Your Spirit & Your Heart
Week 2 : The Pearl of Great Price
Here is this week’s downloadable blessing:
Extra blessings from previous classes:
Blessed are the people who
know the joyful sound! They walk, O Lord,
in the light of Your face.
-Psalm 89:15
This week’s powerpoint:
When You said, “Seek My face,”
My heart said to You, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.”
-Psalm 27:8
Exercise: DELIGHTING
For this exercise, begin a log of the tiny (or large!) daily delights that the Lord has loaded into your day. Begin looking for them actively. Use a means of recording them that also delights you!
All day, everything you experience is specifically designed for you. The sunrise. The sunset. That song. That bird. That comment by a coworker. Woven into your day next to the challenges and irritations are tiny little things that God deliberately planted to bring you delight. Begin teaching yourself to find them and lean hard into feeling the delight.
YOU ARE DESIGNED TO EXPERIENCE THE KEEN AWARENESS OF GOD’S DELIGHT.
Exercise: Rich Rest
Explore different facets of the holiness of Rest as a way of connecting with the Lord’s immediate presence with you.
Sabbath
Harvest
Celebration
First Fruits
Seasonal
Drift time
Waiting on the Lord.
And so many more!
Blessing your spirit to help your heart:
Speak to Giver. Bless Giver to begin working with the Parasympathetic system and the corresponding places in the brain, to release deep rest into the body. Bless Giver also to drink deeply of the delight of the Lord, to look into the Lord’s eyes, and to release the deep knowledge of God’s delight into the entire being of the person.
The Lord your God in your midst,
The Mighty One, will save;
He will take great delight in you,
He will quiet you with His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing.”
-Zephaniah 3:17