A Season of Love – The Importance of Experiencing God’s Love – Purity 1677
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Good morning,
Today’s photo of the sun setting on the horizon of a tranquil lake comes to us from an unknown FB friend who shared this view on social media back on June 4, 2022. If this photo is yours let us know and I will photo credit you on the blog after the fact.
Well, it’s Friday and as the sunset on another work week, I am rejoicing this morning because my wife, TammyLyn, and I will be celebrating her birthday a little early as we will be going out of town for the night and spending tonight and tomorrow enjoying some quality time together – alone. I would share where we are staying and what we will be doing tomorrow but it’s currently a secret and I can’t wait to see TammyLyn’s response to what I hope will be something she will enjoy.
When you love someone, you know what they like, and you know what they need. You know what they appreciate and know what will give them joy and I’m pretty confident that the next two days will be pretty joyful if for no other reason than I will be in the presence of the one I love.
My relationship with TammyLyn has been particularly joyful as of late as we have been doing a “marriage small group study” at our local church and spent the Memorial Day weekend alone in a cabin in Vermont. Our time together and the marriage study’s content has made me to really appreciate my wife, and I can’t to spend more time with her tonight.
Right now it seems like the Lord has ushered me into a season of love as my heart has been enlivened by a loving appreciation of my wife and I have been introduced to the teachings of Christian author’s Mark DeJesus work which focuses on equipping believers to experience healing and freedom in their mental, emotional and relationship health.
I have been listening to DeJesus’ audiobook, “Exposing The Rejection Mindset: Getting to the Root of Our Relationship and Identity Struggles”, and watching some of his teachings on YouTube, and I have really been impressed by his insights and emphasis on experiencing the love of God as the key to our healing and freedom.
DeJesus’ ministry stated beliefs include (https://markdejesus.com/about/):
- Believing that everything we teach needs to be rooted in the love of the Father and the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Believing that our mental health is really about emotional health, that emotions are something Christians cannot ignore, for they impact every area of our lives, and that we all need equipping in how to navigate our emotional world.
- Believing that mental health is connected to our relationship world, with how we relate to God, ourselves and the world around us, and that our struggles and battles in life reveal the impact of our relationship breakdown in those areas.
- Believing that we can walk in mental health insights that get to the heart of our struggles but also remain biblically sound.
- Believing in encouraging others to adopt a “journey mindset”, where we learn to embrace the journey of healing, learning and renewal.
- Believing in providing insights that have practical application, where we can take what is true and put it into action.
As someone who has ministered to others in recovery, freedom, and inner healing prayer ministry, I couldn’t agree more with DeJesus ministry approach and as much as I am attracted to learn more through his work to help in my efforts to minister to others, I feel that I have already benefited personally from Dejesus’ insights and testimony.
He not only knows talks the talk of freedom and inner healing ministry, but he has also walked the walk as he openly shares about overcoming his struggles with obsessive compulsive disorder and challenging the self-condemning mindset that is imparted by legalist church cultures.
While I am well versed in encouraging others to get set free by knowing their identity in Christ and changing the way they think about their heavenly father, DeJesus’ work has remind me of the great importance of not only knowing God’s love intellectually, but to know it experientially and letting His love do its work in us to help us to let go of rejection mindsets and to actually love ourselves.
So, although Mark DeJesus and his ministry it is new to me I highly recommend check out what he has to say (https://markdejesus.com/) because being exposed to the truth about God’s love for us and welcoming Him into the struggles of our daily lives just might cause a breakthrough. DeJesus offers a free book, Experiencing God’s Love As Your Father, to people who subscribe to his mailing list and I am sharing a link to that offer on the blog today because I know how much people need to know the God loves them and that His love has a transformative effect when it is experience.
God’s love has saved me and set me free from so many of my struggles with addiction and low self-esteem and I am hopeful that this latest revelation of God’s love and DeJesus’ invitation to experience God’s love as Father will lead me further into God’s healing and purposes for me.
Some say that summer is the season of love and even though we aren’t technically there yet, it never too early, or late, to seek to know God more and to experience the wonders of His love.
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For those who want more evidence for Christianity than my simple encouragements provide, I offer apologist, Frank Turek’s website, https://crossexamined.org/.
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Today’s Bible verse comes to us from “The Quick Scripture Reference for Counseling” By John G. Kruis.
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This morning’s meditation verses come from the section on Obedience – Keeping the Commandments.
Proverbs 13:13 (NIV) Whoever scorns instruction will pay for it, but whoever respects a command is rewarded.
Today’s verses fall under the sixth point of our counseling reference guide resource section on Obedience – Keeping the Commandments.
6. God rewards obedience.
Today’s Bible verses encourage us to be obedient to God’s instruction with the promise of reward.
Proverbs are pithy statements of truth and it is true that God rewards us for our faithful obedience and we will face negative consequences for scoring His wisdom, we also have to remember that we have been greatly reward with God’s grace, already and we should never let scriptures like Proverbs 13:13 to be used by the enemy to accuse and condemn us.
When we make Jesus our Lord and Savior, we receive love’s reward and if we forget that or feel we need to earn God’s approval and good standing, our best intentions to be obedient could easily lead to a lifestyle of self-condemnation for not doing everything perfectly. So lovingly obey the instruction of the Lord and never forget that we have been rewarded and we will be further rewarded by our heavenly Father when we continue to receive and share His love with others.
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Today we continue sharing from “Day by Day Along the Way” By Jay E. Adams.
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Day 176
So then, if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children …
Luke 11:13
Here is an interesting assessment of mankind: “you who are evil.” In passing, Jesus teaches the doctrine of original sin and total depravity. But, in the passage, that isn’t His primary purpose. He wants to compare and contrast God and man in another way. He is saying that if even evil people, like us, treat their children well and not poorly, we should rightly expect our heavenly Father to do so—and more. Indeed the good gift that He confers upon us is the Holy Spirit, with His motivating and enabling power to make us capable of pleasing Him (Philippians 2:13). All true believers have the Spirit, but have you even asked God to gift you with more of the Spirit? He will do so, if you are anxious to receive Him. Of course, God gives other gifts—material and otherwise—but the gift of His Spirit is the greatest of all. Without Him we can’t even understand the Bible, let alone obey it. Do you ask for this gift?
… how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him? (v. 13c).[1]
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[1] Jay E. Adams, Day by Day along the Way (Cordova, TN: Institute for Nouthetic Studies, 2020), 184.
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