Breaking The Outer Man
This Christmas could not have been any better! God did so many things inside of our friends this past couple of weeks. My best friend Garmy came into the family two Sunday’s ago! And it is so cool to watch the journey that God already has for him. He has only been in the family for two weeks and he already shows tremendous growth. He even puts some of us to shame with the sincerity that flows from his heart. He knows nothing about the book but his heart already knows dad and he has already proclaimed that he wants to speak for God’s Kingdom to all of his friends and to everyone he meets!
The Christmas parties that we went to over the last week or so have changed our lives as well as our friend’s lives. It has made us so thankful for what he is doing as we watch our friends change and become hungry for Him right in front of our eyes. Let me just tell a little of the craziness that has happened over Christmas, over six people came into the family, one in our group, and four in the group from the west and one from the northern team. And to top it off this Sunday 20 people from our Sunday party got water baptized including two of our good friends!
Other than all of the excitement that has been happening I have been looking around, especially at my own life and I have been watching how God has been trying to break me of my outer man so that my Spirit can truly have freedom in Him. He has been dealing with me on all different kinds of issues in my life. And it has been crazy too because I just finally got the revelation from the Lord that he was doing these things in my life so that His plan, His purpose, and His best interest for me can come forth and flow freely from inside of me.
What he has been showing me through circumstances, experiences and through some inspirational books is that His plan and purpose for each and every single one of us is to break us of our outer man (our flesh) so that our inward man (our Spirit) can flow freely in our lives and have the greatest impact on our friends and also so that his work can be accomplished through his body. He has been showing me that the quicker that I submit to his process the more freedom that I can have in Him. Even after coming into the family, from that day forth until present day he has been showing me that everything has happened for a reason and for a purpose.
It even says in his word that every single hair on our head is numbered, revealing to us that he knows everything about us; therefore in every circumstance he tries to work these things out of us. I especially have come to the conclusion that I don’t want to delay His work in my life. The more I delay it or don’t come to submit to it, the longer the process will take and the more I hinder his work! For example my friend Garmy has just recently come into the family and he so easily access his inward man. This is all he knows how to do is to express what his Spirit, that was once tied down, but now has been broken free, wants to freely do in him. Now since his Spirit has been intertwined with God’s, he now understands what freedom he can have in his Spirit. I find this a common thing, so often a new believer so easily expresses their emotions of what God did in their life. But once time starts to set in so often we just attain knowledge that doesn’t benefit us. God’s purpose for us isn’t to speak to people we know with our thoughts or with our minds, but dad craves that we access the spirit in our lives, it so greatly wants to break free, and the only way that it can flow freely is if we allow dad to break our outward man and let him come forth freely and without limit in our lives.