Woman To Woman

This week I had a super cool chat with Maria Rodrigues on the Woman to Woman show with Premier Christian Radio. Getting into the nitty gritty of sex, dating and a little bit of my story of finding the living Saviour at the age of twelve amidst a world of stone idols, rituals and religion.

Loved chatting to Maria. She is such a super cool interviewer. Invested and attentive and super easy to chat to on and off air. Thanks so much for having me Premier Radio!!!

To listen to the show feel free to head over to: https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Weekday/Woman-to-Woman/Interviews/Former-Hindu-speaks-about-celibacy

TBN Meets Meeee???...Whaaaat?!

I had the delight and pleasure of being featured on two shows with TBN this week! What a blast! Not only were they up for telling everyone about my recently published book Sacred Sexuality but they totally asked if we could film another show to share some of my story! What an honour!!!

I adored the family vibe on set. I loved how they were so invested and without any agenda but to share as much as they could with their audience, as authentically as they could.

I loved the love and maturity Zania Schoeman radiated! How she was so easy to chat to and so chilled. I loved that she’d read my story and was so interested in it! I loved how I was able to pray for people on air and how strongly I could feel the love of God as we prayed! I also loved how the production team watched both the interviews while they were recorded and came by straight after to ask questions about sexuality that aren’t usually talked about in the church. Complex issues that pound upon the doors of our daily worlds but rarely discussed. It was so encouraging to have honest conversation about Sex, God, Transgender struggles and homosexuality with these precious ones. And the lovely Zania Schoeman making me feel totally at home!

Hands down my best recording experience so far! If you’ve got some time, feel free to have a butchers at me lil two parter of TBN Meets!!!💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻. Watch Part 1. Watch Part 2.

God's Marvelous Love: May It Never Cease To Amaze Us

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God's marvelous love encountered me so beautifully, when I took Communion this morning. As I reminded myself that my life is built upon the power of Christ's death and resurrection, no matter my circumstances or my emotions. I took the elements and meditated on who Christ is, and on what He has done for me. And then suddenly to my delight, I got deliciously hammered by God's goodness and His flawless, perfect love.

Wow! What a price Jesus paid on the cross, when He shed His blood for us. All so that we could have a relationship with Father God. This wrecks me. I am filled with fresh amazement and awestruck wonder at the scandal of being in a heart-to-heart relationship with the most important, most transcendent, most powerful, wisest, most loving, kindest, most beautiful, most significant Being that could ever exist. 

I mean how can this even be? That we, mere human beings, so intricately flawed, dysfunctional, insignificant, selfish and broken - could be in an intimate relationship with GOD Almighty? And not just as distant acquaintances, but in a profoundly mutual "knowing" that reaches the very depth of our being.

Boldly Permitted To Approach God's Throne

How can we have been invited into such an irrevocable adoption, as sons and daughters of God? Fully accepted? Unconditionally loved? Eternally embraced? And boldly permitted to approach the Father's throne, day or night, whether we be clean or dirty, righteous or unrighteousness...pure or impure? And how can we be called friends of God? Friends of God? OF GOD??!!!! Like whaaaatttt??? Seriously, how is this lofty, inconceivable privilege our reality?

Yet this is our reality. And it is all made miraculously possible and accessible because of the blood shed by God's Son Jesus, who is the only complete representation of God. Through Him and Him alone, we get to meet God, we get to know Him and we get to see Him. We get to be in unhindered, love-drenched relationship with God. This is wild. God's love is SO SO wild It's a love that's so scandalous. It's actually quite ridiculous. So inconceivably undeserved.

God's Marvelous Love Revealed

To thin that God Almighty, who is LOVE personified, would send His own precious, perfect Son to demonstrate the fullness of His Father's love, by dying for an unlovable, sinful world - by becoming the very Lamb of God, the perfect sacrifice for an imperfect world. And in doing so, the Father's love would be revealed.

