Sunday, November 17, 2013

Week 8

With All Your Soul

Day 1

30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.” 

Let’s review how this breaks down…

Heart -- First-Love 
V  Priority Love
V  Attaching Ourselves to the Lord through…
V  Disciplines of attachment.
Soul -- Pure Love. 
V  Simplicity of Love
V  Detaching ourselves from the world through…
V  Disciplines of attachment
Mind -- True Love 
V  Veracity of love
V  Aligning ourselves with God’s truth through…
V  Disciplines of alignment
Strength -- Full Love 
V  Energy of love
V  Engaging ourselves in God’s service through…
V  Disciplines of engagement
This week we will focus on loving the Lord with all our soul. 

Psalm 42

For the director of music. A maskil of the Sons of Korah.

As the deer pants for streams of water,
    so my soul pants for you, my God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
    When can I go and meet with God?
My tears have been my food
    day and night,
while people say to me all day long,
    “Where is your God?”
These things I remember
    as I pour out my soul:
how I used to go to the house of God
    under the protection of the Mighty One[d]
with shouts of joy and praise
    among the festive throng.
Why, my soul, are you downcast?
    Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
    for I will yet praise him,
    my Savior and my God.
My soul is downcast within me;
    therefore I will remember you
from the land of the Jordan,
    the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.
Deep calls to deep
    in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers
    have swept over me.
By day the Lord directs his love,
    at night his song is with me—
    a prayer to the God of my life.
I say to God my Rock,
    “Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I go about mourning,
    oppressed by the enemy?”
10 My bones suffer mortal agony
    as my foes taunt me,
saying to me all day long,
    “Where is your God?”
11 Why, my soul, are you downcast?
    Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
    for I will yet praise him,
    my Savior and my God.

What does Psalm 42 address regarding loving the Lord with all our souls?
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Prayer: Reflecting specifically on this devotional, write out a prayer to God. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________




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