{"id":2390,"date":"2025-07-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/resources\/?p=2390"},"modified":"2025-06-24T15:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T19:53:16","slug":"epray-ep-17-lectio-divina-justice-and-righteousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/resources\/2025\/07\/28\/epray-ep-17-lectio-divina-justice-and-righteousness\/","title":{"rendered":"ePray | Ep. 17 Lectio Divina: Justice and Righteousness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/a>\n\n\n\r\n
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ePray | Episode 17| July 28, 2025
\nLectio Divina: Justice and Righteousness<\/strong>
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Lectio Divina: Justice and Righteousness
\nDate: July 28, 2025
\nScripture: Romans 6:13<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wayne Friesen<\/strong><\/p>\n

Part 1: Inward Focus<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Thanks for joining me today as we look at the theme of Righteousness. Let\u2019s start with an exercise together.\u00a0 <\/span>Get in a comfortable position, place your hand over your heart and notice the sensation in your chest, especially around your heart.\u00a0 <\/span>Now, notice your breath, don\u2019t change it, simply notice it, picturing your breath circling your heart.\u00a0 <\/span>And now, bring to mind something, someone or some place that you feel deeply connected to and notice how your body responds.<\/p>\n

As I read the Scripture, turn your thoughts quietly toward the Lord, asking for your heart to open to God\u2019s voice through scripture. Romans 6:13 says,<\/p>\n

\u201cNeither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.\u201d<\/p>\n

What we yield to we become dependent on. If we broaden the definition of sin to self reliance over God reliance, how do you notice yourself depending on your false self versus depending on God?<\/em><\/p>\n

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What do you notice when you picture yourself yielding to God and then being alive from the dead? What are the words, images, and physiology that connects with that?<\/em><\/p>\n

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Part 2: Outward Focus<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cNeither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.\u201d<\/p>\n

What are practical ways that your faith community could be yielding to God and being instruments of righteousness?<\/em><\/p>\n

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As you move throughout your days and weeks use a variety of the examen to reflect. Where have I yielded to God today? Where have I yielded to my own self reliance today? Where is God inviting me to become more dependent on God today?<\/em><\/p>\n

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Part 3: Wesleyan Covenant Prayer<\/b><\/p>\n

We end this time together with the Wesleyan Covenant Prayer:<\/p>\n


\n<\/span>I am no longer my own, but yours.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Put me to what you will, place me with whom you will.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Put me to doing, put me to suffering.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Let me be put to work for you or set aside for you, praised for you or criticized for you.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Let me be full, let me be empty.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Let me have all things, let me have nothing.<\/span>
\n<\/span>I freely and fully surrender all things to your glory and service.<\/span>
\n<\/span>And now, O wonderful and holy God, Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer, You are mine, and I am yours.<\/span>
\n<\/span>So be it.<\/span>
\n<\/span>And the covenant which I have made on earth, let it also be made in heaven.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Amen.<\/span><\/p>\n

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