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CHAPTER 5:
PERSONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS;
A personal environmental analysis is a study of your own environment. It includes an analysis
of every area of your life including your relationships and your physical, educational, financial,
and spiritual environments.

THE PURPOSE OF PERSONAL ANALYSIS

TO DETERMINE YOUR SPIRITUAL CONDITION:
The Bible says you are to examine yourself to determine your own spiritual condition:
Examine yourselves: whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves…
(II Corinthians 13:5)
But let a man examine himself… (I Corinthians 11:28)
You are to examine yourself in relation to the “faith.” This means to analyze your spiritual
condition on the basis of God’s Word. “Prove” is another word for examine. The Bible says:
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (I Thessalonians 5:21)
Self-examination includes analyzing the spiritual areas of your life, but it also includes analysis
of practical areas. These include such things as your physical condition, finances, education, etc.
You must “prove” or examine “all things” in your life.
Man has a body, soul, and spirit. What happens to the body affects your spiritual condition.
The condition of the soul and spirit can affect the spiritual body. This is why you examine “all things.”
TO IDENTIFY YOUR SPIRITUAL WEAKNESSES:
Self-improvement is not the purpose for identifying your weaknesses. Read Romans chapter 7
to see how Paul tried this and failed. You can do nothing by yourself to change your weaknesses.
The purpose of identifying your weaknesses is to permit you to cooperate with God’s process of
change in your life. Change starts with the new-birth experience:
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed
away; behold, all things are become new. (II Corinthians 5:17)
Change continues by confessing your sins and weaknesses and accepting God’s forgiveness:
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (I John 1:8-9)
You change as you cooperate with God in the process of changing you through the circumstances
of life:
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God
to them who are the called according to His purpose.
For whom He did foreknow he also did predestinate to be conformed to the
image of His Son… (Romans 8:28-29)
Thank you