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    30 Days of Purity: A Journey into the Heart of God
    30 Days of Purity: A Journey into the Heart of God
    30 Days of Purity: A Journey into the Heart of God
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    30 Days of Purity: A Journey into the Heart of God

    By Joseph Papcun

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    Untainted. When was the last time you though of purity in that way?

    For most of us, purity is something we want even when we dont know how to go about striving for it. And in a society that promotes anything but being pure, the lines quickly become blurred between the holy and the unholy. Whats more disturbing is that those lines have begun to crossover into the mind-sets of Christians as well.

    In Thirty Days of Purity, Joseph Papcun challenges you to rediscover purity in every aspect of your spiritual life and explores how being pure in our Christianity is far more than what we take in with our eyes or what we think with our minds. Through daily devotionals and personal stories, he relates his own journey; he also reveals what the heart of the Father so desperately desires for us to know: Himself.

    Take the thirty-day journey out of what you know about purity and venture into the heart of God.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateJan 16, 2014
    ISBN9781490822587
    30 Days of Purity: A Journey into the Heart of God
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    Joseph Papcun

    Joseph Papcun is an author and pastor from the Midwest. After graduating from Life Christian High School in 2004, he embraced the call into ministry and, in preparation for that, attended and graduated from Revolution School of Worship in 2008. Joseph is a worship leader and a pastor at Champions Church in Saint Louis, Missouri.

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      30 Days of Purity - Joseph Papcun

      Copyright © 2014 Joseph Alexander Papcun.

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      Edited by Dorothy Trieb

      Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™ All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-2258-7 (e)

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-2257-0 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-2259-4 (hc)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2014900659

      WestBow Press rev. date: 1/14/2014

      CONTENTS

      Foreword

      Introduction

      Day 1:     This Majestic Light of Mine

      Day 2:     The Moment Is Gone

      Day 3:     Purity Rediscovered

      Day 4:     Faith Like a Child

      Day 5:     True Worship

      Day 6:     To Obey is Better….

      Day 7:     A Father to a Son

      Day 8:     Someday….Just Not Today

      Day 9:     Four Hundred And Ninety

      Day 10:   A Penny Saved

      Day 11:   Alone But Never Lonely

      Day 12:   A Mind Is A Terrible Thing to Waste

      Day 13:   A Legacy Worth Leaving

      Day 14:   The Places We Came From

      Day 15:   All You Need

      Selah

      Day 16:   One More Mile to Go

      Day 17:   Something Worth Being Captive To

      Day 18:   Love Mercy

      Day 19:   There is No Pixie Dust

      Day 20:   Talking Less

      Day 21:   Coming Home Again

      Day 22:   Seeking and Finding

      Day 23:   The Right Place At The Right Time

      Day 24:   A Spiritual Gut Check

      Day 25:   Who Am I?

      Day 26:   Serving a Social God

      Day 27:   A Kingdom with No King

      Day 28:   Seek It Like Silver

      Day 29:   The Fear of the Lord

      Day 30:   The Journey of A Lifetime

      To my mom and dad:

      Your love and support allowed me to chase my dreams.

      I couldn’t have done this without you.

      FOREWORD

      Let’s make one thing clear up front: This is not 30 days into purity, or even 30 days towards attaining purity. No – far from it. This is a day-by-day process of living a life of purity and by extension, reaching deeper into the heart of God. Growing up as a Christian, there is such an emphasis on maintaining purity and seeking holiness. We constantly stress to our teenagers and young adults that their minds should be pure, and to be careful what they watch or take part in. Yet it often feels like there is a juncture that occurs after those young adult years where we slowly forget that purity is not something just for the young; it is for all of us. And that is exactly why I am writing this. It is not a rebuke but a gentle reminder that not only can you live a life of purity no matter how old you are, but as someone who loves our God, you should be living a pure life. I recommend setting aside some time each day to really pray and think about what God is speaking to you at the moment. Don’t take it for granted. When the Creator of the universe decides to speak, we should be ready to listen and meditate on it.