And then, those that would accept this gift of extravagant love - this very torturous crucifixion, the sacrificial breaking of the body of the Son of God - carried out on their behalf - would then become the very body of Christ - the Bride of Christ - who the Father would then lovingly prepare, with great care and delight, to present to His Son, in divine marriage. His beautiful, beautiful Son Jesus.

Jesus. Glorious One. Oh so so dazzling is His nature. Beautiful is His fragrant aroma, Flawless is His character and irresistible is He personality. Who could resist Him? His incredible nature causes the body of Christ - His bride - to literally adore Him, to be lovestruck. Enamoured forevermore. Ever so besotted with Him.

A Love So Wild

And the whole while, we are falling in love with Jesus, we are seeing more of God's marvelous love revealed. And this is what floats our Heavenly Father's boat I reckon - having His creation receive revelation of His nature, by falling in love with His Son. Yet, only made possible because God loved us first and sent His Son to die in our place, to save us from perishing and to bring us into an intimate relationship with Him. So that we could know Him.

This is crazy. It's the most scandalous, inconceivable, almost ridiculous demonstration of love that could ever exist. And yet, we are the recipients of it. Recipients of this eternal love-jackpot, which is so beyond our merit, our understanding and even beyond our capacity to reciprocate this love. But reciprocate we must. For how could we not? How could we ever take lightly such a love? How could we ever fail to lavishly respond to a love so wild? A love so free? One that is totally unconditional? And so undeserved?

Yet this is the extravagant love, that we were all created for. It's truly God's marvelous love that has been lavished upon us. It's a divine, unfathomable, glorious love that now defines us. Shapes us. Completes us. And it renders us utterly wrecked, in the most delicious way...for all of our days.

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B R A V E H E A R T

I found myself being braver than ever last night.  Invited by the gorgeous Georgia Coy to share at Balham Vineyard’s Brave Talk Event. I risked unveiling more of myself than I had ever thought I could. Yet with every passing day, I am compelled to be the most transparent I can be...for in Truth I find my freedom. And in my petrifying yet liberating nakedness I am assured that others will be unshackled to find their own freedom too. 

Sacred Sexuality...The Road To True Intimacy...

Wow! What an incredible journey. Publishing my new book has been one of the hardest, yet one of the easiest things I've ever done. It's been an incredible adventure...one that has I guess always been there brewing on the inside yet has equally somehow suddenly just crept up on me. This message of purity has been so pivotal for me. One that I hold dear. One that I have personally lived and conquered and a message that I know is both powerful and liberating. Yet for the longest time I figured it was a truth that radically broke my own chains but one that would possibly never be used to break the chains off others. The reason that I thought this was because my testimony and the message of purity as personal, precious and powerful as it was to me, simply wasn't being used in my life. In fact for the longest seasons it lay dormant.

Years would go by and aside from praying and ministering to my students in the past or having one to one's with people I knew, those around me didn't have a clue about the life I once used to live. I had become such a new creation...transformed...so made new, that people had no idea about my past. No idea about all that God had delivered me from. And though I would ponder if God was ever going to use my testimony to set others free I was having so much fun pursuing God and His kingdom that I just left it in His hands and enjoyed the adventure of all the other discoveries He was leading me into. I genuinely knew in my heart that it was an issue of divine timing and if God wanted me to share my testimony and share the message of empowering purity, at the right time, I would.

I recall Easter 2011, when my pastor asked me to share why the Easter message was so important to me. For the first time in years I shared a bit of my testimony. I shared how I used to live a debauched, hedonistic, broken life, driven by manipulation, alcohol, drugs and promiscuity. How I was a prisoner of my own sin and enslaved to evil...but that Christ had radically set me free and given me new life. Not long after, that I penned my testimony in a spoken word piece and filmed it. The lid on the message I was carrying had opened a little, yet other areas of my calling beckoned and I focused on my fashion label and other creative pursuits. I came to discover during that season that empowering purity was a core life value I lived for, though it was still only brewing below the surface and not seemingly bearing fruit on the outside. All the while I stayed hidden in the secret place, content that my life was in the hands of God and He would lead me in every area of my life. 

