Not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.
Pastor Ray asks the critical question is whether Jesus a wall or a door to you? Jesus is always a wall at first until we're willing to fully submit and humble our hearts to Him.
When a great crushing comes upon our lives, what is our response to that great pain, whether it be the death of a loved one as it was for Pastor Ray, a major health concern, or some other crushing circumstance? God's heart is to allow this crushing to allow the flowing out to others in self-sacrificing love.
Pastor Ray talks about the four key doctrines of Gerhard Tersteegen and many churches in the late 17th century. Make that choice to allow Jesus to go all the way to the bottom in your heart.
Pastor Ray lays out four simple doctrines from a dear group of Christians from the 17th century that are key to revival followed by four specific behaviors that block this work.
"We must depart from ourselves in order to enter into Him. This exit and entrance is the basis and most essential act of godliness because by it, we restore to God what is His-I mean ourselves, thoroughly, wholly and irrevocably." Gerhard Tersteegen
“Unless Christianity receives a new enthusiasm that sweeps the Western world, and Christianity itself rises up against the forces against it,” Michael Savage said, “the entire West will collapse in your lifetime.”
There are many remarkable things about James Turner's walk with Jesus but the chief one is his brutal honesty before God and to himself. There's no real heart change without this transparency.