Vital Spiritual Attitudes

christian’s inquiry

Helping you Live Biblically All Day Long

 

 

 

It isn’t until the Bible is brought into your life that it brings transformation and a close and intimate relationship with Jesus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By Mel D Westbrook MBTh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Introduction

What Helps With Focus?

The purpose of the Christian’s Inquiry booklet is to help you see what it is Jesus is trying to accomplish in you.  There are two situations where you typically apply yourself with a little more effort--if you know you are going to be tested or if you are in a life-situation that the information is helping you solve.  You are in a life-situation that Jesus is using these Biblical principles to solve.  But, you may not realize what kind of a solution Jesus is using.  He approaches solutions in a very different way.  These questions help you read and pray with much greater focus being applied to them.  Also, these questions are great for group discussion and time spent with a mentor.  Just circle the questions you feel would be good for discussion. 

 

How Do These Principles Help?

Once a week, you need to meet with your mentor or a group of friends and discuss that week’s Biblical principles.  The objective isn’t to see if you learned anything.  It is to see if you are being helped with your life’s issues.  Did you see Biblical truths that are able to help you be set free from your life’s challenges?  Did you learn important Biblical principles?  Did you see them as principles that could be applied to your relationships?  Did you see how the principles could be used in your daily activities?  Did you try to use them on those things you faced that week?  Did the principles make a difference?  Ask Jesus to help you keep these questions and purposes in front of you all during your week. 

 

How Do These Principles Help You?

The breakthroughs you have already experienced in your life are proof that Bible principles work.  As you go over the material and the questions in this Christian’s Inquiry booklet, where do you fit into the subjects?  Have you applied these principles to your life in the past and received breakthroughs you could share with your friends?  Were there times when you struggled with applying the principles and learned important things about how to apply them?  Ask Jesus to help you get yourself and your friends involved in this study and prayer process. 

 

An Open-Book Test

When you are aware of what questions you need to be asking yourself, and when you discuss these questions with a mentor or a group of friends, frequently you will get more out of your studies and prayers.  Pray and ask Jesus to help you take full advantage of this Christian’s Inquiry booklet and the questions in it. 

 

 

 

 

 

“Vital Spiritual Attitudes” Christian’s Inquiry

 

 Truth/Prayer Questions

Version: 25.10.11

 

 

Chapter One

What Does Life Look Like?

 

Week One Day Three

 

Where Is Your Control Center?

What does the Bible call the area where your emotions are produced? 

 

Is There A Way To Control The Controller?

When you add various things to your life, what is your ultimate goal? 

 

How Do I Control The Controller The Right Way?

Since your heart controls you, who are you going to allow to influence it? 

 

Why Is My Heart In Its Current Condition?

If you are not a production of your environment, then what has shaped your heart? 

 

How Has A God-Given Free Will Effected My Heart?

Where is the people pleaser’s true opinions and beliefs? 

 

What Do Outside Forces Do To Me?

What happens to you, if you are tricked or deceived into a personality change? 

 

What If I Keep Doing Something Wrong?

What creates your life-patterns, habits, addictions, obsessions, or your lifestyle? 

 

What About My Social Commitments?

What could keep you from following Jesus where He wants you to go? 

 

How Do I Find True Success In Life?

If you could start over in your life’s decisions, what would you change? 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Two

How Do I Bringing My Heart And Mind To God?

 

Week One Day Four

 

Do I Have A Way To Make My Body Obey?

Why do you need to feel an urgency for bringing your body under your control? 

 

Do I Appreciate God’s Gifts Enough?

What has God done for you in the past that you haven’t thanked Him for lately? 

 

What Am I Doing To Myself And Others?

How do you feel you measure up to God’s standards? 

 

How Do I Demonstrate My Love?

What good are you not doing that you feel you should be doing? 

 

How Is Being Trained And Healed, Love?

How did others being trained in the things of Jesus demonstrate love to you? 

 

How Do I Love God, Myself, And Others?

How does you loving others demonstrate your love for Jesus? 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Three

Jesus, Show Me The Doors Into Success

 

Week One Day Five

 

Who Is Jesus To Me?

