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519. From Belief to Truth: Deconstruction, Revelation, and the Restoration of All Things

Mike Parsons

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There are two aspects to what God’s purpose is. One aspect is God deconstructing people from the belief systems they have which are hindering them from fulfilling their destiny and outworking God’s heart. That is the process we are all in: a process of deconstruction, a renewal of the mind, bringing us into the truth. Some of that comes by revelation, because revelation needs to illuminate the darkness of the things we have believed.

So there is a process we are all in. The key is to follow that process in your own life so you can find your identity and fulfil your destiny, not to follow every revelation that is out there. There is revelation out there which may well be for people in their particular circumstances that may not apply to you, and may not apply to me. God reveals things in ways that reach some people and will not reach other people, and that has always been the case. I do not really have a problem with there being lots of revelation. I only pursue that which I resonate with the Father’s heart in.

That means I am not drawn off by, “Oh, this amazing revelation about this,” or “Oh, this teaching about that.” I find some things are irrelevant to my daily walk in relationship with God. Whether I know something or do not know something makes little difference to how I live and outwork love on a daily basis. For me, I am just not interested in those things. There are other things which are revelatory that do impact how I live out my daily relationship with God. Therefore I will pursue those things.

So that is one aspect of what God is doing: the process of renewing our minds and bringing us into conformity with His image and who He made us to be, so that we are not pressed into the mould the world has shaped us in. I do not have a problem with different revelation reaching different people in different ways.

When it comes to what God’s purpose is in a global or cosmic sense, that purpose is the restoration of all things. The restoration of all things will take place as we embrace our identity as sons of God, because God uses our sonship to bring about restoration. Creation itself is longing and waiting for the revealing of the sons of God. But you cannot have the revealing of the sons of God without the renewing of the sons of God’s minds to know the truth of who they are and to know God’s heart. You need both of these things happening together for God’s ultimate purpose to be outworked.

If creation is going to be set free from its bondage to corruption and decay, then you need the sons of God to be revealed, because creation will be set free into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. Therefore the children of God must know their glory, their identity, their heavenly clothing, for creation to recognise them and for creation to be set free. As more and more people become illuminated to the truth of who they are, more of creation begins to respond.

What I am not interested in is information that has no relevance to my everyday life and to the restoration of all things. There is lots of teaching which may be very interesting, but I am not interested in it if it does not relate to where God’s heart is for me at that point in time. Some people may be interested in those things, and that may be part of their journey.

I remember more than twenty years ago engaging with the righteousness of God. God was speaking to me about righteousness and about being the righteousness of God. At that time I was still thinking within the evangelical framework I had come from, so what God was trying to show me I only partially understood. But it was the beginning of something.

I read a book by Creflo Dollar about the righteousness of God, and when I read it I thought, “This is exactly what God has been sharing with me.” It opened the door for me to understand it more. Creflo Dollar came from the faith movement and the prosperity movement, but today he is preaching from the Mirror Bible and has renounced tithing within the new covenant. In many ways he has been on a journey parallel to the one I have been on, though from a different direction.

I believe God is drawing people together for His overall purpose of the restoration of all things, and they are coming from many different directions. The Grace Awakening Network is one place where people carrying the grace message, the finished work of Jesus and covenant fulfilment are beginning to connect. People such as Creflo Dollar, John Crowder, Francois du Toit and Baxter Kruger are all there. They come from different perspectives, but they are being drawn into the same flowing river, which is God’s purpose.

Several years ago I prophesied that four streams would begin to flow into one river, and I believe we are seeing that now. Some people come through fulfilled eschatology. Some come through the mystic dimension of sonship. Some come through experiences of God’s love,  or through understanding refining fire rather than the traditional view of hell. Others come through healing, light and energy. These streams may look different, but they are all moving toward the same river that brings restoration to the world.

Different revelation helps draw people from the streams they are in so that they can move toward that same river. People are often limited by the perspective they already have, so God uses different approaches to lead them forward.

For me personally, I do not feel the need to chase after every revelation. Sometimes that is because I already understand the principle, and sometimes it is simply because I did not come from that direction. The important thing is not to chase personalities or charisma. Christianity is not free from the problem of celebrity culture, and we must be careful not to follow people instead of following God.

