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Lately I've felt spiritually separate from God, though my faith has never been stronger. It's the personal relationship that I seemed to lack, putting my knowledge and understanding before God and these of others before him. I was surrendering my responsibility of coming to God, as a Christian it's by Christ who knows and understands more than any of us; first place I come to him is the Gospels. Thankfully the Holy Spirit lead me to bible reading habits?, and being inspired I continued further googling for help as what to do; what I found was part two (The Gospel and the Discipline of Bible Intake) of an article about having the Gospel and Jesus at the center of reading, now I eventually realized there's a part one, Gospel-Centered Spiritual Disciplines:
Above quote is where I'm at personally when it comes to applying this helpful articles to my life. Beginning to practice as a Christian with Gospel-centered scripture and Christ-lead discipleship. So I've started a Daily Gospel Bible Reading, but at my own pace as I want to be able to meditate on it (think about it as I have questions and search for answers).
I read Matthew 1 yesterday (last night), thought much about it and searched having questions for answers; what stood out to me was the genealogy of Jesus (Matthew 1:1-16), of this him being the Son of David and the Son of Abraham (Matthew 1:1) while he's of Joseph by Mary whom he was born as the one called Christ. Matthew 1:18 explains how Mary was a virgin who was miraculously impregnated with Jesus whom is of the Holy Spirit. Which differentiates his conception (actually his existence: conception, birth, life; everything) from the others; he's of the spirit in the flesh, embodiment of God (incarnated).
Last part related that stood out was Matthew 1:22-23, a reference to Isaiah 7:14; where Isaiah prophesied to Ahaz (King of Judah and descendant of David), about how the Lord would give him a sign (Isaiah 7:14), "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel."
How it relates to the Gospel and Jesus is it's the fulfilling of the Old Testament prophesies; God's word to them by the prophets (his promise of salvation and savior). Jesus is Christ who is the incarnation of God as savior and the Gospel is the word of God as salvation to his people.
For individual practice, the most important personal spiritual disciplines are the intake of Scripture and prayer.
Above quote is where I'm at personally when it comes to applying this helpful articles to my life. Beginning to practice as a Christian with Gospel-centered scripture and Christ-lead discipleship. So I've started a Daily Gospel Bible Reading, but at my own pace as I want to be able to meditate on it (think about it as I have questions and search for answers).
I read Matthew 1 yesterday (last night), thought much about it and searched having questions for answers; what stood out to me was the genealogy of Jesus (Matthew 1:1-16), of this him being the Son of David and the Son of Abraham (Matthew 1:1) while he's of Joseph by Mary whom he was born as the one called Christ. Matthew 1:18 explains how Mary was a virgin who was miraculously impregnated with Jesus whom is of the Holy Spirit. Which differentiates his conception (actually his existence: conception, birth, life; everything) from the others; he's of the spirit in the flesh, embodiment of God (incarnated).
Last part related that stood out was Matthew 1:22-23, a reference to Isaiah 7:14; where Isaiah prophesied to Ahaz (King of Judah and descendant of David), about how the Lord would give him a sign (Isaiah 7:14), "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel."
How it relates to the Gospel and Jesus is it's the fulfilling of the Old Testament prophesies; God's word to them by the prophets (his promise of salvation and savior). Jesus is Christ who is the incarnation of God as savior and the Gospel is the word of God as salvation to his people.