I got an early aged baptism but i didn’t really understand the fullness of it.
(not me)
In hawaii after about 1 year of serving the kingdom full heartedly and allowing God to do so much internal work he placed it into my heart that it was time to get renewed not only in spirit but also in the flesh. God had done so much internal work already to bring me to a place of really nothing, a full rebuild ground up. The baptism was in poke bay on a beautiful sandy beach with the sun brightly shining and quite a few brothers and sisters in christ.
It was such a significant physical declaration and step of faith into allowing the sin and old life to be washed away and the new life and spirit in me to be revealed as I was raised out of the water. There is no lies I still fall into sin and fall short of the glory of God. Daily I seek to know and create a deeper relationship with God with a ton of help from the Holy Spirit. The baptism that I received has allowed me to rest in God and release the constant doubt that I am not a child of God and that i don’t deserve the love I receive. I am a new creation in the name of Jesus created to love God and love others. My flesh will fail but my faith is bound by the blood that has been placed upon me as I arose from the water. Lead by the spirit my life will be until the day comes that I no longer breath. So I will say that baptism has a huge purpose in kingdom and why I am this way.
revelation of the 12 disciples
(and our opinions and personal perspective)
Our father has shown me the power of our tongues and the damage it can do. When it comes to the disciples I do not think that they were so sweet and soft. Think about this 12 strangers constantly around one another? Asking for a lot of tension and probably some choice words. I have learned to keep an open heart to what others have to say and instead of choosing to press my personal opinion upon them choosing to seek out what I can learn from them. I do not seek to have my opinion heard or be the only way someone can see from. I constantly seek to grow and in order to hear and learn from others, I can not be speaking. It is really easy for me to see personal opinions becoming self truth, well its not possible to know all things! I have had many revelations that lead my daily life in a direction to not avoid conflict or opinions but to simply seek the heart and the person behind them. It is easy to fall into the opinionated trap of life! I am simply choose to challenge and grow others perspective as well as growing mine in the process. Dying to self looks alot like living without opinions without judgments without a whip in one hand! Jesus has shown us the love that we should reflect don’t fall into the traps of the world, don’t give up on your self, press in and learn from young and old alike for all of us are made in God’s image and bring many talents to the table.
