This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge
Having completed TWIRL 008, it’s time for the TWRAC application. The Scripture is made available below for your review as you prepare to respond to the questions below.
Delight yourself also in the LORD, And He shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. Psalm 37:4-5 (NLT)
Do what the LORD wants, and he will give you your heart’s desire. Let the LORD lead you and trust him to help. Psalm 37:4-5 (CEV)
7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. 9 “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. 11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. 12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. John 15:7-14
May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Ephesians 3:19-20 (NLT)
The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life. John 10:10 (NLT)
1. According to the words of Jesus Christ in John 10:10, what was the purpose of Christ’s ministry on the the earth?
2. What does that say about your level of satisfaction without Jesus in your life as your friend?
3. What is Jesus saying (John 15:14) we need to do to be His friend?
4. What are you doing in your life that Christ might agree promotes friendship between the two of you?
5. What would you say tends to get in the way of having a quality friendship kind of relationship with Christ?
6. What are you sowing, or investing in, these days that God finds favor with that will reap a satisfying return from your investment?
7. What might you be investing in these days that you have a feeling in your heart and mind might be counter-productive to the satisfactory purpose of God for you?
8. What would you say the investment strategy is for attaining satisfaction in your life, today?
9. How would you define or describe joy? What does joy mean to you?
10. Are you experiencing joy in your life at this time? Explain.
11. What can you do realistically to experience joy in your life?
12. What can you do realistically to experience the love of Christ in your life, and how does that translate into the experience of joy (Ephesians 3:19-20)?
13. What is the key to the promise of receiving the desires of our heart in Psalm 37:4-5?
14. Is the word “delight” a feeling about the Lord, or is it an action for the Lord? Explain.
15. When you put this all together, how does “delighting”, or investing, in the Lord tie into friendship with Christ, and finding satisfaction as a return on our investment as we receive from God what accomplishes real joy in our life?
16. How important is that to you in the context of all that is the complexities of your life? Explain.
Now, please take some time to talk to your friend Jesus. Let Him know that the friendship you share with Him is necessary and indeed important to you. Ask Jesus for revelation to know His will for you; that He will direct you to Scripture that removes the veil from the eyes of your heart and mind so that you can more clearly see Him. Ask God to empower you to grow in faith and confidence to act on His intentions for your life. Ask God to empower you to do what He wants for you to do for your good so that you may experience all that He wants and has for you—beyond what you could imagine or would dare to ask.
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