I'm writing another personal life account it's been on my heart.
Introduction
In "Sacred Journeys" and "Beginnings" I wrote about life changing and important events that occurred in my life and how the Lord was moving powerfully while speaking with a still small voice. and in that gentleness, he corrects me, and he is the presence of peace within me and in my life.
so once again I feel it is time to continue to tell the story that the lord is not finished with me yet. The lord is the author of my life story, which is really the story of his love for his creation, the story of salvation and redemption through Jesus Christ our lord.
While the end of what I wrote in "Beginnings" is more of a declaration of faith that I place my trust In the Lord And that my life is in his hands.
Some years later There would be much more to say.
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So now in 2023 After numerous personal trials, from Spiritual attacks, to Covid, to my own mental struggles, to Ida, to my physical injuries, to Jason's passing, to my wife's health concerns and This is only from 2020-2023 and in no way does this list cover all of them.
But in the midst of this storm, I am here to declare that the Lord is good and that the Lord is faithful and that the Lord is with us through our darkest periods of life and in the midst of our most intense trials. The lord is Embracing us, comforting us, strengthening us,
Pouring his love on us.
From glory to glory he leads us on the path of his will.
where suffering is not our enemy but the very thing that could render a surrendered soul to the very alterations of spiritual transformation that the lord seeks in us.
where suffering becomes the catalyst that transforms us more and more into his likeness to be a living walking, talking testimony of our lord Jesus Christ.
Speaking in simple terms the lord is with us in the fire. Where we find our own sacrifice through the mysteries of the cross and Jesus's death are the necessary means in which the children of God are to live. Not to die for our own sins, for Jesus has done so already but To die to anything contrary to his will and his plan for your life, which in simple terms means we live move and have our being through the power of his holy spirit and in the same spirit of the prophet Isaiah who wrote, "here I am lord, send me!"
The Faith life is not this microcosm of a me oriented Mindset but a macrocosm of the mind of Christ. The spirit of the mind of Christ liberates the masses from manipulative machinations of a degenerative mindset that merely enslaves many. But If the son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
We must fight from the position of Jesus Christ's victory he has won for us on the cross.
Surely spiritual battles rage but we must guard our minds diligently with the word of God.
Just as prayer is our weapon, so is the word of God. Our identity is not what the world tells us, it is not what our culture tells, it is not revealed through our skin color, our gender, our ethnicity, our passions, our profession, our wealth or lack thereof. Our identity is that we are children of God through Christ Jesus our lord and savior.