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A SPIRITUAL INTERVENTION

We hear the term “intervention” a lot. But what is an intervention? And why is it necessary to participate in an intervention? We traditionally think in terms of putting an intervention into place to help someone address and then overcome an addiction that is affecting them and, consequently, those who are close to them. In education, we do interventions when an academic area is identified as undeveloped or missing in a student’s skill-set. Appropriate instructional interventions are then accessed in order to teach the student that specific skill.

We all need interventions at times. It begins with realizing there is a problem in the first place, then formulating a plan which incorporates the necessary steps toward a workable solution. The goal is to obtain a resolution to the problem. In time, intervening will help minimize, correct, or remediate the difficulty.

An intervention always has a purpose. It is to create an awareness in the person who has the issue for the sole purpose of change and improvement where it is needed. An intervention is used to acknowledge and highlight how and in what ways the person’s issue is affecting them and those close them in their sphere of influence.

An intervention’s purpose is to help the person recognize they have an issue that needs to be changed, that they must take steps to turn the corner to overcome it, and they need to institute ways to live free of its control. A successful intervention involves interpersonal interactions and loving support.

Caring people related to the person in need of an intervention are willing to risk rejection when they participate in an intervention with their loved one. Their concern for that person supersedes the risk involved of possibly being misunderstood. They offer their support and help during the journey in order to encourage the necessary changes and to lend moral support.

A person who desires a close intimate walk with God will go through some internal interventions with the purpose of soul-cleansing and soul-healing. There is a need to go deeper with God and to become free in your inner self. Each intervention in the Spirit-realm is intense and reveals that which is hidden underneath layers of self-stuff—whether good deeds or misdeeds.

God is this way with us. He will offer the intervention by showing us where we are stuck. We must listen to Him, see the true situation for what it is, and then join Him as active participants in our own healing and restructuring by taking the necessary steps involved to access help and change in our interior life.

A God-initiated soul-cleansing intervention will facilitate the ability to live a life of spiritual fullness. The side benefit a person gains through a soul-changing intervention is a closeness with God that is alive and well. We have a friend in Jesus.

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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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