Tag: Spiritual Transformation

531. When the Bible Becomes a Barrier

Mike Parsons

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Moving Beyond the Need for Proof

When I started this journey, everything for me had to be focused in the Bible because that was what I was brought up with in the evangelical system of thinking. And that was limiting what God was able to show me, which were things beyond the Bible. But because I needed it grounded there, that grounding then was outworked in what I knew. And so I would try to do it myself because I knew and I was confident, well, the Bible says this.

481. Beyond The Pages | Finding Truth Outside the Bible

Now, at that point, I had not gone through deconstruction, and that was still what was framing my relationship with God. But God wanted to take me beyond that, so he had to start weaning me off needing proof, biblical proof, which was where my proof came from, you know, because there were things then he started to show me. Well, if you want biblical proof about this, your understanding of the Bible needs to change because the way you see the Bible now is not going to give you the proof, which is actually the truth. Because you are framing it with a wrong expectation of me.

And I suddenly started to realise that what God was saying to me is, “You do not have to do this yourself. You just let me do it.” So presenting myself as a living sacrifice, as a priest, meant for me I was doing what I needed to do to be a good sacrifice. Whereas actually Jesus my high priest prepares me in my life. But I was doing the preparation.

Trust Jesus Rather Than Knowledge

So every day I would want to go into the tabernacle in heaven and I would want to look into the bronze laver and see a reflection. But what I was looking at was a reflection of my understanding of the Bible. I did not know at that point that Jesus was the Word of God. Of course, I knew it intellectually, but actually the Bible was the word of God. So for me, that is how it was.

403. So you think the ‘Word of God’ is the Bible? Think again!

Therefore being washed by the water of the word was not Jesus doing that. It was me, reading the Bible, who was doing it. So I was actually trying to wash myself. You know, when I was trying to renew my mind, I was using the Bible to try and renew my mind. And all of the things like “the word of God is like a sharp two-edged sword just dividing soul and spirit,” – I was trying to divide my soul and spirit using the Bible to do it.

And actually what Jesus was trying to say is “No, I am the living Word. So trust me, not in your knowledge, because your knowledge will not be enough to do it because you do not know enough, and also some of the things you think you know are not true.”

So it was quite a challenge, you know, to go through that process of him removing the evangelical framework of my thinking to trust him rather than to trust my knowledge. Ultimately that took me through a whole process where I had to accept that I was in control and I was doing it myself. And I was not trying to do a bad thing, but I was still doing it in works, and I was still doing it in the power of my soul, and I was still doing it actually because I trusted myself more than God.

489. Nine Pillars That Shaped (And Shook) My Beliefs

You know, because of the [understanding of the] nature I still had of God who was to be feared, because that was before my understanding of God was deconstructed into unconditional love. So I was still functioning in penal substitutionary atonement and all of those doctrines which were my understanding of framing the Bible. So I was framing the Bible wrongly all of that time.

Surrender, Deconstruction and Trust

So he decided to wean me off the need for biblical truth and biblical proof and show me that a lot of my understanding of what I thought was true based on the Bible was not true because it was based in a false system of belief based around a god who is not actually who God is.

So you go through seasons, and it is not always easy if we do not surrender. So what I have learned to do is just surrender and trust. If it seems to be a season of inactivity, it is okay: I trust you, and I trust you enough that if there is anything you want me to do, then you will show me. And when this season changes, then I will actually sense and feel something has shifted and now something else is happening.

But it is not an easy process when you are conditioned. And I was certainly conditioned. And I had to go through a lot of deconstruction. And I had to surrender to trust God before that deconstruction could really take place. You know, there was a degree where I had experiences that challenged some of the things I believed about God, but that was not sufficient at that point without a surrendering of my soul’s need to understand and to know and effectively to be in control.

501. Deconstructing Beliefs: A Journey to Authentic Faith

So God took me through a whole process of softening me up, preparing me, a lot of refining experiences of going into fire and going into being soaked and getting ready for the most difficult thing that ever happened when I got to the point where I had to surrender my right and need to know to just trust him. And that was such a hard thing back in 2012. But since then, my relationship with God, my understanding of who God is, my understanding of who I am has been totally transformed because I now know God at a completely different level.

