Dr. Pamela A. Russell has just released a new book titled Disciple Me. It contains the four keys and draws the reader into hearing God's voice as they work their way through the fully interactive book, discovering what the Word and the Spirit have to say about important foundational truths.

Are you a trusting person? Are you aware of the dangers of being too trusting of other people? You can be taken advantage of, and your trust can be violated. Are you aware of the danger of not being trusting enough? This one is not so obvious, because the losses are by omission. If you are not sufficiently trusting, do you know what beneficial opportunities and relationships you will decline? Even if you are reluctant to trust others you may be too eager to trust one particular person. Yourself. How can you approach your life in such a way that you are not too trusting of yourself? 

Do you attend the best church for you? Is it the best church? Do you understand the difference? The best church for you may not be the best church for everyone. Israel was divided into tribes, but was still one people and one nation. You may not think of churches as tribes, but do the same concepts of group identification apply? Belonging is a strong inherent human impulse. So is superiority. Can you see that one is innocent and the other is not? Support your church as the place that I have planted you for nourishment and growth.

Have you heard it said that anything you say can and will be used against you? This concept isn’t limited to those who are arrested. You know intuitively who you can trust with information that could be damaging to you, and who will use it against you. Yet if you don’t share it with anyone it will be damaging to you by keeping it inside. As a part of your own inner work you need people you can confide in. who can you choose? Start with those who are doing their own inner work for this puts them in a position to show empathy and mercy.