Quote: "all time is wasted that is not spent seeking God." -Lahiri Mahasaya.
Key Verse: Jeremiah 29:13: You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
Olelo Noeau: #806: He maʻona ʻai a he maʻona iʻa ko ka noanoa. Translation: The commoner is satisfied with food and fish
Meaning: the commoner has no greater ambition than success in farming and fishing.
Changes: Family lifestyle, super distracted by 2 major things (food and electronics), focus from Christ, mood, motivation.
Choices: changing my lifestyle, what I needed to do to change it
Challenges: temptation, distractions, food, electronics, self control.
What I did to re focus: participated in safe fasting.
Why should I fast? podcast episode by proverbs 31 ministries: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-proverbs-31-ministries-podcast/id757953988?i=1000437401493
Where we read from: 2 Peter 1:1-4, Mark 4
Other scriptures:
-Proverbs 13:4: Lazy people eat much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper.
-Hebrews 11:6: And it is impossible to please god without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.
-Psalm 73:26: My health may fail and may spirit may grow weak , but God remains the strength of my heart; he is mine forever
-James 1:14: Tempttion comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away.
-Proverbs 25:28: A person without self-control is like a city with broken down walls
-2 Peter 1:1-4: To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours: Grace and peace be yours in abundance throughout the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the wold caused by evil desires.
-Mark 4:7: “Other seeds fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain.”
-Mark 4:18-19: “Still others like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.”
-Mark 4:8: Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times.
-Mark 4:20: Other, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop- some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.
-John 3:30: “He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less.
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