Have you tried everything else
Well-intended advice
Psychological self-analysis
Loving encouragement from friends
Stubborn human willpower
Whistling in the dark
Bible passages till the cows came home
But you can’t quite shake
A lack of forgiveness?
Try this:
See him as Jesus sees him
Perfect as the Father
Having the Christ in him.
Now don’t upset your treatment
Just leave him there.
Incremental learning/Creflo
I have wonderful news – Creflo is listening to (reading) us! He’s got it right too: “Hermaneutics is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially of scriptural text.”
Creflo cares what we have to say ♡ ♡ ♡ . When you read the Bible, you need to be aware of who is speaking and to whom. That’s content. You need to be aware of the time frame – 2,000 years ago. And you need to know about the Jewish, Roman and Greek cultures. All of that’s context and it’s all relevant.
Creflo explains all of this very clearly and with dignity: We need to be alert when we quote the Bible. It sometimes quotes Job, and Elias, and even Satan!
“Within” or “out there”?
Here’s an LOL I had once with Jesus:
Me: . J-e-e-e-e-e-e-sus!
Jesus: . What, I’m right here.
Me: . Pu-leeeze create in me a clean heart…
Jesus: . …uhhh…
Me: . And renew a right spirit within me.
Jesus: . But I did that 2,000 years ago…
Jesus: . … on the cross …
Jesus: . I did it coz I love you so very much!
Jesus: . That’s why I live through you …
Jesus: . … on the inside of you.
Jesus: . Pardon Me for taking over the conversation, but I so rarely get a chance to.
Jesus: . I could change your whole life so much that the line between you and Me would dissolve entirely …
Jesus: . … through all eternity.
W-e-l-l-l-l . . .
We live in God. He lives in us. Omigoodness, what else do you want?
Your present challenge
To love your enemy
Is tantamount to
You have no enemies!
Just maybe
Your present challenge
Is telling you something.
What can Get you focused?
What can Keep you focused?
What’s more important?
But God . . . .
Let’s eliminate religious ritual
Give up any and ALL r-e-l-i-g-i-o-u-s ritual. Throw it out, and just be quiet and listen to God. Period.
How not to lose our focus
When are you the closest to God? For me, what works best is pacing. That’s right! That movement keeps a strong focus going. It functions a bit like Tongues, blotting out all the junk while breathing in fresh new inspirations. Oh, and it’s very compatible with Tongues!
An important caveat to working at something else while God is trying to get something through to us is that our fleshly mind always wants to distract us. We can train ourselves to recognize the difference, though, between our hanging with God for fellowship and love vs. our stubbornly refusing to listen when there’s an important revelation coming.
If you’ll only listen
Dear You,
What would it take to get you to listen to Me ALL the time? A billion dollars? Or, take all your money away and throw you in prison? Or, something in between? If you EVER took the plunge and gave up ALL human pride, giving your-SELF over to Me, we could live a glorious life right here, right now, in a mansion or in a prison.
W.A.M.L.,
God
We are indelibly linked to Jesus!
“Moses represented all of Israel, and went and met with God. He took the ten commandments of the law covenant and put them in the ark of the covenant, and then …put that ark in the taberacle, in the Holy of Holies. God’s Presence dwelled in that place. In the new covenant. God made a similar covenant with Jesus. This covenant is perfect. Jesus met with God and represented all of mankind. He took your heart, wrote on it God’s new covenant law of love, and put your heart and mind into the ark of the covenant in heaven, which is God’s throne, the mercy seat. You are so joined to Jesus in the new covenant, that nothing can break that. The only way would be to remove your heart from the ark, and God is sitting on that. Your trapped!”
David Duncan
Not in your strength
_____ NOT IN YOUR STRENGTH
______ (by Dr. Robin Starbuck)
Moses knew that he was a Jew, in spite of Cecil B. de Mille’s rendition of “Moses”! (Exo. 1-4; Acts 7:20-25) He knew what his life purpose was from God – to lead his people, the Jews, out of the captivity of the Egyptians. But Moses, like a lot of us, sought to do the will of God in his own human strength. God had an entirely different plan in mind – that of carrying it out supernaturally. After all, why would God even think in such limiting terms?
When we ask God for something, let us think big – let’s imagine beyond human frailties. Moses thought he could use his position and power to carry out God’s plan. He even went so far as to kill a man in a display of his own natural strength. it was patently wrong minded, and he paid the price for it. Sometimes it’s hard for us to grasp the fact that God doesn’t need our “tooling around” as if we ourselves were the almighty. First, find God’s will; then find out what His plan is.
We have an awesome God. Let’s be a little bit awesome ourselves by putting everything in God’s hands. He is equal to every challenge and worthy of all the glory.
LISTENING !!!