I was talking with a friend today about butterflies, one of their favorite subjects, when it hit me. What if a butterfly doesn’t leave the cocoon? Think about it. It has a nice cozy little place in which to hang out where it’s turning into something very beautiful. And yet, if it doesn’t go through the struggle of leaving it’s cozy environment, it will die and be eaten by its enemies.
It’s the same for believers in Jesus. We are God’s masterpieces, just like the beautiful butterfly. We are meant to fly and experience the life God created us for (Eph. 2:10) with each flutter of our wings. We were never saved to stay in the comfort zone of the cocoon.
Jesus came to give you life. He came to transform your life into His image, which comes through exercising the truth by faith even if it’s a struggle. If you choose to stay where you are, you will eventually become bait for your enemy who wants to destroy the life Jesus has for you.
Are you growing or dying? Choose to exercise the truth the Spirit gives you today by faith to experience the flight you were meant to fly.
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In any relationship, especially marriage, two people can get close only by sharing with each other their thoughts, their dreams, their life and who they are becoming. Obvious, right?
Yet implied within that statement is that you know who you are and who you are is worth sharing! This kind of vulnerability is tough, which is why most relationships remain shallow as each person becomes stalled in their personal growth.
Now, you probably thought I was talking about you and your spouse or friends. Nope, I was talking about your relationship with Jesus. (Paul used the marriage relationship in Ephesians 5 as an illustration for our walks with Jesus.)
I don’t know how many times I’ve heard, “Christianity is not a religion, but a relationship.” Well, is it true or not? When it comes to talking with Jesus (i.e. prayer), what are your conversations centered around – what you need or who you’re becoming?
Jesus already made us secure children of God. It’s this security – never being separated from the source of love – that provides us with the room to take steps of faith (i.e. risk) in allowing the Spirit to change our lives (aka personal growth). Talk with Jesus about changing your life. You’ll only grow closer to Him as you do. It’s well worth the risk.
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I want to pass on a piece of sage advice I was given. “If you keep looking back, you’ll keep repeating your past mistakes in the present. Instead, choose to learn from those mistakes as to not repeat them in the present to gain victory in the future.”
Fish don’t know they are wet. You only know what you know when you know it. You based your past choices on the information you had at the time. You can’t do anything about your past decisions, because they’re in the past! The only thing you can do with your past decisions is to put them through the FREEdom process today: get at the lie in your thinking, exchange it with the truth from the Word; and then exercise that truth in the Spirit’s power today.
Instead of beating yourself over your past mistakes or bad decisions, learn from them so you don’t repeat them by making better choices in the present. Power through your past rather than relive it. The choice is yours today.
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Let’s not leave Firstfruits/Resurrection Day (aka Easter) so quickly. Yesterday we celebrated the fact that Jesus rose from the grave on the “appointed day” God set out in Scripture. It was on this day that we gain the hope that the second death will never touch us and quite possibly the first death as well.
Yet, we must die to ourselves every day. We must choose to die to the area(s) in which the Spirit is convicting us. As we do and choose to exercise the truth by faith in the Spirit’s power, we will experience the freedom and victory over death that Jesus promises.
I love what one author said, “What an amazingly loving and sovereign God we have! He turns our messy life into a masterpiece work of art as we let Him do the work in and around us.” Turning the messes into masterpieces starts with surrendering that area to the FREEdom process. What will your begin and/or continue to surrender to Jesus today?
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I receive all kinds of newsfeeds from around the world. Most of them have to do with Israel as she is the center of prophecy. Jesus said on the day He rode down Mt. Olivet on a donkey that if the people had only known of His coming on that donkey, they could have saved themselves tremendous heartache. They didn’t; and 35+ years later, Rome destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple (Lk. 19:41-44).
Scripture also gives us information about His 2nd coming – Ezekiel 38+39. Persia, modern Iran, is in the newspapers quite a bit at the moment. Iran is currently smuggling rockets with advanced guided warheads to Hezbollah in Lebanon. These are much more accurate than the ones they shot at Israel in 2006. Right now, the US leaves a warship off the coast of Israel with the capability of shooting down rockets from Iran, not southern Lebanon. Is Israel currently a “land of unwalled villages,” meaning she is pretty much defenseless like Ezekiel 38:11 states? Despite the nuclear treaty Iran is still working out with the US and Europe, the commander of Iran’s Basij Force states that “wiping Israel off the map is not up for negotiation.” Sound like “devising an evil scheme” against Israel to you (Ezekiel 38:10)?
Reading today’s newspapers is like reading the Bible! The Bible is coming true before our very eyes, quite literally. Jesus might return tomorrow or a hundred years from now. Ready or not, He will come. Choose to be ready by simply being in and hanging out with the Word of God, Jesus Himself, so you can filter all your thoughts through Him and His Word throughout your day to experience freedom now and forever.
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