Getting All the Insight and Revelation That I Can

Posted on May 24, 2024 by Steve Simms
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What does “having it all” mean to you? Is it attainable?
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I want to have all the insight and revelation that I can. That’s why I am an avid reader and why I love to listen to people tell me about their life and their thoughts.

There’s an account in the Bible where Paul and Barnabas had a disagreement in Antioch and went their separate ways. Their disagreement wasn’t about doctrine. It was about a person’s behavior–how John Mark had abandoned them on their first Spirit-led journey. Barnabas wanted to give John Mark a second chance, but Paul didn’t. The Christ-followers in Antioch gave Paul and his new ministry companion, Silas, their blessing. However, Barnabas and John Mark apparently left without it.

Early church history presents John Mark as the author of the Gospel of Mark. In 2 Timothy 4:11, Paul tells Timothy: “Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is useful to me for ministry (NKJV).” Many Bible scholars believe that Paul is asking for John Mark.

In the body of Christ, we can be useful to one another even when we disagree. I have learned so much from Christians I disagree with. I’ve been an avid reader of church history and of Christian writers living and dead, even when I don’t fully agree with them. I’ve found them all to be “useful to me for ministry.” The Holy Spirit has deeply touched my heart through the writings of “the church fathers,” ancient orthodox monks in the “Philokalia,” church historians, the Franciscans, the Moravians, the Catholic mystics, the Protestant Reformers, the Anabaptists, the Pietists, the Puritans, the Quakers, the Methodists, the Wesleyan Holiness writers, the Pentecostals, the charismatics/evangelicals, and too many more to name.

Christians need to frequently hear Spirit-led insights from many diverse Christ-followers. They can do that through the writings I just mentioned. They can also do that by listening to more than one person on Sunday mornings. When they gather for worship, they can open up the meeting and let anyone present speak as prompted by the Holy Spirit. I seek out those kinds of gatherings because hearing ordinary Christ-followers share from their heart as led by the Spirit has been one of the most useful things ever in growing my relationship with the risen Jesus. (As the early Pentecostals used to say: “The fire of God is more caught than taught.”) Continually expose yourself to it!

I always test what I hear and/or read to the Bible. If it contradicts the Word I set it aside. If it aligns with the Bible, I embrace it and try to live it out in my daily life.

As you daily watch
Your time unwind
Don’t neglect to find
Plenty of time
To always bind
Your heart to Jesus.

Life without
A Jesus focus
Is hocus pocus.
Make Christ your locus
Of control.
So Jesus can be
What your life’s about.

The thinker who thinks there is no such thing as free will is thinking that his own thinking isn’t truly thinking but only programming that passively passes through his brain. Use your free will to follow and obey the risen Jesus. There’s so much anointed wisdom in the body of Christ. Don’t overlook it!

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I’d Like to Talk to You

Posted on May 23, 2024 by Steve Simms
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Who would you like to talk to soon?
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May I talk to you through this post? There’s so much more to Christianity than churches portray. (If the only Christianity I ever saw was a typical church service, I wouldn’t want it.) I love Spirit-led Christianity where people are free and courageous to humbly open their heart up to the risen Jesus and to one another and then to speak as God’s Spirit prompts them.

There was no one-man-preacher monopolizing the church service in Acts 15:35. “Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, where they and many others taught and preached the word of the Lord.” Guest speakers were sent home, and the body of Christ was opened up for many other people to share what the Holy Spirit was giving them.

What did the Holy Spirit do in Antioch? I believe that Paul explains that in 1 Corinthians 14:26 when he writes about what the Spirit did in Corinth: “What then shall we say, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each of you has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. Everything must be done so that the ekklesia (the open-sharing-based town hall meeting in ancient Greek cities) may be built up.”

Let’s make plenty of room for the direct leading of the Spirit and the open sharing of the supernatural love and visionary insights of all God’s people. Let’s release people from being spectators visiting a religious monument and free them up to individually flow with the powerful movement of God’s Spirit as they openly share what He is showing them.

