Forty Days of Temperance

Download or read book Forty Days of Temperance written by M Ted Forester and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus called. You responded. NOW WHAT? Forty Days of Temperance is the ninth volume in the Welcome Holy Spirit (WHS) Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series, which is an opportunity to welcome the Holy Spirit into your life every day and to enrich your relationship with this amazing and wonderful Comforter that Jesus sent to us. The Holy Spirit makes our lives happy and full, and more importantly, establishes us as children of God: "The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God" (Romans 8:16). The WHS Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series is both Bible study and devotional. Unlike other devotionals that use saccharine platitudes and personal tragedy testimony targeting readers' emotions, the WHS Bible Study Devotional is one hundred percent Bible based and offers serious exegesis full of purposeful insights that improve our relationship with, devotion to, and understanding of the most misunderstood and neglected member of the Godhead: God, the Holy Spirit. It uses the Word of God to remind us to welcome the Holy Spirit into our lives every day to produce the powerful Fruit of the Spirit in us and through us. Whether Jesus called and you responded yesterday or fifty years ago, the WHS Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series will strengthen your ability to be a productive member of the Kingdom of God by cultivating your submission to the Holy Spirit as He teaches you from its pages. Sunday school classes and Bible study groups will find the WHS Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series to be very "fruitful." Each day's reading includes a passage of scripture, an insight about the meaning and implications of that scripture, and a "Welcome Holy Spirit Prayer" inspired by that scripture. When necessary the context of the scripture or passage is explained, and in some cases respected Bible study resources are consulted to clarify confusing passages or to illuminate richer understanding. The WHS Bible Study Devotional is, in that sense, a year-long Bible study. Additionally, opposite of each day's entry are several prompts to elicit thoughts shared by the Holy Spirit and space to write them down. The prompts include reflections, connections, questions, implications, applications, and exemplars. The prompts are followed by sentence stems to help readers elicit and express their thoughts. Sharing these thoughts with Bible study groups provides a powerful opportunity for "iron to sharpen iron." As the Holy Spirit "bears witness with our spirit," sharing these insights with others multiplies the work of the Holy Spirit. Thank you for choosing The WHS Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series. May God bless you and keep you, may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ shine upon you, and may the amazing Holy Spirit dwell in you and merge with your spirit to produce the fruits of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and temperance in your life more abundantly than ever before!