Hey guys! Lot’s to talk about again, but this time in short three subjects (transition, rest and memories) that I hope will bless you! Enjoy!

T R A N S I T I O N

At the moment I feel like so many things in my life are changing that I find it hard to keep up with. Transition is definitely the word that describes what I’m going through at the moment. Things are going so fast and so many things are changing both inwardly and outwardly.

It’s been quite hard and stressful sometimes realising I can’t hold on to many things I now need to let go. Things that have been holding me back and things that are not part of this new place God is bringing me into. Letting go is sometimes really easy and other times quite hard, but often the best choice. Letting go of everything that can be shaken to hold on to the one who is unshakeable, Christ, the rock. He is unshakeable and so are we to be, because as He is so are you.

I become unshakeable when I let go of everything that can be shaken and hold on to the one who is unshakeable, Christ our rock and foundation.

I’ve been learning so much about myself last couple of months. In my previous posts I shared about how I started practising the prayer of silence and also how I’ve been experiencing more renewal in my mind. I’ve been learning so much about silence, rest, thoughts, pictures and memories. It’s incredible how many great keys are there to help us move beyond our old man that was crucified and embrace our new nature.

R E S T

First of all, let’s talk about the prayer of silence. What have I learned by practising the prayer of silence?

Hebrews 4:11
Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.

Last year I had an encounter with God that left me speechless, literally. The presence of God was so thick that I felt unable to talk. The only thing that mattered to me in that moment was just “being”, resting in Him. I became aware of the need of my soul to enter into rest from all the striving. Then I found and bought this book called “Experiencing the depths of Jesus Christ” written by Madam Guyon. An excellent book describing how we can practice the prayer of silence. Learning to let go of things externally and internally to enter into rest. Be still and know that He is God. So reading that book and practising the prayer of silence turning inwardly to Christ in me yielding my heart to Him it unlocked an incredible new dimension of intimacy with Him and I discovered I received my self-control back. I used to struggle with certain desires to sin that easily controlled me and I found hard to overcome, but when I learned to enter into rest they all lost their power over me. Rest is a weapon to overcome fleshly desires. You see when I enter into rest I quiet my soul, so that it no longer controls my spirit. My mind, thoughts, emotions and feelings no longer have control over me since they are now in a place of rest and stillness. This gives my spirit the freedom rise up and start governing my soul in order to bring change and renewal.

Learning to rest does not transform my life of course, but it does move me away from the power of sin and my soul being constantly in charge. I am a spiritbeing that has a soul and lives in a physical body.

M E M O R I E S

Transformation is being experienced by renewing the mind and that’s where things become really excited!

We create our world and it starts in our heart. Out of the heart flow the issues of life. God made you this way that through your heart your own world is framed. It happens through our imagination, thoughts and feeling. The imagination, thoughts and feelings are all what could be described as part of your heart. As we renew our mind, changing the way we think we will see our world shift according to the new thought pattern that is in our mind. There is a lot to this and very key in understanding the process of renewing our mind.
I’ve especially began to discover the power of pictures and memories. Memories exists of pictures. A picture can describe more than thousand words. From those pictures can flow different streams of thoughts and feelings. So out of the memories flow pictures and feelings. And pictures and feelings bring different streams of thoughts. I like to see a picture as a window and the more I think about it, the more alive and the bigger it becomes which means greater flows of thoughts either positive or negative.
Now if we want to be transformed by changing the way we think, then something needs to happen in our memories, feelings and pictures.

What I absolutely love about this is that God gave us the Spirit of Truth to help us renew our mind. The Holy Spirit will help us shine light on different lies we believe through past experiences that have become memories. And as the Spirit of Truth He will replace those lies with truth that also forms our identity. For example, someone likes to bully you and calls you stupid even though you have really high grades at school. It now has become a bad memory. Then in the evening you lay in bed and think about what happened and you actually strengthen the memory to take deeper root in your brain. And because our brain does not know the difference between fact and fiction it actually things it happens again. So while you think about the experience your brain now thinks that many MANY times that kid has called you stupid and because you actually hear it that often in your heart you actually unconsciously start to believe that you are stupid though you have a really high IQ. And so the thoughts and imagination begin to frame the life of a stupid person imagining what it looks like, the way you think, feel and act. And so every time when someone asks you about going to university you think you are not good enough, because you are stupid, but then Holy Spirit wants to help you shine light on why you think you are not good enough and it’s because this stupid kid has called you stupid. It had framed your life and formed your identity. So we renounce the lie in the name of Jesus and ask Holy Spirit what is the Truth. And then for example He says I have made you wiser beyond your years.

So that’s an example of how things can work. So when your past is pulling you back you can now bring Jesus with you into your past! You get to time travel in the past with Holy Spirit and release His presence and truth into your bad memories and they lose power of you. One time I had a bad memory that came to the surface so I prayed and asked Jesus come into my memory and fill it with His presence. And the moment I asked Jesus to come I immediately had a demonic spirit leave as it had lost its power over me. It was that certain memory that was being used as home for this demon to live in. Now it could not live there anymore, because there is no darkness in the presence of light.

Anyways, another update from my journey with God. I’ve learned so much more lately, but this again is just a bit of all the things I’ve learning and discovering.

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Blessings!