In 2015 I went through a sifting that was deeply painful yet deliciously liberating. God showed me that He had called me to be wild, untamed, bold and someone that was truly Living in Light. He revealed that I had allowed myself to be tamed by religion and in the name of humility I had let the wild, fearless side of me die - and that was totally not who I was. In the name of protocol and driven by people pleasing I had feared what man thought of me. I had allowed a lid to be placed on me. What a wake up call. Literally chains of false humility, religion and fear of man began to drop off and the boldness I had once known in the world - which had now been sanctified and redeemed for the Kingdom - kicked in unapologetically. God showed me that in my pursuit of laying low, dying to self and pursuing humility I had been waiting for God open doors for me when God had been waiting for me to govern in the places He had already given me. Haaaa!

He showed me every sphere of influence He had already given me - and told me to step out in authority and start governing in those places (instead of waiting for Him to open new doors). He asked me what was in my hand. I considered the resources, gifting and places of influence that were already in my hand, that I had failed to step out in, under the impression that God still needed to give me permission, when in fact I had already been given all the permission I needed; I just needed boldness to unapologetically boss those places for the kingdom. I instantly began to rise up and truly lead without apology in the areas that He had already granted me, with a new sense of authority and confidence. 

And then I realised something. The area that was in my hand which I hadn't stepped out in at all was empowering purity.  I hadn't exercised the authority I had in that area. I hadn't poured out at all in that area even though there were so many people who could eat the fruit of it, in my sphere of influence. This was particularly highlighted one day when I was at church and one of the young guys on team was showing me something on his phone. I caught a glimpse of the last search in the google bar - it was: how to deal with sexual lust. My heart broke. That was it. The journey began. I asked my Pastor if I could teach the young adults at my church about sexual purity after service one day. Because my Pastor is so deliciously bad ass he insisted that rather than after a church service, I would take a Sunday service and preach it to the whole congregation.  Bricking it, I agreed.

I had no idea what a catalyst that Sunday would be. The joy and freedom that broke out after I preached my sermon was electrifying. The stories and disclosures that ensued were heartbreaking. Slowly it dawned on me: I knew empowering purity was a message the world needed - Yet I had simply had no idea about how desperately the church was also in need of this message.  As I listened to people's stories and become exposed all the more to places of sexual brokenness in the body of Christ, God began to show me that this wasn't just a Sex issue - it was a Sexuality issue. So I found myself deliciously delving into the wider issue of Sexuality from a Biblical perspective.  

As I continued to explore God's design for sexuality in the Bible I made an amazing discovery which took me by complete surprise.  You see, I discovered just how incredible sex could be when enjoyed God's way! Suddenly my understanding of the subject changed gears. It was no longer a case of all the stuff you needed to avoid if you wanted to follow God's design for sex in marriage - the spotlight was now on all the glorious pleasure you could totally tap into if you pursued sex God's way.  It was about all the incredible, incomparable benefits that were available to those that follow God's design for sex!  

What ensued, was a six month workshop called Sacred Sexuality and I was humbled by the support and vulnerable participation from people young and old, married and single, broken and whole. A few months before I began to deliver these workshops I felt God impress upon my heart that I needed to write a book on the subject. He gave me a clear strategy of how to do it. By God's leading, I wrote the first draft in a month. As I penned this first draft and prepared to deliver the first workshop I felt the wind of heaven undergirding the entire process. I asked God out of curiosity, why now? Why was it that the time was so right now Papa? Why, when I had carried this message for thirteen years was it only being shared now?  He lovingly responded that it was only now that I was qualified to bring such a message to this generation.

