Having just completed the Prayer Experience at Crossroads, I feel the need to share the experience with others. The Prayer Experience is a very intimate journey through 9 different stages, utilizing an audio set as a guide to personal prayer to find freedom in your life. It's the signature element of the last 6 weeks--the Freedom Journey. For the last 40 days, I have embarked on this journey with a number of other young men, meeting once a week to define and express the bondage that permeates our lives. For me, I have always been told the lie by the enemy--satan--that I failed in the eyes of God and other people. Because of this insidious lie, I have lived much of my life consumed by a great deal of anger and bitterness, and even a sense of rejection. Through this journey, I am now realizing that all my anxiety and fears have stemmed from this lie, perpetually whispered to me by the enemy to limit my freedom and enjoyment of life. Now, I realize that God is proud of me, and I'm beginning to see myself through God's eyes. I am of real value to the Lord and others because God created me specifically and most especially to be the person I am. I don't have to be anything I'm not. Neither do you. All of God's gifts to you are yours and especially yours.
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. And this is true. We can have real freedom in realizing that God has forgiven us our sins when we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Through Jesus, evil has been forever conquered. Once we accept this wonderful news, we learn that God wants us to live fulfilled lives, using the freedom that God bestows on us to nullify bondage to sin.
During my prayer experience, I prayed for friends, family and people around the world who are living in physical and spiritual bondage. I wrote a number of prayers on the whiteboard walls, and I opened three gifts that God gave me to me: 1. Peace.....I have to receive peace from the Lord. 2. Empathy from Jesus for my tribulations and pain. 3. The ability to be persistent.
God spoke to me in a metaphor during this experience, opening up the doors to more spacious places to live in freedom. He said, "Kyle, let me be the wind, and you be the leaves. I'll pick you up and move you, and I'll tell you when to rest." It brings a whole new meaning to the title of this blog, "Where the Leaves Blow." God is awesome.
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