So go for it, you know, go for resting. And it does not mean that you cannot say to God, okay, if you want to tell me what is going on or show me what you are doing, I am open. But that is not the driving force behind what you do when you engage God. Because there is no problem, God is quite happy for us to talk to him and ask him questions, but he is quite at liberty not to give us the answer if he does not want to. And we have to accept that there is a reason for that, whatever it might be. That is what we have to trust God in, the process.

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529. Transform Your Reality | Let Go Of The Past

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Choosing Reality from God’s Heart

That is how God has created us to be, that we can choose and create our own reality. Part of the problem is if we keep choosing our reality out of our knowledge of the past, then we keep repeating the past and our reality never really changes that much.

477. Transform Your Reality | Harnessing the Power of Intention

We have got to actually see the possibilities that God has for our future and begin to align our choices from our future, which also comes from his heart in eternity. So it is coming from a place of intimacy with his eternal heart, which essentially is my scroll, my destiny, to which I then choose to align to what that frequency is.

His living words, when he spoke me into being as my source of life, are still vibrating within me. Now, when I resonate with that source and those words, then I am going to choose a reality from his original intention for me. And when he shows me a vision, if you like, of how he intends my life to be, then I see future realities that cause me to be able to choose them in the present, so they actually begin to form and come about. But it is not like it is fixed, therefore God shows me my future; and if I choose it, it will be guaranteed to happen. It is like there are possibilities for my future aligned to his desires, and for me, and if I come into agreement with them they will begin to form.

464. The Power of Co-Creation: Aligning with the Heart of God

Breaking Free from Past Programming

We have a lot of history in which we have been disconnected from our eternal identity, and we have made decisions based on what we have been taught from nature and nurture in our lives. So our soul has been programmed from all our experiences that have happened in our life from the outside in. But God wants us to begin to be led and guided from inside out, from his Spirit, my spirit, and therefore not the programming that my life has had. So if I keep choosing the reality based on what my past experiences are, I keep getting the same experiences, and that has got to change. So my mind needs to be renewed to see things differently, so I am not programmed to inevitably keep repeating the mistakes of my past.

The future is better. God wants me to succeed and prosper. He has blessed me. I need to come back into that place of his blessing and empowerment so that then my future is good, and his desire for my future is always going to be for my good and for my blessing, and so I can be a blessing. I am blessed so I can be a blessing. I am loved so I can love others, and that comes out of that reality of my relationship with God, which causes me to choose aligned to his heart rather than from my past. But we all have things that we are in process of having renewed so that we are not influenced by those things anymore, but we have a higher frequency of influence, that we resonate to a higher frequency rather than to the lower frequency that we have been used to living in. And his words still vibrating in me resonate with that higher frequency, but am I choosing to come into that agreement with that, or do I keep choosing the low frequencies.

Sometimes that is what people do. They are so familiar with the low-frequency life that they have been living, they do not think there is any other way of living. But when we start to glimpse what God starts to show us, then what is possible enables us to choose that to become reality rather than the inevitability of life just going on the same way. So yes, I totally agree with that statement, but it requires a relationship of intimacy to choose those realities rather than what we have been necessarily programmed with. And eventually, you know, we will be deprogrammed, if you like, and renewed to think differently and not have those negative choices or negative things dictating what we choose or how we choose it. So there is a process involved, but God is active in that process in renewing our minds.

253. Framing Your Reality

Cooperation and Corporate Agreement

Ultimately, we mature to a level where we create our reality instantly rather than over a period. At the moment for most people it is pray, believe that you have received and you will receive, because we have been used to waiting for what we have chosen to manifest. And sometimes it has to be a time period because other people are involved in that, and other things are involved in that, and I cannot just force my reality on other people. So there has got to be somewhere where cooperation comes in, and connection comes in, that there is a corporate mind of Christ choice of reality that more and more people will embrace and things will change on a greater scale rather than just around my life.

Because none of us are an island independent of everyone else; we still have to interact with other people. So if I am living in this area and I am choosing for this area to be blessed, but there are a thousand other people believing the worst, I have got to have a thousand times more influence than they have if I am going to change things. But if two or three come together, well, one can put a thousand to flight, but two, ten thousand. So there is a sense of exponential increase in there. If we start to come together with others and agree with God for those realities, then I think those realities can begin to bring good for the benefit of everyone, even if they are not making that choice themselves. It is not forcing them, but it is creating an environment where they will see what a wonderful thing it is to be blessed, rather than to live in a state of less than what God intended.

