Spiritual Knowledge and the Practical Experience
Good morning!
Do you realise that God is on your side! That He is not your enemy, but The Source of your Life and the Author of your salvation?
Do you know that He is not angry with your mistakes, but that in His Love, He made provision for every failure you may face?
Do you understand why He has covered you with His Grace? And that you would have never succeeded in your own attempt to live in perfection before Him on earth?
Do you understand that His Grace is more powerful than any failure or mistake you may face and that Grace laughs at the things you consider to have power to judge you and declare you as guilty before Him!
“His Grace is sufficient for me…” 2 Corinthians 12:9.
“There is therefore no more condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” Romans 8;1.
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Live in the New Man, that is after Christ, the Holy Spirit. Place your focus on the innerman and the outershell will no longer dictate the core of your being.
Don’t focus on the failure of the outershell.
Live in the growth of the New Man and you will grow into His perfection.
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The problem with religion is that it has no attraction. It needs tragedy to convince those who are shipwrecked that they experienced punishment for their sins.
True Spiritual men and women mend their wounds and restore them in Love.
We are called to perfume the world with God’s Goodness, not to leave a judgemental religious stink.
You were meant to distribute joy, peace and to sprinkle HAPPINESS in the world around you.
Father need more authentic Good Samaritans as Sons. Don’t be self-righteous, religious and judgemental It does not become the Character of Christ, the Holy Spirit.
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Love helps me understand that You choose to forget my wrongs.
“Love keeps no record of wrongs.” 1 Corinthians 13:1.
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To be united with God is to be at peace with God. This Jesus made possible by reconciling us with Father.
To be in harmony with God is a whole different matter. It is to be light, like a leave in the wind. To be moved as He moves. It means to be “rhythm-ed” with Him.
This harmony requires a surrendered love. It is to live in absolute awareness of Him – no work or effort required, just sensitivity to His guiding Love!
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Any situation, question or decision, left to God for guidance, will always work out for your good and wellbeing.
We can never go wrong when we allow Him to guide us.
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Learn not to push or to pull things in your life. Allow things to work together the way they were intended to.
Force is not beneficial. It is in allowing things to harmoniously flow together like a river, when we see the hand of God working out the destined paths of our lives.
Don’t clutch to anything. Rather live with an open hand.
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While some Scripture present the knowledge of Secret Treasures.
It is the Holy Spirit Who leads the way to the reality of them being experienced.
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The reason why you should not and cannot allow yourself to be boxed in by rules, by the standard of culture and society, by what pleases or displeases others, or by what is defined to acceptable or unacceptable, is because God knows what is best for YOU!
Do that and follow His directive and YOU will be Blessed.
Sometimes that means doing nothing and just allowing things that has already being worked out by Him on your behalf, to unfold in your life.
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When relationships go wrong there is always a root that has over time grown into a weed.
Don’t judge the other party by the weed that is visible. Go back in your relationship and find the seed that somewhere found the opportunity to find it’s roots.
Most problems we face are not the result of what we presently see as the problem, but as a result of what happened in the past.
Find what causes people to act as they do and begin in yourself and what you may have caused and not in them.
Root out the thing in your heart and you will find the weed-problem of the present being resolved in time.
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The only true value of any Spiritual knowledge is the practical experience being worked out in your life. To know it in the mind is to have the dynamite without the fuse.
It is only when revelation is learned through practical experience and understood that way (working in your life to literally lift you to a new place of living that is elevated in the wonder and freedom you experience), that it has any value.
That is why a journey with the Holy Spirit and a conversation with the Holy Spirit will always be more important than a journey in your bible and a conversation from your bible.
By the way, before confusion sets in, what those who wrote in the new testament bible speaks of when they mention the Word, is not the printed letter, but God Himself — the Breath — The Author — The Living Word, that has always been and Who always speaks.
Fellowship with God is not fellowship with your bible, but with His Spirit.
~ Johann van der Hoven
Johann van der Hoven has been in service of The LORD since 1991 and has hosted numerous mass revival meetings. The Holy Spirit is announcing a NEW SOUND from Heaven beginning in 2020 — The Sound of His Glory being poured out!
Glory be to God! Thank you for sharing such good wisdom to apply to grow ones knowledge for understanding. I appreciate you brother. Continued grace for advancement of the Kingdom of God. AMEN. Be Forever Blessed!
Thank you John for your beautiful word
I quote “That is why a journey with the Holy Spirit and a conversation with the Holy Spirit will always be more important than a journey in your bible and a conversation from your bible.”
I find this statement very problematic, because reading the Bible and listening to the Holy Spirit are not alternatives but need to go together. First, the Bible was written by the Holy Spirit – and for a purpose, since,
“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.” [2 Timothy 3:16]
Secondly, in this capacity, the Bible is essential as a means of testing that the spirit we may be listening to is indeed the Holy Spirit, since
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits,..” [1 John 4:1]
If we undermine the importance of the Bible, we effectively deny an important channel through which the Holy Spirit speaks to us, and we cannot presume that He will then tell us everything we need to know only through non-Biblical channels. To do so, would be to set ourselves up for deception, since the Bible is unique in revealing matters of doctrine which are inseparable from the faith by which we are saved – and by which we may remain saved.
Yes but negating walking by the spirit above everything else can not be done
I agree wholeheartedly with Mark Roberts. I have seen much damage being done by people who think that they no longer need the bible. I now give a body swerve to anyone saying such things. Paul said to the Bereans to read for themselves.
Yes, indeed, and the Bereans were even commended for this.