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.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – when you use the wrong tool for the job you make a mess. The law is not a tool to be used to be made right.

Romans 3:20 NIV
[20] Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – the motives of my doing are more important in the Kingdom of God than my doing.

Matthew 6:1-4 TPT
[1] “Examine your motives to make sure you’re not showing off when you do your good deeds, only to be admired by others; otherwise, you will lose the reward of your heavenly Father. [2] So when you give to the poor, don’t announce it and make a show of it just to be seen by people, like the hypocrites in the streets and in the marketplace. They’ve already received their reward! [3] But when you demonstrate generosity, do it with pure motives and without drawing attention to yourself. [4] Give secretly and your Father, who sees all you do, will reward you openly.”

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – what do we do with the guilty, stone or restore? Is punishment restorative? What is God like with the guilty?

John 8:4-5,7 TPT
[4] Then they said to Jesus, “Teacher, we caught this woman in the very act of adultery. [5] Doesn’t Moses’ law command us to stone to death a woman like this? Tell us, what do you say we should do with her?” [7] Angry, they kept insisting that he answer their question, so Jesus stood up and looked at them and said, “Let’s have the man who has never had a sinful desire throw the first stone at her.”

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – what do I do with Gods kindness towards me? Do I know it? Do I use it and abuse it? Or does it lead me into full life?

Romans 2:4  TPT
[4] Do the riches of his extraordinary kindness make you take him for granted and despise him? Haven’t you experienced how kind and understanding he has been to you? Don’t mistake his tolerance for acceptance. Do you realize that all the wealth of his extravagant kindness is meant to melt your heart and lead you into repentance?