Why should you accept Jesus’ thoughts and feelings over your own? 

 

Who Is The Authority On The Subject?

Why should you accept Jesus as the Authority on ALL subjects? 

 

What Is Different About Jesus’ Attitudes And Character?

Why would Jesus love you enough to be willing to die for you? 

 

What Does Jesus Do With His Power And Authority?

What keeps you from automatically respecting Who Jesus actually is? 

 

What Does Jesus Do With His Knowledge, Understanding, And Wisdom?

Why doesn’t Jesus charge for His knowledge, understanding, and wisdom? 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Four

Are There Doors Into Success?

 

Week Two Day One

 

I Am Opening My Heart And Mind To God

Do I Have A Body Barrier?

How does your body try to influence you to do things you shouldn’t? 

 

Is My Body Imprisoning Me?

What have you tried to do and your body wouldn’t let you? 

 

Is My Body Saturated With World Influence?

Where has your body spent most of its time being influenced? 

 

Am I Saturated With World Training?

Where have you received the major portion of your training for living life? 

 

What Are The Procedures Of Transformation?

What are you currently involved in that are bringing transformation to your mind? 

 

What Is The Process Of Mind Renewal?

How do The Three Keys and The Seven Biblical Principles help with mind renewal? 

 

How Do I Move My Behavior Into The Will Of God?

What does the will of God have to do with how you help a group of people? 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Five

What Are The Eight Vital Doors Into Success?

 

Week Two Day Two

 

Meet The Creator Of The Universe

What are some ways your body could keep you from meeting with Jesus? 

 

Getting The ABILITY To Receive Truth

Foundational Truth Number One

Why would being blessed by God be a great source of happiness? 

 

How Do I Get The Ability To Find Out?

What are the two main things God’s power-attitude of being poor in spirit empowers you with? 

 

What Is Truth Acceptance And Lie Resistance?

Once you believe something is true, what beside you should test its validity? 

 

 

A Quality Student Yielding To

A Quality Teacher And Material

HOLD

DESIRE: I you want to be poor in spirit, what do you have to accept Jesus’ teachings as? 

 

KNOW

STUDY AND PRAY: When you ASK Jesus to make you poor in spirit, what does that do to your study? 

 

TRUTH

BELIEVE: What is it you are believing after you ask Jesus to make you poor in spirit? 

 

FREE

LOVE, FAITH-ACTION, AND THANKFUL: How do you use being poor in spirit in your relationships? 

 

Poor In Spirit Is The Power To Never Give Up

According to Galatians 6:9, what happens if you never give up? 

 

Being Poor In Spirit Requires Patience

Why do you need patience during this phase of your growth? 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Six

Why Are These Eight Doors Vital?

 

Week Two Day Three

 

Being Poor In Spirit Produced This

How did you becoming teachable with Jesus help you get the John 8:31-32 results? 

 

Foundational Truth Number One

According to Matthew 5:3, what happens to you once you become poor in spirit? 

 

Being Poor In Spirit Gives You Ears That Hear

It Isn’t A Problem With God’s Plan

Since being poor in spirit makes you able to listen to Jesus, why won’t it force you to listen to Jesus? 

 

Spiritual Ears Are More Important Than Physical Ears

If you are missing a truth of God, what happens to you? 

 

Spiritual Understanding Is More Important Than Human Understanding

How can being poor in spirit set you free from a perceived “truth?” 

 

Being Poor In Spirit Makes Learning Possible

Why do you have so much unlearning to do? 

 

Having The Mind Of Jesus Makes Truth Possible

Since being poor in spirit gives you the power-attitude to desire the things of Jesus, what does the mind of Jesus do? 

 

The Truths Are Coming My Way

Since having the mind of Christ gives you the ability to understand the things of Jesus, what does being poor in spirit do? 

 

The Truths Are Coming To A Receptive Person

What should you do now that you have the mind of Christ and are being poor in spirit? 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Seven

Why Is My Esteem And Confidence Resistant To Change?

