John went back to college. He wanted to run from the embarrassment of his actions at ISU. John chose the University of Northern Iowa for his new beginning. However, John's delusions went with him.
John began to doubt My work in his life and by the middle of the first semester he was back into the bars and heavy drinking. His understanding of religion was one of trying to bring all religions together in an eclectic way. I was not willing to give up on John because there was still a light of mine in his conscience.
My instrument of grace was a young man in John's religions of the world class. This young man would not allow the Professor to distort true Christianity. John's inner spirit was beginning to spark with interest around this young man. They talked together in the lobby of one of their class building. This new friend was someone John had waited for, a true committed Biblical believer. It was by my grace that I brought them together. John enjoyed listening to his new friend talk about his relationship with Me. John's delusions were still very intense, but this friend provided an answer. This answer truly began to meet John's needs. The light that John needed was developed through the reading of a book called "Handbook to Happiness" his new friend gave to him. The teaching John needed and grew to long for was the teaching of the Crucified Life. Its other major teaching was the Exchanged Life. My teaching in the Bible was not about self-esteem, but for the selfish old nature to be crucified, so that I could give a person a more abundant Life.
The key verse was:
John began to doubt My work in his life and by the middle of the first semester he was back into the bars and heavy drinking. His understanding of religion was one of trying to bring all religions together in an eclectic way. I was not willing to give up on John because there was still a light of mine in his conscience.
My instrument of grace was a young man in John's religions of the world class. This young man would not allow the Professor to distort true Christianity. John's inner spirit was beginning to spark with interest around this young man. They talked together in the lobby of one of their class building. This new friend was someone John had waited for, a true committed Biblical believer. It was by my grace that I brought them together. John enjoyed listening to his new friend talk about his relationship with Me. John's delusions were still very intense, but this friend provided an answer. This answer truly began to meet John's needs. The light that John needed was developed through the reading of a book called "Handbook to Happiness" his new friend gave to him. The teaching John needed and grew to long for was the teaching of the Crucified Life. Its other major teaching was the Exchanged Life. My teaching in the Bible was not about self-esteem, but for the selfish old nature to be crucified, so that I could give a person a more abundant Life.
The key verse was:
Galatians 2:20
”I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live, yet not I but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
”I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live, yet not I but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
John longed to understand to this truth. To this day this teaching impacts all areas of his life. I gave John a key to live his life by. As John embraced this, he began to look at MY Word as having answers. At this time, some of the false teachings were also bearing fruit.
John entered a time of little sleep. He was brought into another humbling situation. Decisions he made were regretted. I had to apply specific forgiveness for these situations. The outworking of John's sins created another time that John was humbled. He would find himself again, unable to throw stones at anyone.
John ended up in the hospital. His mind was in a heightened state with delusions. John needed medical treatment that caused John's brain to create a chemical balance to stop this high. It was a feared that without this treatment John would remain in this delusional high.
After the treatment, John returned to a less heightened state. John's doctor offered a brand new medicine to help. Improvement of medicine through the years would be a blessed gift to John and others like him. John continued to still learn that he needed to be accountable to God for his actions.
John entered a time of little sleep. He was brought into another humbling situation. Decisions he made were regretted. I had to apply specific forgiveness for these situations. The outworking of John's sins created another time that John was humbled. He would find himself again, unable to throw stones at anyone.
John ended up in the hospital. His mind was in a heightened state with delusions. John needed medical treatment that caused John's brain to create a chemical balance to stop this high. It was a feared that without this treatment John would remain in this delusional high.
After the treatment, John returned to a less heightened state. John's doctor offered a brand new medicine to help. Improvement of medicine through the years would be a blessed gift to John and others like him. John continued to still learn that he needed to be accountable to God for his actions.
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