QUESTIONS OF PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BEFORE GOD ------------------------------------------------- • Where are you presently in you personal relationship with God? • What have you been reading in your daily devotions this last week? • What has God been saying to you during those readings? • Are you making notes of what God has been saying to you? • Have you been consistent in your times of prayer? • Which areas of your relationship with God do you experience resistance? Are there any unresolved issues in your life? • What are the general and specific things that you are praying about? • What habits are you struggling with as a Christian as this time in your walk with God? • How are you doing with regards to your spouse and children? • What general reading are you doing these days? • If Satan were to try to invalidate you as a person or as a servant, how might he do it? • What is the state of your sexual perspective? Are you tempted, are you struggling with fantasies? Are you entertaining evil thoughts? • Where are you financially right now, are things under control? • Do you have someone to whom you are accountable, and do you meet on a weekly or monthly basis with that person? • Have you spent time with a non-Christian this last month? • Do you have a prayer list where you pray for non-Christians? • What are the kinds of challenges that you are facing right now? • What is your greatest desire at this point? • What are the three things that you are most thankful for? • What areas of your life is the Holy Spirit working in? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE CHRISTIAN AND HIS DAILY DEVOTIONS --------------------------------------- 1. The Justification Or Reasons For A Daily Disciplined Devotional Life. a. The Christian and His Spiritual Constitution (I Peter 2:2) b. The Christian and His Spiritual Correction (II Timothy 3:16) c. The Christian and His Spiritual Conflict (Ephesians 6:17) d. The Christian and His Spiritual Counsel (Psalm 73:24) e. The Christian and His Spiritual Communion (I Thess. 5:17) 2. The Qualification or Requirements of A Daily Disciplined Devotional Life a. A good study Bible b. A good daily reading (Awake My Heart, My Utmost for His Highest, Daily Light) c. A notebook to jot things down. d. A Personal Prayer list. e. A quiet place somewhere in your home. f. A definite time during the day. g. An expectant spirit. •The Spiritual Factor (John 7:17) •The moral factor (Psalms 66:18) •The physical factor (I Cor. 9:27) 3. The Stipulations Or Regulations For A Daily Disciplined Devotional Life a. The need to take time in waiting upon God (Isaiah 40:31) b. The need to read God’s Word (2 Timothy 4:13) ---Doctrinally, Personally, Devotionally, Generally-- c. The need to meditate on the Word of God. (Joshua 1:6) QUESTIONS TO ASK FROM THE CHAPTER: 1. Is there a lesson to learn? 2; Is there a promise to claim? 3. Is there a command to obey? 4. Is there a blessing to claim? 5. Is there a sin to avoid? 6. Is there a new revelation about God and His character? 7. What is God’s word to my heart from this passage today? d. The need to record these truths (Malachi 3:16) e. The need to translate this into my prayer life. (1 Thess 5:17) • Personal Examination • Spiritual Adoration • General Intercession f. The need to share with someone on an accountability basis. g. The need to obey the voice of God and put it into practice. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The "Lords" Prayer ------------------- “I cannot say, ‘Our, ‘ if I live only for myself in a spiritually watertight compartment. I cannot say, ‘Father,‘ if I do not endeavor each day to act like His child. I cannot say, ‘who art in heaven,‘ if I am laying up no treasure there. I cannot say, ‘Hallowed be Thy name,‘ if I am not striving for holiness. I cannot say, ‘Thy kingdom come, ‘if I am not doing all in my power to hasten that wonderful event. I cannot say, ‘Thy will be done,‘ if I am disobedient to His Word. I cannot say, ‘in earth as it is in heaven,‘ if I’ll not serve Him here and now. I cannot say, ‘Give us this day our daily bread,‘ if I am dishonest or seeking things by subterfuge. I cannot say, ‘forgive us our debts,‘ if I harbor a grudge against anyone. I cannot say, ‘lead us not into temptation,‘ if I deliberately place myself in its path. I cannot say, ‘deliver us from evil,‘ if I do not put on the whole armor of God. I cannot say, ‘Thine is the kingdom,‘ if I do not give to the King the loyalty due Him as a faithful subject. I cannot attribute to Him, ‘the power,‘ if I fear what men may do. I cannot ascribe to Him, ‘the glory,‘ if I am seeking honor only for myself. I cannot say, ‘forever,‘ if the horizon of my life is bounded completely by time.” -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE LORD’S PRAYER ------------------ MATTHEW 6:9—15 1. THE PURPOSE OF PRAYER The right motive —“ Be not as the hypocrites — Pray to your Father in heaven....” 