 

Week Two Day Four

 

Foundational Truth Number Two

Why would you want to mourn? 

 

The Battle With My Esteem And Confidence

If poor in spirit help you get good things, what does mourning do? 

 

Self-Esteem And Self-Confidence Can’t Handle Criticism

If you can’t handle criticism, how are you going to improve? 

 

Being Honest With Myself

If you have a perfect record with God, how can you be critiqued? 

 

My Salvation And Justification

What did salvation do to your past sins? 

What is justification doing to your current and future sins? 

 

My Deeds And Me The Doer

What has happened to you that has hurt your heart? 

 

The Emotional Language Of My Heart

Since your heart only speaks emotion, how does mourning help it? 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Eight

Why Is My Body Resistant To Change?

 

Week Two Day Five

 

I Live In A Body

What is the difference between you, a spirit being, and your body?

 

I Am A Spirit Being

Why aren’t the sins of your body held against you?

 

The Journey Into Mourning

How should you, a spirit being, feel about the sinful nature of your body? 

 

The Difference Between My Body And My Spirit

Do you, as a spirit being, believe what Romans 7:22 says about you is true? 

 

My Reason For Wanting To Mourn

What could keep your spirit from having a proper attitude about your body? 

 

 

The Healing Of My Heart By Getting A Mourning Attitude

I Am Allowing Jesus To Walk Me Through It

Why should you allow Jesus to take you through the mourning process? 

 

Heart Healing Through God’s System

What does it mean that mourning shows you to person you were? 

 

The Holy Spirit Is My Heart Healer

How would you go about praying an emotional prayer that was yielding to groans that words cannot express? 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Nine

What Was So Bad About The World?

 

Week Three Day One

 

The Battle With The World And My Salvation

I Am Totally Giving Up The World

How is living in your body, living in the world, and still remembering your past life hurting your heart? 

 

Appreciating What Jesus Saved Me From

What could Jesus show you that would help you hate your past life? 

What could Jesus show you that would help you want to help your unsaved friends be set free? 

 

Learning To See The Truth

What did you do in the past that is affecting your attitudes toward sin now? 

 

 

Getting A True Christian Attitude

What do the pleasures of sin try to convince you of? 

 

The Attitude Of The Holy Spirit

How would you feel, if your spouse shared their intimate love with someone else? 

 

Pride Lies To Me

How does pride keep you from totally believing God’s truths? 

 

The Two Major Assignments

Since you have made the Bible your final authority, how do you know when God is talking to you or it is Satan? 

 

The Submission Procedure

Why do you think you are required to make the first move in your relationship with God? 

 

Engaging In The Mouring Process

How long do you think you should yield to the mourning process? 

 

Enjoying The Benefits

What is your reward for humbling yourself before the Lord? 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Ten

How Do I Make It Right?

 

Week Three Day Two

 

The Battle With My Past And My Friends

Mourning About Past Abuses: Who can you think of that you need to make it right with? 

 

Getting Ready To Make Things Right: How can you see all kinds of people you have neglected, hurt, or failed and not feel condemnation and separation from God? 

 

The Criteria For Making Things Right

Love is patient: Is there someone you have been impatient with that you need to apologize to? 

 

Love Is Kind: How should you handle someone who won’t accept your apology? 

 

Love Does Not Envy And Does Not Boast: Have you established a bragging relationship with someone that you need to apologize to? 

 

Love Is Not Rude: Have you been rude where you acted like you were superior? 

 

Love Is Not Self-Seeking: Have you treated someone selfishly and need to apologize? 

 

Love Is Not Easily Angered: Have you verbally abused someone and need to apologize? 

 

Love Keeps No Record Of Wrongs: Do you need to forgive someone for many wrongs and apologize for memorizing just their wrong or bad things they did? 

 

Love Does Not Delight In Evil But Rejoices With The Truth: Is there someone you were glad wrong, bad, or evil things happened to them? 

 

Love Always Protects: Is there someone who needed your protection and you refused to help them?  Should you go to them and apologize for not being there when they needed you? 

 

Love Always Trusts: Have you believed someone guilty without proof? 