On again off again Christianity is turned on on Sunday mornings and off most of the rest of the week. Constant Christianity is never set aside or ignored.

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The Most Important Citizenship in the World

Posted on May 22, 2024 by Steve Simms

I have two citizenships, one for the United States and the other for Heaven. One citizenship is temporary; the other is forever.

The United States and all countries worldwide are temporary and greatly flawed. They all need much supernatural healing and transformation. They need to be made great in love, justice, humility, and righteousness so that they can begin to reflect the beauty and reality of the truly great and never-ending government–the kingdom of God.

The kingdom of God is eternal, and countries are temporary. I believe that when the Christian flag and a country’s flag are flown together the Christian flag should always be flown above the country’s flag.

The nationalism of the kingdom of God embraces all people with love, kindness, forgiveness, and mercy. It welcomes everyone who wants to come to live under and submit to the presence, authority, and government of the living God who tenderly calls all people to align with His will as He speaks in and to their soul. “Come unto Me all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

Christianity isn’t about politics, sermons, or discussion topics. It’s about “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” “Fan into flame the gift of God which is in you.” When Christians lose sight of Christ’s inspiring insights they get caught up in rules, regulations, and organizational structures.

Spend (all your) time with God. Let no moment pass without being aware of His presence. Open the floodgates within you and let Christ continually pour forth from your heart.

Christ-followers, beware of quick accusers. Cheaters quickly accuse people of cheating. Liars rapidly call people liars. Crooked people rush to label people crooked.

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The Personal Belonging That Most Impacts My Life

Posted on May 22, 2024 by Steve Simms
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What personal belongings do you hold most dear?
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I have a personal belonging that powerfully enriches and empowers my life every single day. I keep in out in the open on a table by a comfortable chair. It is physically small, but its daily impact on me has been huge ever since I was 19 years old.

I’m talking about my Bible. I’ve worn out several copies through the years, but which ever one I’m using at the time is definitely my prized possession. Fortunately, I live in a country where I am allowed to own one and to read it as often as I want. In many countries it is illegal to own one or read one and people who break that law are severely punished and even executed.

I read my Bible every day for at least 5 minutes, often longer, and sometimes much longer. As I read it the words usually (but not always) burn in my heart and make me aware of the presence and reality of the living God. The Bible gives me amazing inner peace, but it also instructs me, shows me where I’m wrong, and challenges me to turn away from my wrongful thoughts and actions.

Over the years the Bible has helped me to follow and obey the risen Jesus closer and closer. I’ve never found another book (and I have read thousands of books) that has had anywhere close to the impact that the Bible has on me.

Here’s an example. The shortest letter in the New Testament only has 7 verses, yet it helped set me free from religious traditions and formalism so that I could more closely and freely follow the risen Jesus.

The apostles (sent ones) and elders (spiritually mature older Christ-followers) in Jerusalem (the center of Jewish Christianity) wrote a letter that freed Christianity from the treasured religious traditions and demands of Jewish ritual and regulations. Instead of just following their own desires and opinions, the sent ones and the spiritually mature older Christ-followers in Jerusalem agreed with and embraced what “seemed good to the Holy Spirit.” (See Acts 15:22-29.)

Their letter opened up faith in Christ to everyone regardless of their religious background. It set non-Jewish people free to directly and continually follow and obey the risen Jesus without the burden of being compelled to adhere to religious rites or a human hierarchy. Because of that liberating letter Paul, a sent one, could later write to the diverse group of Christ-followers in Rome: “Those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.” The Bible has taught (and continues to teach) me to be Spirit-led day and night. I highly recommend it!

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Collecting Original Thoughts

Posted on May 21, 2024 by Steve Simms
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Do you have any collections?
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I love my collection of original thoughts. Currently my blog has 4,278 posts that are mostly filled with original thoughts. Here are the ones that assembled together in my mind and heart this morning:

God wants to rebuild, restore, and release the aqueducts that carry His rivers of living water that Jesus promised would flow from within the inner most being of His followers. Church shouldn’t make it difficult for people to seek the Lord and to freely obey and flow with God’s spirit when they gather in Christ’s name. Church should never quench, hinder, or interrupt the Holy Spirit.

