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PLANTING SEEDS: (Truth) Truth can only be found in God’s word. People can share their opinion on truth, which I am going to do with you in a moment during my “Coffee Cup Counseling” section but I encourage you to personally start getting into the word and studying scripture. It will open up a brand new perspective and new life for those that take the time to begin or rekindle their relationship with God.
Scripture Memorization : Matthew 10:26-28 (NIV)
“So do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs. Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
COFFEE CUP COUNSELING: (My Personal Perspective)
This is just my personal experience with scripture. It is just one of the ways that it has impacted my life and gives us an opportunity to interact with one another how it has personally changed our lives.
I’ve had a lot of breakthroughs in the last 12 years. I have shed many roots of unforgiveness, yet, not all, I have been freed from depression, I have been freed of loneliness, hopelessness. I have been released from anxiety, my marriage has been restored, there is unbelievable peace in my life. My perspective on life is filled with hope and awe and love, my trust in God is above anything else, yet my life is far from fixed or perfect and I still have a long way to go.
But how did I personally get here?
Well, that answer, will reflect why I am so strong on correction and the Holy Spirit’s conviction. See, I believe that grace, love and mercy flow in huge abundance right now. Huge, I can’t even begin to tell you, how much I believe that those three things are priceless and are all around us because of Jesus and God’s sacrifice of his Son on that cross, to be the redemption of a people that for the most part reject and don’t even love God. So to say that those things are not important would be a tremendous lie and misrepresentation of who God is. But to say that I was saved by Grace…might be for me.
When God reached down and saved me in the tar pit of life I was in 12 yrs ago, that was a perfect representation of what God’s love and grace and mercy did. Because that is who God is.
But let me say, that if all that took place that day was God’s hug and a group of friends that stood around me to tell me that everything was OK, and that I could continue to live as I always did because God’s love and grace and mercy was all I needed… I would have simply gone back to living in a way that got me in that tar pit in the first place and God’s love and grace and mercy would have simply been rejected by me.
So let me tell you what made me fall in love with God. When I opened that Bible God’s word of truth, I read an almost exact representation of the life I was living, and how much it hurt God to see me living like this. Honestly if you go to the 7 things that God hates, go ahead, look them up, I’m not sure I wasn’t involved in nearly every single one of them. Let me just say this. I have a completely clean legal record. I have never been in any sort of legal trouble. So you might say I was a good person. Yet, according to what God hates, look it up, I should be in prison. But I am not, I have been set free. So yes, you must absolutely first understand how much God loves you, otherwise you will never have the trust you need to feel confident in his ability to correct you.
So ultimately, yes, I could say it was God’s love and grace and mercy that saved me, but that would only be half of the truth. Because as I said that is who God is…it flows already in abundance. But what actually continually strengthens my life is Christ, is when I engage and I learn to trust God enough to put me on the potters wheel and reshape my life to its original form and then add His attributes to me, which can only be done, by correcting all the flaws and cracks that I have allowed to falsely shape me in the world.
So you see, it’s God’s correction that captured me, changed my life and provided a break through in all the areas that I have need.
So get into God’s word, speak truth and set the captives free.
MEDITATION & DISCUSSION:
Take time to journal your thoughts on this scripture. You are more than welcomed to share your insight, testimony, thoughts, questions with me below, or keep it for your own personal journal.
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I’m going to share today’s blog with _____________________________________________________.
I thought of them because:
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PRAYER:
God, thank you that we can receive breakthrough in every situation through your sovereign word of truth. Being led by the Holy Spirit in Jesus Name. Amen.
Don’t forget to memorize and meditate on today’s Word! It’s absolute Truth!
Scripture Memorization : Matthew 10:26-28 (NIV)
“So do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs. Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.