Friday, February 2, 2024

Journal

Please use one of the prompts below to get your journaling started.

  • Explore your fears and what’s behind them.

  • Write about a relational conflict you are experiencing.

  • List out all that you are grateful for.

  • Recall a significant reaction, conversation or event.

Bible Text: 2 Timothy 1:5-7

5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well. 6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,  7 for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Reflection & Application

  • From the exhortation to “fan into flame the gift of God” what can we learn about the relationship between God’s gift and the Christian’s responsibility?

  • What are some gifts given to every Christian, and are there ways in which I have allowed the flames of these gifts to die?

  • How can I concretely “fan into flame the gift of God”?

  • In what ways are the three things—“power, love, and self-control”—demonstrated in Jesus?

  • In what ways is there evidence of this spirit of God working in my life?