Walking in wholeness

Growing in wholeness We are All Broken Salvation as Wholeness Dealing with My Own Sin Dealing with Habitual Sin Dealing with the Sins of Others: Why Forgive?

Growing in wholeness Dealing with the Sins of Others: How to Forgive Dealing with Generational Sin Dealing with the Effects of Suffering Dealing with Damage of Deception Dealing with the Power of Agreements Dealing with Spiritual Warfare

How many have received significant insight How many have received significant insight? How many have taken action on the insight that you have received? How many have experienced a measure of a breakthrough?

“When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ When it arrives, it finds the house swept clean and put in order. Then it goes and takes seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that man is worse than the first.” Luke 11: 24-26

There is nothing more dangerous than a repeated experiencing of a fine emotion with no attempt to put it into action. It is a fact that every time a man feels a noble impulse without taking action, he becomes less likely ever to take action. An emotion is not something in which to [savor or delight in]; it is something which at the cost of…discipline and of sacrifice, must be turned into the stuff of life. William Barclay

I am broken

forgiveness

Walking in wholeness Be filled with the Holy Spirit. Understand God’s purpose in making you whole. Let the spiritual disciplines fuel the journey. Don’t even think about taking this trip alone.

Be kind, for everyone you know is facing a great battle Be kind, for everyone you know is facing a great battle. A true community is something you will have to fight for. You’ll have to fight to get one, and you’ll have to fight to keep it afloat. But you fight for it like you bail out a life raft during a storm at sea. You want this thing to work. You need this thing to work. You can’t ditch it and jump back on the cruise ship.

This is the church; this is all you have This is the church; this is all you have. Without it, you’ll go down… Suddenly all those “one another’s” in Scripture make sense. Love one another. Bear one another’s burdens. Forgive one another. Acts of kindness become deeply meaningful because we know we are at war. Knowing full well that we are all facing battles of our own, we give one another the benefit of the doubt.

Leigh isn’t intentionally being distant from me – she’s probably under an assault. That’s why you must know each other’s stories, know how to “read” one another. A word of encouragement can heal a wound; a choice to forgive can destroy a stronghold. You never knew your simple acts were so weighty. It’s what we’ve come to call “lifestyle warfare.”

We check in regularly with one another, not out of paranoia (“Do you still like me?”), but in order to watch over each other’s hearts. “How are you doing?” But be careful about what you are looking for from community. For if you bring your every need to it, it will collapse. Community is no substitute for God. John Eldredge, Waking the Dead

Walking in wholeness