I do not want people to follow me. I want them to follow Jesus. That is why I tell people not to believe something simply because I say it. Go to the Father and allow Him to reveal truth to you in the context of your own sonship. Some people may inspire you to go back to God and discover things for yourself, and that is good. Others may not, and that is fine.

If we tried to listen to all the teaching that is available, we would never have time to do anything else. Personally, I cannot remember the last time I regularly listened to other teaching, because most of my time is spent listening to God as He directs my life and reveals more of my sonship. He continues to unveil who I am as a son of God and restore me to the origin of who He created me to be so that I can be a son revealed to creation.

That, honestly, is what I am most interested in.

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515. From Self to Sonship | Understanding Living Sacrifice

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The way you engage (in heaven and in your own heart) is essentially the same, and the experiences you have are broadly the same. What differs is the place in which you have them. The heavenly realms are different from your internal garden or first love gate simply because they are heavenly realms. That said, there are things you can engage in both places. For example, the river of life flows out of heaven and flows into you and into your garden, and you can engage that river there.

 

The heavenly realms are where you are seated, where you learn to function in a position of authority. That authority flows out of the intimacy of your internal relationship with the Father. There is intimacy internally, and there is also intimacy with the Father in heaven, at the throne of grace, which is itself an intimate place. But there are also governmental spaces, such as the throne room, where the perspective shifts.

When I was first experiencing this, I did it in parallel. That is hard to teach, because you cannot easily jump from one to the other. You usually describe the pathway of relationship, where intimacy develops internally. But you do not have to wait until that is fully established before engaging the pathway of responsibility in sonship.

Sonship carries both relationship and position. There is the relationship with the Father, the intimacy that reveals our identity as sons. But there is also the position of sonship, the authority of being a son of God, a co-heir and co-creator with God.

For me, the relationship I initially engaged with God internally came because he opened that way and drew me into it. At the same time, I began to present myself as a living sacrifice. I became aware that there were things in my life that needed transformation. I knew I was not going to do that myself, because trying to change myself would be self-defeating. What would I change myself into?

What was revealed was that as I came to know God more internally, he began to reveal more of who I was. That revelation then enabled me to surrender. Each day, I would present myself as a living sacrifice, and Jesus took me through the process. Symbolically, he is my high priest. He prepares the sacrifice, so I did not need to work out what to change in my thinking, my heart or my behaviour. I simply needed to follow him and allow him to do the work.

Much of what he took me through was symbolic. Symbolism gives meaning and provides a framework of understanding. In the process of preparing a sacrifice, the high priest does not simply place it on the altar. It is prepared. Symbolically, the sacrifice is killed. That is not pleasant imagery, but it is meant to represent death. I died with him. I am entering into a death that has already taken place.

A living sacrifice is not physically dead, but it symbolically dies to self. I was not trying to kill anything. I was entering into what was already true. I had died with him. I simply needed to catch up with the reality of what that meant. The renewing of my mind is the process that transforms me into the truth that I died with him, and therefore I am alive with him, and he lives in me.

The life I now live is no longer lived from the self that was in control. For most of us, that self is rooted in the soul. I was surrendering my soul and everything associated with it, my thinking, my patterns and my independence. My thinking was no longer to be attached to the part of me that had been in control. That required a process of renewing my mind and dismantling old beliefs so they could be replaced with truth.

Symbolically, the sacrifice was opened so that everything inside was exposed. Nothing was hidden. That became my prayer. Search my heart, God. See if there is anything in me that is not aligned with my true identity in you. He showed me my heart, the hurts, pains, brokenness and memories that were stored there.

Other parts of the symbolism spoke to action and direction. I surrendered what I did, choosing only to do what I saw him doing. I surrendered where I went, choosing only to walk where he was leading. Each day, I expressed my desire not to do my own will, but to know and follow his will.

This was the process I went through when I first began to engage the heavens. It was not about pursuing experiences for their own sake. Those came later. It began with relationship, surrender and transformation.

