This is worth sharing with our skeptical relations. It’s profoundly important, and liberating. These voices come from the deepest part of wisdom! I found myself joy filled while listening. Pray for my sister please she thinks she doesn’t need God! I am going to pray about sending this to her. Will see how the Lord guides me. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼😥😥😢
You hit it right on, it wasn’t until God helped me forgive my earthly father for all the things I resented him for doing most of which he has no idea about. It was distorting my view unknowingly how I saw God as my Father. This knowledge was cemented when I got baptized and realized I’m still the same boy that wants quality time with my father that I never received but not I get all of that an more with my Heavenly Father!
So illuminating! I have been meditating on 2 Chronicles 7:14 and am leading prayer for our nation with this verse and I think that the Exodus 34:6-7 passage is reflected (referenced perhaps) in the phrase "called by my name." The language of the Chron. verse talks about forgiving wickedness so similar to Exodus. Beautiful to see consistency and beautiful promises from God based on who he is. Also, thinking of God being a person and having personality makes me associate his "I am that I am" statement with another statement my friend uses to explain his actions: "I gotta be me."😂
Beautiful conversation. My question to the Lord for years has been “how do I actually get my body to believe the truth where trauma resists it?” And the Church often only knows sending us to therapy. Which I believe in! But it’s an area I so wish the Church had more resources for. Bless you both!
Fantastic! I'll need to listen several times to really wrap my head around this. In my human mind I always wonder what my reaction to seeing Jesus for the first time will be. What if He's dark-skinned, smaller, thinner, no long brown flowing hair and perhaps missing a tooth? In honest terms, not that attractive or Caucasian or All-American hero-looking? I'm hoping that I'll see Him (through spiritual eyes) and it won't matter what Jesus looks like, I'll just fall down and worship out of love and thankfulness at being saved. But I fear if I saw Jesus as a person going about my life (not knowing who he is) I would likely judge him based on appearance. With God I always picture Him as glowing so brightly, that (as a human) I can't look at Him (as with Moses). I visualize God as bright light. This podcast has really induced me try and think of God as Someone I can sit down and talk with as opposed to kneeling and praying to. Thank You!!!!!
Jesus will glow too.. like at the mount of transfiguration 😁 And I think of John, the disciple Jesus loved.. definitely a close relationship whatever that all means. But years later when He appeared to John on the Isle of Patmos, John fell down at His feet in total awe! At his best Friend. We will too I'm sure. See you there someday!
@@janiceking6955 Amen...I've always thought of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit as bright lights. But, I never thought to ask God if He was having a good day. How empowering and reassuring it is to sit down and open up to God about whatever. I never wanted to take up His time with me...but that's what God wants. Wow!!! I look forward to leaving all this darkness behind...so yes, see you there and God bless!
Jesus Christ (not an ancient Hebrew description of God) is god‘s name, and is therefore the best lens we have for God. He is also the best lens through which we see all created things, including ancient writings about God. I can hear Jesus saying, “you have heard it said, now I tell you… if you’ve seen me, you’ve seen the father”.
This is worth sharing with our skeptical relations. It’s profoundly important, and liberating. These voices come from the deepest part of wisdom! I found myself joy filled while listening. Pray for my sister please she thinks she doesn’t need God! I am going to pray about sending this to her. Will see how the Lord guides me. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼😥😥😢
You hit it right on, it wasn’t until God helped me forgive my earthly father for all the things I resented him for doing most of which he has no idea about. It was distorting my view unknowingly how I saw God as my Father. This knowledge was cemented when I got baptized and realized I’m still the same boy that wants quality time with my father that I never received but not I get all of that an more with my Heavenly Father!
Beautiful teaching
Such a beautiful conversations - the false faces we put on God! I’m on a journey of ‘knowing’ His true reality. Thank you!
So illuminating! I have been meditating on 2 Chronicles 7:14 and am leading prayer for our nation with this verse and I think that the Exodus 34:6-7 passage is reflected (referenced perhaps) in the phrase "called by my name." The language of the Chron. verse talks about forgiving wickedness so similar to Exodus. Beautiful to see consistency and beautiful promises from God based on who he is.
Also, thinking of God being a person and having personality makes me associate his "I am that I am" statement with another statement my friend uses to explain his actions: "I gotta be me."😂
Beautiful conversation. My question to the Lord for years has been “how do I actually get my body to believe the truth where trauma resists it?” And the Church often only knows sending us to therapy. Which I believe in! But it’s an area I so wish the Church had more resources for. Bless you both!
Hi Jhon, we are reading one of your books. It has been a very nice experience as a family taking a look at your text. Greetings from Sweden :)
I highly recommend the book “wounded by love” on the life and wisdom of St Porphyrios.
Fantastic! I'll need to listen several times to really wrap my head around this. In my human mind I always wonder what my reaction to seeing Jesus for the first time will be. What if He's dark-skinned, smaller, thinner, no long brown flowing hair and perhaps missing a tooth? In honest terms, not that attractive or Caucasian or All-American hero-looking? I'm hoping that I'll see Him (through spiritual eyes) and it won't matter what Jesus looks like, I'll just fall down and worship out of love and thankfulness at being saved. But I fear if I saw Jesus as a person going about my life (not knowing who he is) I would likely judge him based on appearance. With God I always picture Him as glowing so brightly, that (as a human) I can't look at Him (as with Moses). I visualize God as bright light. This podcast has really induced me try and think of God as Someone I can sit down and talk with as opposed to kneeling and praying to. Thank You!!!!!
Jesus will glow too.. like at the mount of transfiguration 😁 And I think of John, the disciple Jesus loved.. definitely a close relationship whatever that all means. But years later when He appeared to John on the Isle of Patmos, John fell down at His feet in total awe! At his best Friend. We will too I'm sure. See you there someday!
@@janiceking6955 Amen...I've always thought of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit as bright lights. But, I never thought to ask God if He was having a good day. How empowering and reassuring it is to sit down and open up to God about whatever. I never wanted to take up His time with me...but that's what God wants. Wow!!! I look forward to leaving all this darkness behind...so yes, see you there and God bless!
I’d love you to speak into that aligning of the explicit and implicate……
...So needed that one
Aligning implicit with explicit knowlodge
They’re talking about the incarnation. But before incarnation, God is relational being itself.
Jesus Christ (not an ancient Hebrew description of God) is god‘s name, and is therefore the best lens we have for God. He is also the best lens through which we see all created things, including ancient writings about God. I can hear Jesus saying, “you have heard it said, now I tell you… if you’ve seen me, you’ve seen the father”.
His name is Holy.