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Having Good Religion<\/span><\/h2>\n

Caring For Our Main People \u2013 Part 4<\/span><\/h3>\n

It’s easy to live and allow life to happen; that’s normal. My people and the people reading this aren’t normal nor do we want to be. So we do stuff like form plans to impact the spirituality of those closest to us. In other words, we help inspire spiritual growth in the lives of the people we do life with. What are we doing in our home to promote living a spiritual life? How are we being an example to our nuclear-family so that they too are uncommon?<\/span><\/p>\n

I relate having a lifestyle unlike anyone else to living a spiritual lifestyle. It’s what makes a person uncommon. So here’s a basic question and one we used to hear years ago, do you have good religion? Does your family have good religion? Everyone has religion, but do we have good religion?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPhysical training is good, but training for godliness is much better, promising benefits in this life and in the life to come.\u201d – <\/span>bible.com\/bible\/116\/1TI.4.8.NLT<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"The Thought or Concept:<\/span>
<\/span>The most important piece of our living is our spiritual health. Pamela and I have learned to apply great attention to this area. Let me explain why. Your being has three parts and all three parts need care: <\/span>body<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>soul<\/span><\/a>, <\/span><\/span>and <\/span>spirit<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span> The most important of the three is spirit. It’s your spirit that has the ability to override either of the other two which receive attention quite often. Not to go into too much more detail on that subject as this is not really the place for that lesson, but rather the lesson on how we care for my people’s spiritually. You see everything needs a plan if you desire to make it better. If you want to grow in an area don’t fool yourself it’s not automatic, it takes a plan of action. So let’s get down to the plans we have for improving our spiritual health, our good religion.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Practice:<\/span>
<\/span>To improve our spiritual health we target four facets. These four areas contribute to us having good religion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Side-note: remember we’re people of faith and for those reading this that aren’t, the practices listed below are still worthwhile and will yield life changing results.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Prayer and fasting.<\/strong>
    <\/span>Prayer and fasting in this case doesn’t mean they are always together. We make prayer <\/span>    our normal daily habit<\/span><\/a><\/span>. There are many reasons why we pray which I won’t get into, but the Bible says we should pray in all things and pray without ceasing. Since we’re people of faith, we make it <\/span>our daily habit<\/span><\/a><\/span>. Remember, if you plan to change, grow, and improve you must follow a well put together plan then. So I’m going to lay out our plan for prayer and fasting.<\/span>\n