Feb 8
Transformed Spirituality and Fruitfulness
My, my – some of you are getting a little testy. Hummmm. I must say that I do not blame you. However, to do anything important it is imperative that you know the who, what, when, where, and the why – before the how is of value. You see you can climb a high mountain, but if it is the wrong mountain all you did was work hard to get to the wrong place.
I know many Christians who are living a less than vibrant spiritual life on the wrong mountain. They work hard, doing all the right things, but nothing seems to go right. The wrong mountain will not provide deep, true spirituality - because it does not have the deep soil to produce true spiritual fruit.
So they live deceived lives, thinking the life they live is Spiritual, when it is actually a form of pseudo spirituality. They continue to live this life until they either give up or someone tells them the truth. That is what I am endeavoring to do. Far to many focus on the how and not the identification of the correct path.
Transformation is the first visible sign that others see and feel. It attracts others to serve the One, True, Pure, Spirit - God. Transformation is not quick like the previous steps of connection, re-procreation, ingesting, communion, knowing, understanding, and source. It is only after these have been grasped, at least elementally, that transformation can be even dimly seen. None the less, transformation has been going on from the moment of our re-procreation. Spirit has been growing within you and its progression is felt in the pressure you now have or perhaps we should call it conviction. You cannot do what you once did and feel good about it.
We have a model for this transformation, the Son of God. We are being Transformed into His likeness. His likeness contains nine proof points of Spirituality that are costly to obtain. Re-procreation is free, but true, deep spirituality is costly. I do not mean costly in the sense of justification by works. This cost is far more expensive than that, and far more difficult to recognize. The cost is - you must “give up your right to be right.” The results of that “death to self” are the following nine Spiritual Points:
- Humble love and concern for others more than yourself
- Contagious joy that others feel and take on when they are near you
- Tranquil peace when life events do not go the way you anticipated
- Steadfastness or long suffering in the midst of betrayal or deep disappointment
- Gentleness with others who are weaker or less capable than you
- Goodness in seeking the well being of others over your own well being
- Faith in the unseen, and the not yet purposes of God
- Meekness or softness, evidenced by how we handle others when they disagree with us
- Temperance or the ability to master our passions and desires
Transformation is progressive, and its progress is often unnoticeable to us - but others notice it. Conversely, transformation is a journey that we will never finish even when others think we have. After all we have the only perfect model to head toward.
Blessings,
John Paul
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Thank you John Paul for speaking the truth no matter who it offends. Brian
Yep, I think I’ve said some things I shouldn’t have…Forgive me Robert for starting out my comment to you, giving you a hard time…
I’m going listen a little more this time and talk a little less…
God Bless…
P.S: I beleive this is not just another blog, this is taking us somewhere and doing something in us on the way there…Happy Journeying and God help us!
Who are the they folk? Sounds like the important thing we should glean from our walk with the Lord is that the journey is just as important as the destination.
And somehow the journey is unique according to each individuals response to the road that the Lord has chosen for them to travel on in the hope that we may encounter Him (Saul’s conversion on the road to Emmeus) ……….
One person’s journey on the road to salvation may look feel and smell different in relation to the next person’s experience due to gender, culture, religious affiliation, etc differences.
Unfortunately, there are people who don’t always attain to the 9 virtues that you have spoken so eloquently in your above blog and so they would need mentors and/or situations within their environment that can foster this transformation process. We need to provide joy camps for the joy of the Lord is our strength.
There needs to be groups of people in the Body of Christ that can Love people back to life in a healthy manner.
Right now there appears to be no safe place for this to take place in the Body of Christ at this time.
Maybe what I am really talking about is called paradise or the Kingdom of God (LOL). Maybe that destination is where we need to focus on in our daily lives.
Right now it seems that during times of intense worship is the place that this can only be experienced. However, if we are to get anything out of worship, it should be to transform our hearts, lives, and atmosphere, the place where we live.
There are so many dead men that are walking and not enough people who can step outside of themselves to be the difference that makes the difference. If they do respond, they are looked upon like they have 2 heads sometimes 3(lol). I have learned in my life time after many a broken heart and broken dreams and also close to losing my mind that the only thing that matters is a life routed in prayer and the directives that God gives for those who are willing to surrender everything to him in prayer at that given moment in suffering.
