7/64 Deeper Cleansing as Sons and Daughters of God

We have been tracing the concept that we all come out of our own spiritual slavery to ‘Egypt’ when we chains7become Jesus Followers. We all begin messed up – we are not born perfect, Psalm 51:5.

  1. Everyone has a system of personal strongholds

As we have said in past posts, the vast majority of Christians come into God’s kingdom with worldly mindsets, ingrained bad habits, deep set judgements, biases, undealt with hurts, old forgiveness issues and other assorted heart stuff. These ‘fortified structures’ of false beliefs are what Paul refers to as ‘strongholds’.

7/62 How to Develop Personal Growth as God’s child?

Marcus about to go underRemember, we are called to grow both in the natural and in the spiritual as a Jesus Follower. However, personal growth is not about being perfect – but about overcoming! …… because we will never be perfect outside of Jesus!

Refining isn’t about getting Perfect and ‘earning’ God’s love! If we could have reached perfection alone, we would not have needed Jesus.  We don’t have to scrub off every bit of dirt so that we can be more acceptable to Father God.  Healthy Biblical growth comes out of relationship with Jesus Christ.  Boiled down to simple terms, all we need to do is hear and obey.