“Job suffered. His name is synonymous with suffering. He asked, 'Why?' He asked, 'Why me?' And he put his questions to God. He asked his questions persistently, passionately, and eloquently. He refused to take silence for an answer. He refused to take clichés for an answer. He refused to let God off the hook...
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The Lord is extracting grief from His people. He is extracting it in only the way He could. There are some who have totally come to a place where they’ve lost hope...
It is God that has established us in Christ. It is our choice to remain where He has so wonderfully placed us. Choosing to “Abide in First Love” was one of the teaching subjects in The Missing Piece conference. It literally means occupying the space between the Father and the Son and learning to abide in love. Abiding is concerned with...
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The “Law of Undulation,” or the Way of the Wilderness “We didn’t count on suffering…we didn’t count on pain…but if the blessing’s in the valley…then in the river I will wait…” – Delirious Christians often speak of “seasons.”... I was stunned! Flabbergasted! It exactly described where I stood on the mountain! It was the verse about the ancient paths I received coming down the mountain that I didn’t look up!
Hold on to your seat folks, this is a long one put the story is totally worth it! See if you relate to what this guy went through...
Personal Experience: Developing a new way of looking at life is a difficult process. Most of these lessons have been learned form hard-earned experience. Learning to view the world differently not because I wanted to, but to survive and understand, I had to. Much that happened during this time period was the result of God so re-ordering my world He had to speak in so many different kinds of ways just to get my attention. You see I had a problem, which many of us have of course, but mine was called performance orientation. What that does to a person is make them work so hard they just burn out. And burn out I did. I had been pastoring a youth church... "And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has
led you in the wilderness (desert) these forty years, that he might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not." - Deut. 8:2. The dry times, those painful seasons of barrenness, are... "Some people just won't come to the place you're desiring to ascend to in your spiritual walk and hunger for Me. Allow yourself to be ok with that. Don't reject them, just accept that it's a part of the growth process. It's like a caterpillar shedding its skin to grow. What was once loose and fitting, is now tight and straining. Guess what? You've grown. Let it go and continue to pursue Me higher! The joy will return as you find new friends, just up ahead of you...They are ascending to the places you want to go. Continue to devour the revelation of who you are in Me! I'm transforming you! Rest in Me and allow the Metamorphosis to take place. You said you wanted to "fly" didn't you?" -Papa The past few months I have been stretched into new places with Him. Expansion is a time to be treasured and monopolised. It certainly left me relying on new levels of grace and stripped me of self-dependancy...
Its Symptoms, Causes, and Remedies, Including Options For Potential Codependents To all appearances Saul was special: chosen by God to lead a nation, anointed, publicly endorsed by God and the leading prophet of his time, divinely led, humble, nonassertive, and had a kingly appearance. Even his early days as king reflected God’s favor. He was a success. Yet, incredibly, the same man developed an “above the law” mentality and a knack for denial and self-justification when challenged by God’s prophet. Saul then began a nosedive into anxiety, paranoia, and depression. Jealousy consumed him as one of his servants, David, began to share in the limelight. Although Saul knew David was a dedicated servant who would lay down his life for him, his jealousy raged, driven by an evil spirit. Scripture records Saul’s relentless plots to kill David, to recruit others as assassins, and to even use his own daughters (at the expense of their hearts) as unwitting accomplices. In his paranoia he perceived his own advisors and his son Jonathan as disloyal, even threatening to kill Jonathan. Such was his delusion that he pronounced a blessing in God’s name on a man who revealed David’s hiding place. Saul’s life ended miserably after consulting a medium. Never was he able to bring himself to say, “I repent.” Sadly, men of God with dark sides are not limited to Old Testament times. Paul had his troubles with envious preachers in Rome (Philippians 1:15–18 NASB);1 paranoid Diotrephes forbade his congregation to associate with John (3 John 9). Even to this day the ranks of godly shepherds have also contained some who have wounded the sheep. Like Saul, many enter ministry humbly and sincerely, but something snaps, triggering the dark side lurking within. I want to explore the symptoms, causes, and remedies for the Saul Syndrome and explore options for potential codependents. Much like a family secret no one wants to talk about... |
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