So, I believe that it is this suffering as we are traveling down the road of life that is the fire that is needed in order for this kind of transformation to take place. I suspect that a life of deep prayer fueled by the fire of suffering is the vehicle in which this transformation process takes place. And that the joy that one receives when each phase of transformation is completed is the fruit or crown of victory that God gives to those that are faithful. One step at a time, one crown at a time, one victory at time until we reach our destination in Christ Jesus for Jesus Christ is the only way to the Father in the person and power of the Holy Spirit. This process seems to be working for me, how about you? What are your thoughts on this?
Blessings!
Shirley C.
What is interesting about this is that yes, progressively transforming in life is true and over time, but there are ‘rhema’ times when Gods hands do a sudden work. I have had transformative experiences with God that changed me over night. I beleive that since heaven is an expanse ever expanding, that the progressive transformation we experience in Christ is actually a characteristic of God himself, never changing but always in a mode of expansion, since we were created in his image, every person born in God is born in the progressive nature of God.
It is interesting also that you are writing about this topic because I got involved over a year ago in a heated ‘discussion’ with someone who had attended your school. They were insisting I Needed to connect and be a student of the streams schools so that I could grow and I argued that I didn’t need man to teach me what the holy spirit was sent from heaven to teach me. we battled in words for a whole long time, and what ended up being true was that both of us were correct….. mostly.
I couldn’t stand teaching on ‘protocol’ and that sort of religious structure, (just being honest) and yet the Holy Spirit spoke to me that some people needed to be taught that so they learned to abide in him. My arguement was that true ‘protocol’ is being led by the spirit every moment of everyday. which didn’t disagree with his side, it was simply we weren’t understanding the others perspective. So much time has passed and I have shared many more wonderful times with that friend and we have become very strong spiritual friends bouncing things off each other in the comfort of being able to disagree when needed and then modify our views to see the truth.
I mention this because this experience was also progressive transformation for both of us, in which we both were on the same path and different places, and since it was a narrow path it was hard to see the others spot, until we both held hands in the spirit and walked together…
I still cringe at words like “protocol, model, # of steps, etc” but I understand their necessary purpose more now than I did before, so the rough edges have been sharpened with iron…
as for the right path, my thought is if I am always spending time and pursuing my love life with JESUS then I never have to worry about the wrong path, because when I start stepping in the wrong direction the holy spirit will tell me to back it up and go another way.
blessings…
I wrote something and erased it like three times. I’m just gonna leave this…
Good post John Paul
Can’t wait for the my life to be applicable to this, without feeling overwhelmed by my own humanity.
I must admit my shortcomings in many of these areas. However, my hope, prayer, and faith is that the Christ in me is greater and will become larger than my own flesh and soul. I must admit that my desire is to have the Lord’s ways, thoughts, to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with my God. However, in the past it seems the enemy diverts focus. I believe I receive according to Mark and pray accordingly after I ask. But Jesus said to keep on asking, knocking, and seeking. Therefore, my objective is to change into a more consistent disciple of the Lord remaining focused this year on the word (daily reading) and prayer and my confession on who I am in Christ as he who wrote, “I have believed, therefore I have spoken,” and “I to believe, and therefore I speak.” Not trying to make it happen but allowing what Jesus has done for me to become reality in my life. I desire my God given purpose to manifest and come to pass before I pass. As it was said of King David,”…he died in a good old age, full and satisfied with days, riches, and honour,” more then likely believing that he had fulfilled the will of God for his life down here. Not preaching at anyone in this message just being transparent enough to share my own life in the hope that it may help someone else. Appreciate your blogs and the thoughts of everyone.
JohnPaul: I couldn’t agree with you more. One major point you made is that we need to be willing to “give up our right to be right.” That is the low and the meek road; not the weak road –for sure. And it is pivotal in our walk with the Lord and with each other. Jesus took it at all times… It takes wisdom by the Spirit of God– from the Word of God– and prayer in the Holy Spirit to achieve that walk. It won’t come by itself. The closer we get to Him, the easier it is for us to hear.
My experience is that our walk with the Lord will cost everything. But the reward of His Presence, His divine ability to deliver, provide, intervene, protect…..is worth the surrender of our old lives. The more we give of ourselves in surrender to Him….the more we see and experience Him performing His Word, His promises; the manifestation of His will for us.
I’ve lived both ways: mostly me and partly Him. And then mostly Him and, Lord willing, much more of me. The latter, although difficult at times, is the most loving, rewarding relationship I would ever, ever want with someone I love so very, very much.
