Daily writing prompt

What tattoo do you want and where would you put it?

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The Pharisees wouldn’t hear or see what Jesus was truly saying and doing. Will you?

You can be a hearer and a seer. Set aside your opinions. Look beyond borders. Listen to God’s inner voice. View from His perspective instead of from your own point of view. Cultivate fertile ground in your heart for God’s seeds to grow and flourish. Humbly receive direct impartation and immediate revelation from God.

Ask yourself these questions:
* What am I not seeing?
* What am I seeing distortedly?
* What have I been unwilling to see?

To surrender to God’s inner winds (instead of to the winds of society) is to soar in the Spirit to ever greater clarity. Ride God’s inner wind not your own self-effort. Refuse to be distracted by the clouds that are passing by. Set your eyes and your heart on eternal things.

Look deeply into your own heart. Notice the overlooked and hidden things that are unaligned with God. Let Jesus have full access to your heart and mind. Allow Him to continually realign every thought, feeling, and desire that is in any way apart from His will.

Human coercion, laws, and physical force can often change peoples’ behaviors, but they can’t transform peoples’ heart. They can’t build the kingdom of God. Only Spirit-empowered love can do that.

It’s easy to be deceived. The Pharisees believed that they were representing God when they pressured Rome to kill the King of Kings. The Zealots thought that they could establish God’s kingdom by using physical violence to overthrow Rome. Instead, the city that Jesus wept over, and God’s physical temple, were both leveled to the ground in 70 AD.