world, the offer of Hope only found in Jesus, and the intentional calling of your life as a committed Christ-follower, what role do you think the Lord may be inviting you to stretch into?
Reflection Two
I’m already thinking of all the reasons why I have the right to raise my eyebrows at my daughter. What are some scenarios where you feel rightly justified to also “be judgy”? If we sit still long enough, and pray honestly, the Lord will surely bring us some scenes just from the last week where we feel justified in our position. It doesn’t take much for us to stand on a higher pedestal than someone else, does it?
As Christine shared of her country’s radical shift over her lifetime from ethical moralism to lack of tolerance for Christian morality, it made me consider how necessary relationship is as the foundation for genuine life transformation. Christine’s authenticity really struck me, and maybe it will you also.
“I’ve spent most of my life with the healthy, people who already have a relationship with God, but now, God has called me to go to the sick.” The sick, being all those we easily default to “judgy” towards. I need to confess my sin of judgement to the Lord, you too?
Let’s be willing to “go to the sick”. How about we both start praying for opportunities to do this right now?!
Reflection Three
How have your experiences growing up in your family of origin as well as your homeland, shaped your expectation of what it means to truly identify as Christian? Maybe for you it meant going to church or mass on Sundays, or reading religious texts, saying prayers, or perhaps attending a worship gathering on special holidays.
For Anna, her move really made her heart assess why she believed what she did, and if it was strong enough to support her life. Thinking through our beliefs is a difficult, sometimes frightening task, but it’s exceedingly important.
What questions are you afraid to ask about your faith? Have you ever brought them up to anyone? What would it take for you to walk away, or run towards, the Christian faith? What about faith is attractive to you and what turns you off? These are all important questions we should ask!
Be encouraged that God is not hiding behind a curtain hoping you don’t dare ask big questions. He encourages seekers to keep on seeking! No matter how long we have followed Jesus, there are more questions to ask, more things to ponder, and more seeking to be done.
What a marvelous mystery that the One True God can both be welcomed by us, while also so vast and mysterious that we could seek Him for eternity and still never fully understand Him!
This Week's Journeys
Remade Day 15
The Remade Life
We’ve talked a lot during this Journey Theme about what it means to live this redeemed life that Jesus has so richly given us, but what does the “box top” look like? What does my everyday look like as I’m chasing after this God who longs to continuously remake me
Remade Day 14
The Law of Love: Digging Deeper
The pharisees asked a lot of questions, but they didn’t truly want to know Jesus’s heart. When we study the Bible or look for answers to our questions, let’s not go looking for evidence to support our pre-determined ideas, rather let’s seek to understand the original intent of the Scriptures,
Remade Day 13
The Law of Love
If we really are living out and doing exactly what Jesus tells us are the two most important commandments, then everything else He tells us to do will fall into place… because, by living out these commandments, we are allowing transformation.
When our minds are transformed, then our actions
Remade Day 12
No Going Back: Digging Deeper
Are you stuck in the past, attached and grasping for things leading to death, or are you clinging onto and sinking into the things of life? God is a good God, even on days when our past stops us in our tracks or a situation cements our feet. Be reminded
Remade Day 11
No Going Back
As fun as it is to “remember when”, there’s danger there too. Either we can romanticize the past and wish for it all over again, or we begin to drown in its sorrows and become perpetually stuck in its cycle. God wants neither for us!
God told Lot’s family
The GT Weekend – Remade Week Two
Lord, You have provided perfectly for us. You have given us a means for relationship with You through Jesus. You’ve given the Holy Spirit to keep us walking in step with You, yet I still think I can hide the real me from Your face. Father, forgive me for putting
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