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Summary:
The very foundation and walk with God must start with an individual revelation, relationship, and awareness of Him. Out of this relationship we mature and become childlike in our faith and obedience to His Word. Out of the reality and overflow of this relationship we are enabled to bless and love those in our midst.
Show Notes:
A walk with God begins with an individual relationship with the Lord. You can’t walk in an-other's revelation or relationship with the Lord.
Word’s that are spoken to you from another person may be real and living to you, but it is only adding to your own foundation in Christ.
As we mature in our relationship with the Lord, we must become become as a child in our walk with Him.
Our walk with the Lord and His Word dweling within us must be real to us and out of this we speak and minister love to one another.
Quotes:
A walk with God is only real and exciting if you're walking with Him in your own shoes.
It's about our individual relationship to Him and who He has created us to be.
What that person spoke was a living word and it has a resonance in your life, but it's not who you are.
It's about each person having their own Relationship with God, their own walk with God, their own Revelation.
Don't you think that part of the maturity on the parent's side, and on the child's side is a time that you're free to make mistakes?
It's that childlike spirit, and acceptance of what God is speaking to their heart.
Be sure it's working in your heart and you say, I, I love you.
and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you change and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.
Takeaway:
Our walk and relationship with the Lord cannot be based on someone else’s revelation and relationship with the Lord. It Must be our own personal revelation and relationship with Him. Out of this personal relationship comes the enabling to bless and love those who the Lord has put in our midst.
Transcripts
A walk with God is only real and exciting if you're walking with Him in your own shoes. If you're walking because this other person has a walk with God, and they're speaking things to you and they're very real to them, what you're doing is you're riding on their anointing.
We cannot walk in somebody else's shoes. Don't even judge a man until you have walked in his shoes for at least a mile. Well, I don't think we're going to have that opportunity. We have to be in our relationship to Him who He wants us to be. It's about our individual relationship to Him, and who He has created us to be. This is why I cringe a little bit, when people start quoting other people as part of their relationship to God.
What that person spoke was a living Word, and it has a resonance in your life, but it's not who you are. It's what's been added by the Spirit in your life, and it's real to you, and that's awesome. But you're not walking out somebody else's revelation.
It has to be your personal revelation you have from the Lord. You're not building on somebody else's foundation. You may have a foundation that they spoke into, but it becomes a revelation to you. It's your foundation.
That's called sonship.
You cannot make your relationship with God through an individual. I don't want to be looked at as someone that's so important that I can come almost like a priest.
That's not what it's about. It's about each person having their own relationship with God, their own walk with God, their own revelation.
That's what comes with growing up, right? It comes with maturing. It's a whole new day of maturing.
We're not children anymore. Because that's not what God called us to be.
he called us to be sons
He called us to become sons.
That's what 1 Corinthians 13 is all about. It's all about love at the beginning, and the first thing you do with love is you're no longer a child.
Put away childish things.
A child, you have to tell them, and teach them everything. What do children do, when they reach about the age of 12 or 13 years old, they rebel.
Because they're becoming their own person.
Because it's time that they grow up. Yeah, and there are so many parents: I've got a crack down on them. I got to do this. I got to do that. When it's time to begin to set them free. Time to let them walk in responsibility. Then, of course, the time comes when you're even done teaching them; where you have to set them free.
And that's actually where, it talks about, we have earthly fathers, and they disciplined us for a period of time. And then when you turn your children over to the Lord, boy, heaven help them if you keep them strings.
Don't you think that part of the maturity on the parent's side, and on the child's side is a time that you're free to make mistakes?
If you don't feel free to make mistakes, you're going to condemn yourself all over the place.
You're never going to grow
And you'll never grow
But here's the paradox, guys. Unless you become as a little child, you can't enter the kingdom. Here, that's a paradox.
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But that's simplicity.
It's that childlike spirit, and acceptance of what God is speaking to their heart.
Being able to accept fully without question, without doubting.
I used to tell God, I give you permission to kick their butts in the streets if you have to. Yeah. Yeah. All I say is they walk with you. Yeah. Yeah, I know.
In each one of us, in our children, I know they did something that was totally unexpected. Some of them, some of my kids do that, couldn't they? We're not what I call positive experiences. But all three of them did manage to do some very exceptional things that I can't take credit for. The only thing I can take credit for is having enough faith in God to say, here they are, God, they're yours.
And turn around and walk away and not try to judge or, reach over that, and say come on God, I didn't raise these kids to do that, but totally let them go. Do we have a foundation that was built? It's got to be, this is what I say. And even in the Scriptures, this is what I say. And it's written right here.
I say that. That puts us out in the place where we can grow into what God wants. Because so many people hold up the Bible, and says, this defends me. No, it doesn't defend me. I defend it because it's in me. What's burning in your heart. This is what's burning in my heart. Be sure it's working in your heart and you say, I, I love you.
That's a conveyance of what's in my heart to your heart. Well, I read in the Scriptures how I'm supposed to love my brother. You're my brother. So I love you, brother. You do not have to qualify it. Just say it.