It takes great care, much courage, and extreme humility to let the Holy Spirit freely flow in a gathering of Christ-followers. It’s essential that churches move beyond formalized orthodoxy that replaces spiritual fire with mere mental ascent to doctrines and creeds. Instead, it is time to stir up and ignite the words of orthodoxy to burn in people’s heart and continually transform their life.

Christians need to be on the right side of Christ’s living presence, not just promoting “a form of godliness but denying the power thereof.” We need to align and be ever led by Christ’s active presence and by His Gospel story.

Churches offer people religious programming but what people need is real demonstrations of the presence of the risen Jesus. Religious programming is often a cork that bottles up and shuts down the flow of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit wants to interrupt our religious programming with His real presence and with His own voice. If Christ is in you, don’t keep Him bottled up. Let Him continually flow out.

We live in a culture where many people insist that you approve of and applaud their behaviors. If you suggest what you believe is a better way than the way they have chosen, then people often accuse you of hating them. From a lifetime of Bible study, church history study, and fresh ways of relating to the living Jesus that keep my heart on fire for Him and aware of His presence, I have found a beautiful relationship with Jesus that I don’t get from any amount of religious programming. I’m so excited about relating directly to Jesus in a heart-to-heart way that I want to shout it from the housetops (even though some people accuse me of being on the wrong side of religion). There are so many much more powerful ways of relating to the risen Jesus and enjoying His presence than religious programming. Don’t miss out on the other powerful ways of experiencing Jesus, such as: Spirit-prompted testimonies, praying out loud with other people, words of knowledge, prophesying, opening your heart to the risen Jesus and to His followers, words of wisdom, open sharing, openly confessing and repenting of sin, obeying the Holy Spirit no matter how uncomfortable it makes you, and devouring the Bible daily with an open heart, etc.

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I want to leave a living legacy, not just lovely memories.

Posted on May 20, 2024 by Steve Simms
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What is the legacy you want to leave behind?
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When I’m gone, I want to leave a living legacy, not just lovely memories. I want to leave a movement. I want to inspire people to listen to the living Jesus and to daily follow and obey Him in the way He personally directs them. That’s why I write the way I do. I want to help people wake up to the glorious reality and powerful presence of the living resurrected Jesus Christ so that they can overflow with the beautiful characteristics of the fruit of His Spirit and demonstrate to hurting people that “Christ in you” is indeed “the hope of glory.” If that happens a living Spirit-led movement will begin, grow, and spread far and wide that will heal and restore multitudes of broken hearts and lives.

Just Jesus!
He alone
Is the way.
Treasure Him,
Follow Him,
Obey Him,
Worship Him,
Night and day.
Set aside
Opinions.
Faith isn’t
About them.
Keep your heart
Always filled
To the brim,
Overflowing
With Him!

Going in and out
Of church doors
Once a week
Can give you
A religious tweak,
But what this world
That is so bleak
Needs you to seek
Is to hear
Jesus speak
Directly in
Your heart
Until His light
Shines from your cheek
And you reflect
His mystique
In all you say and do.

Church attendance isn’t a replacement for moment-by-moment surrender to the risen Jesus. Sermons that are focused on the mind, might teach a mind some religious information, however God is after people’s heart. We are supposed to love the Lord with our mind, but also with our heart. Jesus quoted this verse: “This people honors Me with their lips (their religious form) but their heart is far from Me” If a sermon doesn’t draw people’s hearts into passionate focus on and intimate surrender to the living God, it’s just a dry religious lecture.

If our modern sermons are effective, why is church in decline and why aren’t churches influencing the culture toward godliness instead of being brainwashed into compromise by the culture? If sermons are effective, why aren’t we seeing the kind of spiritual awakening we see in the book of Acts? If sermons are effective, why is it a running joke that people sleep through them? If sermons are effective, why are they so quickly forgotten? If sermons are effective, why are people eager for them to end at a prescribed time?