 

Love Always Hopes: Should you be praying for someone who looks hopeless? 

 

Love Always Perseveres: Have you given up on someone too quickly? 

 

Love Never Fails: Has your love failed someone and you need to reestablish it? 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Eleven

How Do I Yield To A True Expert?

 

Week Three Day Three

 

What is meekness? 

 

Replacing My Experts

What area in your life, career, or profession do you think you might not need Jesus’ expertise? 

 

My Meekness Relationships

When you have to have a human expert, where should you keep looking to Jesus? 

 

I Am Seeing God’s Qualifications

What makes Jesus’ expertise superior to others? 

 

I Am Establishing The Meekness-Relationship

Where do you think you might be basing your life on your own “expertise?” 

 

 

King David’s Philosophy Of Life

Evaluating My Meekness Toward Humans

What makes truth ineffective? 

 

I Am Maintaining Meekness Toward God

What was David’s attitude motivated by? 

What was David’s method governed by? 

 

I Am Getting The Results

What is the result, when you are meek in your relationship with God? 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Twelve

Trying To Be A True Expert

 

Week Three Day Four

 

King Solomon’s Philosophy Of Life

Where did Solomon get his wisdom? 

 

Meekness Toward Human Philosophy

Where did Solomon put his trust in the wisdom he got from God? 

 

The Results

When does your life become meaningless? 

 

Misplaced Meekness Ends Up Needing More

When will misplaced meekness bring satisfaction and completeness? 

 

Misplaced Meekness Usually Ends Up Blaming God

What caused Solomon to think he was living out God’s will? 

 

Solomon Had All The Resources

What did Solomon lack that would indicate that he didn’t try it all? 

 

How would meekness have helped Solomon’s experiences in life? 

 

If you had all of what Solomon had, what would you do differently? 

 

What is your indicator that meekness has lost its influence in your life? 

 

What did David have that Solomon lacked?  Which life would you prefer? 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Thirteen

What Helps Me With My Behavior?

 

Week Three Day Five

 

Jesus Establishes The Principles

What is the definition of righteousness?  

Who decides what is good and what is bad? 

 

I Need Replacement Attitudes

If Jesus isn’t as concerned with what you accomplish, then what is He concerned with? 

What drives out bad attitudes? 

 

Doing What I Am

Since you have a perfect record with God, what keeps wrong, bad and evil words and deeds from being considered bad fruit? 

 

Hunger And Thirst

If you do something wrong, what keeps it from being held against you? 

 

Where Does Righteousness Come From?

If you are a part of Jesus, the good tree, where does bad fruit come from? 

 

Experiencing Righteousness

Out of all the things that David and his son, Solomon, had in common, what was the major difference in the two? 

 

Deeds And Doers

What do you have to do in order to bear good fruit? 

 

Hunger And Thirst For Righteousness

What is the number one thing Jesus is looking for? 

 

I Am Remaining In Jesus

Since Jesus gave you a hunger and thirst for righteousness, what did He say would happen to you? 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Fourteen

What Changes My Behavior?

 

Week Four Day One

 

How To Be A Good Tree, Bearing Good Fruit Of Righteousness

1.     DESIRE: What did you get at salvation, righteousness or a hunger for it? 

 

2.     STUDY: How do you find out what Jesus’ righteousness looks like in real life? 

 

3.     PRAY: Once you know that you have been filled, what should you pray for? 

 

4.     BELIEVE: If you have Jesus’ righteousness flowing in you, why do you need faith? 

 

5.     LOVE: What is going to activate righteousness to others in your every day life? 

 

6.     FAITH-ACTION: What kind of opportunities should you be looking for during your day for righteousness to flow out of you? 

 

7.     THANKFUL: What should you remember to do when righteousness flows out of you?

 

The Seven Biblical Principles As Diagnostic Tools

Is righteousness a general provision?  Or, is it to yield to in each situation in your day? 

 

Getting An Intense Desire

If you got a hunger and thirst for righteousness at salvation and justification, why would you keep hungering and thirsting? 

