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dan1el
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Can someone help me find a Spiritual Director in Ft. Worth, TX ??
I want to give my testimony in case someone knows someone who is without peace, as I was, as a “lone ranger” Christian.
I personally am still a babe in Christ, I can admit; but I am learning now to seek advice and counsel from others who are older than me in the Lord instead of not listening to anyone (after years and years of torment, finally, the idea has become appealing to me lol).
I didn’t want to listen to anyone because I didn’t trust anyone (lots of things had happened to me in my life to make me not want to trust anyone about anything - much less the eternal salvation or destruction of my soul). However, to the glory of God, for His glory and to the praise of God’s grace (at work in me both to will and to do), God opened my eyes to the fact that I NEEDED a spiritual director/father in the Lord Jesus: Jesus COMMANDED His disciples to go and make disciples (not converts only), so I understand now that I must be discipled by one of the disciples that Jesus’ disciples discipled.
Thank God for the Holy Spirit, but if reception of the Holy Spirit (the Teacher) was enough in and of itself, Jesus would never have said speaking by the selfsame Spirit “…make disciples of all nations…”. He didn’t tell the Holy Spirit “go make disciples”; He told human beings.
This is where the deceiver can come in and begin to mess with your mind and take your peace away if you don’t know the truth (and no baby in the Lord knows 100% of the truth) - he will PUSH you to do things “you better be spiritually sensitive or you don’t love God - why do you have to let someone else tell you what to do ?”
On the contrary, the true way is that… “If there are two, one man can pick the other up if he falls, but woe unto a man if he falls alone.” + “…make friends… so that when you fall, they will allow you into their eternal homes.”
Spiritual directors/fathers in the spirit, are a sort of “friend” who allows you into their eternal home, guiding you in the way of the spirit - not the error of emotions, which I had gotten entangled in, thinking it was always God talking to me *, meanwhile God was NOT saying the things I thought “God” was saying to me, but it was rather the devil. However, me, being only a baby in the Lord, put so much pressure on myself to perform and “be” and “become” and “do” that I was 1000% lost - until in my heart I put my trust in the Catholic church because I recognize that they are devoted to submitting to the love of God in Jesus Christ. Now, a grace grace has come upon my life, and it is working more of the TRUTH of God into my life daily, and I am convinced that I would LOVE to have a spiritual director.
I was baptized into the Catholic church as a baby, but how do I now “rejoin” and get a spiritual director - I want to be submitted to God’s concepts; not my own.
I wondered why things were so hard for me - and this was why. I turn my back on my egolomania, my lack of peace, my frustration with myself, and I turn to God’s order.*
I want to give my testimony in case someone knows someone who is without peace, as I was, as a “lone ranger” Christian.
I personally am still a babe in Christ, I can admit; but I am learning now to seek advice and counsel from others who are older than me in the Lord instead of not listening to anyone (after years and years of torment, finally, the idea has become appealing to me lol).
I didn’t want to listen to anyone because I didn’t trust anyone (lots of things had happened to me in my life to make me not want to trust anyone about anything - much less the eternal salvation or destruction of my soul). However, to the glory of God, for His glory and to the praise of God’s grace (at work in me both to will and to do), God opened my eyes to the fact that I NEEDED a spiritual director/father in the Lord Jesus: Jesus COMMANDED His disciples to go and make disciples (not converts only), so I understand now that I must be discipled by one of the disciples that Jesus’ disciples discipled.
Thank God for the Holy Spirit, but if reception of the Holy Spirit (the Teacher) was enough in and of itself, Jesus would never have said speaking by the selfsame Spirit “…make disciples of all nations…”. He didn’t tell the Holy Spirit “go make disciples”; He told human beings.
This is where the deceiver can come in and begin to mess with your mind and take your peace away if you don’t know the truth (and no baby in the Lord knows 100% of the truth) - he will PUSH you to do things “you better be spiritually sensitive or you don’t love God - why do you have to let someone else tell you what to do ?”
On the contrary, the true way is that… “If there are two, one man can pick the other up if he falls, but woe unto a man if he falls alone.” + “…make friends… so that when you fall, they will allow you into their eternal homes.”
Spiritual directors/fathers in the spirit, are a sort of “friend” who allows you into their eternal home, guiding you in the way of the spirit - not the error of emotions, which I had gotten entangled in, thinking it was always God talking to me *, meanwhile God was NOT saying the things I thought “God” was saying to me, but it was rather the devil. However, me, being only a baby in the Lord, put so much pressure on myself to perform and “be” and “become” and “do” that I was 1000% lost - until in my heart I put my trust in the Catholic church because I recognize that they are devoted to submitting to the love of God in Jesus Christ. Now, a grace grace has come upon my life, and it is working more of the TRUTH of God into my life daily, and I am convinced that I would LOVE to have a spiritual director.
I was baptized into the Catholic church as a baby, but how do I now “rejoin” and get a spiritual director - I want to be submitted to God’s concepts; not my own.
I wondered why things were so hard for me - and this was why. I turn my back on my egolomania, my lack of peace, my frustration with myself, and I turn to God’s order.*