One of history’s biggest church critics almost singlehandedly made a sermon the center of a modern church service. His name is Martin Luther and prior to his time church services were centered around bread and wine and liturgical words, garments, and actions. However, in the earliest days of Christianity worship was focused on the presence and control of the risen Jesus in and through the direct leading of the Holy Spirit.

We live in a culture where many people insist that you approve of and applaud their behaviors. If you suggest what you believe is a better way than the way they have chosen, then people often accuse you of hating them. From a lifetime of Bible study, and church history study, and from ways of relating to the living Jesus that keep my heart on fire for Him and aware of His presence, I have found a beautiful relationship with Jesus that I don’t get from any amount of sermon-hearing. I’m so excited about relating directly to Jesus in a heart-to-heart way that I want to shout it from the housetops! There are so many much more powerful ways of relating to the risen Jesus and enjoying His presence than hearing a weekly sermon. Listen to and preach all the sermons you want, but please don’t miss out on the other powerful ways of experiencing Jesus, such as: Spirit-prompted testimonies, praying out loud with other people, words of knowledge, prophesying, words of wisdom, open sharing, openly confessing and repenting of sin, obeying the Holy Spirit no matter how uncomfortable it makes you, devouring the Bible daily with an open heart, etc.

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I’ve not broken a bone, but I’ve been a dry bone.

Posted on May 19, 2024 by Steve Simms
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Have you ever broken a bone?
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I’ve never broken a bone. However, I was once a hopeless dry bone. Let me explain:

One day a man named Ezekiel had a vision of a valley of dry bones and he heard a question in his mind: “Can these bones live?”

While he was pondering the question, Ezekiel had this thought go through his mind: “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life.'”

So, Ezekiel prophesied and as he did the dry bones began to come together in his vision and they were covered with flesh and skin. Then they begin to breathe and stood up as a vast army.

Then God told Ezekiel that those bones are God’s people. He told him that their bones are dried up and their hope is gone. God also told Ezekiel that He will put His Spirit in His people and they will live.

When my bones were dried up and my hope was gone, Jesus Christ put His Spirit in me, and I begin (for the first time) to truly live. That was many years ago and I’ve never been the same. The power of Pentecost (when Jesus put His Spirit in His first followers) has never left me and never died down within me. Now I’m over the wall for Jesus.

The big lie of organized Christianity is to make people believe that they are dry bones, and that God almost never speaks directly to an ordinary person’s heart. Because Christians have been trained to believe that God isn’t speaking personally to them, they rarely hear Him.

Churches make a big deal about the day of Pentecost but mostly ignore the message of Pentecost: God’s Spirit has come to make us live and to directly and personally lead us! Why Pentecost? The Holy Spirit didn’t come to be an occasional sermon topic. He came to directly rule and reign over all Christ-followers.

Churches aren’t supposed to program and control the Holy Spirit. When they do they create dry bones. The Spirit has come to personally take direct leadership and control of all Christian gatherings. If we aren’t willing to listen to God’s Spirit and let Him personally lead and direct us when we gather in His name, hearing a talk about Pentecost is meaningless. Every church that says it belongs to God needs to let the Holy Spirit take direct control of all that goes on when it gathers and bring the dry bones to life!

To turn a church gathering over to the Holy Spirit’s control so the dry bones can live: 1) Ask the Holy Spirit to speak. 2) Everybody wait and listen. 3) Let people share what the Spirit tells them. 4) Do what the Spirit says.

Pentecost announced Holy-Spirit-given dreams, visions, and prophesying (Acts 2:17). Today we have too often replaced the Spirit’s dreams with human schemes, the Spirit’s visions with human decisions, and Spirit-given prophesying with human classifying.

The Holy Spirit came to stay, not to go away and come back for a short visit on Pentecost Sunday. If you don’t want the Holy Spirit to take direct control of your life and your church, then you don’t really want the Spirit. Pentecost was extremely disruptive. That’s why churches today would rather present a sermon about it than to open their doors and experience it in Spirit-led action.

