New Roots Lenten Season Experience 2024 // Week 4

New Roots Lenten Season Experience 2024: Week 3 – Wednesday, March 6, 2024, to Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Consider Examples from the Life of Jesus
For the last two weeks, we have been considering the following questions: 
What is it about your spiritual life that you would like to be different? What is the change that you would like to see in yourself? How can your observance of Lent help you progress toward that desired change? 

Perhaps you are yet considering these questions.

As you may recall, the invitation from the last two weeks has centered around making this Lenten season a time of intentional spiritual lifestyle positive change that you want to see in your life.

Admittedly, these are not trivial questions and hopefully you are finding that the time spent in this exploration is worthwhile.
 
As we continue to ponder these questions, I invite you to consider examples from the life of Jesus, because in doing so, the change that you would like to see in yourself may become more apparent.

Examples from the life of Jesus include his prayer life, his compassion, his wisdom, …
Invitation: Consider examples from the life of Jesus as you pursue the intentional spiritual lifestyle positive change that you want to see in your life.

1. Spend time with the questions:  
   • What is the change that I want to see in myself?  
   • How can my observance of Lent help me progress toward this desired positive change? 
   • What examples from the life of Jesus can help in this endeavor? 

2. Ask God to help you with these questions. 

3. Engage in practices such as prayer, journaling, visioning, Bible reading and study, etc. to help explore these questions. 

4. Record your answers to these questions in a place that you can refer/add to them daily. 

5. If you identify actions to take, then act, if/when the timing is right, continuing to seek God, recognizing that adjustment is a part of change. 

6. Perhaps there are songs that express aspects of the life of Christ that you are seeking to imitate. Add these songs to your playlist and play them to remind you of the change you want to see in your life. 

7. It may or may not be appropriate to share your decision with someone; you can seek God regarding this as well and act accordingly. 

8. Celebrate the positive change you are seeing in your life.

Featured Selection: Jesus is Love (Lionel Richie and The Commodores) 
https://youtu.be/E62ZfiHiCYc?si=zAGUe1rdIBg2UoR2 
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