Mike Renner’s Kindle Notes & Highlights for You Can Be Free From Your SELF: The Grace of Soul Transformation

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The truth of soul transformation is presented throughout these pages.

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“Let these sayings sink down into your ears” (Luke 9:44).

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This book is about your crucifixion which is the pathway you must follow to enter the Kingdom of God experientially.

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The Spirit of the Lord, Paul said, is the Transformer of the believer (2 Cor. 3:18). So, yield to Him as you read.

Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

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Let go of mental attachments also and allow a sense of distance to occur within you--between your spirit and your mind. It is then that you will see the false you, self, and how it has hindered, vexed, harassed, and tortured you all your life with ambition, regret, anxiety, stress, fear, worry, greed and other things in surface life.

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Much of this book is repetitive by design. There is only one primary point made throughout. If you allow it to point you in the right direction, your life will metamorphosize. This metamorphosis, or transformation, is the work of God in your soul. It is the change you have long desired, but, up to now, have been unable to receive due to the influence and hindrance of self.

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It is wise to ask your Helper, the Holy Spirit, to make known to you the truth of what you read. Ask for His illumination whenever something “new” appears in your understanding. It is much more important to receive what you read in your spirit than it is to grasp it with your mind.

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Chapter 1 The Day Self Dissolved

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During a period of waiting on the Lord, there is no thought given to time, problems, pressing needs or even to intercession for others. It is simply time given to God for the purpose of connecting with Him and enjoying His Being, His Presence.

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Isaiah 40:31 KJV “Waiting upon the Lord” is beyond the realm of mental operation, comprehension or understanding. The believer’s spirit is connecting with God, becoming deeply entwined as one Being: But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. 1 Corinthians 6:17 NASB But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 1 Corinthians 6:17 RV There is nothing I have practiced during the last 40 years that has produced as much bliss, radiance, and vibrant life as becoming still within my soul while waiting upon the Lord.

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This practice has allowed Him to glue my spirit with His Spirit.

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How beautiful it is that God, who is Spirit, wants to glue Himself to each of His children in the deepest part of them: the spirit. By waiting upon the Lord and becoming deeply intimate with Him, spirit to Spirit, the believer becomes one with his or her Lord.

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Even though I noticed how special these church meetings were, so rich in the Presence of God, I did not grasp the significance that stillness could have in my personal life.

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I can only say it was self, the false “me”, that hid the importance of “praying into stillness” and abiding there until the Lord was through with whatever He wanted to accomplish within my heart that day.

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Eventually the ministry ran me.

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I justified my less frequent waiting time upon the Lord,

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We were interrupted by noise--not outside noise but by noise in my head.

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I was undertaking all this pain and trouble for God and for His glory, of course! It was actually for self but I could not see it then. My spiritual life declined and I eventually failed the Lord, my family, and others by fleshly sin.

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I knew that keeping my “first love” was all-important.

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A lot of my private prayer time consisted of entreating the Lord for this or for that. It was not as pure and pristine as it had been in my youth, when I waited upon the Lord simply to become more united with Him.

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The hidden agenda was to get something from God which would help the ministry. It was not the pure motive it is now--to become one with Him.

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I was not focused on the future anymore. I had come to the place of wanting to experience the Lord while waiting upon Him simply for the joy of knowing Him intimately.

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What troubled me was that I truly had never known God as I had desired. The ministry had actually interfered with my relationship with God, just as it had with my family relationships.

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My life had become “more manageable” – that was the goal of the recovery groups I was involved with during that season.

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Up to this point in my life, “who I am” had always worn a label: “evangelist”, “teacher”, “writer” — some type of function.

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Luke 19:40.)

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My mind was not involved in any of this; it was far deeper than the mind. It was my spirit taking in and enjoying LIFE—in its essence and all-pervasiveness.

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I sat there but there was no consciousness of the “me” I had always felt was me. I was the real me from a deeper place inside the shell of my earthly identity. Freedom from the burden of the “other me” produced a sensation of being one with the Creator and His creation. There was no “me” anymore – not the hurting, troubled me. Yet I was there, absorbing it all.

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To put it another way, this work of transforming me was all His work, not mine. The Holy Spirit did the actual transformation within my soul as He applied the benefits procured by the Cross. Should transformation occur within your soul, it will be as profound and unique to you as mine was to me. It is beyond the ability of words to convey the state of peace that is given to you in transformation. It is all grace, all love, all peace, and all God.

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Transformation was a death – an ending of “me” that was not the true me. This other “me” had been hurting for a half century. The other “me” needed constant care, had to be controlled, restrained, and was almost always hurting in one way or another. The emergence of the true me that had been hiding somewhere inside my body all these many years could only take place after the other “me” had dissolved in God’s Presence. Instead of God healing the hurting me as I had prayed for years that He would do, the Lord killed that part of me, the part that had always been so painful. He answered my ...more

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The Lord has recently spoken that “a sudden, radical transformation” is about to occur on a “worldwide scale in the lives of many” of His people.

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The Lord is not going to heal the part of them that is hurting, but remove it entirely, essentially kill it.

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It is only when you have tired of self, have been disillusioned by it over and over, and have come to the end of yourself that you are ready for this message.

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When you are miserable as a result of allowing self to run your life, you are then ready for this book.

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You are not divided anymore. In the words of Jesus: “you are whole” (John 5:14).

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“Behold, I make all things new.”

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If the Lord is going to remake or renovate everything in the material universe, do you not think He could change you? Or are you so totally messed up that not even God can fix you? He who will one day burn up all the works on this planet is capable of burning up the chaff in you. If He will create New Heavens and a New Earth, do you not imagine He is capable of creating a New You? Is this not for what you have been longing?