How do you see?

Seeing in the Word & the Spirit of truth.

About Christian progress.....
It is when you see you are dead to sin that you die to it (daily); it is when you see you are risen that you arise; it is when you see you are a 'new creature' in Him that you (progressively) grow. Seeing the accomplished fact in the Word determines the pathway to the realising of that fact. The end is reached by seeing, not by desiring or working. The only possibility of spiritual progress lies in our discovering the truth as God sees it; the truth concerning Christ, the truth concerning ourselves in Christ. Watchman Nee.

When I first came to church, intrigued by the girl who I worked with and her faith, the Spirit of God touched me powerfully, it was not imagined but real. The tears testified to that. The JOY I felt driving home after that meeting testified to that. I had to grow in the understanding that God loved me, as life had distorted the reality of this love. This took time and revelation and unraveling old thinking and healing. I came to understand that it is God who is good and I needed a Saviour. Because of sin - my sin, my life, my thoughts, my actions, the whole of me needed redemption. As this all unfolded, as I believed, I really started to see what W. Nee said above and, glory to God, I see clearer than I ever have before and will continue to grow in this.... I did a good job of covering the shame, the fear, the timidity, the rejection, the junk, but God in His grace saw through all of that. He saw me!

Ephesians 3:20-21 (NKJV)
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Favourite preachers at the moment

I've been enjoying some encouraging preaching lately.

I've been listening to Graham Cooke - prophetic ministry encouraging people to keep their eye's on Jesus and to see their prophetic promises come to pass, and to operate in the prophetic.

I've been listening to Dan Mohler.

What started me listening to Dan was the wife of one of the pastor's of my church. She had been listening to Dan. I was talking to her about generational curses and curses in general and my concern with regards the emphasis which people have in searching out curses and looking for the demonic in people.

I read in Exodus where God was giving the 10 commandments and He said the following

For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

When I saw this I immediately thought, 'of those who hate Me' the generational curse extends. So I thought that for those who love the Lord there is mercy and to thousands. And I thought about Jesus who is cursed for us, so we could have relationship with God, joined to Him.  I have also other scripture that say that God will not punish the fathers for the iniquities of the son's or the son's for the iniquities of the father.  Plus other scriptures.....

I do believe that the enemy can have a hold of people, and I have see deliverance take place, but I would so encourage people to be renewed in their thinking and to let the Word transform them. And to even be careful of what they believe, as you can enforce and idea based on what you think.

I also have seen the work of the Holy Spirit in peoples lives bringing clarity and truth for the Word to transform, so I am not necessarily separating the Word from the Spirit.

Just some thoughts I've had, which go much deeper than this, but this is enough for tonight.  :)

This is an 8min video where Dan is discussing curses.