He showed me that it was only now that I had a true understanding of love - His delicious, unconditional, covenant love - a fiery, reckless, overwhelming love, which I had spent the last thirteen years hidden in, enjoying, experiencing and abiding in - it was only now that I could teach His creation about sexuality. You see sexuality ultimately is about intimacy.  He explained that the reason He couldn't allow me to teach about sexuality a day sooner was because I needed to first understand that the purpose of Sexuality is rooted in our God-wired need for intimacy.  It's not a purity thing, or a holiness thing...it's a love thing. An intimacy thing. And our drive for intimacy is rooted in our need for connection first and foremost with God - because that is what we were created for...we were created for love - by God, in God, with God.  We were created for the highest, sweetest, most satisfying love ever in a relationship with Him and with others.  

My message had found its heartbeat. It was no longer just about Sex or Sexuality - the heart of the book ultimately was intimacy. The book became an amalgamation of biblical principles, personal experiences, scientific references, practical strategies, prayers and spiritual processes that I had journeyed through in order to get to this place of truly understanding that sexuality is rooted in intimacy and true intimacy can only be found in God. It became a step by step, going to the roots, holistic offering of understanding sexuality from heaven's perspective and rewiring the way that we approach sexuality - away from counterfeit versions of intimacy, towards the source and designer of intimacy. The only one who can satisfy our thirst for connection - and the only one who can teach us how to experience love and connection in the most fulfilling way possible.

And so Sacred Sexuality - Rewire Your Desire Towards True Intimacy was birthed. Yay God!  A labour of love in more ways than one. A bearing of my soul and an irrevocable exposure of my inners. I desperately hope and pray I have written a God-breathed, heaven kissed book that will radically change lives the way my own life has been transformed - in the most delightful way. I feel God's well done all over it so I am overjoyed to have completed this assignment. It has been a sheer delight...during the mountain tops and valley lows I have felt the grace of God on this book like I have felt it on nothing else. The favour on it has been off the charts and the book launch event was beyond my wildest dreams... but you'll maybe hear all about that in a future blog...for now though...the book is available to buy. I sincerely hope it blesses your sock off and bears ridiculous fruit in your lives!

In His love. x

The Gift Of Truth Unveiled

I was missing God so much. It had been too long since it had been just Him and I alone. Lingering. Enjoying. Abiding. Deep worship encounters at church had been sustaining me. A period of fasting last month had kept me going. Praying each morning online had brought strength. Talking to God and reading the Bible on my phone first thing each morning as I lay in my bed, preparing for another insanely busy day, in an insanely busy season, had kept my connection with heaven flowing. Yet it wasn’t enough. Sure, it was strengthening and renewing and life giving yet none of it compared to simply being with Him. To feeling Him so close. To beholding His beauty and being consumed from the inside out.

As I pulled on my converse and threw my stuff together, ready to rush out of the house this morning, I reminisced on the last time I’d experienced this tangible, intoxicating presence of God’s nearness during my ordinary day. I calculated that it had been about a month. Wow. A whole month since the walls of my flat had experienced the sweet sweet echo of my unhindered praise.  A whole month since my laminated flooring had felt the weight of my knees surrendered in worship. A whole month since the King of glory had been offered my undivided attention. My undiluted affection. My uncluttered mind. A whole month since He’d been given permission to woo my heart with His sheer indescribable loveliness. My heart ached as I remembered what that felt like.

Imagine my sheer delight then when my plans for today changed and my afternoon appointment got cancelled. Haaaaa. The joy. YESSS! I grabbed my Bible as soon as I walked through the door and walked into the kitchen. I found myself in Psalm 119. I read the first verse. It instantly floored me.

