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How might your experiences in the cycle of spiritual growth help you provide more effective SoulCare?
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My experiences in the cycle of spiritual growth help me move through the process of providing soul care more effectively starting with brokenness and the acceptance of my own inadequacy, leading to abandonment. Actually going through this cycle has informed me as I seek to understand and interpret what God tells me about myself as well as this person and how to help create a hunger and thirst for Him in them.
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Understanding that life isn’t all about me, self, but about others is the first step in growing closer to God. I’m guided in the Word to think of others as more important than ourself (Philippians 2:3-4). Once I come to terms with this, I can turn from selfish ways and strive for Christ-like behavior, which is the point of abandonment to God. Putting full trust in Him will in time create a confidence so I can talk with people being led by the spirit to move them closer to God. This release will complete the passion to see what’s happening in me and others.
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Practicing abandonment daily, as a SoulCare giver, helps us to grow in our reliance on God. We are then able to model it to other people in order to encourage them to abandon purposeless “fighting with the windmills” (looking how to fix their problems, finding temporary soltuons, but ultimately still feeling restless, empty and deepy unhappy). If we can show them the great wisdom of “I can’t do this. God can” in our own practice, then they may be drawn to adopt this way of thiking, feeling and living for themselves – acknowledge that things are not working and invite God to intervene and lead one to the bigger vision.
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The cycle of spiritual growth brings me to a place of dependence on God. I will be far more effective as God’s agent than in my own strengths and ideas.
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I have learned Gods provision when I was in the valley