So I think more and more people will begin to connect with God’s heart, God’s mind, and will have a union of desire and heart which will bring about change, which is why I think things like the earth shield and other things, where people were coming together in agreement to engage with God and therefore be looking to see a place of protecting what God was doing on the earth and keeping it from interference from external sources so that God’s purposes can be outworked in practice. But I do think it is something we need to start to focus on, but we have got to make sure we are choosing a reality that is aligned to God’s heart.

465. The Earth Shield | How Spiritual Beings Influence Natural Disasters

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518. My Spiritual Awakening | Angels and More

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The Role of Angels

The angels were involved from the very beginning, because I did not fully understand what was happening. Only in hindsight can I see the cycles of change in my life, one after another. One significant moment was when I was baptized in the Spirit. I discovered several books that challenged my understanding of spirit, soul, and body. There was one particular book, probably the thickest I had ever read, The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee, exploring the nature of the spirit, soul and body, and how they interact. I devoured it because I was hungry for understanding. It began to reveal the role of the Holy Spirit and my own spirit in ways I had never considered.

By accident, I found another book, Nine O’Clock in the Morning by Dennis and Rita Bennett, written in the late 1950s in the United States. It focused on baptism in the Spirit and spiritual gifts. At that time, I was in the Brethren church, which did not embrace any of these ideas. Reading the book, I was astonished—it shared how encounters with the Holy Spirit transformed lives.

I began asking questions, but many dismissed it. Some said, “Oh, that is not for today,” while others claimed those experiencing it were deceived. It was a difficult time, and God had to change my mindset. This cycle of change, with the Holy Spirit active in my life, ultimately brought about transformation. I realised I needed confirmation for myself. I could not simply accept, “Yes, God said it, it is true.” I required evidence.

Baptism in the Spirit

I found confirmation through Martin Lloyd-Jones, a well-known preacher at Westminster Chapel in London. His recordings and his book Baptism of the Spirit convinced me theologically that baptism in the Spirit is for today—and I desired it. It still took several years before I received it, but I pursued it diligently.

Cycles of change were facilitated by both people and angels. At one point, a childhood friend I had not seen for years returned to my life. He had become a Christian and was baptized in the Spirit. He laid his hand on my head in a small group, and I experienced a powerful encounter with God.

God orchestrates these cycles; He is active, not passive, in bringing us into the maturity of sonship. Receiving baptism in the Holy Spirit opened another cycle of change. I became more open to hearing God and understanding His purposes. This led to a fresh perspective on eschatology—understanding kingdom and covenant in ways I had not encountered growing up in the Brethren church. God revealed truths beyond the futurism and premillennial rapture teaching I had known.

Community and Mentorship

After several years, I found an old book by Archibald Hughes, which affirmed all that God had been teaching me. Deconstructing my previous beliefs had taken time. I did not teach these truths for twenty or thirty years, fearing controversy. Eventually, I could no longer remain silent. The insights were so radically aligned with Jesus’ teaching that they opened a broader understanding—about covenantal judgment on the old system, the generation, and God’s ongoing work in the world.

God’s orchestration of my life was evident in these cycles of change, often interspersed with periods of rest. I saw the angels’ involvement and recognised God as the conductor of an orchestra—the symphony is the song of my life, and He directs the rhythm. I may not fully understand how conductors work, but the orchestra responds to His guidance: speeding up, slowing down, and emphasising particular movements. God’s involvement in every detail is remarkable.

Deconstructing Beliefs

We do not need to understand everything fully; our role is to participate and cooperate. Over time, I learned not to resist or demand full comprehension before embracing God’s work in me. I became proactive, recognising cycles of change and the timing of God’s intervention. He is gracious, merciful, and loving. He knows exactly what we need and when, helping us enter into His processes rather than resist them.