2. THE PATERNITY OF PRAYER “Our Father which art in heaven.” 3. THE PRIORITY OF PRAYER “Hallowed by Thy name.” 4. THE PROGRAM OF PRAYER “Thy kingdom come.” 5. THE PLAN OF PRAYER “Thy will be done.” 6. THE PROVISION OF PRAYER “Give us this day our daily bread.” 7. THE PARDON OF PRAYER “And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.” 8. THE PROTECTION OF PRAYER “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” 9. THE PREEMINENCE IN PRAYER GOD — “For Thine is the kingdom...” -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dying to Self -------------- When you are forgotten or neglected, or purposely, set at naught, and you do not sting and hurt with the insult or oversight, but your heart is counted worthy to suffer for Christ ... that is Dying to Self. When your good is evil spoken of, when your wishes are crossed, your advice disregarded, your opinions ridiculed, and you refuse to let anger rise in your heart or even defend yourself, and take it in patient, loving silence ... that is Dying to Self. When you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, any irregularity any unpunctuality, or any annoyance; when you stand face to face with waste, folly, extravagance, spiritual insensibility, and endure as Jesus endured it.... that is Dying to Self. When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation, or to record your own good works or itch after commendation, when you can truly love to be unknown ... that is Dying to Self. When you are content with any food, any offering, any raiment, any climate, any society, any solitude, any interruption by the will of God ... that is Dying to Self. When you see your brother prosper and have his needs met, and can honestly rejoice with him in spirit and feel no envy nor question God, while your own needs are far greater and in desperate circumstances ... that is Dying to Self. When you can receive correction and reproof from one of less stature than yourself, and can humbly submit inwardly as well as outwardly, finding no rebellion or resentment rising up within your heart ... that is Dying to Self. Are you dead yet? In these last days, the Spirit would bring us to the Cross, “That I may know Him ... being made conformable to His death.” Christ only Christ, no needless bustling sound, Christ only Christ, no self importance bearing, Christ only Christ, no trace of "I" be found. - selected -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- — THE ABIDING FULLNESS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT— ------------------------------------------- The Rules of Self Examination 1. Did I awake spiritual, and was I watchful in keeping my mind from wandering this morning? 2. Have I this day gotten near to God in prayer, or have I given way to a lazy, idle spirit? 3. Has my faith been weakened by a lack of watchfulness, or quickened by diligence? 4. Have I walked by faith and have I seen God in all things? 5. Have I made the most of my time as I have had light, strength, and opportunity? 6. Have I kept the issues of my heart in the means of grace, so as to profit by them? 7. What have I done this day for the souls and the bodies of God’s dear saints? 8. Have I laid out anything to please myself, when I might have saved money for the cause of Christ? 9. Have I governed well my tongue this day, remembering that “in the multitude of words there wanteth not sin”? 10. In how many instances have I denied myself today? 11. Do my life and conversation adorn the Gospel of Jesus Christ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- My Spiritual Checklist ------------------------ My relationship to the world: • Do I tell the truth under all circumstances? • Do I pay my debts? • Do I curse (even if in my thoughts only)? • Do I try to evade paying in come tax? • Do I make indecent jokes/tell indecent stories? • Am I honest in all circumstances? • Is my relationship with the opposite sex pure in word, deed and thought? My relationship to my house: • Do I live my life at home in an exemplary manner? • Do those who know me best believe in me most? • Do I honor and respect those who serve me daily? • Do I criticize the church or other people in front of my children? • Do I regard my possessions/house as mine or as Gods? My relationship to work: • Am I known to be a believer? • Do others see Jesus Christ in me? • Am I the cause of people ridiculing the church? • Do I shy away from expressing my faith in the Lord at work? My relationship to my quiet time: • What role does quiet time play in my life? • Do I make time for prayer and intercession every day? • Do I read the Word of God every day? • Has there been clear growth in my relationship with God over the past year? • Is quiet time really a priority in my program for the day? • How much of my quiet time deals with