We are on a journey or an adventure together discovering how to engage the spiritual realms •Discovering the realms within us, around us and the heavenly realms •We are going to follow the pathway of relationship and responsibility
Engaging God First Love 3 •Why first love? •What is first love? •Why is first love so important? •Our eternal destiny and destination is at stake on the basis of experiencing the answer to those questions
First Love
Transformation
Identity Intimacy
First Love
The power of first love is God’s grace His supernatural ability to heal us, restore us, make us whole •The power to set us free from all bondages, blockages, prisons of our souls – minds, emotions and wills •The power to transform us into our true image – sonship
True first love with Love Himself is where we find: •Who am I? •My identity is found in His love •Why am I here? •My Value, Worth, Esteem are found in His acceptance
What is my purpose? •My significance, redemptive gift and restorative assignments are found in relationship with Him •Where do l come from? •My Eternal Destiny is found in Him •All found in an intimate love relationship with First Love
God is love, God is spirit, God is light •Love carries a vibrational frequency of the spirit as wavelengths of light. •We can experience the presence or the frequency of love and become like it through resonance •We can be embraced by love and it can change and transform us
We can then be a channel for that love frequency to vibrate and engage others •John 13:35 It is by your love for one another that others will know that you are My disciples •We can only radiate what we have received through our personal experience – get up close and intimate
Cardiogenesis •Development of the embryonic heart formed from the genetic record of our earthly parents •We can undergo a new cardiogenesis with a new but eternal record from our heavenly Father •We need to get heart to heart deep to deep with Him
Psa 84:5 How blessed is the man whose strength is in You, In whose heart are the highways to Zion! •Ancient paths of life flowing in and through us •Prov 23:7 as he thinks within himself (In His heart), so he is.
Our heart radiates 10 x more powerful electromagnetic fields than our brain • Electromagnetic frequency can be detected 12 inches from our brain but 10 feet from our heart • What sort of atmosphere are we radiating? • We can engage God and embrace the transformational frequency His heart
Emotional information is actually coded and modulated into these energy fields. •By learning to flow from our spirits, we can change the information coded in the magnetic fields that are radiated by our hearts, and that can impact those around us.
We can be intimately connected to the heart and mind of God •From the vibrational frequency of God’s love we can vibrate love •We can be connected with each other and the planet itself because we are connected to God •We all are frequencies
Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. •Rev 3:19 Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent.
Rev 3:21 He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. •Love = reproof and discipline – oh no •Don’t equate discipline with punishment •Discipline is training, conformation and transformation
Repenting – negative or positive? •Zealous passionate about it how, why? •Repentance means to change our mind to turn •To turn and follow Him into relationship and transformation into His image that His love brings
Embracing His loving discipline and correction because transformation is the preparation for deeper intimacy •It creates the desire for intimacy that helps us to choose to daily open the first love gate and engage First Love •Reward of intimacy is rulership we overcome and rule on thrones
God’s first love is like nothing we have truly experienced in our human relationships. •In fact human first love probably caused us rejection, emotional damage, pain, created our insecurities, fears and our trust issues.
Rom 8:35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? •Rom 8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Rom 8:37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. •This is the truth but are we experiencing and living this truth? •Do we really know that we are more than conquerors because of His love?
Are there things that have and still are continuing to separate us from experiencing who God always is – LOVE? •John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
First love releases destiny •Damaged love blocks destiny •When some people try to open their first love gates they can appear blocked •These blockages are projections of the soul because of fear of hurt, pain and rejection
Door can appear to be locked shut, •Our souls try to block to protect us through because of it’s belief systems and behaviour patterns •Hurts, pains and rejection of parents, friends and first love relationships set up these defence mechanisms
Blockages can be seen as images – nailed, barred, brambles over it that stop us opening our first love gate •Souls protection mechanism is a projection that creates fear, apprehension because of our: •Our past experiences of love •Hurt, pain, rejection, fear, mistrust
• Jer 2:13 For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me The fountain of living waters, To hew for themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns That can hold no water.
Transformation Restored, Renewed to the orginal
Born Again Resurrected
Spirit Fountain Living Water
LOVE
ACCEPTANCE
SECURITY
SIGNIFICANCE
PURPOSE
Transfigured
Manifest Presence of God GLORY
Spirit DEAD TO GOD
Hurt Pain Rejection Insecurity Fear Disappointment Guilt Shame
Relationships
WORK
MONEY
POWER
THINGS
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WORRY
FEAR
ANGER
REJECTION
DEPRESSION
ADDICTION
LOW ESTEEM
INSECURITY
ANXIETY
SICKNESS
What are you still connected or chained to? •What experiences? •What memories? •What emotions? •What hurts, pains, rejections betrayals •Unforgiveness is a yoke that keeps us tied to our past
Rejected, Abandoned, Betrayed, Disappointed, Hurt, Let down, Abused •All of us have had those experiences but are we still yoked to them? •Isa 58:6 Is this not the fast which I choose, To loosen the bonds of wickedness, To undo the bands of the yoke, And to let the oppressed go free And break every yoke?