“BLESSED (HAPPY, fortunate, to be envied) are the undefiled (the upright, truly sincere, and blameless) in the way [of the revealed will of God], who walk (order their conduct and conversation) in the law of the Lord (the whole of God's revealed will).” Psalm119:1 (AMP)

Suddenly I was smacked in the face by the scandalous unfathomable blessing of having the truth of God revealed to me. What an incredible gift it is, for people that know truth.  For those who have had the truth unveiled to them. Flip. Flip. Flip. Aaah. The Mercy. To think I was once living a lie. I was once completely in the dark. Because anyone who walks in the truth of God now, would have once been in the dark. Jesus thank You for revealing Your truth to me. Where would I be without Your beautiful truth? All these thoughts went through my mind as I read this verse and began to sob hysterically. He was right there. Even before I finished reading the verse He came. BAM. His sweet presence, flooring me with His nearness.

I was awestruck. I was so touched by how instantly I was able to feel His tangible presence. Wow. His beauty and lavish companionship is so freely bestowed upon us. He is so kind. I love Him so much. He is so beautiful. He began to fill my heart with compassion afresh for the lost. For all those who haven’t yet had the truth unveiled to them. Who haven’t seen or understood or accepted the truth.

I was overcome afresh with my own inability to walk in truth. In my own humanity I can never truly know truth. I can only walk in truth because it has been revealed to me by God. It is the truth of God that undefiles me and causes me to be upright, truly sincere, and blameless like this scripture says, because it is Jesus’ righteousness that I am hidden in, not my own ability to pursue truth.

I found myself considering my life of darkness and deception, before the truth of God’s love was unveiled to me. Though I may have been beautifully delivered from a life of darkness into wonderful truth but that discovery of truth is not my doing. It is in God’s mercy and grace that He has ever so kindly and compassionately revealed that truth to me. I was reminded that we cannot ever boast in our own ability to walk in truth. We can never consider ourselves in any way superior to someone who may not yet know the truth - because truth is not a mere pursuit of man but it is in fact a gift from God. Truly. Where would we be without Him? How would we live a day without His truth guiding us?

As I reflect on the beautiful encounter that I am having I am undone. Oh how I love His presence. How I love His Word. I just love love love how He was waiting all along...I love how the moment I opened His Word, He instantly took me on a journey into the supernatural...I began to travel a road of heavenly adventure in His Word, unveiling treasure and truth. This is what I had missed so much. This glorious glorious unravelling that comes when we hang out together. It’s not to say I hadn’t been abiding with Him over the last month - I totally had. But I hadn’t beheld Him. I hadn’t stopped everthing. Dropped everything. I hadn’t travelled with Him in heavenly places.

I stand in complete awe of the scandal of His nearness.  It blows my mind that the minute I looked at Him and gave Him my gaze He instantly came. The very second I beheld His Word with a heart that was so desperately hungry for Him, He tangibly showed up. And He did not come empty handed. He came ladened with gifts. The gift of His affirmation...His acceptance...His delight...The gift of fresh revelations of His love and kindness. The gift of His timeless truths...and the gift of His presence. All so intricately intertwined with one another. All so nourishing and delicious yet so insatiably appetising...rendering me overflowing with satisfaction, yet hungry for more. 

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Open Doors

Happy New Year!!!

This new year has began with such a bang that my chin is still on the floor!! My heart is so filled with expectation about all that this year carries and all that God is wanting to pour out into our lives in this year. It's the year of new beginnings and it's the year of open doors...and you better believe it. I sure am.  In fact the doors that have swung wide open - quite literally as I stepped over the threshold, into 2018 are totally blowing my mind...the ease at which things have been kicking into gear with the new Sacred Sexuality book is quite deliciously unfathomable. Not quite sure what to do with it aside from believe it, enjoy it, receive it and expect it to continue all through this mighty fine year...not just for me, but for every single one of us. 

I am determined to remain in a place of expectation. To remain hemmed in by the goodness of God, standing firm on Christ as the confession of my hope, the anchor of my soul. Unwavering. Unshakeable.   Setting my face like flint - fixed firmly upon the kind intent of God towards me, and His desire, promise and provision over me...His ability to make this the best year of my life, so far. And yours.  I am resolved in my spirit that no matter what may happen, I will refuse to be anxious, I will refuse to enter into undustrubedness, I will refuse to lose my peace.  No matter what my external circumstances may look like I will know that I will know that I will know that God has got me, He's got the situation and He has already orchestrated the victory! I will choose to believe and not doubt. I will choose to pray and not fret.

