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I said to my wife this morning after sharing the quote I have here, it is so liberating to me to hear His heart and voice for me and it doesn’t matter how that miracle comes to my awareness, but as it does, it continues to be in me the absolute forbearance needed as the continued transformation (metamorphosis) unfolds in my life.
It has always been the imprinted desire of my heart to KNOW HIM, nothing less will do and after reading some of what Dena has put into print from her own ongoing transformation, my newly discovered delight in Him (embracing His delight in me) is catapulting me forward into all that is mine.
As Oz Chambers was fond of saying, “Never look so much for the person who can tell you something new, as much as the one that simply puts a name and face to that which has been initiated
by Him working in you.”
This in fact is being done in hearing His heart beat for me through Dena. It feels as if a damn has been broken afresh in seeing and hearing this One who has called me to BE His very own.
Rich
“Transformation is not only terrifying to those who go through it, but to those who witness it. Transformation upsets status quo ... it can throw relationships off-balance - particularly if the relationship was invested in following a script (subconsciously, of course). When our equilibrium is threatened, we tend to self-protect ... to shut down, to hold back, to go within. So it can be in relationships when one is transforming in a particular way, and the other is not. All too often, the relationship can be sacrificed, in favor of feeling "safe and secure" with what's familiar. I wonder how many transformations have been cut short and abandoned, because the one transforming couldn't take the abandonment of those who didn't understand...? How many quit the journey, in favor of conforming to group-think?”
Don’t you just love it when the Father breathes into you fresh new insight (revelation) of Whose you are, which spills out into a most practical living expression of who you are? God IS spirit and He is seeking those who will worship –relate, engage - Him in spirit and truth.
“The love of God is not created— it is His nature. When we receive the life of Christ through the Holy Spirit, He unites us with God so that His love is demonstrated in us. The goal of the indwelling Holy Spirit is not just to unite us with God, but to do it in such a way that we will be one with the Father in exactly the same way Jesus was.” Oswald Chambers
The rich and deeply encouraging freshness contained within the statement above became a spontaneous and overwhelming fire within me.
According to Scripture, everything ‘created’ is going to be shaken, and that includes our physical lives, but the great (good) news is that our life is no longer restricted or confined to this physical condition. I love the thought that we are at our core, spiritual beings, sons of God the Father, having a human experience!
The first people Adam and Eve were “created” beings, made from the dust of the earth when God breathed into them the breath of ‘lives’ making them living souls. Even though God said regarding his culminating achievement, the creation of man, “this is very good,” Adam and Eve were not yet complete. Although they were perfect for where they were at that instant, they remained created beings.
It has always been the Father’s intention to have ‘birthed’ sons, not created ones, and that is why the birthing is so imperative. Yet it is shrouded and cloaked with a polluted and commingled alchemy of law and grace.
If we do not know and continue to experience in an ever increasing awareness of Whose we are, then I see Paul’s words being most relevant to us today: “Do not live any longer as the Gentiles live. For they live blindfold in a world of illusion, and cut off from the life of God through ignorance and insensitiveness.”
If there was no way possible for us to become alienated, to live in ignorance, cut off from the only true source of life, Christ in us as us, then why would Paul’s warning be relevant?
Rich
I liked these quote’s from ‘The Making of a Son’ very much.
“Simple faith in the Lord Jesus Christ enables God to plant the incorruptible seed (1Peter 1:23) in all who believe, and thereby have His divine nature in humanity. This is the new creation, different from anything which has ever before been on the face of the earth. This is not the restoration of Eden. It is much greater! It is an entirely new creation composed of the offspring of God Himself.”
“The Father is interested in making us mature sons, not building up our personal earthly kingdom.”
"Just bringing children to birth is not God’s ultimate intention; His great need is for true sons not simply happy children.”
Rich
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