The Importance of Spiritual Health A Study in the Book of James

JAMES 1:16-18 Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. 17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. 18 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

Every good and perfect gift What comes from God Every good and perfect gift

What comes from God Every provision

A love that never changes What comes from God A love that never changes

We are the proof of His goodness What comes from God We are the proof of His goodness

God sign’s His name on us as we go into our world

5 ways we can show the world who’s signature is on us

JAMES 1:19-20 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

Be quick to listen & slow to respond Our anger, and our need to control it shows who’s we are

JAMES 1:21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. 

Get rid of all evil from our lives We have to look different from the world or they will never know there is a difference

Get rid of all evil from our lives It keeps you safe

Get rid of all evil from our lives Your spiritual health depends on it

JAMES 1:22-25 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But whoever looks

JAMES 1:22-25 intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do. 

We have to do more than just hear the Word We have to be a people who do more than just hear

We have to do more than just hear the Word We have to be a people that lives out His Word

JAMES 1:26 Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. 

We must keep a tight reign on our tongue

JAMES 1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

We live with a heart like God’s Looking after those in need

We live with a heart like God’s When we keep ourselves from being polluted

Can His signature bee seen in your life?