I am so serious about living a worry free year. Why should I worry about a thing? I've got Romans 8:28 surrounding me. He works all things together for our good. Why worry?  We have been hemmed in by victory and when the poo hits the fan I can either stand on the truth of the finished work knowing that God is faithful and won't let me down and I can choose to enjoy Him even in the struggles. OR I can worry and be anxious and doubt and be in unrest. The outcome will the same no matter what - God will come through either way but the journey through the struggle won't be an opportunity to abide and grow in God...it will just be a painful time that God doesn't want for me. He wants good for me. All the time. Every one of His thoughts towards me are good.

In some ways for me the very first doors of this year that have appeared to have swung open are the ones in my mind. Stuff that God has been doing in my thinking patterns for quite some time now, has gained a clarity and I'm changing the way that I think.  He has been challenging me deeply for quite some time now about how I see myself.  How I see my position as a child of God. Asking me if I understand what it actually means to be a son of God? To think like royalty and dream like a son?  Or will I remain simply serving as a steward in the king's palace?  Or worst still will I stay imprisoned in a mindset of orphanhood, a waif mentality...a slave. No way! I AM thinking big. I refuse to remain small. It's not an option for me.  I am a daughter of God and I will think like royalty. 

Therefore I am expecting the fulfilment of dreams in a radical way this year. I am expecting things to come through in the most mind-blowing way! I am expecting provision, resources, expansion, creativity to show up in unprecedented ways. I am expecting Living in Light to grow and expand. I am expecting masses to be impacted by the new book. I am expecting to have wealth. I am expecting to be taken higher than ever before. And I'm not settling for less. This is the year of open doors - I've stepped through. Have you? 

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Living in Light

As 2017 comes to an end I just wanted to say a huge thank you for all your amazing support over the year! I realise that loads of people that connect with Living in Light don’t know what this platform is even about so I’d love to explain.

Living in Light is a company built upon the scripture 1 Peter 2:9-10: “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, A [special] people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies [the wonderful deeds and virtues and perfections] of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”

It’s about being redeemed, called and known by God to live a life of dazzling light, shining bright in the darkest of realms, fearing nothing and becoming everything you have been created to be. Whether it’s individually, relationally, sexually, creatively, emotionally, spiritually - in every dimension unapologetically letting your light shine whilst ultimately being a signpost for the only truly Radiant One.

Living in Light therefore encompasses my fashion brand where I use my creative gifts in fashion to release love, light and liberty through the clothes that I design. It also includes the Living in Light Image consultancy where I equip others to walk in confidence in their personal style starting from the inside working our way to the external.  Then there are the Fashion Workshops which I offer for those who'd like guidance in fashion, as a creative avenue they may wish to pursue.

Living in Light also involves my testimony being shared in creative ways to demonstrate God’s transformational love and power to turn my life which was once sheer darkness into light in the most merciful and breathtaking way. It involves me building others up through words, biblical teachings, education, creativity and my own personal experiences.

And most recently because of my own promiscious past and now my radically pure life, Living in Light involves Sacred Sexuality - a counter-cultural movement that desires to see a generation reject dysfunctional sexuality found in society which is often rooted in brokenness, pain and insecurity as well as counterfeit intimacy - and instead encouraging the re-wiring of our God-given desires towards true love and intimacy...seeking a connection which is eternal, unconditional and satisfying beyond belief!

Living in Light has also produced so many other things in the past...jewellery, menswear, children's wear, bespoke greeting cards and paintings. And I'm excited about what I'll produce in the future.  It's a lifelong adventure.  Ultimately Living in Light is a platform for God to use anything and everything that's brewing inside of me to shine His dazzling light...to pierce through the darkness...whether it's the darkness of a broken, fallen world, whether it's the darkness of religion...fear of man...the darkness of mediocrity...insecurity...false humility...the whole nine yards.  

