Spiritual snacks

If you perfectly overcome yourself, you will easily bring all else under the yoke. The perfect victory is to triumph over ourselves.  (CIoC)

Help me not to judge according to the sight of the eyes, not to give sentence according to the hearing of the ears of ignorant people; but with a true judgement to discern between things visible and spiritual, and above all to be ever searching after the good pleasure of Your will. (CIoC) 12 steps for Christian discipleship

Grant me, O Lord, to know that which is worth knowing, to love that which is worth loving, to praise that which pleases You most, to esteem highly what You find precious, to abhor that which in Your sight is filthy and unclean. (CIoC)

You know what is practical for my spiritual progress, and how great tribulation serves to scour off the rust of my sins. (CIoC)

Make me a dutiful and humble disciple of Yours (as You have been won’t do me any good), that I may be at every beck of Your divine pleasure. (CIoC)

Observe, O beloved Father, I am in Your hands, I bow myself under the rod of correction. (CIoC) S A 2 Lord as folks read this help them distinguish between conviction and condemnation, and folks just blaming them for their own issues. Thanks for Christopher Avery’s Responsibility process.

I give You thanks, for You have not spared my sins, but have worn me down with bitter stripes, inflicting sorrows and sending anxieties upon me within and without. (CIoC) S A 2 Hummm, is this true?   For sure, as our Abba, Daddy, Father; He teaches and disciplines. Meditate on Saint Paul’s book of Galatians 5-6:10 to get an understanding of how God works and then give thanks to God for all the lessons He has given you.