Pruned for Better Fruit: ONGOING INVENTORY
You can’t be spiritually, mentally and physically well with a heart full of things like fear, hate, hurt and judgment.
We can heal and come fully alive by stepping out of denial, by facing & detecting our condition and then correcting our attitudes and behaviours.
Listen in to this special Easter recording as Martin King & Debbie O’Brian join Derek to share their experiences around one of the most courageous journeys anyone of us can embark on.
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“So then, my dear ones, just as you have always obeyed [my instructions with enthusiasm], not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation [that is, cultivate it, bring it to full effect, actively pursue spiritual maturity] with awe-inspired fear and trembling [using serious caution and critical self-evaluation to avoid anything that might offend God or discredit the name of Christ]. For it is [not your strength, but it is] God who is effectively at work in you, both to will and to work [that is, strengthening, energizing, and creating in you the longing and the ability to fulfill your purpose] for His good pleasure.”
Philippians 2:12-13 AMP
“But a person must [prayerfully] examine himself [and his relationship to Christ], and only when he has done so should he eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks [without solemn reverence and heartfelt gratitude for the sacrifice of Christ], eats and drinks a judgment on himself if he does not recognize the body [of Christ]. That [careless and unworthy participation] is the reason why many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep [in death]. But if we evaluated and judged ourselves honestly [recognizing our shortcomings and correcting our behavior], we would not be judged.”
1 Corinthians 11:28-31 AMP