Isa 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, Because the Lord has anointed me To bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to captives And freedom to prisoners;2 To proclaim the favourable year of the Lord (cancelled debts)
Isa 61:4 Then they will rebuild the ancient ruins, They will raise up the former devastations; And they will repair the ruined cities, The desolations of many generations. •How can our lives be restored? •By embracing the transforming power of First Love – forgiveness
Forgive and release and be free •Wounds caused by fathers, mothers, friends, lovers can be healed •Heart of stone replaced and renewed •Heart can be restored made whole •Our hearts can receive forgiveness and then release forgiveness to be free
Heart Soil of Insecurity
Resulting from lack of: love, acceptance, affirmation, appreciation, affection, encouragement – identity
Heart
Heart Soil of Insecurity
Resulting from: what others said or didn’t say; what others did or didn’t do – sin
Seed of offence
Emotions
Heart Soil of Insecurity
Resulting from your responses: what you think; what you feel – attitudes, emotions – Anger
Seed of offence
Roots of Bitterness
Sub-conscious Mind
Will
Resulting from your behaviour: what you say; what you do
Seed of offence
Roots of Bitterness Heart Soil of Insecurity
Fruit of Resentment
Choices Reason Filters
Seed of offence
Roots of Bitterness Heart Soil of Insecurity
Fruit of Resentment
Forgive & Release
Repent
Renounce
Revelation True Identity
Heart Soil of Security
Fruit of Righteousness
We are owed by those who have hurt us •There may be invoices outstanding •We must settle the accounts •What they did or did not do – choose to forgive them •How has it affected your life – how you think, feel and behave
Make an invoice of those memories that come to mind •Remove the offense by choosing to forgive them •Cancel the debt by to choosing to release them •Then allow God’s love to heal you break your chains and remove the wounds and scars on your heart
Forgive, release and be free • Break the chains to the person, memory or the to the pain • We then are no longer tied and chained to our past • The wounds can be healed • God’s love that vibrating frequency will bring us restoration as we resonate with it
Psa 139:23 Search me thoroughly , O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; 24 And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way. •Heart, Thoughts, Ways
Inviting God to access us •Every thought, every emotion every memory, every experience •To penetrate the deepest recesses of our lives •To engage every fibre of our being •Let the barriers down
Choose open ourselves to God •Choose to embrace first love •Choose to give ourselves to Him •Choose to surrender the past •Choose to receive His healing love •Choose to forgive release and be made whole
Receive Him as love personified •Feel the security, power and strength of His love •Feel His unconditional love for you •Feel the fire of His love burn in you •Feel His love embrace you hold you safe in His arms of love •Feel your heart melt in His embrace
I stand in the light of your truth •Show me the seeds of offense & sin that have taken root in my heart •I commit myself to forgiving & release all offenses in my life & my generational line
Choose to forgive each seed for each person or memory that comes to your mind •Choose to release the person for each debt outstanding and for each effect influencing your life •Choose to cancel each debt
Show me all roots of bitterness that have grown in my heart •I commit myself to a lifestyle of repentance against all negative roots •I repent of all negative emotions and attitudes rooted in my heart
Show me all fruits of resentment that have developed in my behaviour •I commit myself to a lifestyle of renunciation against all negative behaviours •I renounce all my defence & coping mechanisms •I renounce my sin as a way of life
Give me revelation of my true identity as a son of God •Give me a heart secure in my identity •Renew my mind to the mind of Christ •Let all my unmet needs be met in Your love •Heal all my unhealed hurts •Restore my soul
I receive your unconditional love, acceptance, affirmation, approval •I stand transparent naked and unafraid before you •I hear you say I see you and I love you •I receive your value, esteem and worth
I choose to live a lifestyle of forgiveness, repentance & renunciation •I choose to walk in an intimate love relationship with You •Manifest your glory through me on earth as it is in heaven so I will fulfil my eternal destiny
Listen to Him as He unveils the hidden mysteries of your destiny • Let Him reveal how special you are to Him • Let Him show you your true identity • Let Him show you your true purpose • Let what was transform what is to release what will be • Feel His love burning in your heart