WILDERNESS: On the Necessity of Meeting with God
Repentance must include waking up from our predictable devotional patterns and getting back to the core essence of they are really all about: meeting with God.
Repentance must include waking up from our predictable devotional patterns and getting back to the core essence of they are really all about: meeting with God.
In order for us to become the fullness of his presence in the world he will transform our sin-sick broken nature to become like his love-filled holy nature.
We need people who are close enough to us and know us sufficiently well to feel the freedom and permission to say, “What you are doing is not good.”
We are often seduced into becoming practical polytheists—placing God on the shelf alongside every other idol giving shape and meaning to our lives.
When we look back over our lives we need to see a trail of altars which serve as the pillars of our autobiography and way-finders for those coming in our wake.
Hardship in the wilderness will do one of two things in our lives: it will infuse character into our souls or wear callouses onto them; holiness or hardness.
The deepest, most profound and otherwise unquenchable thirst of every single person on planet earth is for the Holy Spirit.
We will know we are in a great awakening when our gatherings around the Lord’s Table become alive with the power of the Spirit.
Deliverance must be followed by discipleship. We witness the order of the Kingdom as we are discipled into the lifestyle of the King.
The Kingdom of God is a very different place than the kingdom of the world and the wilderness is the place where it all gets sorted out—the wheat from the chaff.