I have found myself recently in the middle of deliverance ministry. I can see more clearly the need for setting captives free mentioned in Isaiah 61. We often go for healing when healing is not entirely the issue. There is a need for deliverance somewhere. Never in my wildest dreams did I see this coming. My past theologies didn’t even allow for it yet almost daily are needs presented to me that are matters of deliverance. I’m so grateful for expansions of the heart and moments of growth.

Seasons come where you are thrown quickly into a new work with Christ and you are rendered once again much like a new student in a new class for a new realm. It can be challenging but exhilarating.

The most important lesson I’ve learned thus far is that one cannot seek gifts and practical knowing’s to help others by bypassing the significance of personal relationship with Christ.

Let me explain a little.

I need His help and teaching to deliver people, but my first desire must be to simply learn more about Him and grow my own relationship with Him. The former will naturally happen as a byproduct of our deeper relationship. Seek first the Kingdom…

We must stop seeking experience for experience’s sake. You can’t have the supernatural without cultivating the relationship with Jesus through daily pressing into the Word of God, prayer, and a constant positioned place as a student. You can stay in shallow waters friends, but the wonders are said in scripture to be in the deep.

Many want shortcuts. I tell you lovingly: There are none.

Draw near to Him, and He will draw near to you. A surrendered life to Christ will never lack but one who is not surrendered fully will always be left wanting.

You can have as much of Christ as you desire. But you’ll only get as much as you seek. If you’re content where you are in Him then it could be where you stay.

For me, I want more…