Ch. 6
1. What practical means do you use to help protect your husband from temptations?
2. Does your husband have godly prayer partners? How do you help foster these relationships?
Ch. 7
3. How can you help your husband practice discernment of spirits?
4. In what way(s) do you incorporate the Word of God in your prayers as a couple?
Personal Reflection-How can you better put on the mind of Christ and see things from an eternal perspective?
Action Point-Identify an area of temptation/struggle for your husband. Pray and/or make specific sacrifices this week to guard him in this area.
Showing posts with label Chapter 7. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chapter 7. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Chapter 7: The Sinful Woman
Lk 7: 37-50
1. How do you avoid or put an end to gossip?
2. What do you do to foster the relationship between your children and mother-in-law?
3. Share an experience in which you experienced the power of forgiveness.
4. How can we encourage and support the value of lifelong marriage?
1. How do you avoid or put an end to gossip?
2. What do you do to foster the relationship between your children and mother-in-law?
3. Share an experience in which you experienced the power of forgiveness.
4. How can we encourage and support the value of lifelong marriage?
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Chapter 7: Spiritual Desolation: A Time for Resistance (Rule 7)
St. Joan by George Bernard Shaw
envisage-contemplate or conceive of as a possibility or a desirable future event.
1. Examine a past trial from God's perspective. Looking back, what was the divine purpose in allowing it? What did you learn or how did you grow?
2. Consider how your natural powers: the ability to think, to choose, to call certain truths to mind and to envisage spiritual realities can assist in overcoming desolation.
3. What trials are you able to resist more quickly and surely now than in the past?
4. Take time this week to remember God's fidelity as He worked in your life, perhaps journaling or creating a spiritual time line of key moments in your spiritual journey. Look back on it when you forget.
envisage-contemplate or conceive of as a possibility or a desirable future event.
1. Examine a past trial from God's perspective. Looking back, what was the divine purpose in allowing it? What did you learn or how did you grow?
2. Consider how your natural powers: the ability to think, to choose, to call certain truths to mind and to envisage spiritual realities can assist in overcoming desolation.
3. What trials are you able to resist more quickly and surely now than in the past?
4. Take time this week to remember God's fidelity as He worked in your life, perhaps journaling or creating a spiritual time line of key moments in your spiritual journey. Look back on it when you forget.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Chapter 7: Inspiring a Sense of God's Powerful Presence
1. Describe your most recent "Come, look!" moment.
2. What role does nature play in your spirituality?
3. Do you trust God?
4. How do you strive to give your child the gift of wonder?
5. How can we help our child(ren) become more aware of God's presence in each moment?
Action point-Read Mt 6:25-30 [ "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O men of little faith?] and Psalm 19:1 [The heavens are telling the glory of God;
and the firmament proclaims his handiwork]. Then think of a time and place where you really felt the power and magnificence of God as displayed in the works of his creation. In the coming few weeks, be on the alert for opportunities to look, observe, ponder--and point out God's wonders to your children. Set a goal of saying, "Come, look!" at least once a day.
2. What role does nature play in your spirituality?
3. Do you trust God?
4. How do you strive to give your child the gift of wonder?
5. How can we help our child(ren) become more aware of God's presence in each moment?
Action point-Read Mt 6:25-30 [ "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O men of little faith?] and Psalm 19:1 [The heavens are telling the glory of God;
and the firmament proclaims his handiwork]. Then think of a time and place where you really felt the power and magnificence of God as displayed in the works of his creation. In the coming few weeks, be on the alert for opportunities to look, observe, ponder--and point out God's wonders to your children. Set a goal of saying, "Come, look!" at least once a day.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Chapter 7: The Spirit of Poverty
1. In what way is the spirit of poverty, defined by Sheen as dependence on God and recognition of our own unworthiness, a part of your spiritual life? Have you had a lesson in "divine trust" recently? Did it come at the price of your will, self-reliance or economic security? (page 119-120)
2. What constitutes our heavenly wealth? (page 122)
3. To what extent or in what area do we seek outside validation/compliments? How can we counteract these sources of pride? (page 123)
4. How can we keep our concern for material things in check while still tending to the needs of our family? (page 126)
5. In what ways can we practice the spirit of poverty in regard to time and self-satisfaction? (page 127)
6. How can we increase our gratitude and humility as "pardoned rebels"? (page 131)
2. What constitutes our heavenly wealth? (page 122)
3. To what extent or in what area do we seek outside validation/compliments? How can we counteract these sources of pride? (page 123)
4. How can we keep our concern for material things in check while still tending to the needs of our family? (page 126)
5. In what ways can we practice the spirit of poverty in regard to time and self-satisfaction? (page 127)
6. How can we increase our gratitude and humility as "pardoned rebels"? (page 131)
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