Sh’ma Yisrael (Shema Israel)
Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!
You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Without Reading or Hearing God’s Word
Without reading or hearing God’s word, a man who is spiritually blind on account of habitual sin is simply unable to see the foul stain on his conscience.
The Soul in Three The White Horse, Black Horse, Charioteer
Now when the charioteer beholds the vision of love …. and has his whole soul warmed through sense – Plato, Phaedrus
The Power of a Word
The goal is to move past the point when you do anything, to the point where God is the only one acting. Anytime you are active (thinking), it is from your seat of power, the heart or the will. So when the mind wanders
Visualize and Imagine What You Want to Become in Christ
First, ask God, what do you want me to be like. Then, imagine what that would look like in your life. Maybe it would help to think of a person who exemplifies that office, fruit, gift, or trait. Then I think of how that would look in your life.
Prayer – Relating Our Life of Prayer to The Tabernacle
Finally, Prayer is not meant to change God, who is immutable, not of shifting shadow. Prayer is meant to change us. We are as shifting shadows, “14Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. “