Wednesday, October 15, 2008
We cannot be disappointed in God.
This picture is our 'briefing room.' Well, it's the hallway in the warehouse. This is a busy place, ya know? We are flexible. Someone in class wrote this on our white board: Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. Ha, it's true.
This morning was our teaching on Biblical Intimacy. It was phenomenal. It was sort of the introduction. We talked a lot about the Father. He created us to pour His love into us. How His love is ours to experience. That real Christianity is to experience a man. Jesus. I can't really put into words everything that happened during class. It was wonderful. The Lord started to hit my heart with a lot of stuff. He started to highlight how I was giving into the lies of the enemy. Very specific lies that I was agreeing with. The teacher suddenly went off on a tangent of 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 "For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. One the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." The teacher went into this huge bunny-trail about how we have to expose the accuser. The accuser is accusing us to God, and God to us. Making us coil back in self-condemnation, and fear that God isn't kind to us. He basically stopped class so we could soak in that, and destroy the arguments that our hearts have agreed with the enemy. I had some awesome victory. God revealed some things to me, and I saw how mad I was at myself for believing the enemy. So, I coiled in self-condemnation, and wouldn't go to God. Ha. Well, we fixed that in the prayer room today. I feel about 10 times lighter! And I have been reminded of my weapons in the Spirit.
We had small group tonight, where again, we were just downloaded with how much God is in love with us. Wow. I had someone tell me not too long ago that what I was getting involved with out here at Ihop was too 'emotional.' That God doesn't focus so much on emotions. But God has all emotion, and feels all emotion, and wants our emotion to be clean and pure. We can't love God if we don't first know that He loves us. Meaning, we MUST get through our hard hearts to receive His love. Which means getting rid of bad emotion and being filled with the knowledge of Christ. Which is a man who was so passionately in love with people that He chose to be forever contained in a human body so that He could spend eternity with me. One thing Allen Hood said in his teaching the other day was this: "I am saved because God refused to be without me." Wow. Of course that is going to strike some emotion! Basically, you cannot be disappointed in God! If you think you can be, you are in agreement with the accuser.
Spiritual warfare and refreshing of emotions ware on flesh. So, I am off to bed. But a couple of fun things. I found someone to change the oil in my car! Yeah! And, I was being silly and pretending to worship dance, and I was told that I looked like a natural and should join the dance team. Ha. I laughed, and then a girl in my class actually invited me to join the "hip-hop in Ihop" dance team. Ha. I am thinking about it. But just in the thinking stages!
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oh katie... i'm so excited for all that God is doing in your heart! you are a phenomenal writer, and you make me want to be there with you. thank you for giving me a taste of your journey through your blog, i'm glad you decided to keep one while you were away. :) i miss you and can't wait to see you... i think and pray about you almost every day!
love, beck
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