Step 3. Ask for help from the Holy Spirit (today)

STEP 4 in the EXAMEN is the actual review of your day, but STEP 3, today’s focus, is integral for an effective experience overall. Seeking help from the Holy Spirit is a valuable habit to develop throughout your prayer life with God.

• Ask the Holy Spirit to help you look honestly at your actions and attitudes, to understand the motivations of your heart, to see the gifts of God and how you've responded to them.
  Here is how that may sound:
  
  "Holy Spirit, help me take an honest look at my actions and attitudes, to understand the motivations of my heart, to see the gifts of God today and how I responded to them."
  
  
• Ask to learn and be shaped as you reflect.

These interactive moments with the Holy Spirit are often called prayer prompts in IMMERSION. Keep in mind that STEP 3 this is not a time to dwell on your shortcomings, nor a time to get down on oneself; it is a gentle look (with God) at how you have responded to God's gifts. Consider it an opportunity to grow in understanding of yourself and your relationship with Him.

Prayer Prompt

Wednesday is normally our Identity in Christ day, so let’s work from that mindset to finish STEP 3:

In Christ we are enlightened in the heart and given the Spirit of wisdom and revelation so we may know God better.

Ask the Holy Spirit for wisdom and revelation to know both God and yourself better.

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Micro-Meditation

Psalm 32:6-7

6. Therefore let all the faithful pray to you
   while you may be found;
   surely the rising of the mighty waters
   will not reach them.
7. You are my hiding place;
   you will protect me from trouble
   and surround me with songs of deliverance.
   

Teaching or Command of God:

Psalm 46:1-4

1. God is our refuge and strength,
   an ever-present help in trouble.
2. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
   and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
3. though its waters roar and foam
   and the mountains quake with their surging.
4. There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
   the holy place where the Most High dwells.
   

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Isaiah 43:2

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When You walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.

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Pondering Point

"The rising waters will not reach them." This reminds me of Jesus’ comment closing his Sermon on the Mount in Matt 7:25: The rain came and the water rose, but the house on the rock stood firm. Is your spiritual house firm?

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