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    Bend Your Knees to Ease Your Issues: 21 Days to a Spiritual Turning Point
    Bend Your Knees to Ease Your Issues: 21 Days to a Spiritual Turning Point
    Bend Your Knees to Ease Your Issues: 21 Days to a Spiritual Turning Point
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    Bend Your Knees to Ease Your Issues: 21 Days to a Spiritual Turning Point

    By Savitri Scott

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    In her quest to have a more meaningful spiritual relationship with God through His Son Jesus Christ, Savitri Scott made the choice to look deeper into Gods Word to find Him and have daily conversations with Him. The result has been irrefutable evidence of the power and significance of prayer in the life of a Christian, along with inexplicable peace, joy, and reassurance.

    Sometimes lifes issues convince us to move away from God, rather than toward Him, but that is not what He intended for His children. This twenty-one-day devotional uses ordinary life situations and affirms through prayer and Scripture how God inspires and directs us to confront those situations. It demonstrates the sufficiency and privilege of prayer, and non-condemningly assures of Gods declaration of love and promise of forgiveness and salvation through His Son Jesus Christ.

    Centered on daily prayer and Scripture, this book endorses Gods Word to enliven a stronger and deeper relationship with our Creator and Father. Let the readings become a personal tool to spiritually stimulate and jumpstart continual, personal, spiritual intimacy with God. Seek personal, intimate time with God for a more personal and intimate relationship with Him.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateOct 1, 2012
    ISBN9781449764388
    Bend Your Knees to Ease Your Issues: 21 Days to a Spiritual Turning Point
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    Savitri Scott

    In her own continuous pursuit of God’s presence, SAVITRI SCOTT has explored a devotional each year for the past eleven years. With a passion for teaching and learning, she served in youth ministry for young adults at a church she attended and has worked in the field of education for seventeen years. Savitri holds an undergraduate degree and a graduate degree in education, first serving as a teacher and then as a program coordinator for education reform and college readiness. She currently resides in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, along with her husband, where they are both members of a local church.

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      Bend Your Knees to Ease Your Issues - Savitri Scott

      Copyright © 2012 Savitri Scott

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      A Division of Thomas Nelson 1663 Liberty Drive Bloomington, IN47403 www.westbowpress.com 1-(866) 928-1240

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

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      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in whole, or in part in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without express written consent of the author.

      Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations marked AMP are taken from the AMPLIFIED BIBLE. Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1965, 1987, by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org)

      Scripture quotations marked KJV are taken from the AUTHORIZED KING JAMES VERSION. Copyright © 1999, by Holman Bible Publishers. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-6439-5

      (sc) ISBN: 978-1-4497-6438-8 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012915766

      WestBow Press rev. date: 0912612012

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Day 1: A New Start Every Day

      Day 2: Faith-Based Initiative

      Day 3: The Battle Is A Prerequisite

      Day 4: Prodigal Sons And Daughters

      Day 5: Hell? No!

      Day 6: Objects In Rear View

      Day 7: Your First Love

      Day 8: Cloak And Dagger

      Day 9: Fear: Faith Endangered, Anointing Removed

      Day 10: Communion

      Day 11: Coming Undone

      Day 12: Self-Affliction

      Day 13: Debt Free

      Day 14: The Leah Complex

      Day 15: Still Standing

      Day 16: Even The Cactus Praises God

      Day 17: Your Blood Pressure

      Day 18: Labor Pains

      Day 19: Matters Of The Heart

      Day 20: What’s Your Father’s Name?

      Day 21: Amen

      An Invitation To Christ

      Prayer Of Salvation

      To the faithful individuals seeking to inaugurate and establish greater points of spiritual growth.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      My ability to arrive at the end of this project is due to the help that I have had in the navigation. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for revelation and direction.

      Thank you to my husband Bronson, for being my life buoy and continually pushing me to finish what I start. Thank you to my editor Brenda, for exceeding patience and for advising me to do all within my ability to make this devotional the best it could be and then trust the Lord to fill in the gaps. Now, Lord, fill in the gaps.

      INTRODUCTION

      Spiritual growth is a process, and it occurs when you let go of yourself, let go of your past mistakes, acknowledge your undeniable need for God, and submissively allow Him to show you the immensity of His love for you. The guiltiness of spiritual infidelity should never keep us from God. He wants to be in a relationship with His children, and as His child, nothing that you could ever do will keep Him from pouring out His love for you if you seek Him earnestly and repentantly. He gave His Word in 2 Chronicles 7:14: If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves, pray, seek, crave, and require of necessity My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

      The enemy of your soul and body wants to have influence in your life, and he uses lies and deception in order to get that authority. The Bible confirms that the thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy, but Jesus came that we might have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance—to the full, till it overflows (John 10:10). Peace, health, joy, love, and prosperity are in direct opposition to what the enemy wants for you. In order to prosper in all areas of your life, it is important to know that God has purpose and direction for you. In order to know your purpose and receive direction on how to fulfill it, the most eminent relationship of your life—your relationship with God—needs tending to daily. If you are devoted to beginning that relationship or developing a deeper one, you are embarking on a journey of prayer, Bible study, reflection, and self-examination.

      The Christian journey is one of faith. A journey of this kind will require your dedication and perseverance—daily soul checkups. Building a good relationship takes time and commitment, and the way to build and establish a spiritual relationship with God is to spend time with Him through prayer and reading His Word. By taking time every day to pray and study the Word of God, you can be led to truths that will draw you closer to Him and unmask lies that Satan uses to disconnect you from Him. More often than not, the people who are wise, who know and acknowledge their purpose, and who experience joyful, abundant lives are those who devote daily time to pursuing God’s presence through prayer and heeding His instruction.

      I wanted to write something that individuals desiring to know God better could use as an escort for daily prayer and Scripture reading, something that dealt with several of life’s ordinary situations and spiritual issues, but also included the assurance of God’s love, forgiveness, salvation, and His promise of an abundant life. The purpose of this devotional is to encourage you to pray daily and to seek the truth in God’s Word about you and your life. It is my prayer that this book becomes a vehicle for initiating or even rekindling and igniting the most fundamental union or reunion that you will ever have—the one with Jesus Christ.

      It has been said and research has shown that twenty-one days of firm, unyielding repetition forms habits. If you want to develop a spiritual habit of daily communion with God, and reach spiritual turning points that will create and establish a meaningful relationship with Him and ultimately lead to a meaningful and abundant life, for three weeks you can start each day with this devotional. Start with each day’s Scripture verse and reading that focuses on personal issues and spiritual deterrents, and receive encouragement to let go of any old hindrances, to avoid obstacles, and to give Christ full authority over your life. Each devotion ends with a daily prayer and a Scripture passage, which serve to encourage greater fellowship with God and as catalysts for your own personal meditation, reflection, and intimate time with Him. Read each day with application to your life and experiences, and in twenty-one days, you will have challenged yourself to confront some critical spiritual hurdles as well as explored what God’s Word has to say about them and about you. Assuredly this twenty-one day expedition

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