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Deep Brokenness and A Focus On Jesus

When a shift is happening in our lives, DEEP BROKENNESS will accompany it. “Repentance” comes from the Greek word “metanoia,” which means “a change of mind.” Repentance is deep remorse followed by a significant life change—a heart-and-mind determination to go another direction. John the Baptist was called to be like a plow from the Holy Spirit to break up the ground of religious inflexibility so the seeds of grace and love could be planted for a new generation. He was destined to carve out a highway in the wilderness of dead religion, and this required some deep breaking. Every big move of God and every significant spiritual shift in history have been preceded by repentance and brokenness. A.W. Pink, who was an English Bible teacher, said, “The Christian who has stopped repenting has stopped growing.”

We are a blessed generation with many opportunities and a great future ahead. Yet even in the midst of that, we are one of the most broken generations in history. Still, we can turn our brokenness into a weapon against the enemy, commit ourselves to Jesus Christ, tell him we are His, let Him plant His seed in our brokenness, and be instruments of His glory. 

God has been breaking up our hearts through every struggle we have faced. He has been getting us ready for the seed of His destiny He is going to plant in our lives. 

Every true move of the Holy Spirit in history has brought a fresh vision of Jesus Christ and a new FOCUS ON JESUS. John understood well that he was to plow the ground, build a new road, and get people ready for the shift, but that he himself was not the shift. When the time came, John put the focus on Jesus. Every shift of God in our lives is meant to get us closer and drive us toward Jesus with all of our hearts, until we become like Him, love Him, and know Him.

Sometimes we must make a shift from our self-centeredness and self-absorbed existence to understand that the world revolves around Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God.

May our focus be ever-increasing, ever-clearer on Jesus, the Center of the universe and the Center of our lives, so that we may see a shift from God in our lives and our generation.

 

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