How you doin? I must
admit that this is the first time I will have read through 1st or 2nd
Thessalonians. These letters have always been referenced, but never
read straight through. I couldn't say why. Last night was brutal. I
seem to have picked up a stomach virus and I'm still dealing with some
lack of forgiveness. More on that later. I only slept a few hours. 1
Thessalonians 1 today.
This chapter is only 10 verses. It should be easy for you to find time to read it all today. Verses 3-5, "constantly bearing in mind your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father, 4 knowing, brethren beloved by God, His choice of you; 5 for our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction;
just as you know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your
sake." WOW!!!!!!! I have a little Holy jealous of the Thessalonians
here today. These verses really paint a beautiful picture of following
the Way. COME ON!!!!!!! I look at these as testimony so God may indeed
repeat "His choice" of me.
Back
to last night and this morning. Stacey and laid in bed praying for
about an hour this morning. Last Tuesday I received quite a blow of
rejection from a dear friend. I thought that I had forgiven him, but
last night I was trying to pray for him and my prayers lacked
compassion, genuineness, sincerity, and most of all love. I'm sharing
this with you not to put myself down, but to share how I received
breakthrough. While praying, Stacey used a sozo technique in prayer.
She had me repeat a prayer after her. I, out loud, repented of using
anger, resentment, and lack of forgiveness as/for comfort and remedy of
the hurt that I received last Tuesday. The Holy Ghost is by name the
Comforter. The false sense of comfort and remedy that anger,
resentment, and lack of forgiveness brings, breaks down when true
Comfort is required. In order to pray for my friend last night, I
needed the Comfort to free me from the lie. So as I repented of
believing this lie instead of the Truth, I then asked for the Holy Ghost
to take from me this anger, resentment, and lack of forgiveness and to
replace it with His truth, comfort, and love. Pretty much to replace it
with Him. It worked. PRAISE JESUS!!!!!!! I could feel this curse of
rejection lift off of me. I will be reaching out to my friend and
asking for forgiveness for my lack forgiveness and love toward him. I
love being free. 2 Corinthians 2:10-11, "Anyone you forgive, I
also forgive. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to
forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, 11 in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes."
I can't afford to be outwitted by or unaware of Satan's schemes for 1
second. God is just TOO GOOD for even 1 second of turning from His
love. COME ON!!!!!!! Receive the gospel not in word alone, "but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction" today.
PS
After discussing this with Stacey, I have a shorter hopefully more
understandable way of saying what happens to me. I can easily say I
forgive someone, but my hurt is still there. I have 2 choices of how to
comfort or heal my hurt. The Kingdom's ways or the world's ways.
Though the world's way's are based on lies and of Satan's schemes, they
are familiar. The Kingdom's ways are based on compassion and love and
come from the Comforter. The Kingdom's ways are becoming more and more
familiar. PRAISE JESUS!!!!!!! Forgiveness gives me the opportunity to
choose correctly.
Stacey
had some tremendous revelation this morning that she will be sharing on
our blog. Here's the link if you're interested in hearing from Stacey
today. I would strongly encourage you to. She's amazing!!!http://
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