When we struggle with something we will hint around about it, what we are doing is asking for help on a human level. This is what we naturally do when our soul is in need of something.
When our spirit comes alive to God everything that we experience is relational. It is about our relationship to God, who he is becoming to us and in us.
As we begin to grow spiritually, we are going to have to learn how to trust the Lord and the Lord alone, and then He is the one that directs our paths, he is the one who decides if He is going to fully meet our need Himself or whether He is going to use someone else.
Our soul is self-centered, so all that denying self really is, is becoming God centered. He will not withhold any good thing from us as we learn how to walk with him.
So, what we are learning is how to put him first. We are learning how to consider him, how to think about his desires, and then we begin to see things through his eyes.
He desires to bless us more than we want to be blessed, but everything is relational. His focus is on how we relate to him. If we are not relating to him properly, then blessing us may turn our attention away from him and on to the blessing.
The reason we have certain needs is so that they can be met in our relationship with him.
Jesus becomes everything to us, so that He can be all in all.
We cannot have a walk with God, unless the Lord becomes our number one source. This is where we learn how to pray, where we learn how to worship, how to give thanks in everything. The reason we give thanks in everything is because it positions us to receive. We are relating to the Lord properly.
We are to rejoice always; this has to do with our relationship with God. Are we rejoicing because bad things are happening? No! We are rejoicing because our relationship with God means so much to us, that our circumstances and situations are not worthy to be compared to the glory of the nature of God that is being worked into us, because nothing can separate our focus from Him.
It is through beholding the beauty of who God is, that his nature is transferred to us.
Thanksgiving and rejoicing open our spirit and soul to the affections of God for us. If God be for us who or what can be against us?
Thanksgiving and rejoicing open us up to begin to experience God as He wants to be experienced, and we learn to live from the inside out.
In our spiritual growth what we are learning is how to partake of the divine nature, how to possess what God has so freely given us.
We are learning the process of change. All change comes through exposure to God. We have a meeting with God, we experience God, we encounter God, we become aware of His Spirit.
When we experience God, what has happened is we have tasted of Him. We have tasted that the lord is good. And this is what repentance is.
Experiencing God changes the way that we think about him and causes us to change course so that we begin to pursue him. Repentance is a gift; everything we receive from God is a gift.
Once we taste of the lord, then we must learn how to continually drink of him, we must learn how to partake of him or eat of him, and this is called abiding. We are maintaining a vital connection to him so that his life is continually flowing into us, removing anything that hinders us from being filled with all his fullness.
The way that we change is by encounter and process. We encounter the lord, which causes us to experience him. But then that experience must become a way of life and this becomes a process of change as we learn to maintain an intimate relationship with Him, where his life and nature is continually manifest in us, it is called the word of God becoming flesh.
We are engaged also in process before God, we are processing everything. Process is a series of actions directed toward a specific aim, a series of spiritual occurrences that produce change or development.
We must learn how to walk with the Lord in process. Process is a series of steps that takes us from where we are now to where God wants us to be. It is the process that makes us rich not the outcome. We are on a journey, an adventure, our life is meant to be exciting. We have the privilege in participating in the glorification of God in us.
The process is the actual act of walking with God through the situation that makes us rich and powerful and breaks the power of the enemy. It makes us bigger and bigger in our circumstances until we become a strong person in the power of His might which empowers other people to discover who God is for them.
We are learning not to trust in people around us as our primary source, but we are learning how to trust in the Lord.
We must develop an intimate relationship with God, and this is what process is all about. We have one mediator between God and man, the Lord Jesus Christ.
The gift ministries are only to point to Him; we are still depending too much on other people. We are following on to know the lord, and it is in this intimate knowing that we do exploits.
When we are not fully trusting in the Lord all that we are concerned about mostly is rescue. We are asking the Lord to get us out of a situation that he may very well have led us into.
The Lord wants to teach us who we are in this situation. Some of our situations God deal’s with suddenly, others He doesn’t.
Some of them He imparts His authority and power so that we can move them. Other situations He imparts His patience; this is going to work just as powerfully but it is going to take longer.
The thing is we cannot learn patience in a weekend. We don’t learn patience by being focused on our circumstances we learn patience by being focused on God in our circumstances.
Patience is an attribute of the divine nature. God is patience and it is imparted to us in our awareness of Him. If we are not experiencing divine patience, it is because our awareness is on something else other than Him.
The patience of God has to do with circumstances and longsuffering with people.