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Obstacles Make Dreams Bigger… By Graham Cooke
We are governed by the passion of God for us. We are His Beloved, learning to be fully loved by Him. His passion gives us identity. We are warriors, overcomers and more than conquerors. The nature of God within our inner man of the spirit causes us to rise up and occupy a place of anointing, power and wisdom.
In Christ learning to become like him
We are in Christ learning to become like him, and as we pursue the Lord, our vision begins to unfold and we set out on our journey. On this road we shall meet blessings, gifting, opportunities, presence, anointing, power and authority to name but a few! However, we will also have tribulation, opposition, warfare, persecution and various kinds of obstacles. Believe it or not, all of these things are good for us. Every one of these situations is designed to enable us to grow up in all things in Jesus. Each one is important and must become the subject of a dialogue with the Father. It’s in our loving, prayerful conversations with God that we learn wisdom. In our relationship with God we discover how He perceives, thinks and likes to do things. The language He uses towards us is the baseline for our own speaking. At some point along the road, we will hit an obstacle. An obstacle is designed to slow us down and make us think.
Left to our own devices, we will simply keep going in the same direction. A barrier is really causing us to pause and take stock. And there are questions that need to be asked of the Holy Spirit. Namely…What is this barrier for? It has a job to do for us and—quite possibly—things to be released to us. We must make sure that we receive what the Father wants us to appropriate. James 1:2-4…Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I’m sick or in good health, whether I’m in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am.
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