 

Steps Into Intense Hunger And Thirst For Righteousness

1.     My Relationship With Jesus: How does His righteousness help with your marriage, family, business, career, and friendships? 

 

2.     My Relationship With Myself: What happens if you justify yourself? 

 

3.     My Relationship With Other People: When can you ASK for whatever you wish? 

 

4.     My Relationship With Life: What does unrighteousness do to love? 

 

5.     My Relationship With Jesus’ Commands: What do Jesus’ commands fulfill? 

 

6.     My Relationship With Jesus’ Love: When did you get God’s love?  Now that you have it, how do you take advantage of it? 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Fifteen

Can I Get Supernatural Behavior?

 

Week Four Day Two

 

Righteousness Solves People Conflicts

Where do you find the rules, laws, and commandments concerning righteousness? 

 

Asking For A Deep Desire

How do poor in spirit, mourning, and meekness help you with hungering and thirsting for righteousness? 

 

Being Evaluated By God

How does hungering and thirsting for righteousness effect your desires for improving your relationship with yourself and other people? 

 

Being Responsible For God’s Righteousness

How could your definition of righteousness lessen your hunger and thirst? 

 

Being Responsible For God’s DEFINITION Of Righteousness

How is God’s definition of righteousness different from a righteousness you can produce? 

 

Faith For A Righteousness From God

What do you have to have in order to see the Lord? 

 

Praying Your Way Into Perfection

Since, as a human, you will never be perfect, what should your attitude be concerning it? 

 

What Does It Mean: “Make Every Effort?”

If there has ever been a time in your Christian life where you thought, “Make Every Effort” was talking about your human effort, how did that effect your Christianity? 

 

Getting Perfection Into My LIFE

How can you go about heading toward living a perfect life? 

 

Getting Perfection Into My Relationships

According to Galatians 2:20, who is supposed to be living the perfect life?  Why isn’t He? 

 

Getting Help With Difficult People

Since holiness is perfect righteousness, why would God raise the bar so high? 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Sixteen

What Does Righteousness Look Like In Life?

 

Week Four Day Three

 

1.     Jesus, Give Me Your Type Of Influence

If you yielded your life to Jesus, how would that be righteousness to the people around you? 

 

2.     Jesus, Help Me Live And Teach Your Commandments

What is the difference between a hypocrite teacher and a righteous teacher? 

 

3.     Jesus, Help Me Bring Your Blessings To Others

How did Jesus feel about calling people names? 

 

4.     Jesus, Help Me Care About My Relationships

Why isn’t it righteousness for you go ahead and offer your gift to God and then go make things right with someone? 

 

5.     Jesus, Help Me Realize My Thoughts Matter

What are some other thoughts you could think that would be unrighteous? 

 

6.     Jesus, Help Me Fulfill My Commitments

What kind of unrighteous thoughts start to destroy a marriage? 

 

7.     Jesus, Help Me Keep My Word

What should be your motive for telling the truth and fulfilling your commitments? 

 

8.     Jesus, Help Me Live A Life Of Love, Grace, Mercy, And Forgiveness

 

The Three Keys, The Seven Biblical Principles, and the Eight Power-Attitudes Of God

What are the three toolsets for? 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Seventeen

What Does Mercy Require Of Me?

 

Week Four Day Four

 

Mercy

When is the only time you can be merciful to someone? 

 

Good Or Bad Future Investments

Why do a lot of people get abused? 

 

Mercy Comes Back To Me

How can you prepare for God giving you a life of mercy? 

What can be causing you to experience relational and circumstantial problems? 

 

Success Through Mercy

Because of Romans 8:28, why do you want to always show mercy to others? 

 

Getting Through Giving

Is there a way for you to give to get and it be okay with God? 

 

Getting More Than Given

Why would God give you more that you give to others? 

 

It Is Going To Take Jesus

What would happen if you just started giving without checking with Jesus where He wanted it given? 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Eighteen

Should Mercy Always Be Applied?

 

Week Four Day Five

 

A Gift To Those Who Don’t Deserve It

Why do you need God’s supernatural power in order to be meek? 

