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Leif Hetland
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February 21 - March 6, 2021
The other way that rest is experienced is to physically rest—to literally take a pause or a break from all of the noise and chaos going on in your life and to spend a period of time relaxing and refueling.
life. I began to shake off the old feelings of shame, performance, and needing to measure up.
just spend time in His presence, learning again about my identity and who He is in my life.
be still and know
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REFLECTION QUESTIONS 1. Did you grow up with a home life that was basically warm and welcoming or in a “cold” house that didn’t provide the security we all need? How does your answer impact the way in which you relate to God? 2. Do you feel like an orphan on the street or a child in Papa’s living room? Why? 3. Invite the Holy Spirit to help you identify any root issues in your life that need the healing touch of your heavenly Father in order for you to receive all that He has for you. If you need assistance beyond what is encompassed in this book, consider engaging with a personal local
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if your heart is not fully connected to His, you will begin to perform in order to connect with Him rather than live from the connection you already have.
When we enter into a process with what God speaks over us scripturally and prophetically, we get more than an encounter. We get a lifestyle.
People often tell me they are waiting for a baptism of love, hoping for it as a single encounter. I would rather give them a process for full-time access. If they can stick with the process for 30 days, they get an upgrade. We have heard amazing stories from people who follow the process for a month.
HOW TO RECEIVE A BAPTISM OF LOVE Think what God thinks Feel what God feels Hear what God says And then… Say what He thinks, feels, and says…even when it is very often the opposite of your own thoughts, feelings, and words.
continually. Don’t live just for key moments and experiences. Start seeing yourself the way He sees you. Let your roots grow deeper in love so you can receive more love, and your spirit will tune in to His voice. Rest, receive, and be. Power and wisdom will begin to flow.
When I asked the Father to let me feel the way He felt toward them, I moved into a Chair 1 encounter with Him and the Spirit came upon me and broke my heart for them.
as sons and daughters who have an intimate relationship with the Father, we learn to do what He is doing and say what He is saying.
REFLECTION QUESTIONS 1. Where are you when it comes to loving God for who He is versus what He gives? 2. If self is on the throne in your life, how can you go about dethroning yourself and allowing God to take His place of authority over your life? 3. What are the five ways to receive a baptism of love? REFLECTION Scripture tells us that Jesus healed from a heart of compassion, and that Jesus is an exact representation of the Father. Therefore, God has a heart of compassion. In light of these truths, find some of the scriptures where Jesus is healing out of compassion and then reflect on why
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had to remind myself that the Spirit is not just in me but upon me. If He is always with me in the here and now, the atmosphere does not have to change me. He can change the atmosphere. That is the power of our connection with Him.
This is one of the byproducts of intimacy with the Holy Spirit. Out of your life will flow love, joy, and peace, and sometimes those things will be tangible to people who are unfamiliar with them.
we walk in intimacy with sensitivity to the Spirit, He flows from us to bring the environment of heaven into earth.
Him, but we have to take that same culture that exists among the Father, Son, and Spirit and apply it to our human relationships—to become one with our spouse, to have intimacy in our families, to be humble and vulnerable in our friendships.
Intimacy is meant to spill over into other areas of life.
He will take you deeper in order to take you wider and higher so you can be entrusted with more.
us, so we put on some soaking music in the room and spent some time enjoying the presence of Jesus. We marinated in His presence, welcoming Him in with His love. Soon we felt a blanket of peace come down from the top of the room and cover us,
What happened inside of us affected what happened outside of us. The One we had been with was the One who was being released. The One we beheld was the One we became. The One we had become was the One we were now able to reign with.
But in God’s kingdom, receiving is the only way to get something.
But when you have that, you are like Jesus coming out of the wilderness with a message: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me because He has anointed Me” (Luke 4:18).
The picture and phrases of “in Christ” and “Christ in us” throughout the New Testament tell us that we are called to something even more than a face-to-face relationship. It’s oneness.
Chair 1 is a place of identity,
hard work of rest and entering into a place of knowing our identity and cultivating our intimacy.
Chair 1 is a lifestyle of humility
Jesus could do nothing without the Holy Spirit, and He could only do what He saw the Father doing. He lived from a place of intimacy; that’s where His power flowed from.
Never mix up the order of resting, receiving, and reigning.
When you get comfortable in that space, knowing that He adores you and delights in you, you can just enjoy being with Him, knowing you’re doing exactly what you were created for.
“God had a dream and He wrapped your body around it.” Bill Johnson
do. You were brought into this relationship not only in love but also in the Beloved (Ephesians 1:4, 6). You are the Father’s dream. Amazing things happen in your life when you realize that the best thing about God is God Himself—enjoying who He is and just being in His presence as a fulfillment of His dream.
Instead of focusing on His gifts, we realize that the best thing about God is God, and the best thing about Jesus is Jesus.
next, my prayer is that when Father God asks you if you could have anything, your answer would always remain, “I just what to know that You are home with me”—to know that He is at the breakfast table when you wake up in the morning, to know that He is in the house when you go to sleep at night, that you will forever be grateful for the daddy dates that He loves to take you on knowing that nothing compares to just being with Him.
Your investment of time with God will yield immeasurable Kingdom benefits.
REFLECTION QUESTIONS 1. How much time do you invest in a lifestyle of intimacy with God? 2. We all find it difficult to devote extended time to soaking in God’s presence in the midst of our daily lives. What are some of the roadblocks in your life to soaking with God? 3. Cultivating intimacy from a place of vulnerability and humility can be scary but necessary. Why is this?
His sonship was tested.
enemy who twisted Adam and Eve’s identity in the garden now tried to twist Jesus’ identity too.
do. Jesus might as well have said, “This is who I am, devil, and there’s nothing you can do about it.” He had the Father’s blessing, and He knew it.
Everybody was in awe of Jesus’ teaching because they were witnessing the Word in the flesh. They could experience heaven coming to earth.
Jesus came in with the value system of heaven. He did only what He saw the Father doing and said only what He heard the Father saying.
He showed the world what God looks like and how God loves. Sinners were very attracted to Him.
He chose 12 disciples to enter into a covenant re...
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more. Then Jesus asked His disciples, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon got a revelation from heaven and went from a Chair 2 perspective to a Chair 1 perspective. “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God”—the anointed one and the Father’s Son. When Simon said that, he became a rock. He saw Jesus’ true identity and stepped into his own. He became unshakeable. Jesus said He would build His church on that unshakeable foundation, on the revelation of His identity, and the gates of hell would not prevail against it. Not only that, Jesus said He would give His followers the keys of the
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But from a relational, covenantal, family perspective, it was the only option.
God goes after those who need to be rescued. This is how He thinks.
Again, there is great value placed on the thing that was lost, which reflects God’s attitude toward the sinners and tax collectors who were drawn to Jesus.
parable, I describe it as a story about a father with three sons, and everyone in the audience looks at me as though I’m crazy. But it really is. One of the sons was rebellious, one was religious, and the other was telling the story about His two brothers and His Father. All were in the family—they are called sons, not sinners—but the first two had a Chair 2 worldview.
The rebellious son was not mature at all, and he took his inheritance and wasted it.