God bless you richly this year JohnPaul. I know you are believing to sell your home in the North. I’m in Mass so I know what you are looking at in the natural. Maybe think about sowing a seed towards your need by the direction of the Holy Spirit towards the sale of that home….. Phil 4:19 I know from experience that Word works. Love to you… The Lord loves you dearly.. And 2008 is a Great Year… a Glorious Year. Hold onto that. Denise
Amen!
Please bear with me. I need to process these thoughts through writing and I do have some questions/conflicts that I need to address. A few years ago, I was at a Streams Publishing conference (sidenote: whatever happened to AWE magazine?)where I submitted a poem called haunted hearing. I have an Amorite that is tormenting my mind. I need to know if simply being in the Presence will drive this out or if I need to do something more. I keep submitting to my flesh because I am battling the thoughts of striving which seem to me to be a bigger issue than the sowing to the flesh. I don’t want to reap death and I know that God will not be mocked. Such a dilemma. I have such much information (knowledge) that it is dangerous. I will not walk under condemnation because I KNOW the source of that, but I also know that I have a responsibility to “beat my body and make it my slave. Where is the healthy balance in these two concepts? How do “I” put it all into proper perspective? Or is my problem simply the “I” in this statement and as I keep communing with the TRUE, PURE SOURCE these things will naturally fall away? Okay….did I answer my own question? And if this is so, it seems like such a cop-out for personally responsibility. BUT I do know from experience that trying harder simply does NOT work! Okay….I feel somewhat better for getting this off my chest. Thanks for blogging JP. I covet you prayers, I love being part of THIS body. And oh…..I want a BRIDGE church in my community.
I guess when we are still seeking self then we have not found the true source.When we except Jesus as our personal Lord and Savior and have been born of the water and the spirit. Transformation is our spiritual journey . A journey which is not ours to decide but God’s.Our characteristics before salvation are not his or we would not need a savior.We have to be transformed in the image of Christ.I read the bible and all the stories about what was happening in the churches at that time. It is amazing to me that we still have not found what he said in Ephesians 1:9.We are repeating he same cycle over and over again.We are slowly inching our way toward the truth. Some great men of God who found a morsel of truth and past it on then as time goes by it loses its savor and then it happens again another man of God reveals something revival breaks out. And so forth. When God woke me up one morning and said look up revival in the bible any bible scholar would know it is not in there. Which tells you I am not.I said,” God it is not in there ,” he said right! Now ,look revival in webster. Revival comes from the word revive. I said.” God speaks blonde!” Well, I know if Revival comes revive. That means something has to die before being revived. If the holy spirit is searching your soul and sees something that is not of God then the only way to become more like him is to repent and change and die to yourself.It is simple as we follow in Jesus’s foot steps his ways are not our ways. How many of us would take the beating like he did for people he had not seen?He did not go to that cross kicking and screaming!!!It tells me that alot of flesh has to die to become Christ like. To become martyrs for christ. Martyrs to our selfish desire. And I love that the right to be right.It is so true, I have found that to be a difficult one in my life. It is not easy to try to defend your actions or words.Giving up that right. I guess if we look how Jesus was, Every action he took was symbolic in every way. If he took time to fold a napkin that had been place on his face at his death. He took time to fold it after he had just went through all he did for us on that cross. Because, in that time it meant something to a servant.If the master would just throw his napkin down on his plate It meant he was finish. But ,if it was folded he was coming back to finish.I guess if we really all realize that every action Christ did represented something and we should stop and realize that our life is not our own and everything we do ,even the little things like where we go. What we buy. I guess the right to be right would start within ourselves.And it would grow and become a kingdom.A domino effect. Could you imagine on the news Pastors in front of their church building taking the signs off the doors.Wow! Then we would all come together and say what did God tell you today? Instead of arguing about who is right, We would recognize the characteristics of Christ in each other and we would trust ourself, It would be a spirit to spirit connection.Pieces of the puzzle would come together Ha! As I wright this it just dawn on me I guess that will take place a the marriage supper.But, all this has to happen on earth first. That is why he said what is bound on earth is bound in heaven. And what we loose on earth is loose in heaven. Oh well, I could go on. Thank you ,John Paul for making God Choices. I love reading the coffee blogs.
