Recovered In Christ

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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Unflattering Truth…
Almost 5 years ago I got one of the first cavities I’ve ever had – up until that time, I was pretty impressed with myself for never having had one, I loved the reaction that dentists gave me when they’d realize I’d never had one! Better still, was the reaction from friends who’d had many. Somehow – I had taken a no cavity situation into a trip to superiority land!!! It bugged me when I lost that title! Worse still, was the dentist’s news that in fact it was so deep that I would need a root canal. What? Me? I sat there, close to arguing with the specialist surgeon that my dentist had sent me to. It felt personal. Like an insult! He on the other hand was simply sharing with me his diagnosis. An unflattering truth to my tooth’s reputation, but not a ‘moral judgement’. He investigated my teeth. He looked at pictures taken with a device that could see things invisible to me, and he had made a judgement about what needed to be done, using his knowledge and expertise to explain the FACTS about my situation. How silly would it have been for me to argue with him. Or to go to an unlicensed friend who knows as little as I do and ask them for a second opinion!

God – you are The Great Physician..everyone else’s opinion is insanity compared to yours. You see all of the facts about me, you use your Holy Spirit to see things invisible to me, and your judgement is Holy and Perfect. Help me not to be ridiculous in taking it personally when you show me unflattering truth about myself. Help me to understand that you want to heal me, and to make me right with you. Help me God to be more interested in the Truth than in defending my position – about anything! I love you. Amen.

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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold. (Job 23:10)

The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests hearts. (Job 17:3)

I have learned alot from working for a gold and base metal exploration company. It’s cleared up alot of misconceptions I’ve had about how the process works. My crude imaginations of 20th century men with long beards and picks wading into streams looking for gold nuggets has been replaced with the knowledge of what it actually takes to look for gold. And then what it takes to extract it from the ore – and purify it so that it will actually be the ‘gold’ you know to be gold. When I used to hear Christians talking about God testing them, it made me angry, furious. Like what kind of a God do you believe in that sets people up with spiritual quizzes – that if they fail or get a below average mark they’ll be rejected? I had no idea what ‘to be tested’ meant. I didn’t know that they were talking about the same kind of testing a manufacturer will put his product through before distribution. Not to see if it will pass or fail in some moral judgement, but to see if it’s ready to be the final product he had in mind at its creation!

God – what can I say, I had alot of noise inside of me, noise produced from a rebellious mind that wanted to make up its own truth, be its own God, and alot of noise from the Devil ruled world – that whispers constant twisted interprestaions of the Bible to accuse you God to your people. But. You reached through the noise. You reached into my life and silenced the accuser. You showed me that every attack and crisis in my life was the fire that separated the impurities from the GOLD you created me to be. You used the furnace of my life to test my heart. To make it like yours. It was probably the most excrutiaing time of my life. I thought I would lose my faith for good. But you then gave me true faith. Not the blind leap kind, but the kind based on having confidence in the ONE. The kind of faith that has seen the face of The Way, The Truth and The Life. The kind that has told my heart that I Will Come Forth As Gold. Amen.

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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Agreements…
Did you know that most agreements that we make are unsaid, maybe even unconscious? I mean, there isn’t enough room on this blog to get into how many social, political and day to day agreements we make by default by simply following the status quo. Waiting at the street lights is an agreement! Standing in line at the grocery store is an agreement! This is not a criticism, these are necessary ‘agreements’ for the simple continuation of life as we know it! There are other types of agreements – these are the ones that I’ve been thinking about lately. The kinds you make with yourself – that then LEAD you to seek out other people who will make an agreement with you not to ACKNOWLEDGE your secret agreements. I don’t know how many people over the years I have met who have sought my help – and when I’ve refused to ignore their secret and perhaps unconscious agreements with themselves, they have turned on me. And then – like clockwork, go and find the other people upset with me for the very same reason!!! To agree with them!! LOL!

Do you have secret agreements? Perhaps you have settled for a mediocre life, that’s an agreement to settle. Perhaps you’re dishonest, or sleep around, or are negative, but avoid looking at these things inside you – that’s an agreement that you’ve made with your self. An agreement to avoid your hypocrisy. Look  at your friendships. Your relationships. Have you cut everybody off who might call you out on your secret agreements? Are you in a relationship with someone you know you shuldn’t be? Do they know that? Or do you have an agreement not to rock the boat? Do you have people in your life that you gossip with? That you have non verbally agreed with to be lukewarm towards God? Look at the groups you are a part of. The places you go too, the FRAMEWORK in which you live. Is this framework a bridge to freedom, or invisible prison walls?  I too, have made many, many secret agreements – all in the hopes of making my life more pleasurable, more comfortable – ALL of them were pacts with the Devil, that kept my soul enslaved.

How did I get out? One of the most powerful agreements I ever made with myself was over 12 years ago, I made an agreement with myself to stop lying. It started by telling the truth about how full of crap I was…almost immediately it began to nullify all of those secret and evil agreements I had made! There is nothing more powerful than the Truth. I made an agreement to tell the truth. I then made an agreement with God. I agreed to let Him rescue me – AT ANY COST! No matter what it cost me in my life, I agreed for Him to rescue me and lead me to The Truth! And He did. What is The Truth? It isn’t unknowable as Pontius Pilate believed. The truth isn’t an idea, or a principle. The Truth is a person. Jesus. He is the author of the new contract I have with God. He signed it with His blood. I refuse to make any agreements without Him as my lawyer being present. And the result? I.Am.Free. Amen

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Monday, February 6, 2012

Take It To The Cross Of Jesus Christ…And Leave It There…
Random verbal attacks are on the increase. Simply minding my own business on the street is no longer a guarantee of protection against vicious remarks and spewd insults against me – as if Satan’s turned the heat up under those he influences to react with such boiling point venom. It still startles me how complete strangers will talk to me and try to taunt me about details in my life they could know nothing about. I feel bad for people who have no idea why their life is under siege. There is such peace, such confidence in knowing the Truth. In knowing Jesus. The more you see, the more you see. The more people you lead to Christ – the greater the retaliation. When God revealed to me the Truth years ago about the real story behind the scenes of this battle – I no longer wondered why we come under attack – from the most unsuspecting places! I understood!! But it still made me angry! So God has showed me something!

It transformed my mind! He told me to take any thought good or bad, to take any person, idea, belief, accusation, to take them all to the cross of Jesus Christ. They will either be put to death forever like the Sin that Jesus buried – or they will be resurrected to Eternal life with Him. It is not my concern. At first it seemed like a tedius exercise. Until I placed myself at the Cross of Jesus. I am willing God, that you put to death everything in me that must die. Thank you for utterly putting to death addiction in me. Thank you that my lonliness is dead. That my lust has been put to death. That my disloyalty was killed off! And I trust in the Eternal life you have given me.  I put the cross of Christ between myself and anything that would try to exalt itself above the Knowledge of The True God. I place the Cross of Jesus Christ between myself and everything and everyone in this world. To slice with accuracy anything that might lead me away from the Heart Of God. And I place the Cross Of Jesus Christ between me and and all other Christians and those being called to God – not as a divisive weapon – but as the centre piece of our lives. My prayer God, is that you give me the humility and the power to take every inch of myself to your Cross…and to leave it there. Amen.

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