![]() Through the spiritual experience of study the mind takes on the order and rhythm of whatever it concentrates upon. Fasting is one means through which we open our spirits to the Kingdom of God and concentrate upon the work of God. Prayer is the life of perpetual communion. Through meditation we come to hear God’s voice and obey his word. They include both inward and outward experiences. ![]() These Spiritual Disciplines concern both group and individual life. As Elizabeth O’Connor has said, “no person or group or movement has vigor and power unless it is disciplined.” We must take up a consciously chosen course of action that places us before God in such a way that he can work the righteousness of the Kingdom into us. We need to go through a process of sowing to the Spirit, through the exercise of the classical Disciplines of the spiritual life. ![]() But such purity of heart does not just fall on our heads. ![]() In The Imitation of Christ Thomas à Kempis says, “The life of a good man must be mighty in virtues, that he should be inwardly what he appears outwardly to others.” We need God’s life and light to transform our inner spirit so that righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit begin to pervade all we are and think. ![]()
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