JohnPaul: I couldn’t agree with you more. One major point you made is that we need to be willing to “give up our right to be right.” That is the low and the meek road; not the weak road –for sure. And it is pivotal in our walk with the Lord and with each other. Jesus took it at all times… It takes wisdom by the Spirit of God– from the Word of God– and prayer in the Holy Spirit to achieve that walk. It won’t come by itself. The closer we get to Him, the easier it is for us to hear.
My experience is that our walk with the Lord will cost everything. But the reward of His Presence, His divine ability to deliver, provide, intervene, protect…..is worth the surrender of our old lives. The more we give of ourselves in surrender to Him….the more we see and experience Him performing His Word, His promises; the manifestation of His will for us.
I’ve lived both ways: mostly me and partly Him. And then mostly Him and, Lord willing, much more of me. The latter, although difficult at times, is the most loving, rewarding relationship I would ever, ever want with someone I love so very, very much.
God bless you richly this year JohnPaul. I know you are believing to sell your home in the North. I’m in Mass so I know what you are looking at in the natural. Maybe think about sowing a seed towards your need by the direction of the Holy Spirit towards the sale of that home….. Phil 4:19 I know from experience that Word works. Love to you… The Lord loves you dearly.. And 2008 is a Great Year… a Glorious Year. Hold onto that. Denise
John Paul,
I am one of those who after reading the first few posts was like, “let’s get to the point, how do we do this? How can we be spiritual? Tell us how to do! Tell us what’s worked for you? etc.” Is this because in part I’ve/we’ve been at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Wanting to know what’s good to do and what’s not good to do, and then in doing that, we think we are spiritual? Having the correct knowledge means we are spiritual, is that the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? “Even the demons know that God is one, and tremble.” I grew up in New England where supremacy and recognition in part where in how smart you were, how intellectual you were. It was in the water and apart from Christ I drank deeply. Even now after being a Christian for a number of years, I still fight it, in part I’m a teacher (by call) in part. I heard someone say once that an unguarded strength is a double weakness, which for me is the mind. I can think I’m spiritual if I know much. Wrong!
Blessings John Paul,you are opening my eyes.
Dennis
John Paul, maybe I am not getting it. But the things you write; for me it comes down to one thing: Being constantly surrendered to God and His ways, seeking His presence and revelation about Him and Who He is which does lead into being constantly surrendered to Him and His ways, seeking His presence and revelation about Him and Who He is which does lead…
Isn’t that what you are blogging about? I enjoy to read what you write even though some things I don’t really grasp today. Then maybe tomorrow. Please continue. You bless me.
Barbara from Switzerland
Oh God have mercy…
Transform me by the renewing of my mind.
Transform me into Your likeness with ever increasing glory.
May there be much less of me and much more of You.
Make me be much, much more like Jesus, amen.
God has speaking to me in this area of transformation. I’m no longer content to lead my life in the ordinary, but I want to live a life transformed. More of Him, less of me. I know this life long journey will never end, but I agree it’s worth it.
Hi John Paul
Point number 7 above is “faith in the unseen and not yet purposes of God.” Would you mind (when it fits into your blog agenda) expounding on this issue of faith: issues like blind faith, naive faith, and true spiritual faith? In other words, in trials and difficulties, I sometimes feel that to have faith, I must posture myself mentally into a forced apathy. It is only by “not caring” that I quit stressing over the outcome. This seems like reaching the right goal (no longer worrying) via the wrong means (apathy). Obviously, worry and angst are not from God, but I am not convinced that a complete mental dismissal of stressful circumstances is true faith. I have heard you say that Faith is where hope and expectation collide: this is a good academic description, but how does this apply to the real world exigencies of a life that doesn’t always go the way we wish?
Thanks for your thoughts…
Scott
JPJ: “some of you are getting a little testy”
Well, as the old saying goes, “you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet”.
Blogging is already a ver rough-and-tumble world enough as it is. But you can bet the farm that every single blogger and website operator out there who have self-styled “discernment ministries” will eventually be here scrutinizing every word you publish.
So I was very surprised when I found out about Coffee Talk. I said to myself, “Whoa! John Paul Jackson is running a blog?” Nevertheless, rest assured that you’ll never get any grief from me.
Now on a different note, I wanted to say that I had the opportunity to listen to some CDs from Streams concerning the subject of dream interpretation. I found them very interesting and helpful for me personally. And so I wanted to express my appreciation.
John Paul,
I so appreciate this message. I feel like you have a destination in mind for us and each posting takes us one more step along the journey.
