Tammy Hotsenpiller

Spiritual Disciplines 7 - Fasting

Tammy has written multiple books on fasting.  Fasting With God, Fasting For Miracles and Fasting For Change.  

Why fast?  1. To prepare yourself for an assignment. 2. To seek God's wisdom. 3. For mourning. 4. For protection. 5. For repentance. 6. For breakthrough. 

Coaching Tips:

1. Make sure your heart is in the right place.

2. Renew your commitment to God.

3. Remember this is spiritual and will be hard.

Spiritual Disciplines 6 - Recognize Your Thoughts

Most people have roughly 30,000 thoughts per day and most are what you thought yesterday.  How do you break negative thoughts?  How do I rewire my mind?  Tammy gives exercises to help change your thinking.  She says there are 3 choices for every thought and recites them.  

Coaching Tips:

1. Be aware of your thoughts. (journal)

2. Keep your mood happy and your thoughts will stay positive.

3. You have a choice to direct your thoughts.

4. Practice thanksgiving and gratitude.

5. Rehearse and repeat scripture affirmations

Spiritual Disciplines 5 - Journaling

Journaling is a great discipline for writing it down, record of events, memories and experiences.  The bible has many journal entries.  The first recorded journal entry was in Exodus. 

Coaching Tips:

1. Recount the goodness of God in your life.

2. What is God saying to you right now?

3. Leave legacy letters.

Spiritual Disciplines 4 - Meditation

Ask God to teach you how to meditate.  To think over something, to think on, process it over and over.

Take a passage and read it over and over.  Don’t be in a hurry.  This is not Eastern meditation which teaches you how to empty your mind.  Then you make space for the enemy to fill your mind.  Western meditation isn’t better.  But we are talking about biblical meditation.  Take time to ponder Truth so it will sink in.

 

Coaching Tips:

1. What are you meditating on?  Where is your mind right now?  Make space for what God can do not what I can do.

2. Read Psalm 27:1 and meditate on that verse.  Do it for 5-10 minutes.

3. Practice the discipline of meditation

Spiritual Disciplines 3 - Confession/repentance

When we confess, the Holy Spirit cleanses us.  We have to read God’s Word.  God will speak to you.

 

Coaching Tips:

1. Read Psalm 32 and be honest with yourself

2. Ask God if there is someone you need to forgive

3. Confess daily and monitor your faith if you are spiritually growing

 

 

Spiritual Disciplines 2 - Prayer

Tammy is a life coach and pastor and loves to teach the Word of God.  There is a lack of discipline in our lives but it is a choice.  Prayer is becoming obsolete.  So many are not having a connection anymore with the God of the Universe.  But the power of prayer is so contagious.  True prayer is a way of life not just an emergency.  We must pray without ceasing or all day long.  

 

Coaching Tips:

1. Set your alarm 5 minutes before you get up and spend 5 minutes on your knees.  Thank God for……

2. Memorize and recite the Lord’s Prayer which is a model prayer.

3. Is there something blocking your prayer request like unforgiveness?

 

 

Spiritual Disciplines 1 - Silence and Solitude

Tammy will be talking about the difference between spiritual disciplines and personal disciplines.  Both are important.  Spiritual discipline means instruction or training.  Discipline means to discern or to learn.  It helps us overcome laziness.  Silence and solitude = aromas

It is the state of being alone. (internal and external noise).  God speaks with love, peace, patience, kindness.  Solitude is being alone with God or sitting in the presence of God.  God will speak to you.

 

Coaching Tips:

1. Set a weekly schedule time with God

2. Start slow

3. Be prepared for distractions and be focused

 

The Stand Series #6

Sword of the Spirit.  In Hebrews 4:12 it says for the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword.  What is the Word of God?  Rhema is a word from God for me.  Logos is the written Word of God.  The Spirit wants us to understand the power over the enemy.  Quote scripture in the Name of Jesus.  The enemy will flee. What are the action steps?  1)  Prepare every morning for battle (six pieces of armor of God).  2)  Pray!  Ask Holy Spirit to fill you and anoint you. (insight, wisdom and revelation)  3)  Spend a few moments reading and reciting the Word of God.  

 

How has God used this series to change your life?

The Stand Series #5

The helmet of our salvation.  There are two purposes:  protection and identification.  It identifies who you are as a daughter or son of the Lord Jesus Christ. If you don’t know Him personally it doesn’t do any good to put the armor on.  If you do, then stop and thank God for your salvation.  All the promises of God are ours:  1) He will deliver us from fear. Psalm 34:4.  2) He will never leave you. Matthew 28:20.  3) He will guide us. Proverbs 3:5-6.  4) He will forgive you.  1 John 1:9.  Listen and you will hear about peace and rest and the benefits.  If you don’t know scripture, you can’t battle the enemy.

The Stand Series #4

Shield of Faith.  We learn about what is faith and that we have to exercise our faith.  Faith is the shield that extinguishes the fiery darts of Satan.  We also learn about the Hall of Faith.  The Coaching Questions:  1.  We said that Faith, is saying something is so, when it is not so, in order for it to be so.  Does that definition make sense to you?  Explain in your own words.  2.  We read several stories from the Hall of Faith.  Whose faith story do you relate with the most?  Why?  3.  How have you used the Shield of Faith to extinguish Satan’s darts in your own life?