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Living Sacrifice

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502. Breaking Free From Indoctrination | Embracing Love

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Over hundreds of years, false doctrine has infiltrated the church and shaped what many people simply accept today.

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Simplicity of the gospel

Over many years, even hundreds of years, false doctrine has infiltrated the church and shaped things into what we see today, and people have simply accepted it. However, there are explanations for this and different alternatives to all of it. To be honest, why spend your time trying to understand something that was never written for you in the first place?

With all of this, whether it is true or not, let us go back to the simplicity of the gospel that Jesus talked about. Let us love one another. We do not have to agree: let us love one another. Let us love the world rather than trying to convince someone of something. Let the Holy Spirit, who is the only one who can renew someone’s mind, do that work. If people are genuine, then you can have a conversation, but if they are just trying to prove you wrong, then it is a waste of time.

A different view of God

If someone is genuinely searching and thinking, “I am struggling because this does not align with God, how could this be God?”, then they are on a journey towards restoration and renewal of their mind, and you can help them along that path. If all they want to do is convince you that you are wrong, and that there is going to be tribulation and judgment and a millennium and all of that, then that is a very deceptive doctrine, and you will not argue someone out of it. I think God will renew many people’s minds and deconstruct a lot of people, but many will remain stuck in religion and in the system, sadly. But many are leaving it, and many are coming to a different view of God.

We can help them discover that God is love by loving them. It is better to love them than to argue with them. It is better to keep a friend than to win an argument and lose a friend. I think saying, “Look, I do not really want to get into a lot of this stuff, because I think it will just cause problems in our relationship, and I value our relationship more than being right,” and leaving it at that, is often the best way.

It is better to keep a friend than to win an argument.

It is a difficult deception that keeps people in darkness and in bondage, and ultimately only God can bring the light into that. If people had tried to convince me that my eschatology was wrong back in the 1980s, I would not have believed them. But God spoke to me. God did it. I could not argue with God. I just went on a journey where he unfolded a whole different view that I had never even imagined.

God deconstructed me himself

I did not read books about it at first. God showed me through the Spirit by taking me through the whole thing. Once I realised that my whole understanding had been twisted, then I found some books that supported that view, and I realised I was not on my own. Loads of other people believed this as well. But I did not find it through other people. God totally deconstructed me over a two or three year period himself. Then that was confirmed by me reading other things, and there were people who were helpful to me, especially David Chilton: Paradise Restored, The Great Tribulation, and The Days of Vengeance, which is his book on Revelation, a massive book. You can find free PDFs online here:

Paradise Restored: A Biblical Theology of Dominion (1985)
The Days of Vengeance: An Exposition of the Book of Revelation (1987)
The Great Tribulation (1987)

David Chilton started off as a partial preterist in that he believed chapter 20 of Revelation was still future, but he ended up a full preterist because he came to realise that it was all in the past. He got himself excommunicated from the group he was in because he believed that and was persecuted.

Inevitably, I think, if you are open, you will move through partial preterism into preterism. I do not want to be labelled a preterist or not, because there are other things within that system that I do not necessarily think are true, but let us say I am a realised eschatologist. All eschatology is realised. It is already the end. The study of the last things is the study of what happened in the past, not the study of what will happen in the future. For me, that is where I have moved towards.

Not the end of the world

Ultimately, my understanding of that, and the same Bible verses that talk about what would happen at the end of the old covenant, also talk about and have been interpreted as what is hell. Then I realised, I do not believe this is talking about the end of the world. So this is also not the end of the world. Gehenna is not hell. Gehenna is literally talking about the end of the age when the old covenant was put into the fire and destroyed. Jerusalem and the people were put into the fire in Gehenna if they continued in Jerusalem, as Jesus warned them would happen.

They did. The Romans crucified hundreds of thousands and burned them in Gehenna. That was not the end of their life. That was the end of their physical body. Their actual soul would go into the fire of God’s love and hopefully bring about their restoration. I imagine a lot of people would have remembered what Jesus said when the armies turned up, but it was too late if they were besieged, and they would probably have remembered what Jesus said, “You are going to end up in Gehenna.” Hopefully, they would also then have remembered Jesus’s offer of life.