      INTRODUCTION

      It’s really dawning on me this year. Life is dawning on me. A flurry of things are dawning on me. I’m starting to realize how short life is. I’m beginning to understand how important every decision is. I’m realizing how often my life has been lived for me right now as opposed to a life lived for the Father and eternity. And maybe it’s these moments of my life, the short number of years I’ve been alive, that have gotten me thinking about how I can give one-hundred percent to Jesus. In looking back on what I have accomplished up to this point in my own existence, I wonder how much of it has been done with a skewed perspective. Even the things I hold as moments that I’m proud of are just vanity if the purity of God is not covering them. It’s that very thought that is inspiring me to write this. My being so much desires to please God with who I am. I want to honor Him not just with my lips, but with my life. It was while on vacation this year that I really felt compelled to start writing a book. I had a vague idea of what I was supposed to write about, but how do you convey the heart for purity? I may be crazy in thinking this, but I feel that the majority of Christians really do want to please God with a life that’s pure. But outside of the obvious things (i.e., avoiding lustful thoughts, actions, and deeds), how do you do that? I really had to start thinking about that question. What does a life of purity really entail at its core? Thankfully, while I sit typing in human weakness, the Holy Spirit is speaking in perfect wisdom. If we are giving credit where it’s honestly due, then this book should have a large Dictated by the Spirit of God on the front of it because at the end of the day, He knows purity in a level that I have never known it. As I’ve been putting His words onto paper, I’ve been astonished at how little my life has reflected His purity so far. I feel like I have been seeking it. I feel like I have been trying. Yet, there is so much I just have never understood about it. Maybe that’s the real issue that most of us face. We really want to believe that as long as our mind isn’t thinking impure thoughts, that we are pure. My brothers and sisters in Christ, if that is you, I cannot wait to share with you what the Spirit is speaking so that you, just like I, can have your mind expanded and get a large picture view of the life of purity that God so desperately wants for His children. Will you take thirty days with me? Just take this next month and let yourself be transformed. That’s what the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are after, I believe. They want very much for the bride of Christ that you and I are to be transformed and perfected into something pure and beautiful. I pray that you are as changed as I have been by the words and insight of our Creator. So if you’re ready, let’s take a journey together. Let’s journey into the very heart of our Creator…..into the heart of purity.

      Joseph Papcun

      DAY 1

      This Majestic Light of Mine

      Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. (Psalm 51:10)

      I bought this ring a few weeks ago. It’s honestly nothing special. It’s some piece of metal (I think pewter) with the words Esto Castus written on it. It’s Latin for Thou wilt be pure. I bought it as a reminder that I’m running this race not for myself but for He Who has loved me first. It’s my constant reminder that I’ve chosen a life that honors God in all things, at all times and in all ways. More than that, it’s my personal goal towards a journey to be pure. Strangely, that small pewter ring has really got me thinking over the last week about purity – not just my own, but purity in the Christian walk of all believers.

      Have you ever stopped to think about what it means to be pure? I’m not simply talking about your thought life or what you view (although those are certainly key components to purity), but I mean have you ever really considered all of the areas of your life in which purity plays an integral role? I don’t think most of us ever have, myself included. There’s so much more to this than meets the eye. Purity permeates numerous areas of the Christian walk and it’s only recently that I’m starting to see it that way. But I’m probably getting ahead of myself. If we’re going to talk about a subject like this, we should sincerely look at what purity even means. How do you even begin to define purity?

      As always, it’s probably a good idea to turn to God’s Word for an answer. I’m a big fan of taking a look at what the Hebrew and Greek words really meant when they were used in the Bible. Often times by taking a look at their original meanings, we find completely new insight into the same Scripture we may have read several times before. In this case, the word for purity in the Scripture listed at the beginning of this day is the

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