More Righteousness
Matthew 5:20 Jesus says
"For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven."
We can grow righteousness
That's Right! We can increase our experiences with love and peace. We can wake up each day, pray for the Elements of Righteousness to be within our hearts, minds, words, attitudes, and actions. Thinking and sensing is required. We can give ourselves increasingly more over to these Elements and learn more how they are good. We can witness good consequences as we cooperate more and more with God's righteousness.
Hope for Community
It is my hope that others will grow more in God's righteousness, despite what anyone else says or does, and continue in them. As more people grow in this righteousness, so too will the visibility and experience of God's love. Let's grow in it, lead others by example and demonstration, and bring to life the will of God. Great love can come.
Raise the Bar
Examine yourself with God. Look long enough at God's righteousness to see how you can grow in it. Walk in it as an example for others. Be Godly different. Share your experience, struggles, and growth. Invite others to join you in the experience. Stay with the inward sensing of what is spiritually good and right.
We can reduce evil
Identify
With courage, strength, and faith in God, we can examine our thoughts, words, attitudes, and actions, to learn how we can be free from spiritually evil contaminants. We can face uncomfortable truth about our thoughts, beliefs, habits, words, attitudes, and actions. We own them, they don't own us. We can decide to stop feeding them and giving them life. We can learn how our practicing of them affects our inward sensations.
Repent
Little by little we boldly take steps to inwardly replace current evil messages with messages of righteousness. We bring to life The Elements of Righteousness within our minds each day. We pray for strength and courage to carry them out. We contemplate them, talk about them, and bring them into feelings and sensations. We not only think about love and peace, but sense it.
Experience
With each Inward Adjustment toward righteousness, we can situate ourselves to witness things as never before. God's love and peace is a powerful experience and sensation. So too is evil. The more we walk with evil, the more miserable we can be. The more we walk in God's righteousness, the more we can experience and feel alive within our senses.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 Test all things; hold fast what is good.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 Test all things; hold fast what is good.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 Test all things; hold fast what is good.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 Test all things; hold fast what is good.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 Test all things; hold fast what is good.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 Test all things; hold fast what is good.
Why not grow righteousness
Deception, that's why. It surrounds us and is in us, but so is God and God's righteousness. We simply need to refocus ourselves with God. When our minds witness evil, we can prompt ourselves toward righteousness. We can do this. We can fall away from doing it and get back to it again. Growing peace, freedom, and love will always involve an inward shift toward it. We can proactively set our thoughts in that direction each day. Even when we inwardly feel miserable. Our thoughts matter. Let's practice thoughts with God's righteousness.
Let's agree to strive toward self-encouragement and not self-condemnation. We can choose to bring inward thoughts that are good and productive. We can add such thoughts each day. We can learn how they are good as we use them. With God, this is possible.
We need to develop our vocabulary to abide more with God. If God is about love and peace and we want to grow with God, then we will need to inwardly grow likewise. Our thoughts words and attitudes can develop more love and peace. This means inward change.
There is a lot of information available here. Understanding the information will require some new inward spiritual experience. This experience often results from the following formula - trusting God, self-examination, confession, repentance, and restitution. We can learn our errors with a mindset of improving with God. Correction is to be better. This is good.
This page provides links that can help with understanding the process. As we give ourselves over to build spiritual awareness through experiences, we can gain spiritual wisdom and understand God better. To the extent we participate in God's righteousness can be the extent we develop spiritual wisdom.
See Deuteronomy 30:11-14, John 15, Ezekiel 18, 2 Corinthians 10:5, and Romans 11:16-24.
The first step will be to learn, identify, and remove contaminates which can corrupt or block spiritual sensations of love. Resentment, fear, self-seeking, dishonesty, and superficial perceptions can block our ability to sense love and spiritual reality.
The following teachings can provide information more about this spiritual reality. As you take in the information, seek out where you may have room to improve. Perhaps jot down some ideas upon how you can improve. Remember, this is for growth and a better quality of life. Feeling or the desire to avoid discomfort can interfere. Let's pray for strength and courage to face the path of spiritual improvement and walk in it.
Inward Formation Intro - Podcast Video
Inward Training - Podcast, Video
Humble, Willing, Truthful - Podcast
Be clay - Podcast 24 min., Video 2 min.
Applying God's instructions - Podcast
The Evidence 'God's instructions' - Podcast
Fear - Podcast
Hypocrite - Podcast
Without hypocrisy - Podcast
Resentments & Forgiveness - Podcast
Repentance is like a righteous adjustment
Righteous Adjustments intro - Podcast
Righteous Adjustments 'Faith' - Podcast
Righteous Adjustments 'Self-seeking' - Podcast
Righteous Adjustments 'Resentments' - Podcast
As we let go of our participation with such contaminates, we can add inward participation with God's righteousness. We can choose to forgive. This is a process and it requires inward focus.
Sample Podcast Meditations - Humble, Justice, Great Commandment, Love
Experience with meditation - Podcast
Experience with love - Podcast
Website page links
Ready for action - STAGES OF GROWTH , ALIGN & ADJUST FAITH ,
Learn about God - DEFINE GOD
Experience with righteousness - Podcast Series
Elements for growth - Podcast Series
Evidence - Podcast Series
Salvation - Podcast Series
Spiritual Growth Elements
Choices
We have free will to grow evil or righteousness. It's our choice and how we use our free will brings forth results and effects. As we evaluate ourselves we can learn how our choices with righteousness or evil affect ourselves and others.
Our application matters
How much time or how well we use it toward our growth matters. Our diligence or effort matters. The level of our concentration matters. Faith is not a catch phrase, it is a necessary component to grow. This too with perseverance and adjustments.
Self reflection
It is a good and helpful ritual to regularly practice self-reflection upon all the Elements to ensure we are progressing in them. We can always be open to inviting feedback from those close to us. They might see things we do not. Remember, deception is everywhere, but so is God. Let's keep turning to God.
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