 

A List Of People Who Don’t Deserve Mercy

Who, among the Romans 1:29-31, deserves mercy? 

 

Mercy May Not Be Possible

Who, according to Matthew 7:6, should you not get too close to? 

Should you be merciful to these people? 

 

Mercy Isn’t Easy To Give Some People

Are evil people always dangerous and shouldn’t be shown mercy? 

 

Mercy Isn’t Always My First Reaction

How do you typically react when people gossip, slander, or lie about you? 

 

Mercy Takes The Supernatural Power Of God

How should you deal with an arrogant, prideful person? 

 

Mercy Takes The Supernatural Wisdom Of God

When someone says their sin isn’t mentioned in the Bible, what are they doing? 

 

Mercy Has To Apply To Those Close To Me

What do you do when someone really close to you lets you down? 

 

Mercy Has To Apply To Those Who Lack Any Conscience

Since you need to stay as far away from those who are senseless, faithless, heartless, and ruthless, how do you show them mercy? 

 

If someone doesn’t appreciate your mercy, how should you feel about it? 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Nineteen

How Does Being Pure In Heart Bring Healing?

 

Week Five Day One

 

This Is The Love I Received From God

According to 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, what does God’s love look like in your life? 

 

A Pure Heart Establishes Trustworthiness

How do love-thoughts help you be trustworthy and pure hearted? 

 

God’s Love Is The Power To Win

What book will help you do a much more thorough study and prayer time on 1 Corinthians 13:4-8? 

 

It Starts With My Heart

According to Romans 7:22, what is your true desire? 

 

Contaminating My Heart

Besides forgiving people, what else to you need to get for your heart? 

 

Understanding My Heart’s Hidden Agendas

Since you can’t change your heart, how do you get it healed? 

 

Dealing With My Heart’s Hidden Agendas

Since you don’t know what to pray about for your heart, how should you pray? 

 

Getting Inside Information

How does your heart express itself through your facial expressions? 

 

My Prayer Team

How do you take advantage of the work of the Holy Spirit and your heavenly Father? 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Twenty

How Can I Be Imperfect With A Pure Heart?

 

Week Five Day Two

 

1.     My Pure Heart Is A Miracle Of God

Since your heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure, how can it be cured? 

 

2.     My Pure Heart Is An Open Book

How can you have a pure heart and still have secrets? 

 

3.     My Pure Heart Speaks The Truth Through Love

How does a lack of truth damage everyone’s life? 

How does a lack of love damage everyone’s life? 

 

4.     My Pure Heart Gets And Gives Life

How can a pure heart set you free from the slavery of the world? 

 

5.     My Pure Heart Sets People Free

How can you having a pure heart help you bring people to Jesus? 

 

6.     My Pure Heart Gives Me A Life That Is Full

What does a pure heart do to the way you try to please people? 

 

7.     My Pure Heart Is Freed By Me Defeating My Body

What is motivation your body? 

What kind of a life can a pure heart help you live? 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Twenty-One

How Do I Get Peace So I Can Give Peace?

 

Week Five Day Three

 

Peace That Comes From A Pure Heart

What does a peacemaker have to have before they can be a peacemaker? 

 

The Power That Enables My Peace

What keeps you from trying to get God-sided emotional support from humans? 

 

A Peacemaker’s Heart

Since you still have the memories of how you used to handle things, how do you yield to peacemaking rather than contributing to the problem? 

 

Dealing With Negative Emotions

According to John 14:27, what should you believe? 

 

Peace Through Faith

Since your mind knows you are safe with Jesus by you, how do you get your heart to agree? 

 

Sharing A Heart Of Peace

What do you have to do beyond just not joining in on the fight? 

 

Being A Mediator

How do you invite and include Jesus in your solutions for providing peacemaking help? 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Twenty-Two

What Is Causing The Lack Of Peace?

 

Week Five Day Four

 

Peace MAKERS

According to John 14:27, what is typically the cause of fighting? 

 

A Permanent Solution

According to James 4:1, what is the underlying cause of strife? 

