Just Be | Wk 8: “Just Be Open”
Pastor Mike Overstreet | 06.14.2020
Message recordings available at: https://vimeo.com/element3
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Deuteronomy 6:4-5 (NIV)
4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KQLOuIKaRA
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Shema includes knowledge, experience, transformation, AND action.
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Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, & strength
- Love (Ahavah) – affection & response towards God & people
- Heart (Lev) – thoughts, worldview, desires, & actions
- Soul (Nephesh) – the entirety of our being & who we are
- Strength (Me’od) – our very muchness or our everything (time, talents, treasures)
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James 1:22 (NIV)
22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
1 John 3:18 (NIV)
18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
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Lectio Divina (Divine Reading)
- Step 1: READ
- Choose a small section of Scripture & read it slowly without analyzing it.
- Step 2: MEDITATE
- Sit with the passage & ask, “What does the text say to me today, in my life?”
- Repeat it until part of it sticks with you.
- Step 3: PRAY
- Ask God to light up what He wants you to hear from it.
- Pray openly as thoughts about it come to your mind & heart.
- Step 4: CONTEMPLATE
- Sit in silence, listen to God, & trust He’s given you this word/phrase for a reason.
- Step 5: ACT
- Where do I need to respond with change & action?