40 Day Soul Fast:

Restoring My Soul

Women’s Institute

Woodstream Church

Week Two – February 14, 2016

Restoring My Soul in 2016

Objectives:

We, as women of light, will be able to recognize the importance of fasting and controlling what and how we eat in order to demonstrate control of our bodies and to better serve God and others.

We, as women of light, will be able to share with other women and to apply what we have learned in order to build a stronger faith-based community within and outside of our church.

We, as women of light, will be able to recognize authentic living following a 40 day soul fast.

Reference

Trimm, C. (2011). The 40 Day Soul Fast: Your Journey to Authentic Living. Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Image Publishers, Inc.

Week One Outline & Assignments

Day 6: Connecting

Characteristic 6: Capacity

Homework Assignment – Study Forgiveness

Day 7: Healing

Characteristic 7: Wholeness

Homework Assignment

Day 8: Empowering

Characteristic 8: Balance

Homework – Read Hebrews 4:1-11

Assignment

Day 9: Directing

Characteristic 9: Peace

Homework Assignment

Day 10: Seeing

Characteristic 10: Goodness

Homework Assignment

****************Turn and Talk*****************

Day 6: Capacity Homework

Make the most of what God gives, both the bounty and the capacity to enjoy it, accepting what’s given and delighting in the work.” Eccles. 5:19

  1. What have you learned about yourself so far?
  2. What are four things you will purpose to eliminate?
  3. What four new habits will you focus on cultivating?

Day 6: Healing Homework

Complete a word study on forgiveness.

Day 7: Wholeness Homework

These definitions, though descriptive, limit our perspective on brokenness to the temporal realm and skew our understanding of what true wholeness is. Answer the following questions:

1)What is happening in the spiritual area of my life at this moment?

2)How might God work in this time of brokenness to restore me, renew me, remake me according to Psalm 23:5?

3)Am I prepared to allow God to work in and through my current situation to bring me to greater wholeness?

Day 8: Empowering Homework

How does it feel to rest in God?

How does it feel when you are not resting in God?

Make it your number one priority to pursue the things of God: His Word, His Spirit, His Presence.

Day 9: Directing Homework

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as member s of one body you were called to peace” (Col. 3:15 NIV)

1)How do you practice peace?

2)How do you let the peace of Christ rule in your heart?

If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world. Chinese Proverb

Day 10: Seeing Homework

Fasting re-energizes your senses, including your sight.

What do you see that others can’t see?

When you see the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. George Washington Carver

Characteristic 10: Goodness Homework

You yourselves are rich in goodness, amply filled with all [spiritual] knowledge” Romans 15:14 AMP

Examine your life, your habits, your heart, your thoughts: are they an expression of the life of Christ in you, “rich in goodness?”

How would your life, habits, and thoughts be different if they consisted of “every form of goodness?”

Think of one negative thing you can replace with something positive.