Wholeheartedness
One thing I have noticed over the last several years is that often, people get super excited about encountering God, the prayer room, the feeling of growing in holiness and the freedom that comes with it. But, after a while "real life" creeps back in. I have seen so many that hung on every word of revelation, David's Tabernacle, and the end times, that just as quickly as they lit up, they burned out.
The only way to really touch the reality of moving in the direction of wholeheartedness is to ask for, and recieve it. MANY try this and it works. But, the simplicity of this light burden and easy yoke gets lost in the process. Someone comes along and quences the fire with some stray or unkind words (usually based in their own feeling of lack in the light of a fiery life), or opportunity rises up, or simple distraction sets in, and suddenly it is less and less of a priority to keep pressing in and growing in love. Anything alive is either growing or dying, including our relationship with God.
Many simply quit the simple act of reaching as a lifestyle. They live on the memory of it.
Not too long after, real problems surface, as they always do, and often this is when bitterness and confusion come and wipe out any memory of how easy it was to be alive and on-fire.
There is only one way forward in God. Keep asking, keep seeking, and keep knocking. There is never a time to coast. There is never a time to take a break.
To take a break from growing in God is like wanting to take a break from breathing. It simply starts to shut all the processes of life down. If you stopped breathing, soon lightheadedness, confusion, darkness, and then a lack of consciousness sets in.
God's patience ALLOWS this to happen spiritually. His commitment to love means he lets us stop loving...he lets us forget how easy it is to walk in the momentum and confidence of real fiery love.
BUT, can we recognize when we start dying because we stopped abiding? Based on my observations, usually not until it is so far from our memory.
Don't quit, and you'll win.
Matthew 13:20-21 But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; (21) yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
John 15:1-8 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. (2) Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. (3) You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. (4) Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. (5) "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. (6) If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. (7) If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. (8) By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.
The only way to really touch the reality of moving in the direction of wholeheartedness is to ask for, and recieve it. MANY try this and it works. But, the simplicity of this light burden and easy yoke gets lost in the process. Someone comes along and quences the fire with some stray or unkind words (usually based in their own feeling of lack in the light of a fiery life), or opportunity rises up, or simple distraction sets in, and suddenly it is less and less of a priority to keep pressing in and growing in love. Anything alive is either growing or dying, including our relationship with God.
Many simply quit the simple act of reaching as a lifestyle. They live on the memory of it.
Not too long after, real problems surface, as they always do, and often this is when bitterness and confusion come and wipe out any memory of how easy it was to be alive and on-fire.
There is only one way forward in God. Keep asking, keep seeking, and keep knocking. There is never a time to coast. There is never a time to take a break.
To take a break from growing in God is like wanting to take a break from breathing. It simply starts to shut all the processes of life down. If you stopped breathing, soon lightheadedness, confusion, darkness, and then a lack of consciousness sets in.
God's patience ALLOWS this to happen spiritually. His commitment to love means he lets us stop loving...he lets us forget how easy it is to walk in the momentum and confidence of real fiery love.
BUT, can we recognize when we start dying because we stopped abiding? Based on my observations, usually not until it is so far from our memory.
Don't quit, and you'll win.
Matthew 13:20-21 But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; (21) yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
John 15:1-8 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. (2) Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. (3) You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. (4) Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. (5) "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. (6) If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. (7) If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. (8) By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.
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