Healing Presence |
God's View:
Eph. 4:22-24
; Rom. 6:3-14
; Heb. 4:12
-By being indifferent to what we
think, we separate ourselves from His Presence, casualness is a default into
self-consciousness, a fall from God-consciousness. Becoming persons, the
fullness of being, evolves as we remain in Christ. God's word and love is
truly something more stern and splendid than mere kindness, this love divides
darkness from light, the old self from the new self.
Hope:
Eph. 5:13
; Gen. 2:18
; Jn. 17:21
-Our Lord is not defined in terms
of individuality and independence, but in terms of personality, "The Father
and I are one". The true self, of personality, man as fully human is to speak
of man's fellowship with God and with others. To know ourselves in this respect
is to begin being healed of the effects of the Fall because evil is separation
from God, from self, and from others.
Matt. 7:11-12 -Remedy is to forsake our horizontal posture, looking to the creature, and being straightened up in Christ, and seek to meet the needs of others rather than using others solely for our own needs. It is in the state of 'listening obedience'to His commands to bless others, denying self, where we find healing, completion, our true identity.
Jn. 14:21 , 26 ; 15:11 - Deut. 30:7-14 -Spiritual and mental wholeness consists simply of obedience, of learning to invoke the Presence of God. When God is centered in us and we in him, we have a home within, a true self or center out of which we live.
Change:
James 5:19
; Matt. 4:4
-Self-centeredness involves seeing yourself
walking alongside of yourself, viewing self as the center of all things which
produces self-pity, envy, covetousness, and pride. Jesus as the new Adam
came practicing always the Presence of His Father. The worship of God is
the ultimate denial of the old self in separation. If you do not practice
the Presence of God, you will practice the presence of another.
Phil. 2:12-13 -When we make our will one with God, we find the integration of personality begins to take place. Review your dependence or need of others, being controlled by others:mother , father, circumstances of life. Ask God to give you understanding to get at the roots of this idolatry or dependence, getting a sense of value or worth from created things rather than an identity that God can only give.
Ps. 90:17
; Lu. 4:1
. 5:17; Acts 1:2
-Allow God to give you favor and success,
learn to bless in the power of the Spirit, and to collaborate with the Spirit
to do the works of Christ. Soul saving is the most creative work in the world.
A healed self in Christ is in the position to do the works of Christ, to
be a witness as Christ commanded.