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499. Hook, Line and Sinker: Why Do We Believe False Prophecies?

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Once you are susceptible to programming because of the nature of the organisations you trust – being fed by your pastor, and being fed by the apostle, or being fed by the prophet – and that they hear from God and tell you that God said this, then you are susceptible to receiving beliefs which are clearly not true. But because you trust the system you’re in, you believe them.

Hence, all sorts of conspiracies.

Hence, all these prophetic people come out with all this political stuff. It gets bought hook, line and sinker by people because they are conditioned that those people must be right because they are prophets: they must hear God.

And the reality is, we need to hear God for ourselves.

And don’t buy anything anyone else says, including me and anybody else, unless God affirms it to you.

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498. Trapped In Fear: Evangelical Mind Control Exposed!

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We don’t know to what degree we have been programmed until God starts to deprogram us. And I would say that evangelicalism is very cult-like in the way in which it uses guilt and shame and condemnation to control people, and keep people in line; get people to toe the denominational line or the church line or whatever those beliefs are. Because, “You can’t belong unless you believe like us,” which is the fear, “Oh, I’m going to be on my own!”
And how many have been told, “Well, if you leave the church, or you’re coming out from under the covering, then Satan will get you!” And all of those fear-based things that we have all been told.
Well, God is love and God loves us unconditionally. And he wants us to enter into the fullness of that. And that will change our thinking.
And we will find that we get deconstructed from all of those belief systems, if we cooperate with him and we don’t keep resisting and fighting to hold on to our previous beliefs, which, you know, I discovered most of them were warped at least, if not completely wrong.

 

363. Deconstructing the Pillars of Your Mind

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496. When Love Rewired My Mind, Goodbye Religion!

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There is a new reality: that love now frames my thinking; that God frames my thinking from a totally different perspective. That religion has been removed.

Now, I am not saying that there are not still things to do, and God still did things along the way, but He could do things because my mind was now open to him.

So when the whole hell issue came up, my mind was open to him. And when he started to challenge my understanding of old covenant and my old covenant thinking of trying to be obedient to God and trying to please God and trying to earn… (really again by being obedient).

“I am not under the Law. Oh! Oh, yeah! Why am I trying to be obedient to a law when I’m not under a law?”

Because I was framed that way by evangelicalism.

So I had to realise that there are layers and layers of thinking that still needed renewing. Even when the system of belief was removed, there were still neural pathways that took me to beliefs that needed to be renewed and undone. And deconstruction has continued.

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495. The Implosion of a Religious Mind

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One by one all those pillars began to collapse and fall. Augustinianism was another pillar. I mean, I’ve never studied Augustine. I knew a little bit about Augustine and but I never studied him. I didn’t know what Augustinianism was. So I had to go and look it up.

When God said, “One of the pillars is Augustinianism,” I thought “How did I get that as a mindset?” Because it was embraced within Brethrenism and other streams of thought.

Hebrew mindsets, Greek mindsets, both included within the pillar system of my mind. Again, I thought, how did I get those? Because they’re based within the system of teaching that I had received all the way through.

So eventually when all those pillars collapse, what is there now?

The Mind of Christ.

363. Deconstructing the Pillars of Your Mind

485. Having Our Minds Renewed

Mike Parsons

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We’re all in a process of having our minds renewed so that we won’t be moulded and shaped by the upbringing, conditioning and programming we’ve received. Our minds are renewed so we’re not pressed into that mould, but instead transformed into who He said we were from the beginning.

That process is relational. By experiencing Him, our minds are changed. We can’t make it happen by trying to use the Bible as a tool, since misunderstanding it was what created the problem in the first place. Our minds are changed when we let Him do it, as we submit ourselves to the relationship He gives us—always weighing everything with love as our measuring stick.

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451. Conquering Fear | Your Mind as a Battleground

Mike Parsons

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Identifying the Root Causes

Come to a place where God is able to show you what the issues really are. When you describe your brain as a battleground in relation to something like disease or cancer—if you are picturing it—then ask: Where did that come from? Ask the Father to show you. Was this something that runs in your family? Was it linked to a traumatic event? Something that happened in your life?

