[This reflection by Dennis Ginter was published in the weekly news bulletin of Horley Baptist Church, 25/May/2025]
We have just finished this month’s teaching series ‘The Power to Change, Breaking Free for Good’. Even before the first sermon, I knew I was going to hear things that hurt. You see – for me at least – finding freedom has always involved pain. I think that’s because of the stuff that needs to be ripped out of me first – stuff that I’ve been in bondage to for many years.
For quite a while, some of us have been following Lion’s Bite, an online prophetic ministry. This morning’s entry contained the following: ‘… the necessary adjustments that I am making in your life must be BOLD and UNAPOLOGETIC in order for you to bear more fruit. SURRENDER then to my ways and be expectant of remarkable and extravagant growth and expansion’. (My emphases)
In John 21:18, Jesus tells the very wilful, headstrong Peter that the time is coming when he is old that he will be handcuffed and taken where he doesn’t want to go. It’s happening to me now, as I approach 85. It will happen to all of us – some at a much younger age! Did Jesus really mean it when He said ‘Without me you can do nothing‘?
He will administer painkillers, but only as much as absolutely necessary!
Blessings …
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