Have you ever heard anyone report about a personal event or experience, or victory, which moved them emotionally and actually transformed their life dramatically?
Have you ever read of someone overcoming a monster challenge, whether medical, behavioral, relational, social, legal, addictive or inner struggles, which inspired you by their joy, freedom, love, excitement, success and sense of deliverance?
This is what Christ and His salvation adds to our lives. Sadly, there are very few who show the joy, power, peace, love, excitement, confidence, singlemindedness of Christian conversion.
It is not because of our personality type or because regeneration and reconciliation are different for different people. Though we are all different in temperament, salvation from sin and personal relationship with God is transformative. Nothing should deaden or weaken the presence or the manifestation of
God in our lives.
Whatever reduces spiritual excitement, fervor, enthusiasm (Greek for, "God within") should be aligned with, and subjected to Biblical truth. Sometimes people allow "Facts" to replace faith.
God's being (His existing) and God's presence in our life produces excitement, fervor. Divine fervor must be manifested in line with God's word. The absence of enthusiasm excitement, fervor, exuberance, is not in keeping with normal human behavior or consistent with Biblical revelation.
In the 1600s, "enthusiasm" was used by Puritans as a derogatory term for people who showed external expressions for internal emotions. Sometimes people allow "Feelings" to replace faith.
Faith and facts and feelings are parts of the salvation truth and experience.
We are body, soul and spirit.
Our inner man is where reason, desire, emotion, conscience and will reside.
To exaggerate any part of the human experience is to choose an unbalanced life.
Those that are more into the "heady" part of salvation often neglect or suppress the emotional.
Those who are emotionally oriented tend to underrate the more factual and theological issues.
Fact, feeling and faith are all part of the human reality.
We must give all control to God, but we should never lose self-control. Self-control is the fruit of the Spirit. We should surrender completely to God, but total surrender to God never includes blindly giving into thoughts or feelings. We are to bring every thought captive to Christ, and we are to love God with our whole heart, mind, soul and strength. Even in total surrender, the prophet's spirit is subject to the prophet.
Some folks need to be better informed and more deeply enlightened.
Some folks need to enter into deeper spiritual awareness and expression.
Some folks need to be better informed and more deeply enlightened.
Some folks need to enter into deeper spiritual awareness and expression.
We need to know the truth. In knowing the truth, we will be set free from emotional and social and personal inhibitions and pride. Total worship is inward and outward. True worship glorifies God and edifies believers. True worship is both private and corporate. True worship is worshiping in joy, love, faith, hope praise, song, testimony.
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