Times of Refreshing

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It’s amazingly refreshing when words of hope and encouragement, and insight and revelation, are flowing from within me. It makes me feel peaceful and productive. For years I have been waking up every morning with such a wonderful inner flow. I love to be quiet and focus on it. Then I write the words that come and grow within me. Later I pull them together as a blog post.

That hope-filled flow often continues throughout the day. Year by year those flowing words and the presence of Jesus (Colossians 1:27) that I sense with them (that is beyond words), fills me with what the Bible calls the fruit of the Spirit. (Galatians 5:22-23) He walks with me, and He talks with me, and He produces the fruit of His resurrection life within me. The ongoing experience is truly indescribable. I feel Christ flowing as I am typing these words. O how Jesus loves you and me.

Stop and be still.
Let Jesus flow
Inside of you.
Then you will know
That He is God.
(Psalm 46:10
And John 1:1)

God’s intent
Is that we
Implement
What He says.
(James 1:22)

God’s desire for you is:
Don’t plateau;
Grow, grow, grow!

When my perspective
Becomes deceptive
I need for God
To be corrective
And redirective.
(Romans 8:14)

When I started devouring the Bible with a humble hungry heart I was soon convinced that God inspired and directed it because it worked in my life and released an inner flow within me. It still does like nothing else I’ve ever read.

When brokenness is allowed to draw us into greater surrender to and a deeper relationship with the living Jesus the outcome is an abundance of the fruit of the Spirit. (2 Corinthians 4:17-18) Open up and let Christ’s rivers of living water (John 7:37-39) flow from within your innermost being.

It’s amazing how Christ’s inner flow inspires fresh insights in me from things other people write that match what I’ve already written. Right after I uploaded this blog post, I saw something that somebody wrote about not trying to fit in with other people. Then God used it to inspire this in me. Instead of trying to fit in, change your heart so that Jesus Christ can freely fit inside of you, powerfully flow through you, and continually lead you.

The flow keeps coming. I just made breakfast but before I could set down to eat this came flowing from within me: I’ve never believed that Jesus wants faith in Him to be institutionalized. I don’t believe that He wants religious institutions helping us honor Him with our lips while our heart is far from Him. (Matthew 15:8)

There’s more. Just after breakfast a short poem came to me for both a brother and sister who are graduating from high school soon. I wrote them on a card for each of them. Here are the poems:

Always follow Christ
And Light will appear.
Whether you are near
Or you’re far from here,
He’ll keep you from fear.

God’s word is near you,
Jesus within you.
Let Him work and do
The things He wants to.
Always see things from
His bright point of view.

“The kingdom of God is within you.” It may look crazy out there in the world that surrounds us, but in here (in my heart) I’m fighting to let King Jesus rule as “My Lord and my God!” (John 20:28)

Don’t write down what the preacher says and the pat yourself on the back for taking notes. If it aligns with the Bible, get up and do it day after day!

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