Anderson Hills

Love is the hardest thing in the world. In fact, apart from the working of the Holy Spirit, the love envisioned in Scripture is impossible. Your only hope of becoming a person of real love is Jesus in you. This is what waking up is all about. It means with each passing day, becoming more fully alive to the power of God, which is the love of Jesus Christ. If the journey of the awakening begins with John 3:16: “For God so loved the world He gave his only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life,” it finds its fulfillment in 1 John 3:16. “This is how we know what love is, Jesus Christ laid down His life for us, therefore we ought to lay down our lives for one another.” A profound love for God will produce an ever-increasing love for others.

If depending on God is a turning point in the journey, delight is one of the final destinations. To delight in someone is to love them from a deep place of satisfaction with and in them. God takes great delight in His children and wants us to find great delight in Him. However, we often find ourselves taking delight in God’s creation over taking delight in God himself. What is it, or who is it, that we take delight in more than God? We must recognize that we are easily carried away to place our delight in something or someone. The more you grow to trust God and believe what He says in His Word, the increasingly more fulfilling your love affair with Him will become

If depending on God is a turning point in the journey, delight is one of the final destinations. To delight in someone is to love them from a deep place of satisfaction with and in them. God takes great delight in His children and wants us to find great delight in Him. However, we often find ourselves taking delight in God’s creation over taking delight in God himself. What is it, or who is it, that we take delight in more than God? We must recognize that we are easily carried away to place our delight in something or someone. The more you grow to trust God and believe what He says in His Word, the increasingly more fulfilling your love affair with Him will become

The movement of being broken leads us into the grace reality of dependence. Our dependence on Jesus will never exceed the depth of our real relationship with Him.

The movement of being broken leads us into the grace reality of dependence. Our dependence on Jesus will never exceed the depth of our real relationship with Him.

Of the ten transformational stops, this is the most challenging—the way of brokenness. Research indicates that in order to move closer to completion of the journey, a person must be broken of three things: sin, self, and society. These three obstacles hinder us from listening to, obeying, and enjoying God. Habitual sin is an obstacle in our relationship with Jesus and must be dealt with or broken before we can go deeper with Him. If you haven’t emptied yourself of yourself, you are still the “god” of your life which leaves little room for Christ. And if culture influences us more than the ways of God, we will struggle with moving on to completion of the journey

Of the ten transformational stops, this is the most challenging—the way of brokenness. Research indicates that in order to move closer to completion of the journey, a person must be broken of three things: sin, self, and society. These three obstacles hinder us from listening to, obeying, and enjoying God. Habitual sin is an obstacle in our relationship with Jesus and must be dealt with or broken before we can go deeper with Him. If you haven’t emptied yourself of yourself, you are still the “god” of your life which leaves little room for Christ. And if culture influences us more than the ways of God, we will struggle with moving on to completion of the journey

Our spiritual awakening and true growth most often begin when we become dissatisfied with the way things are in our walk with the Lord. We wonder why we are not the person we hoped we would become by now. The first step on the road to the second half of the Gospel is holy discontent. Holy discontent is the size of the gap between the story the Bible tells and the story your life is telling. When we pay attention to this discontent, it can lead to tremendous breakthroughs into the greater purposes for our lives. If you are tired of the same old patterns, habits, and ruts in your walk with God and are ready to move beyond managing sin and on to real deliverance from it, let God know.

Our spiritual awakening and true growth most often begin when we become dissatisfied with the way things are in our walk with the Lord. We wonder why we are not the person we hoped we would become by now. The first step on the road to the second half of the Gospel is holy discontent. Holy discontent is the size of the gap between the story the Bible tells and the story your life is telling. When we pay attention to this discontent, it can lead to tremendous breakthroughs into the greater purposes for our lives. If you are tired of the same old patterns, habits, and ruts in your walk with God and are ready to move beyond managing sin and on to real deliverance from it, let God know.

Research has shown that the transformation journey of becoming like Christ has ten stops en route to wholeness and freedom. And most Christians never move past stop five—having invited Christ to be their Savior and then engaging in a lot of religious activity. In other words, a majority of us never reach the second half of the stops on the journey to wholeness and fruitfulness. For us to fulfill our call to transform the world, we must seek and experience an awakening. We must make a commitment to pursue transforming our own hearts and minds from simply “believing” in Jesus to “becoming” real disciples who have developed a profound love of God and others