Words of Encouragement

If things have felt stirred up lately — if the comfortable arrangements of your faith have been feeling challenged, if old understandings have been feeling insufficient, if you have been sensing that something more permanent than another wave of blessing is being called for — that stirring is not a problem. That is Jesus walking into the synagogue. That is the Holy One of God showing up and doing what His presence always does. Do not quiet the discomfort too quickly. Do not rush back to the familiar arrangement. Let Him surface what needs to be surfaced. Let Him challenge what needs to be challenged. Let Him do the deep, permanent, Renaissance work that leaves you with a fundamentally different and truer understanding of who He is — and therefore who you are. The demon cried out because it recognized that the arrival of Jesus meant the end of its comfortable occupation. Let that same arrival end every comfortable occupation in your life that does not belong there. Come Jesus come. He is already on His way.

Words of Encouragement

You were never the problem. The veil was the problem. The lies were the problem. The inferior mindset that was handed to you by religion, by the adversary, by a world that needed you to stay small so it could stay in control — that was the problem. Not you. The real you — the you that was designed before time began, made in the image of God, redeemed and restored and unveiled by the work of Jesus — that version of you is extraordinary. And Holy Spirit is not finished engineering the full expression of it yet. Every layer that comes off, every veil that is removed, every inferior mindset that is replaced by the revealed endorsement of your authentic identity is bringing you closer to the mirror moment — where you look at Christ and suddenly realize with breathtaking clarity that you are looking at yourself. His glory. Looking back. Don't settle for the window. Walk through the door. The mirror is waiting for you.