Care for the soul

The slides from Mike Newport's talk about the soul on Sunday 8th May.

Transcript

2. OUTER WORLD INNER WORLD
3. “Why is there such value and mystery to our existence? The real deep reason is because of this tiny, fragile, vulnerable, precious thing about you called your SOUL. You are not just a SELF; you are a SOUL. You’re a soul made by God, made for God, and made to need God, which means you weren’t made to be self-sufficient” Dallas Willard
4. SELF v’s SOUL The more we obsess with SELF, the more we neglect our SOULS Fulfill YOURSELF Take care of YOURSELF Believe in YOURSELF Express YOURSELF Be YOURSELF Stand up for YOURSELF Love YOURSELF
5. WIL L MIN D BODY SOU L
6. YOUR WILL Your Intentions YOUR MIND Your thoughts, feelings, values and conscience YOUR BODY Your face, body language, and actions YOUR SOUL The operating system of your life
7. “ The soul is what integrates your WILL (your intentions), your MIND (your thoughts and feelings, your values and conscience), and your BODY (Your face, body language and actions) into a single life” “Beyond that, the soul seeks to connect us with other people, with creation, and with God”
8. “What the soul truly desires is God The soul will never be satisfied without God”
9. “The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside still waters, He refreshes my soul” Psalm 23 v 1-3
10. “As a deer pants for streams of water, So my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the Living God.” Psalm 42 v 1-2
11. “Truly my soul finds rest in God; My salvation comes form him. Truly he is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress, I will never be shaken.” Psalm 62 v 1-2
12. “The key to maintaining our spiritual health and a healthy soul is to RUTHLESSLY ELIMATE HURRY FROM OUR LIVES” Dallas Willard
13. “There is a world of difference between being BUSY and being HURRIED”
14. •An outward condition of the body •Many activities, full diaries, physically demanding •Inevitable in our modern culture •There are limits to how much busy-ness we can tolerate •Requires wisdom to priorities, slow down, get rest •Busy-ness, by it-self, is not lethal BUSY- NESS
15. HURRY • An INNER condition, a condition of the SOUL • It means to be so preoccupied with yourself, and your life that you are unable to be present with God, with yourself, and with other people. • Busy-ness develops into hurry when we let it squeeze God out of our lives • It drains us spiritually • Causes us to be unavailable to God • Our souls become fatigued
16. SOUL FATIGUE BODY GROWS WEARY MIND GROWS WEARY WILL GROWS WEARY
17. SYMPTOMS OF A FATIGUED SOUL • DIFFICULTY MAKING DECISIONS • FEELING CONSTANTLY VULNERABLE TO PEOPLE & CIRCUMSTANCES • JUDGEMENT SUFFERS - LACK OF PATIENCE • DISPROPORTIONATE RESPONSES TO RELATIVELY MINOR SITUATIONS • FINDING IDENTITY IN EXTERNALS • RELATIONAL FRICTION - RESENTMENT OF OTHERS • IRRITATION & ANGER • WITHDRAWING SOCIALLY – RUN AWAY • OVER EATING, OVER DRINKING, OVERMEDICATING, OVER SPENDING • OVER WORKING • ESCAPISM – TV, SOCIAL MEDIA
18. ELIJAH – 1 KINGS 19
21. ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE A SOUL AND AN INNER LIFE YOU ARE REQUIRED TO NUTURE AND CARE FOR REFLECT AND ALLOW GOD TO SPEAK TO YOU ABOUT THE CONDITION OF YOUR SOUL ASSESS THE CHOICES YOU ARE MAKING AND IN WHAT, WHERE, AND WHO YOU ARE INVESTING IN CONSIDER WHAT GOD WOULD HAVE YOU CHANGE