myself and how much of it is devoted to praising the Lord and to intercession for others? My relationship to church attendance: • Do I like going to church? • Do I prepare my heart and mind for the sermon? • Do I go to criticize? • Do I go to listen to what the man says or do I go to listen to the man? • Do I pray for my minister so that the Lord will give him a message to preach and he will fearlessly make the ministry of the Gospel known? My relationship with fellow-believers: • Do I try to dominate; do I shirk my duty; or do I do my share? • Can I work together with others and can they work with me? • Do I truly love those who work with me? • Do others know me as someone who is interested and concerned rather than someone who only wants to receive and be served? • Is it my true desire that God’s work will be promoted, or do I simply pursue my own interests and honor? • Can I tolerate it when others are praised and that I am sometimes not thanked for something I did with great sacrifice? • Do I seek my own interest or that of others? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- My relationship to my rights: ------------------------------ Have I abandoned: • My right to defend myself? • My right to be understood? • My right to possess things? • My right to be treated with respect! to be respected. • My right to get recognition for what I have done? • My right to feel offended/hurt? • My right to be/become angry? • My right to choose and exercise my own choices? • My right to pleasure/enjoyment/nice things/good things? • My right to my own finances? • My right to my own ambitions? • My right to comfort? • My right to plan my own future? • My right to privacy? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Hebrew Perspective of Prayer --------------------------------- There are 11 possible Hebrew words in the Old Testament. 1. The word Palal Can be translated (pray, prayer) intercede – make intercession 2. The word Tephillah Can be translated (pray, prayer) 3. The word Chanah a) pray, b) prayer, c) entreat, 4) beseech, 5) make supplication 4. The word Athar Pray, prayer 5. The word Paga Pray, prayer, entreat, make intersession 6. The word Siach Pray, prayer 7. The word Parash To seek the Face of God 8. The word Chalah Pray, prayer, beseech, entreat 9. The word Qara Call to the Lord 10. The word Baqash Seek the Face of God 11. The word Shaal Ask and enquire -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Heart God Revives ---------------------- (Taken from Herald of His Coining, March 1996) “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart 0 God, Thou wilt not despise.” - Psalm 51:17 PROUD people focus on the failures of others. — BROKEN people are over-whelmed with a sense of their own spiritual need. PROUD people are self-righteous; have a critical, fault-finding spirit: look at everyone else’s faults with a microscope, but their own with a telescope; look down on others. — BROKEN people are compassionate; can forgive much because they know how much they have been forgiven; esteem all others better than themselves. PROUD people have an independent, self-sufficient spirit. — BROKEN people have a dependent spirit; recognize their need for others PROUD people are self-protective of their time, their rights, and their reputation — BROKEN people are self-denying PROUD people focus on the failures of others. — BROKEN people are motivated to serve others. PROUD people desire to be served. — BROKEN people are in motivated to be faithful and to make others a success. PROUD people desire to be a success. — BROKEN people desire to promote others. PROUD people desire self-advancement. — BROKEN people have a sense of their own unworthiness and are thrilled that God would use them at all in any ministry; are eager for others to get the credit and rejoice when others are lifted up. PROUD people have a drive to be recognized, to be appreciated; are wounded when others are promoted and they are overlooked. — BROKEN people have a heart attitude that says, “I don't deserve to have any part in this ministry”; know that they have nothing to offer God except the life of Jesus flowing through their broken lives. PROUD people have a subconscious feeling, “This ministry is privileged to have me and my gifts”; think of what they can do for God. — BROKEN people are humbled by how very much they have to learn. PROUD people feel confident in how much they know. — BROKEN people are not concerned with self at all. PROUD people are self conscious. — BROKEN people are willing to risk getting close to others and to take the risk of loving intimately. PROUD people keep others at arm’s length. — BROKEN people accept personal responsibility and can see where they are wrong in a situation. PROUD people are quick to blame others. — BROKEN people are easy to be entreated. PROUD people are unapproachable. — BROKEN people receive