Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – fear of sin can kill the grace that overcomes sin. If we make the presence of God dependant upon my meeting of any form of performance criteria, then we have closed the door on the only way that presence of sin is ever overcome. It’s only in His presence that I  am enabled  for the life He invites me into.

1 Corinthians 10:23-24 TPT
[23] You say, “Under grace there are no rules and we’re free to do anything we please.” Not exactly. Because not everything promotes growth in others. Your slogan, “We’re allowed to do anything we choose,” may be true-but not everything causes the spiritual advancement of others. [24] So don’t always seek what is best for you at the expense of another.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – generosity is a heart issue and flows in joy. Whilst generosity never seeks to get, in the economy of the Kingdom it is the soil that realises the harvest of the extravagance of heaven. God desires to be so deeply extravagant towards us but He can’t, He doesn’t get His way, the nature of His being, love, mediates the release of His desire. God is never postured in any other way than to pour His extravagance upon us, the question is are we postured to say “yes” to His outpouring?

2 Corinthians 9:6-8 TPT
[6] Here’s my point. A stingy sower will reap a meager harvest, but the one who sows from a generous spirit will reap an abundant harvest. [7] Let giving flow from your heart, not from a sense of religious duty. Let it spring up freely from the joy of giving-all because God loves hilarious generosity! [8] Yes, God is more than ready to overwhelm you with every form of grace, so that you will have more than enough of everything-every moment and in every way. He will make you overflow with abundance in every good thing you do.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – right, law, demands defending and enforcing, and it demands it from a posture of high importance. Defending it feels heroic and we are drawn to heroism. We bow our knee to its demand and grieve our God. Nothing trumps love, no law, no right, no matter how high you hold them, they never trump the law of love. We have allowed this grieving to happen to often, we must bend our knee to love for love loves above all else, and we serve love Himself. Be hero’s of love.

Mark 3:2-5 TPT
[2] Everyone was watching Jesus closely to see if he would heal the man on the Sabbath, giving them a reason to accuse him of breaking Sabbath rules. [3] Jesus said to the man with the paralyzed hand, “Stand here in the middle of the room.” [4] Then he turned to all those gathered there and said, “Which is it? Is it against the law to do evil on the Sabbath or to do good? To destroy a life or to save one?” But no one answered him a word. [5] Then looking around at everyone, Jesus was moved with indignation and grieved by the hardness of their hearts and said to the man, “Now stretch out your hand!” As he stretched out his hand, it was instantly healed!

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – the foolishness and the high cost of defending my version of right when I have incomplete knowledge. It’s foolishness to make the claim and it is a travesty when I am aware of the cost.

1 Corinthians 13:9,12 TPT
[9] Our present knowledge and our prophecies are but partial, [12] For now we see but a faint reflection of riddles and mysteries as though reflected in a mirror, but one day we will see face-to-face. My understanding is incomplete now, but one day I will understand everything, just as everything about me has been fully understood.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – we all spend this gift we call life, how do I spend mine? The life we live in the now reaches into the shape of life in eternity. Self focused me wants to please Him to benefit me, an investment in future rewards. But this is me pleasing me. Pleasing Him only ever flows from my experience of His love and beauty, its motivation is found solely in overflow from my intimacy with Him, and then it overflows as it reaches into eternity.

2 Corinthians 5:9-10 TPT
[9] So whether we live or die we make it our life’s passion to live our lives pleasing to him. [10] For one day we will all be openly revealed before Christ on his throne so that each of us will be duly recompensed for our actions done in life, whether good or worthless.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – everything about the Kingdom of God is other focused. Blessing flows, love flows, our experiences flow, from self to others. This is the design of the Kingdom. For me, for others.

2 Corinthians 1:4,6 TPT
[4] He always comes alongside us to comfort us in every suffering so that we can come alongside those who are in any painful trial. We can bring them this same comfort that God has poured out upon us. [6] If troubles weigh us down, that just means that we will receive even more comfort to pass on to you for your deliverance! For the comfort pouring into us empowers us to bring comfort to you. And with this comfort upholding you, you can endure victoriously the same suffering that we experience.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – we don’t want truth we just want our truth. What does it cost? I’ll pay! There is something deeply wrong with us in the way we handle our versions of truth. It’s not setting us free, it’s imprisoning us in turmoil.

Matthew 28:2-4,11-13 TPT
[2-4] Suddenly, the earth shook violently beneath their feet as the angel of the Lord Jehovah descended from heaven. Lightning flashed around him and his robe was dazzling white! The guards were stunned and terrified-lying motionless like dead men. Then the angel walked up to the tomb, rolled away the stone, and sat on top of it! [11] After the women left the tomb, a few of the guards went into Jerusalem and told the chief priests everything they had seen and heard. [12] So the chief priests called a meeting with all the religious leaders and came up with a plan. They bribed the guards with a large sum of money [13] and told them, “Tell everyone, ‘While we were asleep, his disciples came at night and stole his body!’

