One routine I plan to implement is silence. I tend to frantically fill each empty space with constant noise and stimulation. I always feel an imminent pressure to optimize every moment. Being silent can be hard. I often associate silence with guilt, laziness, or inefficiency. But my lack of silence creates hurriedness, anxiety, and lack of intentionality in my life with God and a lot of the things he has called me to do. Practically, I want to find those in between moments to allow silence in. Allow silent moments during my prayer time. Allow silent drives. Eat in silence. Read in silence. Silence would help me to quiet the noise I fill my life with that often times dulls out the still , steady presence of God. I miss him in so many moments because I am uncomfortable sitting in the peace and stillness of him.

I believe God is calling me into deeper consecration with my integrity. I’m always a kind and genuine person. But I think I only truly act like a bride to Jesus while i’m in environments I feel comfortable fully walking in that level of consecration. Outside of church, I play it more quiet and try to just blend in as a kind caring neighbor and citizen. But I dont walk in the spirit as much and exercise my gifts and be “set apart”. I wont conform to sin, but I dont fully act set apart and consecrated to God. I want to build more of that integrity in being as consecrated inside of church as I am outside. This looks like being more comfortable talking about God to strangers, saying God bless, offering to pray for people if I feel a pull to from the spirit, etc. We look the most like God when we serve other people, so a lifestyle of reflecting God more is the goal , in every area of my life. It’s easy to reflect God in church where people get it and are aligned, but I want a level of consecration and confidence so deep I can walk in a lifestyle of the holy spirit perspective even when the people around me don’t understand or will judge me.

I think I can go more to being Gods friend through the avenue as gratitude. I tend to end up just being his servant when I get in the place of only talking to him for my own needs. To ask for things. But through gratitude I can definitely build more of a friendship. Thank him for the open parking spots. Pray out of joy and love for him. I want to be praying to him more out of love then of need, and through that I think it will strengthen our friendship more

I did the book of Romans 1. The book was written by Paul 2. Church of Rome was Jewish and gentile christians. There was a time where the Jewish were exiled from Rome, and when they came back, they came back to a primarily gentile church non jewish in their traditions creating tension and division between the two christian groups. Paul wrote this letter to Rome to unify the church and also help support his goal of spreading the gospel to Spain. Because of both of these goals , this is Paul’s fullest written description of the gospel, using Jesus to re unify the Church of Rome. 3. Key Takeaways -We are all a part of one big covenant family, through faith in Jesus alone. -The only reasonable response to what God has done through Jesus is to unify through love, to see how we can all serve each other and do good things. -Love is the greatest virtue in the Church to unify us all -Religious practices don’t define whose in the family of Jesus or not.

For me , the mountain top is in my secret place and also through anything at church where I can sit in / recieve from God. Worship, messages, praying at the altar, etc. It strengthens my discernment a lot, as well as my faith in general. Each time I go to the mountain top and encounter God he will refine me a little more, grow me a little more, speak to me a little more. It helps me to work on breaking down my flesh shaped by the world In the past, and continue to reflect God more and more just through exposure. The more times I return to the mountain top, the more my character is transformed. This helps me to operate in “the valley” with a discernment of being strong in who God has called me to be, and being able to keep a heavenly perspective and bring some of God down to those valley places. A perspective God has shown me that is necessary for this season i’m in is that his love is truly enough. He can fully satisfy me. And that the times I have maybe not believed that or acted out of chasing satisfaction from something else were the times that brought bad things into my life. So now I try to go into every situation knowing fully God loves me and I don’t have to earn or chase love and acceptance