Friday, March 13, 2009

Love God with all our soul: Personality

the soul: is our personality or the animation expressing the uniqueness of our abilities and desires including the way we talk and walk and what our preferences are. Our personality is expressed most dynamically by our speech. What we say enhances or quenches our ability to grow in love. Therefore, we set our heart to express ourselves and to communicate in a way that enhances not diminishes love. When the Spirit is grieved, we do not receive from Him in the same measure (Eph. 4:29-32; 5:1-6).

So what?
In our failure our accomplishments we confess, “I’m loved (by God) and I am a lover (of God) therefore I am successful”. I am not defined by my failure or by my accomplishments. I am not despised by God, nor am I a hopeless hypocrite because of my weakness. We must live by our spiritual identity (what we look like to God) instead of our natural identity (what we look like to others). Write how you think God sees you in your journal and continue to confess God's words over yourself rather than others. See how God changes your outlook on life by seeing through his eyes and how he sees you rather than always worrying how others see you.