- At church on Sunday our Pastor, Mark, gave us all a list of 52 questions to ask ourselves about our lives and our faith . I would like to share them with you all because they are VERY good questions to reflect on .. take the time to really think about each question individually and try to pray about each one separately so that God may help you find the right answers .
"Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord." - Lamentations 3:40
1. Do I love Jesus ? Trust Him to take care of my past and my sin ? Submit myself to Him as Lord and talk to Him constantly ?
2. What will it mean for me to follow Him and His disciple in practical terms in 2014 ?
3. How can I obey His instructions to "make disciples" ?
4. Do my personal resolutions differ from my spiritual resolutions in 2014 ? What are my top five of each ?
5. Do my personal goals differ from my spiritual goals in 2014 ?
6. What is this title for this chapter of the book of my life ? What was the title of the last chapter ?
7. How do people see me ? What is their take on my personality ? My nature ? My demeanor ? Do they like to be with me or not ?
8. Am I comfortable with the person I've become ? Do I feel stuck ? Unable to change ? Wish I had a different personality ?
9. What kind of "fruit" is my life producing ? Sweet ? Nourishing ? Bitter ? Rotten ? Spoiled ?
10. How will people remember me when I'm not in their life anymore ?
11. Am I best at people "demolition" or people "construction" ?
12. How big a part does money play in my life ? Do I have a love of money ? An obsession ? How does in intersect with my obedience to Jesus ?
13. Do I sleep well at night ? Do the things on my mind ever keep me awake ? Tease me ? Torment me ? Am I at peace ?
14. Do I measure my worth by how much I accomplish ? Produce ? Get Done ? Accumulate ?
15. Do I know how to rest ? Do I ever stop ? Really ? Make rest a part of my day ? My week ? My year ? Do I believe in the Sabbath; God's planned interruption in my busy life ?
16. Do I ever engage in play ? Non-productive activities just for fun ?
17. Do I feel guilty when I play just for the fun of it ? DO I deliberately stop, notice and experience life's wonders all around me ?
18. Has anyone found heaven through my life ? Been kept out ?
19. Do any of my goals for 2014 involve people meeting Jesus and becoming His followers; finding joy, fulfillment eternal life ? Who might they be ?
20. Am I carrying around any guilt from my past ? Shame ? Unresolved anger ? Bitterness ? Other problems with people in my life ?
21. Have I given any of these things to Jesus and then taken them back ? Am I a spiritual Indian-giver ?
22. Does my voice count ? Do people listen to me ? Take me seriously ? Value my input , opinion ? Welcome my company ? My thoughts ? Dread encounters with me ?
23. Does my life make any difference ? To whom ? How ? What is my legacy ?
24. Am I agreeable , supportive , encouraging , and positive ? Or contentious , negative , suspicious , contrary , questioning , angry ?
25. Do I believe God is working out His plan in my life ? Do I ever fight Him ? Question Him ? Resist ? Refuse ?
26. Who have I helped recently ? How ? Do I have any ulterior motives ?
27. Do I believe in " Love God , Love people , Love myself ? " Any exceptions ? People I'm excused from loving ? Myself ?
28. Do I like ME ? Why or why not ?
29. What will my life be like in 1 year ? 5 years ? 20 years ? 50 years ? 100 years ?
30. Am I content with my life ? Who I am ? What I have ? Where I'm going ? Where I've come from ?
31. Do I want to get well ? Be restored ? Change ?
32. Am I becoming the person God says I am ? Is there still a noticeable gab ? Am I stuck ?
33. Has my value system changed ? Is it changing ? For good or bad ? My ethical standards ?
34. Am I committed to hating what God hates and loving what He loves ? Finding out which is which ?
35. Do I despise sin ? Really hate it ? For what it does to me ? To my loved ones ? To Jesus ?
36. Do I sense God's presence right now ? When ? How ?
37. How valuable am I to God ? Does he know me by name ? Speak it often ? Does Satan ?
38. Does God displace angels to be involved in my day-to-day affairs ? How do they impact my life ?
39. How will I be changed when I die ? How long will it take ?
40. Am I having a positive effect on my kids , grand kids , parents ? Am I a good father , mother , son , daughter , grandparent ? What does my family think of me ?
41. Is there some sin I'm stuck in ? Refusing to let go of ? Coming back to again and again ?
42. Can Jesus be seen in me ? In my personality ? Mannerisms ? Manners ? Way with people ? My words ? Silence ? Habits ? Values ? Priorities ?
43. How do I measure myself ? Grade myself ? What criteria do I use ? Jesus' or the worlds ?
44. Is my giving related to my love for Jesus ? Is it random or planned ? Impulsive or strategic ? Are there any strings attached ?
45. Do I pray ? When ? Why ? How ? What prompts it ?
46. Do I pray only for results or to be in relationship with God ?
47. Do I feel physically connected with my Father when I pray ? Feel the Holy Spirit inside forming the words , thoughts ? How does Jesus factor in my prayers?
48. Have I prayed in unknown languages ? Do I need to ?
49. What is my gift ? How am I gifted ? Have I worked to develop that gift ? Given it back to Jesus ? How ?
50. How has God most effectively used me in the past ? The future ? What kind of tool am I in God's hand ? What body part am I in the body of Christ ?
51. Have I ever reclaimed sins , burdens , cares , that I have given over to Jesus in good faith ?
52. Can I connect more with my church family so that I can produce fruit in their lives ? How ? When ? Where ?
Credit for these questions goes to the Holy Spirit , who gave these questions to Pastor Mark so he could give them to us to reflect on our own lives .
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