God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Genesis 1:27
Today we had our second and final day of inner healing and it was a lot like the first day and it was very good. We went through the feminine and masculine identites that God gave us and how we reflect part of who He is when we can truly understand who He made us to be. God in His infinite wisdom, created us to need the opposite sex and know them as a companion so that we can know Him more fully. It's when our femininity and masculinity are abused that hurt begins to come in. This world is so full of many things that tell men and women who to be and how they should be with so many wrong ideas about what it means to be a man, or woman. Women have tummys that stick out because we have a womb there that God created to hold little babies in. Men are conquerers because God created them to rule over the creatures of the earth... There are so many traits and characteristics that God has given us but the world has twisted and perverted. If we use the traits that God has given us, to explore who He is and who we are in Him, we can truly know who we are as an individual and how we reflect who God is. After all, He did make men and women after His image!!! I would like to expand this subject more so perhaps I will do that in a later post but this is just a brief overview. :)
May the Lord bless you and keep you; may He make His face shine on you and be gracious to you and may He give you peace!
Friday, February 5, 2010
Relational Wholeness Seminar Reflection
Thank you God. Thank you God for the gift of your Son! Where would I be without Him? Without you? Holy Spirit give me a fresh revelation of how weak I am without you! Come in my weakness Jesus and make your name great! Make yourself strong and mighty in my weaknesses! May I never forget how merciful you are towards me! You can never resist a broken and contrite heart, O God, let me be poor in spirit! I am so desperately in need of you that nothing and no one can satisfy my longing besides you! I ask that you would break down all the walls that I have built up inside of my heart that would hinder you from loving me!!! Take away anything that hinders your love!! Purge me and cleanse me so that I might just begin to look like my Father! That when people see me, they would see you!! Holy Spirit come and do a deep work in my life today!
So for all first year students at my school, we're required to do a 2 day seminar called 'Relational Wholeness' and it's based off of the book 'Pure Heart'. For those of you who have never heard of this book, it is essentially inner healing. So what they do for this seminar is have it in a 2 day period and they do 8 teachings (I believe they are fromn the book), then there is ministry time, prayer, confession stuff... I have only been through the first day and it was amazing. I learned 2 major things today:
One- I am so very very very thankful that I have Godly parents who raised me in the way that reflects the fatherly and motherly heart of God! They did such an amazing job and I never realized the full meaning of that until today when so many of my classmates were standing at the altar and having to give all their pain from their parent's mistakes to God.. it truly made me realize how much I have taken for grantite the love of my parents! Which is so sad for me to think about, but I pray that I will never take them for grantite again!
Two- Confession is so very holy and sacred to God! I grew up just thinking that the Catholics were weird and all that confession stuff was so crazily wrong because I thought that no priest can just forgive people's sins... only Jesus can and, yeah that was my reasoning. But as I stood there in line today, waiting to confess one of the sins that I have never told anyone about, I realized that a girl in front of me was crying and just letting go of the sin that she'd held onto for so long.. It broke my heart and I realized that what I was about to do was so very holy to the Lord because it is a step in the healing process in our hearts.. He cares about our hearts so much and to Him it is so important that we can let Him heal us and our wounds because if we don't let Him heal us then we will never heal correctly and fully.
When we confess our sins with a broken heart and say "Okay God, this is all I have to give you, and it's just a big pile of crap, will you forgive me?" And because you came to Him with a broken and contrite heart He cannot deny your request :D so it's like a weight has finally been lifted off of your chest when the person says "I forgive you, and God forgives you!" because now you don't have to live with that sin hidden in your heart anymore and you can just let God fill that place :))
This is the equation I have come up with :)
One simple sentance (you are forgiven) + and actually speaking the sin out and acknowledging it + combined with an overflowing amount of Jesus' love and mercy towards you = FREEDOM!!!
Grace, Peace and Freedom to you in Jesus' wonderful name!
So for all first year students at my school, we're required to do a 2 day seminar called 'Relational Wholeness' and it's based off of the book 'Pure Heart'. For those of you who have never heard of this book, it is essentially inner healing. So what they do for this seminar is have it in a 2 day period and they do 8 teachings (I believe they are fromn the book), then there is ministry time, prayer, confession stuff... I have only been through the first day and it was amazing. I learned 2 major things today:
One- I am so very very very thankful that I have Godly parents who raised me in the way that reflects the fatherly and motherly heart of God! They did such an amazing job and I never realized the full meaning of that until today when so many of my classmates were standing at the altar and having to give all their pain from their parent's mistakes to God.. it truly made me realize how much I have taken for grantite the love of my parents! Which is so sad for me to think about, but I pray that I will never take them for grantite again!
Two- Confession is so very holy and sacred to God! I grew up just thinking that the Catholics were weird and all that confession stuff was so crazily wrong because I thought that no priest can just forgive people's sins... only Jesus can and, yeah that was my reasoning. But as I stood there in line today, waiting to confess one of the sins that I have never told anyone about, I realized that a girl in front of me was crying and just letting go of the sin that she'd held onto for so long.. It broke my heart and I realized that what I was about to do was so very holy to the Lord because it is a step in the healing process in our hearts.. He cares about our hearts so much and to Him it is so important that we can let Him heal us and our wounds because if we don't let Him heal us then we will never heal correctly and fully.
When we confess our sins with a broken heart and say "Okay God, this is all I have to give you, and it's just a big pile of crap, will you forgive me?" And because you came to Him with a broken and contrite heart He cannot deny your request :D so it's like a weight has finally been lifted off of your chest when the person says "I forgive you, and God forgives you!" because now you don't have to live with that sin hidden in your heart anymore and you can just let God fill that place :))
This is the equation I have come up with :)
One simple sentance (you are forgiven) + and actually speaking the sin out and acknowledging it + combined with an overflowing amount of Jesus' love and mercy towards you = FREEDOM!!!
Grace, Peace and Freedom to you in Jesus' wonderful name!
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