Christianity is about a life changing relationship.

A SPIRITUAL INTERVENTION

What is lacking, the missing area, is an emphasis on personal relationship with God. It becomes a life that is totally integrated with God. It is about relationship with God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit. It is about embracing the arms of Christ and staying there until He begins to change you. It is adding love to love to love to love.

Relationship is relationship.When God becomes real to an individual, then life as a Christ-follower is established on a foundation that will not crumble when life gets hard or disappointing.  When you love someone and they love you, you will want to please them. We will draw upon this friend during the hard times. They will be honest with us, speak the truth in love with us. We can depend on this type of friend when we are not at our best.

It can be this way with God. A relationship with God is one of strength and enjoyment, hope and help, love and goodness. It is a reciprocal friendship. The believer goes from duty-bound to love-bound as the relationship becomes closer and more intimate. The areas of obedience and service spring forth out of love for God and also as an outworking of His love in us which grows out of a desire to please Him.

The more we love God, the more we become willing and free to share His love. As the focus changes, the life of faith becomes less to lived by rules, regulations, and scripted spirituality. Healing of our emotions and self’s painful experiences dovetail with the life of relationship held fast in God. This is to know and experience a deepening awareness, an awakening that stirs the soul to radiant life.

Pain is often hidden from view because we put our best foot forward. We often project wholeness and capability. We may believe we have to act like we have it together spiritually. People form certain masks that are sort of a charade or a pretending. We all want to be accepted and respected. It becomes damaging to live this way when we fail to recognize the internal state of affairs within our interior self.

There can be a lot of garbage that needs taking out!

Those who pursue a deepening relationship with God will seek change. And change will come. God uses friends, family, circumstances, and a host of ways to bring us to a place of open talk with Him. This is always good. A soul-changing intervention begins when we get alone with God, take spiritual inventory of everything in our past and present, and ask God what to do about it.

Some of inward issues need to be exposed to the light of God

Now we begin to come clean and honest with God. It is at that place, in the moment of truthfulness with God, that the seeds of soul-changing intervention begin to unlock this inner cell where we unwittingly and unknowingly have hidden our real selves. We begin to surrender to God and begin living our lives His way. God refreshes, heals, and restores. Thus, we establish a transparent identity with God.

We become Father with child and child with Father. This brings us so much, a close, intimate, loving, relationship, one that will bring much joy and inner peace.

It is the best way to live a spiritual life.

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