What should you do about foundational, spiritual issues? 

 

No Temporary Relief

What would meet a person’s spiritual, relational, emotional, financial, and physical needs permanently? 

 

Providing A Peacemaker’s Solution

How do some become hungry, thirsty, lonely, naked, sick, and imprisoned people? 

 

A Peacemaker’s Solution

Once all kinds of mistreatment build up inside a person, what happens when someone sets them off? 

 

Peacemakers Provide Peace

Now that you are a Christian, why aren’t you hungry, thirsty, lonely, naked, sick, and imprisoned? 

 

Transformation Peacemakers

According to Matthew 28:20, what would meet the needs of the hungry, thirsty, lonely, naked, sick, and imprisoned? 

 

People Who Don’t Want Peace

What happens, if you try to decide who to help and who not to help? 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Twenty-Three

How Do I Resist Being Controlled By Public Opinion?

 

Week Five Day Five

 

What is persecution? 

 

Resisting World Wisdom

How should you fight against persecution? 

 

Resisting Social Pressure

What are some reasons you find yourself failing to resist social pressure? 

 

 

Handling False Accusations

Being Able To Be Different

Where do people typically get their information about Jesus and Christianity? 

 

Being Able To Be Strong

Why would Satan and his people want to silence you? 

 

Being Able To Stick With The Message

If you get lied about, what will you try to prove? 

 

 

Keep Your Eyes On The Prize

I Want To Upset Satan And His People

What should you be doing that will make Satan mad? 

 

Setting Your Priorities

How can the issues of life keep you from having an eternal perspective? 

 

I Am In Good Company

How can the Bible heroes help you keep your eternal perspective? 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Twenty-Four

How Do I Do What I Takes To Be Persecuted?

 

Week Six Day One

 

We’ve Already Tried Those Things

How will your family, group, team, or company feel, when you try to produce win/win results for all families, groups, teams, or companies that are involved in the transaction? 

 

Look At It This Way

Why are you doing the things you are doing here on earth? 

 

Resistance Before Success

What are some of Satan’s efforts for trying to keep you from sharing Jesus with others? 

 

Resistance After Success

When you start succeeding at bringing people to Jesus, what will happen to the persecution that comes against you? 

 

My Body Has Some Things To Worry About

What would cause you to not worry about someone who can kill your body? 

 

Persecution Can Make My Body Suffer

What would cause you to not worry about someone persecuting you? 

 

I Need Incentives

What would cause you to be willing to be persecuted and maybe even martyred? 

 

It’s Normal To Suffer

What is your only two choices about suffering? 

 

Punished For Doing The Right Thing

What right thing are you being persecuted for? 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Twenty-Five

How Do I Get God’s Power Attitudes – Part One

 

Week Six Day Two

 

Prayers For Being Poor In Spirit

Poor In Spirit As It Relates To The Bible: What are some ways for you to know what the Bible says about a subject and how to find it? 

 

Poor In Spirit As It Relates To The Holy Spirit: How can you be poor in spirit when the Holy Spirit gives you a meaning to a Scripture that you don’t like what it means? 

Since being poor in spirit is God’s power to obey your conscience, what should you do when you have done something against it? 

 

Poor In Spirit As It Relates To Jesus: Since Jesus lives in you, how does you being poor in spirit help you yield to His thoughts, feelings, words, and deeds? 

 

Poor In Spirit As It Relates To Jesus’ Leaders: Since Jesus gave ministerial gifts to the mature Christians over you, how does you being poor in spirt help you take their training without you just believing everything they say? 

 

Poor In Spirit As It Relates To Other People: Since you are to love others like Jesus has loved you, how does you being poor in spirit help you to demonstrate that love? 

 

Prayers For Mourning

Mouring Over Sinning Against My Conscience: Since sinning against your conscience is either accidental or on purpose, how do you go about finding out what your motives were? 

 

Mouring After Repenting Of A Sin: What happens to your heart and mind when you do wrong, bad, or evil? 

 

Mourning Under Jesus’ Guidance: What do you do to Jesus, when you sin? 