Our backgrounds influence how easily we assimilate new truths. Some of us, like myself, require much convincing. But as I grew sensitive to God’s work, I learned to embrace transformation willingly—stepping onto the altar to be refined and purified without hesitation. Previously, I clung to control, needing to be convinced to release things. Now, I trust Him completely. God is always good. If He leads us through something, it is for our ultimate blessing, making it easier to say “yes” quickly.

God does not intend to harm us or make life unnecessarily difficult. Often, it is we who make things harder for ourselves. Trusting Him accelerates our willingness to embrace His work in us because we recognise His goodness, mercy, and love. He is a good, loving, wonderful Father, always seeking the best for us.

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314. Limiting Mindsets and Beliefs

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398. Embrace Transformation and Renewal

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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127. Relationship and Responsibility

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Living Sacrifice

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513. Who Are You Really? Unpacking Identity

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I believe the world is beginning to experience a series of awakenings. A love awakening, a grace awakening, a joy awakening, a peace awakening. A true God awakening to the reality of who God really is. We are part of that awakening, helping people discover the truth as we discover the truth ourselves, and then share it and live it. It is important that we embrace these awakenings. As we do, we begin to carry and express them naturally.

For a long time, God kept asking me a simple but profound question: who are you? He asked it in various ways over a period of time. At first, my answers were always works-based, tied to what I was doing. Like many people, I identified myself by what I did rather than by who I was. My soul defined my identity, but God was seeking to reveal the true me. For that to happen, my soul had to accept it, and that was not an easy process.

All of us go through a process, and God reveals who we really are in different ways. At the same time, he exposes what hinders us from accepting that reality. Each of us carries things that God has to deal with. Our souls have constructed identities using the data collected throughout our lives: things that happened to us, information we received, and the programming we absorbed through culture, religion and family. Information flowed through our senses, shaping survival strategies that helped the soul cope and protect itself from harsh realities.

Those defence mechanisms, however, often become prisons. They falsely promise safety while preventing us from knowing who we really are. Until the soul surrenders control, we cannot fully trust God for protection, provision and direction. Letting go of control is difficult, especially when we have learned to do everything ourselves. Trusting God sounds simple, but it is not. I believed I trusted God implicitly until he began to challenge what trust really meant in my relationship with him.

So, who am I? That question sits at the core of most people’s inner life.

Imagine a scene. You are in a boat, adrift on a vast ocean. You do not know where you are, and you do not realise that this ocean is unconditional love. You have no sails and no oars. This is the position humanity often finds itself in, unaware of where it truly is and protecting itself from the very reality that surrounds it. This state of despair is an illusion, a deception that causes people to try to navigate the surface of an ocean of love through self-effort.

The answer is to get out of the boat and sink into the depths of unconditional love. There we discover who we really are and who God really is. We are never separated from God, because we exist within him. Acts 17:28 tells us that in him we live and move and have our being. Everything exists within God, who has created space within himself for relationship. Separation, therefore, is an illusion we have created through guilt and shame. That illusion keeps us from intimacy with God and traps us in a lost identity.

Getting out of the boat feels counterintuitive to the natural mind, which has been conditioned to follow an independent, self-directed path. Yet the question remains: who are you, and how will you find out? I would suggest that you will never truly know if you stay in the boat. Even when it feels safer to stay there, paddling with your hands requires constant effort and never brings you to truth.

Who do you think you are? Ten years ago, I would have answered differently than I would today. Five years ago, my answer would have changed again. Thirty years ago, it would have been completely different. Who do others think you are? That question matters, because if we allow it, the opinions of others can define us. Are you shaped by your past experiences, your circumstances, your parents, your friends, your boss or even your genetics?

The deeper question is this: who does love say you are?

Get out of the boat. Sink into the vast ocean of love. Surrender, be immersed and saturated in unconditional love. Return to first love, because it is there that we discover who we really are. God, who is love, defines us. He defines who you are.

So, who are you? I would suggest that we can only truly know through a restored, face-to-face love relationship with God as Father, Son and Spirit. It is that relationship which enables us to discover the truth and to live in it.

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272. One Conclusion: God Is Love

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336. Get out of the boat… and SINK!

509. What is Love? Understanding Our First Connection with God

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What is love? If we are talking about first love, we need to ask what love actually is, and what makes first love different. Why is first love so important?

