Fruits of the Spirit: Positive Affirmation Prayer

 We present here a prayer to help you build your day in, day out application of God's Fruits of the Spirit.

For me, I wasn't satisfied with my glacially slow movement towards God' narrow path of righteousness.  While I had already eliminated most iniquity from my life, the Seven Deadly Sins (ie. pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth), and the Fruits of the Spirit (ie. love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, righteousness, godliness, and patience).

To me, it seemed like my remaining iniquity was holding back my application of the Fruits of the Spirit, and the poor utilization of the Fruits left me wide open for continuing in my remaining, stubborn iniquities.  Truly, a Catch-22 situation.

Therefore, I developed a Positive Affirmation Prayer for the Fruits of the Spirit.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/o5cqqzzigyvpj6t/FruitsOfTheSpiritAffirmationExercise_A03.pdf?dl=0

By repeating this short exercise at least once per day (optimum is once in morning, again in evening), you stay mindful of the Fruits of the Spirit, and build a Cognitive Dissonance if you violate them.  Just as your name (eg. Joe Smith) becomes an integral park of who you are (ie. you don't believe your name is Joe Smith, you KNOW your name is Joe Smith).

I believe I will be a better Christian when the Fruits of the Spirit are an integral part of who I am.

Is this Affirmation Prayer really improving you?  Sometimes  it's difficult to see changes when you're right up close, in space &/or time.  To help you see the positive changes in you, we developed a Human Emotion Measuring Tool https://et-manitoulin.blogspot.com/2021/08/human-emotions-measuring-tool.html

Watch your progress as your attitude changes over time through adopting the Fruits of the Spirit.

Let me know what you think in the comments below.  Tell me how you're using this positive affirmation tool in your walk with God.

Human Emotions Measuring Tool

 We developed a positive affirmation prayer for building expertise in God's Fruits of the Spirit.

Some people weren't sure if they could immediately, or accurately detect the slow steady improvements in their emotional health, and their application of the Fruits of the Spirit.

So as to consistently measure our human emotional status, we have developed a quick, reproducible test to assess your current emotional status.

It is in Google Sheets (similar to an Excel spreadsheet), available on a "do it yourself" basis here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CS6pWF7WPp3ZAAOBskoxerlOLnLloQbVluFwWTrL8oU/edit?usp=sharing

Here is what the final output chart looks like:

It is suggested that the "perfect" score is 100% Happy, and 50% Surprised.

This Human Emotion Measuring Tool is based on The Feelings Circle, which was originally developed by psychotherapist, Dr. Gloria Willcox to facilitate better verbalization of emotions by her clients. See: https://thechalkboardmag.com/the-feelings-circle-chart-emotional-communication#sl=2

How to use this Emotional Measuring Tool: Think about how you are currently feeling (DO NOT think about how you should feel, nor how you'd like to feel, nor how you used to feel, nor how you might feel some time in the future). Open the "DataEntry" Tab (this Tab), then read the randomized list of words in the "Basic Human Emotion" column.

Scoring the Test

If that emotion listed totally, 100% resonates with how you currently feel, score it a "4". If you don't currently have that emotion whatsoever, score it a zero "0".

If you somewhat feel that emotion right now, score it a 1, 2, or 3; proportional to how strongly you feel that way.

Don't go into any explanations as to what and why you feel that way, just go on to the next word in the list until you have scored all 79 words (yes, some words repeat in the scoring section, 82 entries in total).

The Summary and the Basic Human Emotions are on a % basis are calculated automatically, and the graph as well. It is suggested that the "Ideal Score" is 100% Happy, and 50% Surprised.

After you have scored all of the 79 words, go to the Scoring Tab (bottom left of this screen, and click on it) to see your score.

Enter your name in Cell "E3". At the top of the page, on the command ribbon, is "Charts", with a menu option to update the chart title. Click on the menu item, and the chart Title is customized to you.

You may print this raw data page, the Scoring page, &/or the chart.

We also offer an Affirmation Prayer to help you build your good habits in God's Fruits of the Spirit.

As you work towards being a better you through God's Word, sin reduction, and practicing all of the Fruits of the Spirit on a more consistent basis, your scores will likely change & improve.

Re-do the test so you can readily see your progress on a week to week basis, or month to month basis.