Celebration of Discipline, Special Anniversary Edition: The Path to Spiritual Growth

They obviously believed that they knew what the will of God was before they prayed the prayer of faith.

It is this continual focus upon obedience and faithfulness that most clearly distinguishes Christian meditation from its Eastern and secular counterparts.

Study is a specific kind of experience in which through careful attention to reality the mind is enabled to move in a certain direction.

As we travel on this path, the blessing of God will come upon us and reconstruct us into the image of Jesus Christ. We must always remember that the path does not produce the change; it only places us where the change can occur. This is the path of disciplined grace.

Those who have heard the distant call deep within and who desire to explore the world of the Spiritual Disciplines are immediately faced with two difficulties. The first is philosophic.

The Bible pray-ers prayed as if their prayers could and would make an objective difference.

To pray is to change. Prayer is the central avenue God uses to transform us. If we are unwilling to change, we will abandon prayer as a noticeable characteristic of our lives.

We simply do not know how to go about exploring the inward life.

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.