One of the greatest frustrations in my adult life has been the mystery and consequence of sharing prematurely. A revelation hits me, I get excited, I immediately turnand share it with someone else, and by tomorrow, it’s gone. Completely forgotten. This life-changing revelation has disappeared. And it’s no coincidence. It happens over and over and over and over again. I think God is showing me why:

Parable of the Sower

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Let me understand the teaching of your precepts*;
then I will meditate on your wonders.

Psalm 119:27

One of the ways I want to grow, Father, is by meditating on Your wonders. Your great deeds tell me about who You are. I can see how You’ve responded to the cry of Your children in times past. And since You are unchanging, what I learn about you from the past is who You are today.

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“So we went in and had a look and thought, Oh no! This is the end of the earth! This is like as hard as you can get. This is hyper arid. And it’s ten acres of almost dead flat. Completely salted landscape, 400 meters below sea level. The lowest place on earth. 2 kilometers from the Dead Sea. About 2 kilometers from where Jesus was christened. Hardly got any rainfall. Temperatures in August that go over 50 degrees Centigrade…”

See the amazing video after the jump.

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Today’s terminology causes us believe that “to know” means to Intellectually comprehend. But, this is not the deeper side of knowing. The “knowing” we are seeking results in Oneness with that which is True, Pure, Spirit – God. There is a point in which God’s Spirit actually joins us to Him, and in this joining we become one with God (I Corinthians 6:17). Though we do not become God. It is this Oneness, this “knowing” that is the result of the Holy Spirit dwelling within us. This knowing is far more comprehensive that my finite mind is able to grasp. Why? because it touches The Infinite, The Eternal.

- John Paul Jackson, from Spirit to Spirit Understanding

We’re out there to love people. We can’t carry the heavy burden of what if. If we love the person and we believe that Jesus came to bear the heaviness and weight of the punishment of sin, you will see people healed.

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Dan Mohler begins by sharing a story of he and Todd White praying over a women whose leg grew out half an inch in front of her coworker.

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I started reading John Paul Jackson’s blog today. I’m playing catchup from 2008. He begins in January 2008 talking about the Tabernacle of Moses, and how it relates both to the structure of Heaven, the structure of man, and the pathway to Christ.

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I’ve been in a season where I have not held closely enough to the wisdom written here. After months of nothing but renewing my mind, I made the mistake of not taking the next step – taking Jesus to the world. When I continually chose comfort or convenience over expressing God’s love, I grew bored with Scripture reading and sermon listening. After all, what power does truth hold to those who refuse to use it?

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Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. ⁶The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; ⁷the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. ⁸Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.

Romans 8:5-8

Where is YOUR mind set? What are you focused on? What fills your mind’s spare time? We are to set our minds on what the Spirit desires.

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What music do you listen to? What television shows? What radio stations?

I challenge you to a test. This won’t hurt. much.

Change What You Listen to For ONE Day

That’s right. For one entire day. I challenge you to watch/listen to two sermons from iBethel.tv and confine your music to ONLY worship music. Throughout the day, evaluate yourself. Are you less moody than usual? Less critical? More or less irritable?

I spent two months listening to nothing but worship and watching sermons from the right kinds of people (who you listen to is important to, obviously). I’ve never felt more in-tune with God than I was during that period.

I still get in my worship and sermons, but I had to find some balance in other areas as well.

I want you to try it and tell me what happens to you.