GOD'S PAIN PILL Series (Spiritual Interventions)

Who are we fooling?

A SPIRITUAL INTERVENTION

Pain, Healing, and Freedom

Life as a Christian isn’t all that easy, is it? We do know how it should feel and should be. The clichés abound. Just give it to God. Living the abundant life. God wants us to be happy. Trust the Lord and everything will be fine. It’s God’s will (this one is bothersome). It can be somewhat provoking when personal experience fails to match the spiritual belief.

We often deny that the Christian life is this way for that would be to admit that there is a problem with us, or worse, there is a problem with our belief system. Aren’t Christians supposed to be happy and victorious? Yes, they should be. This is true. Hmmm. This is getting a little uncomfortably close to home.

I should know, I’ve been watching too. I’ve also been on both sides of the equation. More often than not, if you listen to their conversations you will find the truth of the matter. Christian people often find themselves swimming upstream without a paddle. The dialogue gravitates to an on-going complaint to the negative. Some may be justified. We all have our struggles and conflicts that slow us down or get in the way. But it may be something else.

There could be a reason for the hollow sound in the clichés like when the walk fails to match the talk. This may indicate that there is a need for a change of perspective or a spirit-led soul-changing intervention, a uniting of the human self with its heavenly triune God whereby forcing an end to the mediocrity.

Engagement with God initiates a process through which people will change their perceptions. A work of God in a life, one that is open to His ministrations, will facilitate structural change deep within a person in those places which have become repositories for soul woundings and soul hiding in Christian people. If this happens, when a spiritual awakening becomes real in Christian lives, those spiritual sounding clichés will no longer ring a false note; they will ring true both in our experiences and in our beliefs straight across the board.

We will be secure, content, and able to function even during the hard times. People will begin to take notice. When God is given a chance, when everything is out on the table, something will begin to happen within that will become utterly life-changing real. It is one of those things that a person realizes once the thing has already transpired.

You know you are free once you have experienced freedom.

We may not even know we are not free and that we’ve been under bondage to the thing until change enters, and God begins to heal us, set us free, and begins to open up a new path in the real.

Ignorant or in denial? Where are Christians in the spiritual spectrum?

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There are some keys in this writing devoted to spiritual interventions, which bears paying attention to. Christians often ignore critical and life-changing components of spiritual life. That’s why they’re grumpy and tense, uptight and negative. Many have hidden hurts they’ve never acknowledged and have buried beneath the Christianeze of seeming okay on the outside because they’re outwardly productive.

Let’s take a look below the surface.

But it is a false front, not real and definitely not authentic. Why? Because it ignores key elements found through a transforming work of God in our lives. It is essential to be enlivened because of our relationship with God. But you have to realize your spiritual need first before you can do something about it.

I should know. There was a lot I didn’t understand long ago. That’s why I think it bodes well to share this with you in case you missed it last time.

The information found in this series stems from the work God has done in my life over the course of time.

I’ve seen the principles found in the series’ content to be effective and helpful as its practice plays out in others’ lives. From this, I can draw an inference that it contains authenticity and makes a decisive difference in those who desire to draw closer to God and to be free of that which constricts their access.

I hope you will participate in the practical tools offered in this intervention series as a way to implement change into your life. We can be blind to our own stuff, but we can be set free of our false beliefs (wrong thinking) and inner struggles. How? That’s what this series is about.

Here is a short clip made on an IPad propped up by a music stand from 2013. Yes, corny, but I include it anyway for a reason. I want you to get a sense of who I am, so you can hear my voice as I share the possibilities set before you. God has been transforming my spiritual self, and I find Him to be especially dear and life sustaining.

A spiritual intervention by God in my life has redefined me. I’m quite thankful (and loving it). Now I speak and write because I have something to say…and it’s all about being blessed by Jesus. Sorry for the video quality, music stands have their limits and so do IPads, not sure about the waviness. Bear with me.