 

Mourning Under The Holy Spirit’s Guidance: Since the Holy Spirit is your major help with heart and mind healing, how should you allow Him to effect your emotions when you pray? 

 

Mourning Over Hurting Others: According to Romans 7:15, how should you feel, when you hurt others? 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Twenty-Six

How Do I Get God’s Power Attitudes – Part Two

 

Week Six Day Three

 

Prayers For Meekness

Meekness Is Respect For God

Since meekness is your power to respect God, what do you want to use it on? 

 

Meekness Honors God’s Word

What do you have that is in conflict with the concepts of God? 

 

Meekness Honors Jesus’ Body

Since you are an organ in Jesus’ Body, how can you unite with other Christians for being helpful in His Body? 

 

Meekness Honors Jesus’ Gifts

As a member of Jesus’ Body, what part do you think He is training you to be? 

 

 

Prayers For Hunger And Thirst For Righteousness

Righteousness Must Be My Priority

If you make righteousness as your priority over things, what happens with all those things you have to have? 

 

Righteousness Isn’t Just An External Act

What is the meaning of righteousness? 

 

Righteousness Prepares Me For Eternity

According to Matthew 25:37-40, what does righteousness look like? 

 

Jesus’ Righteousness Is Your Righteousness

What makes righteousness flow in and through you? 

 

Jesus’ Righteousness Can Become Your Behavior

Where does righteousness show up in your life? 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Twenty-Seven

How Do I Get God’s Power Attitudes – Part Three

 

Week Six Day Four

 

Prayers For Being Merciful

I Have Alread Received Mercy: How would you react to someone who refuses your mercy? 

 

I Give Up The Issue Of What Is Deserved: How does Jesus feel about things being fair? 

 

I Receive The Miracle Of Mercy: When Jesus, through the Bible, says “be merciful,” what happens to you, if you believe? 

 

God Is Merciful: Why is God merciful? 

 

I Dedicate My Body To Jesus’ Ministry: Why are you offering your body as a living sacrifice, in view of God’s mercy? 

 

I Yield To Mercy As A Part Of Jesus’ Ministry: Why would you want to add the mercy ministry to your Jesus-ministry? 

 

 

Prayers For Being Pure In Heart

I Am Resisting Deception: When people see your pure heart, what does that reveal to them? 

 

I Am Resisting Impurity: What does an impure person’s future look like? 

 

I Am Being Filled With Knowledge And Insight: What does knowledge and insight do for you? 

 

I Am Becoming Transparent: What keeps you from being blameless and pure? 

 

My Thoughts Are Becoming Pure: How would you go about thinking pure thoughts

 

My Heart Is Being Tested For Purity: Since your motives come from your heart, what God’s test be looking for? 

 

Holiness Is A Life Of Purity: What is a holy life? 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Twenty-Eight

How Do I Get God’s Power Attitudes – Part Four

 

Week Six Day Five

 

Prayers For Being A Peacemaker

Some Don’t Get Peace Yet

Why don’t some people qualify for peace? 

 

I’m Looking For Peace-Seekers

What kind of people is a peacemaker looking for? 

 

I’m Avoiding Peace-Resisters

How do you know when you are dealing with someone who is resisting peace? 

 

I’m Making The Right Choices

According to John 14:27, what are your choices? 

 

I’m Believing The Right Things

According to John 16:33, what are you to believe so your heart can have peace? 

 

I’m Resisting All Deeds Of Evil

According to Romans 2:9-10, what do you get, if you do good? 

 

I’m A Peacemaker With A Good News Message

What has created a foundation of peace for you and a good news message for others? 

 

Prayers For Being Willing To Be Persecuted

I’m Willing To Be Persecuted

What does suffering produce? 

 

I’m Sharing Jesus’ Suffering

What part of you is in real, potential danger? 

 

I’m Taking Up My Cross

What does Jesus mean, when He tells you to take up your cross? 

 

I’m Counting The Cost

When being persecuted, where should your eyes be? 

 

Opening Doors To Sharing With Leaders

What could happen to you just so you could share Jesus with leaders?