Most of the time, we are not afraid of things that are not somehow connected to us. So it is important to find the root. Then remember: perfect love casts out fear.

The Power of Perfect Love

Apply the perfect love of God to any fear you may be carrying. In your imagination, if this is something you can picture, or see, or feel—something that causes fear or pain to rise—then allow God to go to the root of that experience.

As I have said previously, you can apply the blood of Jesus. You can apply the love of God. Ask Jesus to remove that image from your imagination—to remove the memory of it from your mind—so that no neural pathway is triggered to lead you back down into that lie. Because disease is not God’s desire for you. God only has blessing for you. He is a good God. He wants the best for you.

Replacing Lies with Truth

So the way forward is not to try and stop picturing it or stop thinking about it. Instead, begin to think on the truth: God is my healer. He wants me to be whole. His desire for me is health and wholeness. Focus your meditation on that truth. If those fearful or negative thoughts return, dismiss those thoughts, take them captive and bring them back to the truth. You might say, This thought of cancer has come again, but it is not mine. God’s desire for me is to live in health—cancer-free, free from disease and sickness.

Each time the memory returns, apply the truth again. In fact, you can take it further: Thank you for this negative thought, because now I can apply the truth and turn this for good. Every time a negative thought comes, I will counter it with a positive one and turn it for good.

Eventually, you will find that external negative thoughts—those not coming from within you—will stop. And if there is anything internal, anything programmed in your subconscious, God can show you. That can then be removed, healed and restored.

Taking Thoughts Captive

Your imagination is neutral. If it is primed for death or destruction, ask why. Have you seen or watched things that lodged fear in your heart and mind? If so, those images can be purged. Your imagination and heart can be purified—by God’s love, by His power, by the blood of Jesus. Imagine it being washed clean, painted over, covered entirely, and removed.

You do not need to try and feel loved. Just relax and allow God to love you. Eventually, you will begin to recognise His love in a way that is meaningful to you. That might be through feeling emotionally close. It might be a sense of peace, blessing or comfort. Whatever that unique language is, God wants to speak it to you.

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Tune in

Do not assume God is only going to speak with a voice in your head. You need to learn to discern His communication—to tune into it. Think of it like an old radio. At first, all you hear is static. Then you turn the dial and maybe catch a snatch of sound, until suddenly you tune it in and hear clearly.

It is like that with God. There may be lots of noise, lots of interference. But once you find the right frequency, you will begin to hear. Your frequency may be different to someone else’s. That is fine. Just find how you connect. You might feel, or sense, or simply know. It might not be words at all—it could be intuition. All of these are ways God chooses to communicate, and He will tailor it to you.

So just relax. God loves you. He loves you more than you know. He loves you right now—and that is enough. His love will never fail. It will never give up. It will never let you go. He wants you to live in the love, joy and peace of His presence—and enjoy it every single day.

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Mike Parsons

The Bible was

At that time, the Bible was still the living Word of God for me—not Jesus. I saw the Bible as the Word that washed me, not Jesus. I relied on the Bible to separate my soul and spirit, rather than allowing Jesus to do it. I used the Bible as a mirror to see myself, rather than looking to Jesus or the Father.

Jesus, mediator of a New Covenant

During this process, I was presenting myself in the heavenly tabernacle as a living sahttps://freedomarc.blog/2014/01/21/present-a-living-sacrifice-3-practice/crifice, prepared by me, acting as my own high priest. Now, that might sound bizarre, but when I first received this revelation and began engaging in the heavenly tabernacle, this is what I thought I was doing.

I approached the laver—a basin used for washing—which I understood to have a bronze, mirror-like surface. I used it as a mirror to wash myself through the Bible, performing the role of my own high priest. I consumed the showbread as biblical food, again as my own high priest. I sought wisdom from the light of the menorah, the Bible, instead of Jesus. I engaged the altar, refining myself through the Bible, all the while acting as my own high priest.