Marilyn
I would love to see you address Scott’s question about blind faith, naive faith and true faith … in a language all of us can understand.
There are those among us (me) who are not intellectuals nor have a “Streams” vocabulary to fall back on. This is not a criticism, but an acknowledgment of my own lack. Truly appreciate your ministry.
Hi there,
I’ve been enjoying what I’ve been reading so far. I’m glad I had the opportunity to tune in. I am so thankful I heard about Streams and that this web site had been brought to my attention.
What I really appreciate is to hear teaching that helps me to connect the dots. This kind of teaching is a rarity to find.
JohnPaul: Thank you for your solid teaching that helps me not only connect the dots but also affirms the work of God in my life and comes to me as confirmation that, this time around, I’m climbing up the right mountain.
God Bless,
SJ<
John Paul: I once again wish to call you “Brave” for this attempt, I prayerfully flow with it’s progress. Since my sharing has brought me to being tagged as “Legalistic” and even on a wasted journey, I know satan doesn’t like your attempt. Even though the Holy Spirit led me to lay down many things, I never told another they were wrong for having a glass of wine or enjoying a smoke of a good pipe…but they sure take it that way. I would like to close with an ultra-clear dream I had about half-way into this blog of yours. I was once a very smart young man and I destroyed that with wild living, please remember those who ain’t quite as bright as you (Jesus did).
So, my whole walk in Christ has been given the simple message “If Jesus is not number one in everything then you are not going” and I was shown that I was in that group who He will say “away from me”. One of the many:
Just say you believe and it’s all taken care of”… the dream is short and one day I would like your understanding of it. I am still being given it’s meaning, cool!
I was dressed for battle, a modern suit of armor. It was clear that the task was life-threatening and I had a man and woman as fellow warriors. We cut away real trees which were fastened to other structures by large bolts at the base. The suspense became breath-taking and I ordered that we pray, they lay on their backs and as I lay my hands on their bellies; the filling of the Spirit was awesome. It was more intense (yet beautiful) then if you combined all of life’s pleasures into one second. The other two arose and refastened their armor, running off to the next mission; I was too emersed to even hook my first piece. The dream was over and I love ya all, Robert
A tree can be discerned by it’s fruit. The fruit must be reachable to those who have need of it’s nutrition.
A teacher once told me that the branches can be tied down if they get too lofty. This enables the branches to spread out and create easier harvesting, and more fruit!
Some things that a tree needs in order to grow,
Starts as a seed,
Sunlight
Water
Earth
Time
Then to become more fruitful, pruning.
He wants more than a shade tree.
Mk 11.13
Lk 13.6-8 (Is it odd that there was a tree in a vineyard? It would be allowed to stay only if it produces fruit. Thank God for Jesus’ intersession and Holy Spirit’s guidance to help us become fruitful.)
May His fruit hang from our branches so that those that are starving for the fruit of God can pick, taste and see that He is truly good. Let it bring life and healing to them.
God bless
David
ps. the 201 course was eye opening. (Spiritually)
But you can bet the farm that every single blogger and website operator out there who have self-styled “discernment ministries” will eventually be here scrutinizing every word you publish.
This is an outrage and why most of the world wants nothing to do with the church. If the body spent less time “scruntinizing” what everyone else is doing and simply let God be God then maybe we wouldn’t be paralysed. I don’t mean to scruntinize myself which is basically what I am doing right now, but I am greived by the reality of that statement. We need an outpowering of God’s love that would cause a major repentance in the body…..me included!!
Re: “I know many Christians who are living a less than vibrant spiritual life on the wrong mountain. They work hard, doing all the right things, but nothing seems to go right. The wrong mountain will not provide deep, true spirituality - because it does not have the deep soil to produce true spiritual fruit.”
Don’t you think that sometimes serving the Lord is just a less than vibrant thing - because there is a degree of pushing into the kingdom and keeping going when you don’t feel like it. If our hearts are truly to serve the Lord and that is what we are doing, praying that He would lead us by His Holy Spirit as to where and how to serve, then He will not fail us. Honestly, sometimes I do feel like I have spent 28 years serving a God who no longer cares about me at all - but then I have to stop myself and count all the protection that He has given me and stop focusing on any sacrifice it might have caused me. I know that obedience is better than sacrifice, but many times obedience is sacrifice.
