When you were born, it was as a living soul. (That’s what all men are before they are saved.) As you grew, you accumulated all sorts of images of sight and sound from the world around you. Everything you experienced was sequential in order and that is how your brain learned to interpret the world you live in. (This gives us linear thinking.) Your life is the fulfillment of The Father’s Plan for your journey on this earth, complete with it’s jabs and hurts, fun and fear, peace and agitation, the place you were born and the parents you were born to. Nothing is by chance and all of it is necessary for you to become the complete person you are meant to be.

You are a unique individual created to be an expression of The Father’s love for all mankind.
His love is so great that it will take all of us to express it

When the moment of salvation came for you, it was a pivotal point in your life. At that one unique moment, when your Father drew your soul to stand before the Son and recognize that His sacrifice on the cross was for you personally, something changed inside of you. You were reconciled to God and He placed part of His Spirit in you. In Truth, He became more than your Creator, He is now your Father. You were a soul/flesh man and now you are a spirit/soul/flesh man. God is alive in your spirit and that makes you a living tabernacle of the Most High God.

Our God is a good Father. He didn’t just save you and give you a Christ spirit and then leave you on your own to walk upright or crawl in the mud. Jesus told us that if He left us, He would send someone to lead and guide us and that it would be better for us than having Him here in the flesh. Of course we know He was talking about the Holy Spirit, but more than that, we have an internal Christ spirit leading us on a moment by moment basis. As we learn to connect with the spirit side of us, we find that He is constantly giving us what we need to be successful today. Answers to all your problems are resident in the Secret Place of your spirit.

When in doubt, “take a knee”,
that doesn’t mean go all religious and cry and moan
but instead, “be still” and look inward.

Each of us needs to learn how to quiet the voices in our heads so that we can discern what the spirit is telling us. We are never alone. He told me,”My Light is always burning in this Secret Place. I don’t just leave a light on, I cause it to turn up when it is noticed. A sensory array of what you need at this set moment of time, a particular touch of My Goodness, only for you and only at this moment. Can you see My Love that never leaves you to flounder in the guilt and shame that your enemy presents as fodder for his cannon. I Am always Here. I live Here. This is My Home. I designed this Secret Place for our time of relationship A singular one on one moment for your soul to enjoy. you have access granted. Come stand Here in Me and receive this flow of grace. In this particular moment, I address your most prominent need, desire or want.”

God desires for you to grow into someone who can walk with Him. He starts by planting a desire in you to learn how. The more you learn to connect with Him, the more fascinating it is until you become addicted to His Joy – Peace in your time of need. His Love permeates your soul all the time. There is never a nano-second that He is not in control of your soul’s quest to prosper as you search for more of Him. Whether it be a need for Peace and Serenity or Joy and Amazement, Love and completeness, Strength to endure the hardships that you encounter or power to change the very air you breathe, nothing is too difficult for Him and He wants you to be able to walk in His abilities to overcome. He gives you Power to step over the hurdles placed before you; An ability to lift the blinders that hinder you from walking in His Goodness. All of this is available to you on an ever increasing basis as you learn to hear what He is teaching you and to follow through on what He shows you to do each day.

Why do we have such a hard time walking in these things that He has promised us? Part of our problem is the mind sets we have developed over years of living in a linear world. (Remember I told you we think in linear patterns. A to Z, First to last, etc.) God is multi-dimensional and thinks on a level that often seems to contradict what we know about the world. We have trouble receiving God’s promises when they don’t line up with what we think should happen, but there are no limits to His creativity. Our mindsets don’t limit God, they keep us from understanding and often receiving what He is trying to give us.

Breaking through those mind sets is a process. It doesn’t happen over night and it doesn’t come through impartation or teaching. You have to develop a relationship of trust and an expanding understanding of what God wants to do through you. That means you have to spend time getting to know Him. There are many ways to do that and I recommend that you begin by asking Him to open your eyes to the truth that He is alive in you and wants to fellowship with you. You are designed to hear His voice and to be able to do what He shows you. When you reach a place that you can’t overcome by yourself, He steps in to help you and in the process, you learn to rely on Him even more. As you can see, there is no “one size fits all” because every relationship is as unique as the individual it was tailored for. God loves you and He delights in who you are today, even as He helps you become the person He planned for you to be from the very beginning of creation. Our Father loves to watch His children grow!