An outstanding Journey reunion took place at the Counseling Seminar in Indianapolis last week! Many refreshing testimonies were shared from those who are “living the journey.” We’ll look forward to posting some of them here in the days to come!
Archive for October, 2008
“What you need to do, is to put your will over completely into the hands of your Lord, surrendering to Him the entire control of it. Say, “Yes, Lord, YES!” to everything, and trust Him to work in you to will, as to bring your whole wishes and affections into conformity with His own sweet, and lovable, and most lovely will. It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him. He turns hard things into easy, and bitter things into sweet. It is not that He puts easy things in the place of the hard, but He actually changes the hard thing into an easy one.”
~ Hannah Whitall Smith
“Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.” Lam. 3:40
Landon just returned from a Journey to the Heart, where he enjoyed a refreshing week of drawing closer to the Lord and seeking His will for future ministry.
Landon has always had a love for broadcasting and for many years wanted to have a television station. However, he began to feel that the Lord was not leading in this direction. Completely surrendering this desire to the Lord, he purposed to seek God’s Kingdom first, even if it meant never seeing his dream come to fruition.
Soon afterward, the Lord surprisingly opened up an opportunity for Landon to work at an FM radio station. He saw firsthand how it would be possible to run a radio station with just a few people and began seeking the Lord’s will as to whether this might be a possibility for ministry.
Through a miraculous series of events, God provided a large and unique library of melodious music! He also provided a team of quality people to help set up the station. Their goal has been to bless each listener by providing them with melodious music that clearly glorifies to the Lord.
Unlike most radio stations these days that play “Christian” music, InBalanceMusic plays only music that is balanced and orderly. It broadcasts around the world twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, through the Internet at InBalanceMusic.com. Tune in and enjoy!
InBalanceMusic.com
In my last post, I wrote on how the Lord had cleansed me from worldly music. He did. However, it was only another step through the door of true understanding. Although there was a new found resolve in my heart from the vow I made to the Lord, I felt as though I was still putting forth most of the effort in every area of my life and spiritual maturity.
It was like a shadow on the wall of my heart. No matter where I went, I couldn’t get away from it, and trying to wipe a 
shadow from a wall doesn’t work. This shadow was not specific unconfessed sins, but rather the core of who I was illuminated by God’s Word. Stopping the Light of God from purifying me completely, this darkness of self led me into deeper and deeper misery.
In my outward life, things were actually going the best they ever had. The Lord had cleansed me from a stronghold, I was striving for righteousness, and I felt confident that I was doing what the Lord wanted me to do. But there was still the shadow. When I wouldn’t get up for devotions, a sweep of hate would fall upon me—a hatred of myself. I wanted to kill myself. “Either Christianity is miserable or it isn’t real.” That is where my thoughts often directed themselves. When the ever-looming fact of my inadequacy to please God would continue to present itself, I would continue to run back to what I believed, to what I had done to prove that I was God’s child.
Truly, everything good is the work of the Lord. It comes only from His mighty grace which flows from His heart of love—the Life of Jesus. In my pathetic state of strong-willed iniquity, God still sought me. The Lord kept knocking—calling to me tenderly. All He wanted me to do was open the door, see who I really was, confess my absolute inadequacy, and let Him and His goodness fully into my heart.
O how we are blessed with a God that pursues us diligently! On my knees—powerless, hopeless, and defeated—I opened the door. When the genuinely evil motives of my self-righteous heart were revealed, God poured down His grace from heaven and glory filled my soul.
At first I felt no different, but knowledge of the truth of His Word in my heart grew. By that night I couldn’t sleep for the joy that was burning in me. In the morning, when the pure excitement of true salvation began to sink in, I noticed something else. No shadow. I had it all backwards. This was never my own journey to my heart. It was God’s journey to my heart! And now, “It is finished.” He has won and cleansed me. I am His. And now the journey of Christ in me, which I knew nothing about, begins.
~ Tim
June 2008 Guys’ Journey
Tomorrow this group of fellows will be spending an entire day delighting in the Lord as they seek Him in prayer and fasting. Please lift them up in prayer as they continue their Journey to the Heart in the beautiful Northwoods of Michigan.
“Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart” (Psalm 37:4).
Journey Reports from around the World Wide Web:
- The Gillaspie Family » Dad's Journey to the Heart
I was one of about 45 ATI dads who met in Oak Brook, Illinois at the IBLP campus and then drove in four vans to the Northwoods Conference Center on the upper peninsula of Michigan. - Stelzl Family » Are You Ready?
Are you looking for something that will change your life forever? Do you desire to love Jesus Christ with all of your heart, and to know that He is truly your best friend?
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