Sunday, March 1, 2009

Plumbline Week

This week has been the most life changing week of my life so far. Our speaker was Jerry Praetzel and we did something the whole week called plumbline. It's a week of repentence, forgiveness, and redemption. But before I get into the life changing stuff I'm gonna list some of the main points from lecture....
-What we bury, we don't bury it dead, we bury it alive.
- Forgetting doesn't heal. The pain is alive inside.
- You can kill the thing inside that wants to come to life by just forgiving instead of meditating on it.
-Theres nothing you have been though that Jesus didnt die for to bring you back.
-You can only extend freedom to the extent you are free.
-I am a lousy redeemer.
-You live your life on what you percieve to be truth.
-You bury hurts but God redeems them. Give them to Him.
-God uses storms to try and break down the walls we put up.
So he uses this illustration of a plumbline to symbolize our lives and how situations affect us. We either swing to one side of the plumbline or the other. Either the rejection side or the rebellion side. (i was on the rejection side). But anyways we started the week but prayingn for God to reveal to us stuff in our lives that we need to forgive people for. The Spirit really dug to the depths of our souls and the roots of our deepest problems.
So the next one by one almost everybody in the class went infront of the class, told everybody their deepest hurts and publically forgave everyonen whos ever hurt them. I felt SO AMAZINGLY free afterwards!!!!!
As the week went by everybody who was led by the spirit went up there, forgave, and Jerry helped us and prayed for us.
But then at the end of the week we came to the 2nd part. We each individually(everybody who was led by the spirit) went in front of the class and publically confessed our greatest sins and shame. We also cut of generational curses, and through this God broke ALOT of strongholds. its really hard to even describe this week. its was so completely led by the spirit. it was INCREDIBLE. all of our lives were changed forever because we literally cut off strongholds anad soul ties, and God COMPLETELY took away the regret and shame of our sins. I have NEVER felt so light. I have NEVER felt so free. I am literally a new person now. I've never been changed so deep in my soul. This week was amazing.....wow.

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