Mobile Daily Devotional: A Faith Appraisal

A Faith Appraisal

- posted on Sunday July 23, 2006

How would you score on a scale of 1 to 5 to the questions below? How would you complete the sentences?

1. How successful am I?
I would be more successful if …

2. How significant am I?
I would be more significant if …

3. How fulfilled am I?
I would be more fulfilled if …

4. How satisfied am I?
I would be more satisfied if …

5. How happy am I?
I would be happier if …

6. How much fun am I having?
I would have more fun if …

7. How secure am I?
I would be more secure if …

8. How peaceful am I?
I would have more peace if …

These 8 areas are discussed in the final lesson in the Beta Course – The Next Step in Your Journey with Christ!. The discussion is about the need to evaluate and examine our lives in the light of God’s Word concerning these 8 aspects of our personal life.

1. Success
Key Concept: Goals
Success is accepting God’s goals for our lives and, by His grace, becoming what He has called us to be.

2. Significance
Key Concept: Time
What is forgotten in the passing of time is of little significance. What is remembered for eternity is of greatest significance.

3. Fulfillment
Key Concept: Role Preference
Fulfillment is discovering our own uniqueness in Christ and using our gifts to build others up and glorify the Lord.

4. Satisfaction
Key Concept: Quality
Satisfaction is living righteously and seeking to raise the quality of the relationships, services and products which we are involved.

5. Happiness
Key Concept: Wanting What You Have
Happiness is being thankful for what we do have rather than focusing on what we don’t have.

6. Fun
Key Concept: Uninhibited Spontaneity
The secret to fun is removing unbiblical blocks such as keeping up appearances.

7. Security
Key Concept: Relating to the Eternal
Insecurity comes when we depend on things that will pass away rather than on things that will last forever.

8. Peace
Key Concept: Establishing Internal Order
The peace of God is internal, not external.

The memory verses related to this 8 areas is available for download as a mobile phone application in the Freedom in Christ download page under God’s Guidelines for the Walk of Faith. I have created two versions of the application; in NASB and NIV.