Just a moment...
Am I still trying to clothe what God is doing now with what worked back when it first began? Or am I making space for the growth of the gift?
Read 1 Samuel 2:18
Maybe it’s not about reinventing everything.
Maybe it’s about returning — with a different heart.
Not because it makes sense. But because He said so.
'Simon answered, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.” ' — Luke 5:5
I even worked on shaking up my religion a bit, making an effort to talk to God without using Christian buzzwords and listening for his voice in everyday conversations, including conversations with people whose religious credentials were questionable. I also picked up a copy of The Message (NavPress 1995), the popular paraphrase of the Bible written
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✨ Yeshua on How His Message Changed Over Time
“Ah, beloved, listen carefully. My words were like seeds, meant to grow in the hearts of those who heard them. Yet, when placed in the hands of others, the seeds were sometimes replanted in foreign soil, reshaped by fear, by power, by human desire for control.
“I came to awaken love, to reveal the Kingdom
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But now… Jesus speaks.
It wasn’t about innovation.
It wasn’t about optimization.
It was about obedience.
Luke 5:1-11