Free Webinar!!

Thanks to LW for sharing this on fb just in time!!

"Do you want to have more transforming conversations with God? Karl Lehman (associated with Jim Wilder and the Life Model) is doing a FREE webinar tomorrow to talk about how to do that. This is good stuff. Register and they'll send you a link AND you'll get the download to listen later and share with friends.

looking forward to this!"

From Timothy Jenson:

"Interacting with God is a simple idea yet most of us can neither see nor hear God, and we have some reservations about people who say they do! Even when Jesus came to be with us (Immanuel), those closest to Him had difficulty seeing Him for who He was and connecting with Him, especially when they were focused on the pain in their lives. 

What if we could show you a way to interact with God that is undeniably personal and powerful? What if these conversations with God could be transformative, changing you from the inside out? In addition, what if this connection with the living Jesus (Immanuel) could resolve painful life experiences and bring healing to your wounded heart? 

Immanuel Prayer is transforming conversations with God. 

Hear Dr. Karl Lehman introduce this model of prayer that will move you toward a deeper walk with God! 

If you want to see and hear God, if you want to experience an interactive relationship with Jesus, and if you want a resolution to painful experiences of the past that negatively affect the present, this webinar is for you! "

Click HERE to register and attend this free online webinar!  

God's Point of View

Some of you have heard this already.

What would you do if Jesus appeared to ya and said stuff that went against your beliefs?

I remember pondering that and realized eons ago that I didn't want to argue with HIM about what's right and wrong, true and false, etc.  I saw within myself the propensity to disagree with my Maker and I shuddered and thought long and hard about the Pharisees.  They knew the scriptures but could not recognize the One who was the very expression of those words, even when He stood in their midst, Father God wrapped in a skin suit.

Enter many years of me grappling with that within myself in order to submit myself to God!

Now I take what I wrestled with then and apply it to different places in my life.  I also enjoy challenging others to take a look at their beliefs and allow God to show them where maybe they're off.  It happens so often I rarely take a minute to stop and record the quips.  

One I remember well.

To a pessimist I said, "Let's pretend the cup is half empty."

Note: no pessimist will admit they are one.  They will all say they are "realists."

I knew better.

I could tell he was going to like this conversation.  I was moving away from my usual chipper, positive exuberance into the nitty grit where he liked to dwell.

"Okay...so when you think about the empty part, how does that make you feel?"

I don't remember what he said for I am possibly a terrible friend.  Oh, and I was SO eager to finally get him with the point I knew his smart self could not argue.

"So the cup being half empty is TRUE...but it is also HALF FULL.  And whichever of those two realities you focus on will shift your emotions, feelings and make you have unpleasant or happy thoughts."

Going in for the final blow, I reminded him of the Old Testament reality which my Dad had relentlessly hammered into me from Deuteronomy (though he never told me where the principle came from):  YOU GET TO CHOOSE!

"It's both.  Half full and half empty.  YOU GET TO CHOOSE how you look at it."

Now this guy is someone I consider one of the most intellectual people I have ever met...with a mind like a ...well, I dunno what.  He's brilliant though...and in that moment guess what?  I had put something before him he could not argue into smithereens.  

Not only did it feel GREAT to be right and to be heard, it was amazing watching him change his own life over the years as he was finally able to let a lot of fears and other crud fall to the wayside.

I don't know if this is a key to affecting the religious spirit, but it sure does get under the skin of some pretty awesome people.  I always am grateful for my Dad's wisdom to my non-reality self and the way God sets before all of us each day life and death and then respects what we choose.

Kate Mazur
Benzie County, Michigan
May 2018