• Emotionally Healthy Spirituality II

“Know Yourself That You May Know God”

Awareness of _____________________ and your ___________________ with God are intricately related.

Dividing our knowledge of God from our knowledge of ourselves can easily keep us at a _________________ level of spiritual/emotional development.

The majority of individuals go to their ______________ without knowing __________ they really are.

Most Christians don’t think that they have _____________________ to consider their feelings, to name them, or express them _________________.

When we ________________ our pain, losses, and feelings year after year, we become less and less _____________________.

The journey of genuine transformation to emotionally healthy spirituality begins with a commitment to allow yourself to ________________.

We are human beings made in God’s likeness and part of that likeness is to _______________.

We’re to ______________________ our feelings, reflect on our feelings, and _____________________ respond to our feelings under the lordship of Christ.

When we ___________________ our most intense emotions, we’re not being _____________ to ourselves and close off an open door through which to know God.

Allow yourself to experience the full weight of your feelings without ____________________ them, and then you can reflect and decide what to do with them and trust God to come to you through them.

God invites us to remove the ________________ layers we wear to reveal our authentic self. The issue is how to _________________ the false self and allow our true self in Christ to emerge.

THE TEMPTATIONS TOWARD A FALSE SELF

1. I am what I do: ________________________
2. I am what I have: ______________________
3. I am what others think: __________________________

DEVELOPING YOUR AUTHENTIC SELF

1. Pay attention to your interior in silence & solitude
   1. Silence and solitude are ____________________ to emotionally healthy spirituality.
   2. Learn to slow down the ________________ of your life.
   3. ______________________ will keep us from listening to our feelings, desires, dreams, likes, and dislikes.
2. Find trusted companions
   1. It can be very difficult to shed ___________________ of your false self in order for your true self to emerge unless you have trusted, __________________ companions to help along the way.
   2. There will be _________________ by others to keep us living lives that are not our own.
   3. Self-deception can easily cause us to fall into the trap of living in __________________ .
3. Move out of your comfort zone
   1. Are you living ____________________ to the life God has asked you to live?
   2. The ___________________ of living a life that’s not God’s for you can grow greater than the pain of _____________________ thereby causing you to shift out of your comfort zone.
4. Pray for courage
   1. When we shift into our true self in Christ, it’s always accompanied by a _______________________ from those close to us.

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