practical spirituality: bringing it all together
- Marvello V
- Jun 9, 2019
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 26, 2019
There are 3 parts to practical spirituality, and you can read up on all three of them at the links below:
In this article I summarize how they all work together in our daily lives.
First, we connect with God daily through prayer or reading the Bible. Second, we retrain our mind much the way advertisers do—through visuals and sounds. Visually, we can tape a quote or scripture on our bathroom walls, closet doors, car dashboard, or computer monitor or keyboard. We can even write on our bathroom mirror something we need to learn spiritually. Through sounds, we can listen to blogs, music, or memorize scripture that we can repeat whenever and wherever we are. Memorizing scripture is a powerful way to retrain our subconscious mind. Third, we fast from (or give up) something that we do on a regular basis. Remember, fasting isn’t just about giving up food. We could fast from social media, from watching TV, from drinking soda, from online shopping. Anything that we think we “have to have” is something we can fast from.
The one distinction of fasting is you don’t have to do it all the time. Instead, we should be led by our heart and spirit to give something up. And we do it for a specific period of time and end the fast as we agree to. Fasting is something we can do regularly throughout the year. There is always something to give up in our life. The reason it’s important is because it’s a practice in unselfishness. The more we learn to put aside things that we think we have to have the more we learn we don’t really need them. All we really need is God’s love and wisdom in our lives. From that perspective He will give us everything we need.
The purpose of a practical practice of spirituality is to stay connected with God every day. Not just once or twice a week—at church service or a Bible study—but everyday. It’s about developing a mindset that puts God’s influence first and let everything else we think and do flow from that.
Spirituality like everything else should evolve and fit within the times we live in. Some of what I’ve shared with you might work for you and it might not. However, the key is to stay connected everyday with God. Find a way to work spirituality into your daily life. I promise it will make a difference in the way you live.
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