This guide is not meant to be a rigid set of rituals, performed without thought, but a guide to get you started down the road to spiritual growth.

The Five Tools are:

1.       Prayer

2.       Fasting

3.       Meditation/study of the word

4.       Separation

5.       Worship

Prayer

Luke 18:1

And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

Ought:

Necessary by the nature of things; an unavoidable, urgent compulsory necessity

Fainting:

To become weary and quit:

Galatians 6:9

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

1 Thes. 5:17

Pray without ceasing.

Jude 1:20

But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

Consider it necessary to pray, without interruption, in faith, in the spirit, and spiritual praying is full of the Holy Ghost and POWER.

Fasting

Matthew 17:19-21

Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? 20And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. 21Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.

The difference maker in this case was coupling prayer with fasting. Fasting would bring the victory according to Jesus.

Fasting

·         is to control the flesh,

·         helps win spiritual battles,

·         disciplines and humbles the soul,

·         is a response to God’s hand on us,

·         to seek direction and

·         when you sense a change in your life.

Meditation/Study of the Word

Psalm 119:11

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

Psalm 119:105

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Psalm 119:133

Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Separation

2 Cor. 6:17

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

We are to be separated:

• From sin
• Into his promises

Separation:

• Preserves us
• Is our righteousness

Worship

Psalm 22:3 (KJV)
But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

John 4:23 (KJV)
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

Praise in the Old Testament means to speak about, to shout about, to sing about the deeds of God.   In the New Testament, it means to speak tales or narrations about the Lord, and His deeds. 

In this sense, we can understand that praise is speaking the things of God to each other, in order to recount His goodness, and also to build faith. 

Worship in the Old Testament literature means to bow down.  In the New Testament it means to be reverent to, to “kiss towards”.

In this sense, we can understand that it is more of an act directly to God.  Speaking directly to Him. 

Praise is acknowledging God for what He has done, what He is doing, and what He is going to do.

Worship is acknowledging God for who He is.