Journey of Discovery

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of Kings is to search out a matter. --Prov. 25:2

I am on this journey of discovery and I don't yet know what that is or what this journey will look like but one thing I do know is that it will change my life and my faith will be directly impacted because of it. I have started a new spiritual discipline in my life as apart of this journey. I guess I had previously thought that I had been practicing this discipline but my experience tells me that I have fallen short of committing myself to this spiritual discipline. This past year I've had these 3 questions running through my mind.

1. What does it mean to practice the presence of Jesus?

2. How does one go about implementing this spiritual discipline to our lives?

3. What does it look like and why is this an important spiritual discipline to have?

I don't think I can adequately answer these 3 questions but I know by the end of this season that I am beginning to walk through I think I'll have a pretty good understanding and idea behind this practicing the presence of Jesus. I was just listening to an interview with Bill Johnson, the Pastor of Bethal Church and he talked about this hosting the presence of the Holy Spirit and about giving honour to His presence. Bringing honour to the Holy Spirit brings this practicing the presence of Jesus to a whole new level and perhaps the very spiritual discipline that might bring about very radical changes in our lives.

If we are continuously cultivating God's presence, cultivating the discipline of worship and being in His presence 24/7 and if we honour Him in all our activities and in all of our relationships then there cannot help but to be this radical shift in our lives that would directly impact our relationship with Jesus.

And so, for right now I'm going to be blogging through this journey of discovery. As I do I will blog on what comes to mind like revelation or truths that I have learned or concepts that I might be grappling with. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if my present thinking and mind set be changed along the way. I kinda almost expect that to be apart of this. Like any journal that anybody writes one might find this continual state of our thinking evolve especially if we are committed and open to learning and having our beliefs challenged. I expect that my faith will be challenged but I also have this high expectation that this journey will only cultivate and deepen my faith and relationship with Jesus.