criticism with a humble, open spirit. PROUD people are defensive when criticized. — BROKEN people are concerned with being real; what they care about and what matters to them is nor what others think but what God knows; they are willing to die for their own reputations. PROUD people are concerned with being respectable, with what others think; they work to protect their own image and reputation. — BROKEN people are willing to be open and transparent with others as God directs. PROUD people find it difficult to share their spiritual needs with others. — BROKEN people, once broken, don’t care who knows or who finds out; they are willing to be exposed because they have nothing to lose. PROUD people want to be sure that no one finds out when they have sinned; their instinct is to cover it up. — BROKEN people are quick to admit failure and seek forgiveness when necessary. PROUD people have a hard time saying, “I was wrong; will you please forgive me? — BROKEN people, under the conviction of God’s Spirit, are able to acknowledge specifics when confessing their sin. PROUD people are concerned about the consequences of their sin. — BROKEN people are grieved over the cause, the root of their sin. PROUD people are remorseful over their sin, sorry that they got found out or caught. — BROKEN people are truly, genuinely repentant over their sin, evidenced in the fact that they forsake that sin. PROUD people wait for the other to come and ask forgiveness when there is a misunderstanding or conflict in relationships. — BROKEN people take the initiative to be reconciled when there is a misunderstanding or a conflict in relationships; they race to the Cross; they see if they can get there first, no matter how wrong the other may have been. PROUD people compare themselves with others and feel worthy of honor. — BROKEN people compare themselves to the Holiness of God and feel desperate need for His mercy. PROUD people are blind to their true heart condition. — BROKEN people walk in the light. PROUD people don’t think they have anything to repent of. — BROKEN people realize they have need of a continual heart attitude of repentance. PROUD people don’t think they need revival, but are sure that everyone else does. — BROKEN people continually sense their need for afresh encounter with God and for afresh filling of His Holy Spirit. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Heart-Searching for Prayer Preparation and Personal Revival ----------------------------------------------------------- Psalm 139:23-24 - Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Confession of sin is necessary for fellowship with God, and revival among God’s people. Prayerfully consider the following questions. Go through these questions one by one. Answer truthfully these questions. Every “yes” answer means sin in your life! In reading these questions, as you are convicted of sin, confess it at once to God. Be willing to make it right ... then you can claim cleansing and forgiveness. (1John 1:9 - If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.) Be sure to name your sin to God, as ... “Lord, I have not put Thee first in my plans,” or “I have neglected Thy word and prayer.” Do not make the least excuse for sin of any kind in your life. (Proverbs 28:13 - He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.) No matter what others do, or do not do, Christian, leave nothing undone on your part. God wants to work through you to bring about a great spiritual awakening. He can begin by your fulfilling every requirement shown by the Lord through the Holy Spirit and His Word. A revival from the presence of the Lord begins today, IF YOU DESIRE IT. (Read the Scriptures first. Ask the question .... Give a truthful answer ... “yes” or “no.”) _____________________________________________________________________________ 1) Matthew 6:14-15 - For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. A. --- YES or NO --- Is there anyone against whom you hold a grudge? B. --- YES or NO --- Anyone you haven’t forgiven? C. --- YES or NO --- Anyone you hate? D. --- YES or NO --- Anyone you do not love? E. --- YES or NO --- Are there any misunderstandings that you are unwilling to forget? F. --- YES or NO --- Is there any person against whom you are harbouring bitterness, resentment, or jealousy? G. --- YES or NO --- Anyone you dislike to hear praised or well spoken of? H. --- YES or NO --- Do you allow anything to justify a wrong attitude toward another? 2) Matthew 6:33 - But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. A. --- YES or NO --- Is there anything in which you have failed to put God first? B. --- YES or NO --- Have your decisions been made after your own wisdom and desires, rather than seeking and following God’s will? C. --- YES or NO --- Do any of the following in any way interfere with your surrender and service to God: ambition, pleasures, loved ones, friendship, desire for recognition, money, your own plans? 