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Summary:
As God matures us, He gives us the opportunity to reach the depth of our spirit. The things that hinder or block the flow of His Spirit through us is being removed. As God speaks His Word ,He test that Word in us until it is refined. This daily lifestyle creates a child like spirit that is open, teachable, and creates within us the joy of the Lord.
Show Notes:
God is digging deeper in the lives of His sons to create a perfection in them.
As we mature in the Lord, He opens the door for us to see the things that are deeper in our spirits.
After God speaks a Word to you, He will come to test that Word in you.
The deep repentance exposes us to God and we change.
God's attributes are imparted to us as we repent and are exposed to Him.
In the depth of this repentance, our flesh nature is gone and Christ's nature comes forth in us.
This deep repentance becomes a life style of a open spirit before the Lord.
The overflow of this deep repentant lifestyle is His joy.
Quotes:
Repentance is something that as we grow in the Lord, God goes deeper. The depth that He goes to, is the desire of His heart that you are perfected in His sight.
You need to be pure in your way of relating, so that He can use you as a channel...
As God matures us, He gives us the opportunity to reach the depth of our spirit.
It's this deep repentance that exposes us to God. That's going to be the thing that's going to change us, is the exposure to God.
As you expose yourself, then all of a sudden you start taking on God's attributes.
Your flesh is gone. The only thing that is left is the Christ in you the hope of glory.
In repentance, there's a state of heart, is a state of being that you can come to every day, by a decision that you make. And that is, Lord, I open my heart, and I keep my heart open.
By His grace, His mercy, Him sticking with you till it's finished. That's the drive of a mature Christian. Our approach to repentance is you shall be pure as your heavenly Father is pure. Weren't you created in His image?
I actually think repentance is an open spirit, before the Lord every day.
I think our repentance is going to be so full of joy.
...a great definition of repentance. A childlike spirit, a child's heart. That's why God loves the little children.
References:
Matthew 5:48
Therefore you shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Psalm 139: 23-24
Search me, O God, and know my heart!
Try me and know my thoughts!
24 And see if there be any grievous way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting!
II Corinthians 3:18
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.
Genesis 1:27
So God...
