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Week:
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Humility, Weakness, and Renewal
Humble growth, repentance, reclaiming lost ground. This session reframes weakness as a place of grace and growth, inviting honest repentance and the humility that precedes renewal. It teaches how to reclaim areas of life that have drifted from God through confession, restoration, and small corrective practices. Participants are encouraged to see vulnerability as a pathway to deeper formation.
Objectives
Reclaim spiritual habits that were lost.
Learn how weakness becomes a channel for God’s strength.
Practice confession and restoration.
Reflections
Who will walk with me in this renewal?
What habit do I want to reclaim and why?
Where do I hide weakness instead of bringing it to God?
NowTo the HowTo
Accountability/Tracking
Weekly check ins with an accountability partner to report progress on the habit restart.
Community Action
Pair for a 7 day habit restart where partners encourage one another daily.
Creative Project
Create a “renewal roadmap” listing three small, concrete steps to reclaim a lost habit.
Leader Prompt
Facilitate a non shaming confession time and offer practical next steps for restoration.
Personal Practice
Confess one small failing in writing and tear it up or place it in a “renewal box” as a symbolic act.
Devotionals
Wither Goest Thou
Many times in my life, I've been ashamed, embarrassed, or just plain dissatisfied with my own 'self', my own being, my own performance or actions. Frankly, I have more of a tendency to faltering, falling short, or certainly disappointing those around me and it IS disheartening, discouraging, and certainly unsatisfactory to me (I know I can be/do better). So, I'd like to hide, run, avoid, even just 'change the subject' in my life... not let you 'see me this way'... not be exposed to the...
Gotch'er Back
Tumult, discord, chaos, or even just simple confusion are all mechanisms of fear... and Satan loves using fear to set us back on our heels, to cause doubt, or merely to cause us to pause long enough to just miss a 'divine appointment'. Our devotional today helps remind us that fear can actually be a good 'trigger' to heighten our awareness of Jesus in our lives... and exercising faith in Jesus will automatically minimize the fear Satan wants us to 'respect'. After-all, we 'are' respecting...
Go On, Admitted It
Jesus is not a crutch; He's the whole hospital! He can repair your brokenness. He can heal your diseases. He can transplant your sinful heart. He can breathe new life into your lungs. He can straighten and strengthen your spine. He can bring sight to the blind. He can revive your very soul. We just have to be 'admitted' into His care; no longer getting 'outpatient' care, no longer using God like a bandaid that we later rip off once the healing has begun. He is not a crutch that we set aside...
Inadequately Insufficient Deficiency
Three words that help speak volumes for the 'groanings' I struggle over in my life... trying to be acceptable (please keep me around)... trying to be compliant (I can follow rules)... trying to be faultless or blameless (am I doing the right things?). Yet, someone, somewhere, someway construes their viewpoint in such a way as to question integrity, honor, and certainly stature in our lives. Sometimes, it leaves me feeling ashamed, embarrassed, and certainly unworthy to turn to the Lord, to...
Expose Your Feelings
Our devotional today gets right into the middle of our feelings. Not in a hurtful or exciting way, but to help us expose how they directly impact our lives with the Lord. See, feelings are such a grey-area gateway between our spiritual lives and physical lives, and therein tend to provide confusing signals and perceptions to the world around us (our horizontal experiences) and the leading of the Lord Himself (our vertical experiences). One of the clearest descriptions for 'feelings', is; "...