3) Acts 1:8 - But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. A. --- YES or NO --- Have you neglected to seek the lost for Christ? B. --- YES or NO --- Have you neglected to witness consistently with your mouth for the Lord Jesus Christ? C. --- YES or NO --- Has your life not shown the lost the Lord Jesus? 4) John 13:35 - By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. A. --- YES or NO --- Are you secretly pleased over the misfortune of another? B. --- YES or NO --- Are you secretly annoyed over the accomplishments or advancements of another? C. --- YES or NO --- Are you guilty of any contention or strife? D. --- YES or NO --- Do you quarrel, argue, or engage in heated discussions? E. --- YES or NO --- Are you a partaker in any divisions, or party spirit? F. --- YES or NO --- Are there people whom you deliberately slight? 5) II Corinthians 9:6-7 - He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. A. --- YES or NO --- Have you robbed God by withholding His due of time, talents, and money? B. --- YES or NO --- Have you robbed God by withholding your income for God’s work? C. --- YES or NO --- Have you failed to support mission work either in prayer or offerings? 6) I Corinthians 4:2 - Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. A. --- YES or NO --- Are you undependable so that you cannot be trusted with responsibilities in the Lord’s work? B. --- YES or NO --- Are you allowing your emotions to be stirred for things of the Lord but doing nothing about it? 7) I Corinthians 6:19-20 - What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. A. --- YES or NO --- Are you in any way careless with your body? B. --- YES or NO --- Do you fail to care for it as the temple of the Holy Spirit? C. --- YES or NO --- Are you guilty of intemperance in eating or drinking? D. --- YES or NO --- Do you have any habits which are defiling to the temple of the Holy Spirit? 8) Psalms 115:1 - Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake. A. --- YES or NO --- Do you take the slightest credit for anything good about you, rather than give all the glory to God? B. --- YES or NO --- Do you talk of what you have done rather than what Christ has done? C. --- YES or NO --- Are your statements mostly about “I”? D. --- YES or NO --- Are your feelings easily hurt? E. --- YES or NO --- Have you made a pretence of being something you are not? 9) II Corinthians 3:5 - Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; A. --- YES or NO --- Are you self-conscious rather than Christ-conscious? B. --- YES or NO --- Do you allow feelings of inferiority to keep you from attempting things you should in serving God? 10) Ephesians 4:28 - Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. A. --- YES or NO --- Do you underpay? B. --- YES or NO --- Do you do very little in your work? C. --- YES or NO --- Have you been careless in the payment of your debts? D. --- YES or NO --- Have you sought to evade payment of debts? E. --- YES or NO --- Do you waste time? F. --- YES or NO --- Do you waste time for others? 11) Ephesians 4:31 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: A. --- YES or NO --- Do you complain? B. --- YES or NO --- Do you find fault? C. --- YES or NO --- Do you have a critical attitude towards any person or thing? D. --- YES or NO --- Are you irritable or cranky? F. --- YES or NO --- Do you ever carry hidden anger? F. --- YES or NO --- Do you get angry? G. --- YES or NO --- Do you become impatient with others? H. --- YES or NO --- Are you ever harsh or unkind? 12) Ephesians 5:16 - Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. A. --- YES or NO --- Do you listen to unedifying radio or TV programs? B. --- YES or NO --- Do you read unworthy magazines? C. --- YES or NO --- Do you partake in worldly amusements? D. --- YES or NO --- Do you find it necessary to seek satisfaction from any questionable source? E. --- YES or NO --- Are you doing certain things that show that you are not satisfied in the Lord Jesus Christ? 13) Ephesians 5:20 - Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; A. --- YES or NO --- Have you neglected to thank Him for all things, the seemingly bad as well as the good? B. --- YES or NO --- Have you virtually called God a liar by doubting His Word? C. --- YES or NO --- Do you worry? D. --- YES or NO --- Is your spiritual temperature based on your feelings instead of on the facts of God’s Word? 14) Philippians 1:21 - For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. A. --- YES or NO --- Are you taken up with cares of this life? B. --- YES or NO --- Does your conversation or heart joy over “things” rather than the Lord and His Word? C. --- YES or NO --- Does anything mean more to you than living for and pleasing Christ? 