The Spirit came at Pentecost and began to enable ordinary Christians to speak in languages that they didn’t know. Today on Pentecost Sunday ordinary Christians are made to be spectators while one man talks to them about things they already know. Pentecost was extremely disruptive. That’s why churches today would rather present a sermon about it than to open their doors and experience it in Spirit-led action.

Pentecost empowers us to know what is beyond knowledge. Christians need to be continually strengthened with supernatural power through God’s Spirit living and working inside their inner being so that the risen Christ may dwell in their heart through faith (through their moment-by-moment full reliance and dependence on Him) and so that they can personally, directly, and intimately know the humanly unknowable–Christ’s love that surpasses knowledge. This miraculous revelation and wonder working power is needed for Christians “throughout all generations.” It wasn’t just for the believers who experienced Acts chapter 2. (Inspired by Ephesians 3:14-21.)

There is so much confusion when it comes to God. People get their ideas about God from their upbringing, from pastors, from TV preachers, from religious radio and TV, and from books and social media. Often, they don’t ever check out what they have been taught with the Bible and by listening to the Holy Spirit speak directly to them. Confused people who are proudly and cantankerously convinced that they are correct have become the influencers and trend setters for our culture. In reality they are insecure. That’s why they pontificate so loudly and cruelly. Listen ever more closely to the Holy Spirit’s voice in your heart. Have mercy on the detractors and distractors. They are hurting and need your love.

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I Keep Stirring Up Pentecost’s Inner Fire!

Posted on May 18, 2024 by Steve Simms
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How do you feel about cold weather?
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I never want cold weather to conquer my heart. I keep stirring up Pentecost’s inner fire and passionate, warm-hearted desire for inner peace and joy.

Jesus said that having the Holy Spirit freely living inside of you is like having rivers of living water flowing from within you. He wants the fruit of His Spirit to overflow from your innermost being as inner rivers that gush forth with the heart-felt warmth of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

The power of the Spirit’s unhindered and unquenched presence in you, casts out the spiritual coldness of fear and timidity. “Christ in you,” freely flowing (without you hindering Him or holding Him back) as inner rivers, is the hope of “joy unspeakable and full of glory” and the power of “peace that passes understanding.”

You don’t need to mentally understand the great mystery of who the Spirit is and how He works inside of you. You need to go beyond human understanding and continually experience the awe of Christ’s glory by radically surrendering to and submitting to His inner presence and authority. Let the Spirit of Jesus have full access and total control within you. Let His inner rivers continually sweep aside everything inside you that tries to extinguish the presence of His inner fire.

Modern Christianity has far too many studies about the Holy Spirit and drastically too few glorious demonstrations of the presence and reality of the Sprit at work in ordinary Christ-followers. We have accepted “eloquence and human wisdom” (1 Corinthians 2:1) as a substitute for “a demonstration of the Spirit’s power” (1 Corinthians 2:4). It’s urgent that contemporary Christians begin “to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you,” (2 Timothy 1:6). This can help: Search for The Joy of Early Christianity.

When you’re running from the God of limitless presence, there’s nowhere to hide. Trying to avoid accountability to the God of unlimited knowledge is a waste of time. Watching white water run in a river reminds me of all of this. Here’s a poem I wrote about it:

Watching white water
Flowing by
Somehow calms
My question why
And connects me with
An inner flow 
That makes me know 
Love and peace
And suddenly 
My problems cease
To be a burden.
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The Key to a Balanced Life

Posted on May 17, 2024 by Steve Simms
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How do you balance work and home life?
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The human mind and heart can easily and quickly get out of balance and tumble into discouragement and depression. I’d like to recommend the way I’ve been able to balance my life to you. I convinced that it will work if you will consistently follow it.

Set up your mind and your heart to live a life that stays always logged on to Jesus and ever obedient to His promptings and notifications. Keep Him constantly pulled up on your inner screen.

