Growing in FaithGrowing in Faith Intentional Christian LivingIntentional Christian Living

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Session 5

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What do you do every day? Make a list.

Why do we do these things?

Which of these are good for you?

Which of these are bad for you?

About which of these do you have no choice but to do it?

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Match the Missing Word

___ 1. Bring the whole _____ into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house.

___ 2. Take my _____ upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you

will find rest for your souls.

___ 3. Keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an _____, discharge all the duties of your ministry.

___ 4. No _____ seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

___ 5. When he opened the seventh seal, there was _____ in heaven for about half an hour.

___ 6. You diligently _____ the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me.

___ 7. But when you _____, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to men.

___ 8. Live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and _____ to God.

___ 9. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the _____ of doing, but let us encourage one another.

___ 10. After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. When

evening came, he was there _____.

___ 11. You were washed, you were _____, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

___ 12. You are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and _____ of God’s household.

___ 13. I urge you, . . . in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your _____ act of worship.

a. Spiritualb. Yokec. Sanctifiedd. Disciplinee. Habitf. Studyg. Fasth. Tithei. Membersj. Evangelistk. Alonel. Silencem. Sacrifice

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Spiritual Tithe

Yoke Members

Sanctified Evangelist

Discipline Alone

Habit Silence

Study Sacrifice

Fast

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Daniel 1:3-15Who were the young men in this story?

Why do they each have two names?How are they described?

Where are they from and why are they in Babylon?How would the “royal food and wine” “defile” them?

What did Daniel ask permission to do?What was the result of his experiment?

What things in our day would be comparable to “royal food and wine”?

What would be comparable to “vegetables . . . and water”?How does consistent discipline benefit us?

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A Covenant PrayerI am no longer my own, but Yours.

Put me to what You will.Rank me with whom You will.

Put me to doing.Put me to suffering.

Let me be employed by You or laid aside for You,Exalted for You or brought low by You.

Let me have all things,Let me have nothing.

I freely and heartily yield all things to Your pleasure and disposal . . .

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And now, O glorious and blessed God,Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,

You are mine, and I am Yours.So be it.

And the covenant which I have made on earth,Let it be ratified in heaven.

Amen.

(adapted from John Wesley’s Covenant Service,Sing to the Lord, 484)