15) Philippians 2:14 - Do all things without murmurings and disputings: A. --- YES or NO --- Do you ever, by word or deed, seek to hurt someone? B. --- YES or NO --- Do you gossip? C. --- YES or NO --- Do you speak unkindly concerning people when they are not present? D. --- YES or NO --- Do you carry prejudice against true Christians because they are of some different group than yours, or because they do not see everything exactly like you? 16) Philippians 4:4 - Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice. A. --- YES or NO --- Have you neglected to seek to be pleasing to the Lord in all things? B. --- YES or NO --- Do you carry bitterness toward God? C. --- YES or NO --- Have you complained against Him in any way? D. --- YES or NO --- Have you been dissatisfied with His provision for you? E. --- YES or NO --- Is there in your heart any unwillingness to obey God fully? F. --- YES or NO --- Do you have any reservations as to what you would or would not do concerning anything that might be His will? 17) Colossians 3:9 - Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; A. --- YES or NO --- Do you engage in empty and unprofitable conversation? B. --- YES or NO --- Do you ever lie? C. --- YES or NO --- Do you ever exaggerate? Cheat? Steal? D. --- YES or NO --- Carefully consider— do you overcharge? 18) II Timothy 2:22 - Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. A. --- YES or NO --- Do you have any personal habits that are not pure? B. --- YES or NO --- Do you allow impure thoughts about the opposite sex to stay in your mind? C. --- YES or NO --- Do you read that which is impure or suggests unholy things? D. --- YES or NO --- Do you indulge in any unclean entertainment? E. --- YES or NO --- Are you guilty of the lustful look? 19) Hebrews 10:25 - Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. A. --- YES or NO --- Do you stay away from the meetings of preaching the gospel? B. --- YES or NO --- Do you whisper or think about other things while God’s Word is being read or preached? C. --- YES or NO --- Are you irregular in attendance at services? D. --- YES or NO --- Do you neglect to attend or participate in meetings for prayer? E. --- YES or NO --- Have you neglected or slighted daily or private prayer? F. --- YES or NO --- Have you neglected God’s Word? G. --- YES or NO --- Do you find the Bible and prayer uninteresting? H. --- YES or NO --- Have you neglected thanksgiving at meals? I. --- YES or NO --- Have you neglected daily family devotions? 20) Hebrews 13:17 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you. A. --- YES or NO --- Do you hesitate to submit to leaders in the church or elsewhere? B. --- YES or NO --- Are you lazy? C. --- YES or NO --- Do you rebel at requests given to you to help in the work of the gospel? D. --- YES or NO --- Do you in any way have a stubborn or unteachable spirit? 21) James 1:27 - Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. A. --- YES or NO --- Have you allowed yourself to become “spotted” by the world? B. --- YES or NO --- Is your manner of dress displeasing to God? C. --- YES or NO --- Do you spend beyond what is pleasing to God on anything? D. --- YES or NO --- Do you neglect to pray about things that you buy? 22) James 4:6b - God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. A. --- YES or NO --- Do you feel that you are doing quite well as a Christian? B. --- YES or NO --- That you are not so bad? C. --- YES or NO --- That you are good enough? D. --- YES or NO --- Are you stubborn? E. --- YES or NO --- Do you insist on having your own way? F. --- YES or NO --- Do you insist on your “rights”? 23) James 4:11 - Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. A. --- YES or NO --- Have you dishonoured Him and hindered His work by criticizing His servants? B. --- YES or NO --- Have you failed to pray regularly for your pastor and other spiritual leaders? C. --- YES or NO --- Do you find it hard to be corrected? D. --- YES or NO --- Is there rebellion toward one who wants to restore you? E. --- YES or NO --- Are you more concerned about what people will think than what will be pleasing to God? _____________________________________________________________________________ If you have been honest and true in the matter of admitting your sins, then you are ready for Cod’s cleansing. Sins that are admitted, are sins that are confessed. Remember these three things: 1. If the sin is against God, confess it to God, and make things right with God. 2. If the sin is against another person, confess it to God, and make things right with the other one. 3. If the sin is against a group, confess it to God, and make it right with the group. If there is full confession, there will be full cleansing. Then the joy of the Lord will follow. Then there can be testimony and prayer in the power of the Holy Spirit. Revival will soon follow. Psalm 19:12 - Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------