In truth, all of this was a self-reliant, religious duty—a “do-it-yourself” form of faith. The reality, as I later came to understand, is that I am not my own high priest—Jesus is. Hebrews 6:20 makes it clear: “Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.” Jesus is the mediator of the New Covenant, not me. I made no covenant with God—Jesus did.

Deeply ingrained religious mindsets

My deconstruction was revealing God’s grace and the finished work of Jesus, and that was challenging my old covenant thinking. My “do-it-yourself” religious mindset had trapped me and severely limited my ability to truly know God and my original, authentic self.

Now, that might sound really odd to you, and you may never have approached things in this way. I would certainly encourage you not to. However, it shows how deeply ingrained these mindsets can be, distorting our view of God and His work. Only when those limitations and restrictions were removed could I begin to discover my true origin, identity and destiny as a son of God. It was then I began to see how powerful the finished work of Jesus truly is.

Jesus accomplished everything on our behalf so we don’t need to rely on our own efforts. He died for me, and as me, so I died. He was resurrected for me, so I was resurrected. He ascended for me and I ascended. Jesus established the New Covenant for me and included me in it. He is my high priest, he is my mediator—I don’t have to do it myself. Jesus did everything necessary to restore the whole cosmos, reconciling everyone, corporately. We are not required to achieve this individually in our own strength. He has accomplished it on behalf of all mankind; he took away the sin of the entire cosmos.

Renewing the mind

We may need to transition into a renewed mindset because most of us have likely been programmed by some form of works-based mentality. Even if it wasn’t specifically religious works, cultural influences can drive us to succeed and build our identity around what we achieve. Transitioning from an old to a new mindset requires a deep deconstruction—a process of renewing the mind. it is a process, that is the key.

It’s a process that God orchestrates and that he leads us through. It is relational, and through this relationship, our thinking about God—and everything else—begins to change. Old restrictive doctrines and theological mindsets need to be replaced by a relational lifestyle of face-to-face innocence with God. This is the amazing truth of the relationship He has invited us into.

No need to fear deception

Through this, we can learn to trust our Father to father us without fear of deception. Personally, I struggled with a deep fear of “getting it wrong.” This fear was instilled in me through the belief that everything had to be done strictly “by the Bible,” as the Bible was my sole source of security against error and deception.

The reality, however, is that every Christian sect or cult uses the Bible in some way, so relying on it alone for safety didn’t truly protect me from deception. I believed the Bible was God’s Word: all of it was infallible, inspired, and entirely inerrant, and I thought that following it would keep me safe. But whose version was I following? Whose interpretation of the Bible was I basing my life on?

These questions were hard to face because I had been conditioned to think otherwise. In truth, that belief system itself was the deception that was keeping me religiously bound in fear, unable to move beyond the Bible. I was afraid that if I went beyond its pages, I’d fall into some weird error or be led astray. This is a fear shared by many people I have spoken to: their families and friends often worry that they are going off into some error or cult-like movement, because they are no longer going to church or no longer reading their Bible in the same way they once did.

But the fear of deception is itself a powerful form of deception that keeps us locked up. We don’t need to live in fear of deception, because we have the Holy Spirit of Truth within us, guiding us. Jesus, who is the Way, the Truth and the Life, is also in us and with us, discipling us. Our loving Father is within us, fathering us into our true identity as sons and daughters. And if we measure everything against agape love, we won’t stray far. Love is the ultimate standard, and if we root everything in love, we can trust the process.

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Rest in Love (guided meditation)

Close your eyes,
Slow down your thinking,
Rest—rest in love.
As you are breathing in,
And breathing out,
The very breath of God.

And as you rest in love,
Let the unconditional love of God
Rest on you.

Open your heart,
Open your mind,
Ask the Father to reveal:
“Are there any Old Covenant mindsets,
Any Old Covenant belief systems,
Still operating?
Is there any mixture of covenants
In your heart?

Open up your heart to listen
That the Father could show you.
 
And if there is anything
That’s a mixture of covenants
In your experience
Just hand it over to him.
Take off those old covenant mindsets
And clothes, if you like,
And hand them over to the Father.

And let Him clothe you
In robes of righteousness,
Let Him clothe you
In new covenant grace,
In mercy,
In unconditional love.

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