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – the creator God is intimate and present to me.

Matthew 14:14 TPT
[14] So when Jesus landed he had a huge crowd waiting for him. Seeing so many people, his heart was deeply moved with compassion toward them, so he healed all the sick who were in the crowd.

This is the revelation that is shaping my life today – servanthood is the posture for sharing the God of love. Servanthood is me allowing myself to be reshaped into the life of the one I am serving. It’s not fixing, it’s walking alongside in their shoes. Love serves, and serving love reflects and reveals the God of love. People experience his love before they ask His name.

1 Corinthians 9:19-20 TPT
[19] Now, even though I am free from obligations to others, I joyfully make myself a servant to all in order to win as many converts as possible. [20] I became Jewish to the Jewish people in order to win them to the Messiah. I became like one under the law to gain the people who were stuck under the law, even though I myself am not under the law.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today- the body of Christ is so broken and disfigured, it’s no wonder God’s beauty remains unseen through us. The way to healing is so clear, so possible, so available, yet we refuse healing, we would rather limp blindly stumbling foolishly and ineffectually on, rather than stand tall and display God’s intended beauty. If sinfulness is refusing to live in His intended ways, then we are so deeply committed to our sin. It should break our hearts deeply in a way that makes it impossible for us to perpetuate this inherited sinfulness.

1 Corinthians 12:24-27 TPT
[24] But some of our body parts don’t require as much attention. Instead, God has mingled the body parts together, giving greater honor to the “lesser” members who lacked it. [25] He has done this intentionally so that every member would look after the others with mutual concern, and so that there will be no division in the body. [26] In that way, whatever happens to one member happens to all. If one suffers, everyone suffers. If one is honored, everyone rejoices. [27] You are the body of the Anointed One, and each of you is a unique and vital part of it.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – we miss so much when we are fixed in our version of truth and unable to posture ourselves for discovery. So much of God is mystery and you will never engage in mystery from a defensive fixed position. Mystery is discovered through childlike openness to discovery and a teachable spirit.

Matthew 17:22-23 TPT
[22] When they all gathered together in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed and turned over to his enemies. [23] They will kill him and in three days he will be resurrected.” When the disciples heard these words they were devastated.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – is God known by listening to others articulate with wisdom what they have read, or discovered, or is God known only through Spirit revelation? If wisdom comes by Spirit illumination do we invite and encourage, make space and prioritise this, in our leading of others? Or do we just keep on speaking?

1 Corinthians 2:4-5,14 TPT
[4] The message I preached and how I preached it was not an attempt to sway you with persuasive arguments but to prove to you the almighty power of God’s Holy Spirit. [5] For God intended that your faith not be established on man’s wisdom but by trusting in his almighty power. [14] Someone living on an entirely human level rejects the revelations of God’s Spirit, for they make no sense to him. He can’t understand the revelations of the Spirit because they are only discovered by the illumination of the Spirit.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – I am not guaranteed a free pass from trouble and sorrow, this is not the promise of scripture, in actual fact I am promised that I will walk through sorrow and trouble. The question is how do I walk? Where do I turn, what is my coping, or my triumphing mechanism, when these times inevitably come to share my journey? Where is my peace and rest in these storms, where is my hope and overcoming?

John 16:33 TPT
[33] And everything I’ve taught you is so that the peace which is in me will be in you and will give you great confidence as you rest in me. For in this unbelieving world you will experience trouble and sorrows, but you must be courageous, for I have conquered the world!”

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – no resurrection life then really there is no life. You can’t truely live as we were created in the flesh of your today without the hope of your spiritual immortal resurrection. If this is all there is then we will live selfishly, trying to satisfy the depth of our passions. But our passions are not fully met in this flesh existence, we have longings in us for more than we will ever realise in this here life, we were made with eternity hope in our hearts, for after life.

1 Corinthians 15:6, 14-15,19,32, 43-44
[6] He (Jesus) also appeared (after his death on the cross) to more than five hundred of his followers at the same time, most of whom are still alive as I write this, though a few have passed away.

[14] And if Christ has not been raised, all of our preaching has been for nothing and your faith is useless. [15] Moreover, if the dead are not raised, that would mean that we are false witnesses who are misrepresenting God. And that would mean that we have preached a lie, stating that God raised him from the dead, if in reality he didn’t. [19] If the only benefit of our hope in Christ is limited to this life on earth, we deserve to be pitied more than all others!

[32]….If the dead do not rise, then Let’s party all night, for tomorrow we die!

43] The body is “sown” in decay, but will be raised in immortality. It is “sown” in humiliation, but will be raised in glorification. [44] It is “sown” in weakness but will be raised in power. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.