This week I have had a personal revolution. It has been wonderful! It started out, simply enough, by me sending an email of encouragement to a pal of mine in the states who is a pastor, speaker and writer.

He emailed back and asked how I was. I greatly surprised myself by being 100% honest! ( As in, the kind of honest that says things you weren’t really aware of yourself! I pressed “send” and then thought… Yikes! That was a bit unlike me! I NEVER do that! That is so out of character.)

Anyway, the guy sent back a page from his church website with some amazing teaching about freedom. The main premise I picked up was this:
Freedom is not the absence of something (a bad habit or thought pattern) but the presence of Someone – i.e. Jesus.

Read that bit again, because its really, really explodingly amazing!

How many times have you thought that you would be free of your depression, or your porn habit or your eating disorder when you weren’t exhibiting those behaviours any more?
If you are me, the answer is EVERY TIME.

He also went on to talk about levels of change and how and why people don’t always change easily and permanently.

For someone who has experienced a great deal of healing and freedom ministry, I was slightly more than amazed that the WHOLE of the way he presented his material was new to me. I mean totally new. Now I have read this guy’s book and dipped into a few of his blogs but for some reason, I had a veiled heart to this nugget of joy.

But now! Boy oh boy! I am lapping it up;) I have literally fed this teaching to everyone in my world who has had time to chat this week. The girls I mentor have all had it… the Grow Group we lead got it…mums in the playground… anyone who will listen is getting a big dose of this truth!

It is hard to do it justice in one blog. It really needs about 20 to even scratch the surface! Seriously. But here is the MAIN thing God has begun to show me:
I have realised that the head is NOT the source of the bad habits and negative thought patterns we sometimes battle with.

That was a pure revelation to me. I have always believed that the mind is the battleground of the enemy and the flesh. It IS something the enemy uses but its not the MAIN thing. It is actually our hearts and our beliefs that underpin those thoughts! That is where things are lost or won.

So ALL these years I have been struggling with certain mindsets about myself, my future, my calling etc etc… I thought I just needed to change MY MIND!!! But I am starting to realise that this is not true. It is found in my heart first. It is my beliefs, not my behaviours that I need to work on.

Thank you Jesus for this new revelation and thank you Bob for helping me discover this.

If you would like to find out more about these foundational truths for yourself, please go to:
http://gatewaypeople.com/ministries/freedom-kairos/media1

USEFUL TIPS:
Don’t be tempted to skip the foundational stuff and click on a talk that might sound relevant to you. If you miss the foundational stuff, the other stuff just won’t help you as fully.

These video talks are long, interesting and thorough. You will benefit from setting aside at least an hour and a half with a pen and paper next to you. If you stop the video for some reason and close the window be aware you have to start again at the beginning. You can’t just parachute in where you left off. This may be a blessing because you might just have to hear it all again:-)