 

Our eternal destiny is established on the restoration of our first love experience with our heavenly Father. We will never fully become who we truly are unless we know who we truly are. That makes it essential that we discover our true origin and our true identity.

Praying a prayer?

First love, in this context, is not the emotional state we may have experienced when we first encountered salvation. Some people have very emotional conversion experiences. I did not. I had no emotions or feelings associated with praying a prayer and asking Jesus to come into my life. That was shaped by who I was at the time, my relationship with my own father and my life experiences, even though I was only twelve. Those things had already shaped and programmed me.

I prayed the prayer believing it was the right thing to do, but there was no emotion, no ecstasy and no sense of exhilaration. Later in my life, I did have many profound experiences that helped me understand love at a deeper level, so I know that I am loved. But at the beginning, I simply prayed a prayer.

You may have had a very emotional and dramatic salvation experience, and that is wonderful. But when I speak about first love, I am not talking about going back to those initial emotions. Emotions can be valuable, but that is not what first love truly means.

First love is our origin in God before we ever lived in a physical body. First love is our eternal identity, originating in the Spirit of God. In Revelation 2:4, speaking to the church in Ephesus, it says, “You have left your first love.”

The Ephesian church may have once had a powerful and emotional experience of God’s love, grace and mercy, but over time they fell into the trap of religion, works, duty and obligation. Their relationship with God was no longer the priority. Duty replaced intimacy. They were no longer in love with God but were working for Him, almost as if it were a family business. That is not how God intends relationship to be.

Whatever our initial experience of God, He wants to take us beyond it into a deeper reality, one rooted not just in emotion but in depth of relationship. The intention is that we never leave it.

Do you remember?

Do you remember your own first love experience with God? Was it dramatic or deeply emotional? Did it feel like a completely new life? What about your first love relationship with another person? God designed us for depth, passion and intimacy in relationship.

In my own upbringing and insecurities, I never really had a true first love experience, because my understanding of love was distorted by emotional needs, physical needs and teenage hormones. I felt cheated of what love could be. God restored that for me, and I believe He can restore it for anyone.

When we experience first love, whether with God or with another person, there is passion, desire and fascination. Our minds are captivated. We long for connection. My salvation experience was not like that, so God took me into something I had never experienced, at a level I had never imagined.

There are many words associated with first love: besotted, infatuated, enamoured, love-struck, smitten, passionate, consumed with desire, captivated, enthralled, devoted. It is like springtime, when life begins to emerge again after winter. There is freshness, newness and vitality.

I had never felt that towards God, nor believed He felt that way towards me, until He took me on a journey of restoring my first love relationship with Him. That restoration enabled me to understand how that depth of love could also be expressed in human relationships.

So what does first actually mean? It means coming before all others in time and order. It is paramount, supreme and preeminent. It is above every other kind of love. When I consider that, I realise that this is the love God has for me, and it is the love that enables me to love Him and others in the same way.

The priority in my life

First love comes before family, relationships, work, leisure, needs, worries, anxiety, fear, depression or despair. It precedes everything, both in priority and in time. It reaches back to our origin and brings healing and restoration to everything that has happened in our lives. Even painful experiences can be healed when our spirit reconnects with its origin in God.

If first love with God is the priority of my life, everything else flows from that relationship.

In Luke 14:33, Jesus said that no one can be His disciple without giving up all they possess. He was not talking about literal possessions in every case, but about priorities. When God becomes our highest priority, everything else finds its proper place. Earthly possessions and relationships pale in comparison, but they are also enriched by our relationship with our Father, enabling us to love others more fully.

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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.

 

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497. Escaping the Cult of Fear-Based Religion

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Deconstruction has continued to go on all the way through that period, so that I could be free from the religious perspectives that had kept me in bondage; kept me from knowing the true nature of God, the true nature of myself as a son of God and the true nature of creation and all of the wonderful things that we have embraced as being part of that. But it’s not an easy thing. You know, I’ve got to be honest, it is indoctrination.

People who have been in a cult and come out of that cult, it’s very difficult to get the cult out of them. They have to go through a process of deprogramming, which is not easy because the programs are based on reward and fear, which is exactly what the evangelical programming is based on. Fear of hell, fear of losing your salvation, fear of being punished, fear, fear, fear. But perfect love casts out fear. So where is God within that?

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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