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How might your experiences in the cycle of spiritual growth help you provide more effective SoulCare?
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I have found that confidence and trying to release the power of God in the lives of others is completely inadequate, and in fact, can be detrimental, if I am accomplishing it in my own power and with my own forced confidence in my own abilities. Only when I recognize my own brokenness, repent, and abandon myself to God, can I truly have confidence, but that confidence does not come from my own abilities, but from my confidence in God, who is already at work in this person’ life and my own. I can then, and only then, release what is best in me to others. The Spirit of God flows through me and can work to open others up to His work in their lives.
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I’m seeing the very cycle he discussed in my own emotions as I take this course! I’ve experienced much brokenness and repentance in it
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I believe that God gives us each this experience of spiritual growth so that we CAN then walk with another. We all have to come to the places of brokenness, repentance, abandonment, confidence and release, and as we do, we more fully understand our own inadequacy, and can fully appreciate anyone who may ask us to join i their journey, just exactly where they are, but also where God can bring them. We may even have similarities along the way that can be helpful as someone tries to move out of their brokenness into repentance and see their need for Christ in an even deeper way because He has opened their eyes and given them more clarity. We need each other, God made us that way and that is why this type of care is so necessary today. People have spent too much time alone without others and without God and just can’t see a way to change, because without the Spirit indwelling we cannot.
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First I have to remember that I am self-centered and broken. I must rely upon God if I am ever truly going to be effective in helping anyone, especially myself, my past experiences have led me to where and who I am, and this can create a lot of empathy. But I must do more than just sit in the emotions of a moment to stir SoulCare, I must learn how to listen to God and what he wants for his children in there journeying reality.
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More of God; less of myself. I need God in everything for every aspect of my life. For God to be reflected in me, I need his power, strength, guidance, teaching and ruling in me the more so.