The Wholeness Journey Part I

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The Wholeness JourneyPart I

• This presentation is not designed to give you the
  formula that will get you whole, but to put you
  on the journey to discover Gods custom made plan
  for your individual wholeness

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God Alone

• In our wholeness journey we must reject the
  tendency toward self-effort and self-striving

• This involves rejecting thinking that we are
  somehow responsible for healing ourselves or for
  initiating our own positive actions
• We must embrace the fact that God alone can bring
  about real fruit in our lives (i.e.,
  Christlikeness transformation)
• Again, only God can work permanent and effective
  change into our lives

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God Alone (cont.)

• We stand in the way of Gods healing when we try
  to make ourselves whole by
• Using Gods methods
• Creating our own methods (even Biblically based
  ones)

• Realize, the very purpose of creation is to bring
  glory to God
• If God allowed us to succeed our way then we
  would get the glory
• Only God can handle the glory without ruin

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God Alone (cont.)

• However, we are not to simply do nothing

• We must turn our attention to God, actively
  recognizing that He is our source for every good
  thing
• NKJ James 117 Every good gift and every perfect
  gift is from above, and comes down from the
  Father of lights, with whom there is no variation
  or shadow of turning.

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God Alone (cont.)

• Perhaps you honestly do not desire to seek God
  with all of your heart

• Nevertheless, the Bible is clear that only those
  that persistently and relentlessly pursue Him
  receive the greatest blessings
• NKJ Matthew 56 Blessed are those who hunger and
  thirst for righteousness, For they shall be
  filled.

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God Alone (cont.)

• If you lack the desire to pursue God then admit
  it to Him and ask for that desire to be put into
  your heart

• Realize God can work with those that are not
  willing - if they are willing to be made willing!
• NKJ Ezekiel 3627 "I will put My Spirit within
  you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you
  will keep My judgments and do them.

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God Alone (cont.)

• However, praying for things simply because we are
  supposed to - but we really do not want them
  with all our heart or do not expect that God will
  give them to us - will never get us anywhere

• Ask God to begin revealing those things about
  Himself that will uniquely inspire you to fall
  completely in love with Him
• The Father will give these things to you when
  you want them with all your heart

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God Alone (cont.)

• NKJ Jeremiah 2913 And you will seek Me and find
  Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

• Ask God to put into your heart the love He has
  for His son Jesus Christ
• NKJ John 1726 "And I have declared to them Your
  name, and will declare it, that the love with
  which You loved Me may be in them, and I in
  them."
• This is the same love He has for you

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God Alone (cont.)

• However, if you are not willing to obey the
  requirements that go along with the help you
  seek, then do not expect that God will answer
  your prayer

• For example, you seek deliverance from gossip
  however, you are not willing to forgive others
  that have wronged you
• God does not give pearls to pigs
• That is, God does not give what is precious to
  those that do not consider it precious

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God Alone (cont.)

• Jesus, Gods unique Son, bleed and died to secure
  the grace we need to be whole

• This grace is a pearl of great price to God
• God will give us this grace to be whole when we
  have learned to value it enough to hold on to it
  and to permanently meld it into our lives
• However, we must crave to be free from sin not
  simply the consequences of it

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God Alone (cont.)

• Ask God to give you a greater revelation of who
  Christ is and the total desire to be just like Him

• Think on, study, and pray Ephesians 117-23 and
  314-21 to understand these truths
• Then, the next time God gives you the grace to be
  whole, you will gladly cling to it as the
  invaluable treasure that it is
• We will not be a pig but rather like the merchant
  in Matthew 1345, 46

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God Alone (cont.)

• Realize, it is in this context of seeking God and
  responding to Him with all your heart, in His
  power, that the teaching to Let God do it is
  understandable

• Only in this atmosphere of hunger, dependency,
  and willingness to obey - will God give His
  holiness, reveal His perfect will, and entrust to
  you the power to overcome the evil one in your
  life
• Persistently ask God for these things

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God Alone (cont.)

• The purpose of life, its fulfillment and joy, and
  the source of all desire and power to do the will
  of God can only be found in an intimate love
  relationship with God

• In coming to know Him, we come to love Him, learn
  to trust Him, and are motivated to obey Him
• The answer to every problem and every need is
  found in simple, childlike love, and intimacy
  with God

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God Alone (cont.)

• In His arms, all of our doubts and fears, wants
  and needs, hopes and joys find their resolution
  and fulfillment

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God Alone (cont.)

• To be free from bondage, to be whole, pursue
  intimacy with God Himself

• He will reveal the rest, and in partnership with
  your free will, He will transform you into the
  image of His beloved Son - Jesus!
• The journey continues...