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Repentance & Meditation
1998 Retreat by Fr. M.C. Cherian
Need a change in:
1. Mind
2. Heart
3. Direction
4. Life
5. Service
6. Language
7. Environment
- We have two types of Baptisms, in water and in tears
- Our biggest weapon is a prayer with tears
Language
- One of the deadly sins is Anger. If you add a D in front of Anger you get
"Danger".
- Blaming others instead of ourselves causes more problems. Solve your problems by
admitting that your faults first.
- Our most sin is through the mouth.
Environment
- Colossians 3:18-21
- LOVE - Life, Obedience, Voluntary an Endurance
- Repentance is not only in church, but in work, home, and all other parts of our lives.
- Retreat is a road to repentance.
- Are you a wondering or a pondering mother/father?
- Witnessing begins at our home - Mothers are great examples so live up to it.
MEDITATION
- Psalms 1:2, 119:15,23,27,48,78,97,99
- Longest Psalms is 119 - the alphabet of Psalms (Jews teach this first)
- Psalms are Gods prayers while he was on the cross for about six hours.
- Psalms 77:12
- Two books by God are the Bible and Nature
- Our meditation should be the Word of God
- Word of God is a two-edged sword (slaughtering/saving)
- If you make anything more important than the Word of God, it will be a sword.
- Example of a Camel and a Horse - Camel eats little and digests slowly also kneels. Horse
eats a lot and digests fast. We should be like the camel when we are meditating.
- Revelations 1:3
- Psalms 1:2, 4:4
- Pray in silence with heart
- We should Love, read, meditate and be a Bible to others.
- Fear of God is the beginning of Wisdom.
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