The Christian mindset is to have your heart firmly set on hearing and obeying the inner promptings of the Holy Spirit. It is to do what God requires instead of pursuing your own desires. God wants to put His laws on your heart and write them on your mind. (See Hebrews 10:16.) He wants you to set your own preferences aside so that you can abide in His will and not quench the Spirit.

Jesus put it this way: “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. (Matthew 16:14.) You can’t follow your own desires and God’s desires at the same time. Decide to let God’s Spirit be your moment-by-moment inner guide by following His promptings stride by stride. May your choice always be to obey the Spirit’s still small voice and to promptly and faithfully do what “Christ in you” tells you to regardless of the consequences.

Many Christians today are listening to religious podcasts. O that more would listen intently to God-casts in their heart! The blood that flowed from Christ’s wounds made the way for the rivers of His Spirit to joyously flow from within you. Open up to the risen Jesus and live your daily life by Christ’s inner flow. To be led by the Spirit (Romans 8:14) Christians must be aware of and obey the Spirit’s inner promptings.

An uprooted tree
Isn’t what it should be.
Instead of standing tall
It had a great fall.
Same with you and me.
Any society
That teaches people
To uproot their conscience
And replace it with nonsense
Will have a great fall
Into an absence
Of common sense
And lose the wealth
Of mental health.

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I Didn’t Do It My Way

Posted on May 16, 2024 by Steve Simms
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What sacrifices have you made in life?
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I am strong willed. I want to do things my way. I also have always had a stubborn conscience that has frequently contended with my will. When my will and my conscience have conflicted, I have strived to overcome the way of my will and obey the will of my conscience. Like any human being, I haven’t always succeeded, and my will has overcome my conscience (sometimes frequently), but never without a fight.

When I did violate my conscience, I sacrificed the comfort of lying to myself and saying that my rebellious thoughts, words, and deeds were good things. I admitted to myself and to other people that I was doing wrong and accepted the guilt that came with it. Then one day I found forgiveness through Jesus Christ, and I sacrificed my will to follow Him. I began to frequently pray a very frightening prayer: “Jesus, do whatever you need to do to me to be able to do what you want to do through me.”

He has answered that prayer. Jesus has miraculously let many doors close in my life that I have greatly wanted to go through. That has left me broken, disappointed, and humbled. In my brokenness I have cried out desperately for His presence, His comfort, and His inner healing. Christ has responded in such a way as to fil me with “peace that passes understanding” and “joy unspeakable and full of glory.” Now when I look back at the closed doors in my life, I am greatly grateful to Jesus because had those doors not been closed, I would have missed out on the beautiful intimacy with Christ that they drove me to and on the many incredible alternative blessings that came my way.

Through all the sacrifices, I’ve learned to trust in Jesus and He has never let me down. I woke up this morning with this short poem forming in my heart. It tells my story.

When a human heart
Is kept in tune with Christ
Life is a symphony
Of inner harmony
And never-ending hope.

After writing this post, my wife and I took communion together. As we did, I felt prompted to break the small wafer before I ate it. I felt like the Lord was telling me that to truly take the Lord’s Supper is to be so personally aware of the brokenness of Christ on the Cross that I can receive and embrace His brokenness with my own brokenness.

Immediately after eating the wafer and drinking the juice, I looked up and saw a big redheaded woodpecker pecking near the top of a four-story-tall dead tree trunk. It seemed like a sign. Its head covered with red reminded me that I need to have my mind continually renewed by the blood of Jesus. I need Christ’s perspective so I can die to my own desires, opinions, and perspective.

When I embrace the brokenness in my life and persistently knock on Heaven’s door like the woodpecker, the dead wood of the Cross sustains and shelters me. It’s not just a religious symbol. It’s a demonstration of Christ’s willingness to be meek and lowly in heart so that He can carry my brokenness. When I let His Cross connect with the brokenness in my heart I experience the miraculous power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings being conformed to His death.” (Philippians 3:10.) Then His life (“Christ in you, the hope of glory,”) surges through me like rivers of living water!

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