Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – we get God so wrong and we miss His mercy when we need it most. Whenever we think He embraces goodness and we try and be good, we miss His sacrifice that made us right to receive His mercy. In our self sacrificing attempts to make ourselves good we miss His goodness.

Matthew 9:12-13  NIV
[12] Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. [13] But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – you don’t know God the way you know many other things. God is love and love is not known intellectually, it’s known as mystery through the face to face of intimacy. We try and know things about God without knowing Him, knowing His love. No wonder most of what we believe we know is wrong. If our knowing is not shaped by face to face presence with Him, then we risk wrong believing. You don’t wrestle beliefs from intellectual study of words, you become alive to beliefs from the beauty of His smile. It is here alone where spiritual awakening takes place as He cascades his light into me.

2 Corinthians 4:6  TPT
[6] For God, who said, “Let brilliant light shine out of darkness,” is the one who has cascaded his light into us-the brilliant dawning light of the glorious knowledge of God as we gaze into the face of Jesus Christ.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – death holds more than life can ever offer. “Dying means gain,” this is the greatest way to live. When death losses its sting of finality, when death losses its sting of loss, when death is embraced for its beauty, life can be embraced in its fullness. I can now live in the way that life was designed to be lived, to bring Heaven to earth for others. It’s only when I know Him in all His beauty that death becomes victory and life becomes focused. When more of Him becomes the fullness of my passion, then life makes sense and has clarity, it’s all Him.

Philippians 1:21-24 TPT
[21] My true life is the Anointed One, and dying means gaining more of him. [22-24] So here’s my dilemma: Each day I live means bearing more fruit in my ministry; yet I fervently long to be liberated from this body and joined fully to Christ. That would suit me fine, but the greatest advantage to you would be that I remain alive. So you can see why I’m torn between the two-I don’t know which I prefer.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – the more I increase in love the wiser I become and I have a greater ability for insight and decision making. We think knowledge leads to wisdom, but the God who is love says “love leads to wisdom.” The lens through which we were created to navigate life is the lens of love. So the more I am being loved, the more I experience loves embrace, the more wisdom I have to navigate life. It my not be wisdom that has me always win, it may not be wisdom that has me always get, it may not be the wisdom that has me climb, but it’s the wisdom that brings Heaven to earth.

Philippians 1:9 TPT
[9] I continue to pray for your love to grow and increase beyond measure, bringing you into the rich revelation of spiritual insight in all things.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – it seems like in the world today everyone is looking for rest. We think a holiday will meet our need, but we are always upon return needing to holiday again. It’s our souls that need rest. What we are seeking is not found in a great hotel (although I like great hotels), what we are seeking is rest in our hearts, where we find our belonging, significance and security.

Matthew 11:28-30  NIV
[28] “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. [29] Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. [30] For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – the enablement for relationship with God is God given. He is not moved to relational integrity by me, He forever stands firm, and my firm standing is not founded on my heroic love behaviours, but in Him and all He gives me.

2 Corinthians 1:21-22 NIV
[21] Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, [22] set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today. So many people live from a story of separated from God, usually seen through the lens of unworthiness. But the reality is that no one is separated from God, he made it that way before he created anything. So for all time you have always and already been perfectly right with God, loved by Him, called son and daughter by Him. Love’s not waiting for you to sort yourself out, love went first and just sorted it all out. All that is left to allow love to love you. Start saying yes to love and Her deep desire to embrace and hold you. Love already loves you, just be loved. There is no separation to overcome, love already has overcome.

Ephesians 1:4-6 TPT
[4] And he chose us to be his very own, joining us to himself even before he laid the foundation of the universe! Because of his great love, he ordained us, so that we would be seen as holy in his eyes with an unstained innocence. [5-6] For it was always in his perfect plan to adopt us as his delightful children, through our union with Jesus, the Anointed One, so that his tremendous love that cascades over us would glorify his grace-for the same love he has for his Beloved One, Jesus, he has for us. And this unfolding plan brings him great pleasure!

Here is the revelation shaping my life today – religious observances can replace the journey of becoming. We sell discipleship so short when we make it about doing and not becoming. We can serve the means with great committed attention but miss entirely the end that Jesus has designed for us – being like Him, the fullest expression of the truest form of me.

2 Corinthians 3:18 NIV
[18] And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – the enablement for relationship with God is God given. He is not moved to relational integrity by me, He forever stands firm, and my firm standing is not founded on my heroic love behaviours, but in Him and all He gives me.

2 Corinthians 1:21-22 NIV
[21] Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, [22] set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – you don’t purchase the Kingdom, you find it and then you sell everything because you have been embraced by the kingdoms beauty.

Matthew 13:45-46 NIV
[45] “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. [46] When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – when our salvation story starts with separation from God because of my sin, then it is easy to believe that my sin can ultimately separate me from God into eternity, but this is not the story. Sin has been punished, once and for all, it has no voice. So what does my life lived here mean in terms of consequences in the future eternity of then? It’s not entry it’s rewards.

2 Corinthians 5:10 TPT
[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 – fear seeks to feed us when storms are present. You can’t stop the storms but you can choose what you feed on – fear or faith.

Matthew 8:23-26 TPT
[23] They all got into a boat and began to cross over to the other side of the lake. And Jesus, exhausted, fell asleep. [24] Suddenly a violent storm developed, with waves so high the boat was about to be swamped. Yet Jesus continued to sleep soundly. [25] The disciples woke him up, saying, “Save us, Lord! We’re going to die!” [26] But Jesus reprimanded them. “Why are you gripped with fear? Where is your faith?” Then he stood up and rebuked the storm and said, “Be still!” And instantly it became perfectly calm.

Here is the revelation that is that shaping my life today – have I lost sight of the truest sense of myself? Becoming me is not an exercise in obedience it’s the journey of being continually surprised by love. When I’m loved then the way I see you changes.

Matthew 7:12  TPT
[12] “In everything you do, be careful to treat others in the same way you’d want them to treat you, for that is the essence of all the teachings of the Law and the Prophets.”

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – the seduction to worship is all around us. My brokenness looks for healing in false promises so often, and bends my knee to their promises. When God offers to bring me into fullness of life and healing.

Matthew 4:8-10 TPT
[8] And the third time the accuser lifted Jesus up into a very high mountain range and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and all the splendor that goes with it. [9] “All of these kingdoms I will give to you,” the accuser said, “if only you will kneel down before me and worship me.” [10] But Jesus said, “Go away, enemy! For the Scriptures say: Kneel before the Lord your God and worship only him.”