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As we reflect on “How To Make Lent 2011 The Best Ever” and  ” ‘Spring’ Into Action” we can also embrace a spiritual cleanse to spring clean our spirits.

(Christianity.About.com) has provided 7 tips to learn how to spring clean your spirit.

Spiritual Spring Cleaning

How to Spring Clean Your Spirit

While you’re cleaning out closets and sweeping under the furniture, think about this: Spring cleaning, while worth the effort, will only last for a season, but spiritual cleansing could have an eternal influence. So don’t just dust behind those book shelves, dust off that favorite Bible and get ready for a spiritual spring cleaning.

1) Cleanse Your Heart – Get Spiritually Healthy:

The Bible encourages us to draw close to God and allow our hearts and bodies to be cleansed. This is the first step in our spring cleaning project. We can’t clean ourselves. Instead we must draw near to God and ask Him to do the cleansing.

    Psalm 51:10

    Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.(KJV)

    Hebrews 10:22

    Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.(NIV)

2) Clean Out Your Mouth – Deep Clean Inside and Out:

Spiritual cleansing requires deep cleaning — it is housekeeping that goes beyond what others see and hear. It’s a cleansing from within — inside and out. As your heart gets clean, your language should follow. This is not just talking about bad language, but also negative talk and pessimistic thoughts that contradict the Word of God and faith. This includes the challenge to stop complaining.

    Luke 6:45

    The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.(NIV)

    Philippians 2:14

    Do everything without complaining or arguing…(NIV)

3) Renew Your Mind – Take Out the Garbage:

This is one of the biggest areas of struggle for most of us — removing the garbage from our minds. Garbage in equals garbage out. We must feed our minds and spirits the Word of God instead of the garbage of this world.

    Romans 12:2

    Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.(NIV)

    2 Corinthians 10:5

    We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.(NIV)

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