There are many good spiritual trainings, teachings, and materials available now, but without follow through, walking it out, or making it your own…it’s just a “notebook on the shelf”, as professor Howard Hendricks said.
For personal & leader development, I’ve crafted a way to take a deeper dive into walking out things we have well situated in our heads but haven’t yet settled into our hearts… let alone our bones! I’ve written a journey facilitator’s guide.
For the 1st anniversary of my book publishing, I’m offering a free pdf of this guide with the purchase of my book Your Life is Re-markable. From now until Sept 12, just send me a screen shot of your purchase & I’ll send you the guide!
If you’d like to join a journey group or explore facilitating one, Contact me at soulfit.us Let’s get this stuff into our bones!
What is a journey group?
Journey Coaching – Jackie Scott MA, PCC
-A small group journey together to unearth deep-seated beliefs that affect our lives and to give insight to walking in love and freedom.
These sessions are done by invitation for those committed to going deeper in exploring their lives and spirituality over a period of 10, 90-minute sessions.
PURPOSE:
- identify a growth area in my life where God wants to work;
- recognize the lies that I have lived by regarding that area
- work with God to uproot those lies and plant His truth.
“Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being, and in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.” Psalm 51:6
These sessions include:
Taking a look (Ps. 139:23, 24)
- It’s Biblical to “work” on ourselves
- We need to choose to work with God on ourselves
- The enemy is prowling yet God’s power over him is our hope
Probing our lives (Lam. 3:40)
Beginning to hear our self-talk
Digging deeper into our patterns and beliefs (1 Tim. 4:16)
Life journey lines/early foundations/arrows
Innermost Being (2 Cor. 10:4,5)
Fighting the lies/renewing our minds
Battle Within (Ephe. 6:10)
Walking in the Spirit/recognizing the schemes of the enemy
Overcoming (Rom. 8:37)
Misconceptions of God and self/scripts from our past
View of God & self
We are being transformed into the new self (Ephe. 4:24)
Transforming (Rom 12:1,2)
Setting our minds on the Spirit/going to the hard places (Gal. 5:1)
“Plunder” and Purpose (1 John 3:8)
Keeping our freedom from slavery to our old ways
Celebration & Resilience (Exodus 15)
Life Planning, Resilience and Self-value
Gordon McDonald in his A Resilient Life p. 98 says:
“… We carry within ourselves all our yesterdays, the experiences and influences that have happened from our birth to this present moment. These yesterdays can powerfully affect today, the right-now and dominate our relationships, our choices, our view of ourselves, and even our understanding of God. If our yesterdays are in a state of good repair, they provide strength for today. If not repaired, they create havoc.”
Responses from recent groups:
“This journey group gave me the motivation and support to unearth deep lies and to begin to allow God in to redeem and restore. That is what I want more than anything; to walk in a way that is beautiful to the Lord… I know that I will get nowhere by continuing in the lies that I have identified. I wrote some of the claims or stakes that I am working on believing in my heart. I feel that my heart is often stubborn and slow to accept truth and often more comfortable hanging onto negativity or arguments to support old lies. But it is a journey and I feel that these messages of truth are slowly penetrating.”
“It has guided and encouraged me in heart changes that I would not have done alone or without the wisdom from others who have experience walking with the Lord. I didn’t know what I was missing! Having your eyes opened to blind areas in your life is hard but having a spiritually mature coach gives you permission to look into those areas with confidence God won’t abandon you during the process. – the prayers have opened my heart to communing with God in ways I have not known before and it’s been something I have shared with others each week. Practicing and doing them together has been a huge encouragement – despite how vulnerable it makes me feel. Hearing others talk with God and how they relate with Him gives the group a connection I don’t think would be there otherwise.”
“It gave me a renewed ability to focus and straighten my priorities on what needed to be worked on. It opened my eyes to my own life and past and hurts that impact me on a daily basis and gave me the ability and opportunity to reflect on my life and who I am. It has opened my eyes to things from my past that need to change to bring me closer to the woman that God has made me to be.”