Obviously, I’m having a bad day…
Something hit me today as I was driving home from work. I was thinking about how there are a number of people out there who study the Bible and know it forward and backward. They sometimes know the Greek and Hebrew language, the history, the language development, and all sorts of amazing things about Scripture. However, some of these people don’t really know God that well. They know a lot about God.
What is the disconnect? How can someone study for years about God and not really know him? They know his character and his ways and his abilities but they don’t have a daily relationship. They may pray and worship but they are not able to connect. It seems to be only one way communication.
They are studying His Word. How can His Word not change them? God spoke His Word. God is His Word. They are ‘in His Word’ all the time. Why no vibrant relationship?
Suddenly, it began to come together in my mind. He spoke….He created a sound. Sound travels in a wave pattern. Let us assume for a moment that God’s ‘sound’ when He speaks is in the form of a perfect sine wave. So, we can assume His Word is also in the shape of a sound wave.
That is not so very astounding or interesting but wait there is more. Did you know that if you make a sound with exactly the same frequency and wavelength but offset the pattern of the wave so that they are exact opposites you hear nothing at all? What happened? They canceled each other out. This is exactly how the Bose sound canceling headphones work. They sample the surrounding sound and create sounds in the earphones that are perfectly out of phase.
The implication is that you can utter the same ‘sounds’ as God but be completely out of phase with him. Spiritually no sound is created. You can know His Word and use His Word but if you are not aligned with Him there is a spiritual flatline…no spiritual tone is created.
The question goes right back to the ‘how.’ How do we hear His Spirit and sing the same pitch? How do we tune into His spoken Word. How do we get in phase?
Something even more profound just hit me. One of the ‘spiritual’ dreams I mentioned in an early blog was about spiritual sound! Wow! I dreamed that you, JPJ, approached a person near me to pray for them. As you did, I began to hear some very faint tones. In the dream I wondered if I was actually hearing something that was spiritual. Maybe this blogging discussion will finally help me figure out how to truly hear God?
lol…leave it to somebody to put in a blurp about 201!
I reviewed 101 a little and I can’t wait to be able to take that course. And hopefuly one day I’ll be able to take 201.
God Speed!!!
One of those… Awesome revelation.
Sarah, I think you will love the courses.
I don’t know what this has to do with anything but I’ll just put it out there. Sometimes, I experience a sensation that feels like a low voltage current running thru my body. This happens at least once a week. I was troubled not knowing if it was “of God” or not, so I started asking the Lord to explain it. One morning, as I was waking up, I heard the Lord say, “My peace I give to you, not as the world giveth”. Now, usually when the Lord speaks, I just listen. However, on that occassion, I JOINED Him when He said, “Not as the world giveth”.I may not understand Quantum physics but I have had many experiences I find hard to explain. In fact, if it hadn’t been for someone else at church sharing their experiences, I would’ve questioned if I lost touch with reality !!! Our Pastor said we have been duped into thinking we can’t experience God but once you start seeking Him, guess what? You not only find Him, you experience Him. Now I know some people are just interested in getting a “liver quiver” but for me, I had been taught to disregard the experiences when I was a teenager.
I just though maybe we could talk until John Paul comes up with another post. We should cut him some slack……..he has a full plate. I appreciate your insight, John Paul !!!!!
One of those…I agree….awesome revelation. How awesome is our God. He wants to speak the answers to our questions directly to us. It is so cool that we can be directly connected to the Source….we don’t need an extension cord.
Thank you for sharing in this format. I really appreciate your insights and really need them today.
Death to self simply means — It’s not about us. It’s all about who He is in us. What we are willing to allow Him to do through us. How much we are willing to yield to His leading. JPJ calls it continuous transformation.
Well, I think that in some cases, a less vibrant walk with God is one that is idle. I have recently been very aware of some the changes that God has been doing in me. And these are things that I would have never thought to change or I wouldn’t even know how to change. I believe that he is removing strongholds. And he is leading the change,not me. Sometimes we can have strongholds for many years and we think that is just how we are. I believe that this year God is going to amaze us as he transforms us and equips us to reach others in need. I agree with what Nina said about an outpouring of God’s love. I have been feeling that God is about to pour out his Love to heal the wounded and broken hearted. We will be immersed in his love and so transformed that we will have fruit that is evident to others. We are living in a world where the love of many has grown cold and so many are searching for love in all the wrong places. Many are broken and desperate from all the pain and suffering in the world. God’s love brings healing & conviction. Supernatural love can melt the hardest of hearts and bring them to repentance.
favorited this one, dude