INTRODUCTORY COMMENT:
“God’s Pain Pill: A Holy Intervention: Connecting with God in Real Life” was originally written for a women’s group I was leading in my church. My desire was for my ladies to go below the surface of mediocre Christian living to awaken a desire in them for more authentic, real living, lively, energized faith. I wanted the ladies to experience what I had come to love in my relationship with God. So I wrote up what I had learned, printed and stapled the sheets into a set, taught it for several sessions over the length of a summer. A couple years later I reworked it to post it here.
The world is screaming for authenticity.
To become authentic in our Christian lives takes a honest look at the hidden self with the mirror of God exposing what is in us. This comes first, the other naturally evolves as intimacy develops in your spiritual relationship with God.
Interventions have a purpose as does this writing. May the concepts in this series be of use to you. May they open up new areas of insight that cause greater understanding and deeper spiritual growth. Introspection with the aid of the Holy Spirit can be a very good thing.
This series of blog posts offer a practical look into specific ways we can access God. We step up to the plate through a careful inward look that reflects the mirror of God into our soul and opens us up to His power of transformation. It has practical application steps to help facilitate meaningful spiritual change for the inner person.
I’m excited about this series’ potential to help free people who are stuck in their (hidden) pain. This series contains the steps God used to free me. I have used these concepts as a spiritual guide with the women in my church.
Engagement with God that is genuine initiates a process through which people change in their perceptions. This also causes structural change deep within, in those places that have become repositories for soul wounding and soul hiding inside of believing Christians. If this happens, when spiritual awakenings come true in Christian lives, those spiritual sounding clichés no longer will ring a false note. They ring true in our experiences and in our beliefs straight across the board.
We become secure, content, and able to function even during the hard times. People begin taking notice. What is happening within us becomes utterly life-changing real. This is one of those things that you realize once the thing has already transpired. You know you are free once you have experienced true freedom. We may not even have known we weren’t free before God set us free and on a new path.
I hope this series of writings produces a work of God in your life. That is a bold statement, but I mean it. Most of what I share in this series was born out of personal experience as I devoted myself to growing in my Christian faith, seeking God for change in my inner self, and accepting the lessons that God taught me as they came. It was such an exceptionally rich time.
May God bless each one who reads the words found in this series.
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