Whatever it is, I believe God wants us to break abundantly free from any and every sort of darkness, full stop, and somehow He uses our divine gifts and talents as an avenue to not only break us free from our own darkness but to also liberate others.

Once again, crazy mad love to you for your encouragement and support...may your year finish with a bang, and the new one begin with an explosion of hope, deep within your soul...may you boldly, unswervingly expect God's VERY best to show up for you in 2018!

Love. Light. Liberty...

Bobbi x

Already A Winner

I have got so much love for Nao.  British Singer, Songwriter. Creative extraordinaire.  So gifted. Yet humble to the max. Heart of gold.  Beautiful inside and out.  I love that she wore bespoke Living in Light to the Mobo Awards. I love that she is such a champion of Living in Light and I love that she is so honouring. Up for two awards, she didn't win in either category.  It makes no difference. Ha.  Because she isn't looking for the affirmation of the crowd...or props from the industry. She's a girl who is self assured and simply wanting to live her art. She gets my vote anytime. And though she isn't seeking the praise of the masses she is adored all over the place. When it comes to the industry, no matter how many award ceremonies may come and go...this superstar has already won.

Abiding Love

I cannot believe I haven't shared what's been happening on the inside of me for the last six months!!! It's soooo crazy I could actually scream! It's like my world has been flipped upside down like never before since February this year when I collided with the super simple but heavy revy of abiding in Jesus through the Word!! Christianity point 101 I hear you say. Not so. Because the truth of the matter is that as foundational as dwelling in the Word is to our Christian faith not everyone does it!! Most of us visit the word...dipping in and out....looking for solutions, answers, instructions...but very few make their home in it...which is in fact what we are called to be...a dwelling place for God. Us living in God and God living in us...through His Word...Wowserrrrrsssss how deliciously glorious!!

So, as God's dwelling place, heavenly citizens here on earth but seated in heavenly places...the goal is to get heaven on the inside of us by faith...so that the culture and kingdom of heaven within us becomes an abiding place for Christ, whilst we and all that we are, our lives and all our stuff however dysfunctional abides in Him. Abiding in Him, we are surrounded by all that He is and all that He has done...hemmed in by victory...hidden in the finished work, awaiting our inheritance in complete rest. As we meditate on who Jesus is and what He has done through the Word of God, His perfect nature, love and power becomes so real to us that we begin to understand what it means to truly abide in Him and have our whole worlds locked into His love...always winning, always flourishing no matter what's going on around us.

We look for Jesus in each Word in the Bible...looking for an encounter...not a solution or external outcome, but simply enjoying God and enjoying the seed of the Word. The more we enjoy the seed and behold the Word, returning to it again and again as a portal into Christ and heavenly realms, the more the value and worth of the Word grows within us...cultivating heavenly imagery within the eyes of our heart...replacing dysfunctional imagery...and bringing greater revelation of truth and greater encounter with Christ.  The more we hang out with Jesus in His Word, the more we trust Him...the more we stand on His promises and perfect love. The more we grow in confidence in Christ as our confession.

Looking for external results in the Word gets replaced by supernatural encounters in the Rhema Word through the presence of the Holy Spirit. Words become experiences. The logos becomes Rhema.  Seeds become fruit...fruit becomes timeless truths that we begin to live from...regardless of our external situation...our outside circumstances get swallowed up by the heaven on the inside of us...all the while we are growing, abiding, enjoying God, as the reality and beauty of God is growing steadily inside of us...as heaven becomes substance in our inmost being...and who we are on the inside in communion with Christ, overtakes who we are in the natural.  It's too exciting. I can't contain it.

I've never know anything so delicious!! This crazy adventure has taken over my life...it gets sweeter and sweeter every single day. Abiding, dwelling in Christ through His Word...me living in Christ...Christ living in me...my fave place...forever more...x