Disconnected Jottings

There are so many friends of Jesus who are nowhere near reaching their full potential in God, and I include myself in that sweeping generalisation. Even a cursory look through the teachings of Jesus and Paul suggests that there is much more available to us than we have been taught to expect on a day-by-day basis. Somehow we have come to believe that what is available from heaven is rather cerebral, super-spiritual and philosophical rather than intensely practical. This has in turn somehow made abundance, peace, freedom, joy, love and other God-given aspects of faith in Christ into a just-out-of-our-grasp promise that we seldom get our hands on.

Teaching and training people through the Streams Training Centre, England is such a privilege! These amazing Courses, written and developed by John Paul Jackson, literally change the lives of the students who do not simply take the Courses, but absorb the Courses. That's what happened to Dwee and I. As we allowed ourselves to be gripped by the teaching, we began, almost subliminally, to absorb it and live it. Each time we teach a Streams Course we discover another golden nugget of truth and revelation and we are very different from the people we were when we took our first Art Of Hearing God back in 2003 in Banff, North East Scotland. John Paul taught on that Course (now, because of other worldwide commitments, he only trains the teachers for his Courses) and just as he does when he trains the Course teachers, he cast vision and it was that more than anything else that we picked up from that first Course.

Nowadays our kick is to hear stories from people who have been students on a Streams Training Centre, England Course whose lives have been changed through the teaching. Only the other day, someone phoned to say how the teaching on colours in a recent Understanding Dreams and Visions Course had opened their eyes. They have visited the National Gallery in London the week after the Course and been blown away by the emotional and spiritual significance as well as the renewed vibrancy of the colours of the exhibits. I love that sort of feedback! We have to be taught how to open our eyes to the spiritual and the natural, but once the penny drops, some of the wonder of heaven is conveyed through things on earth. What you look for you tend to see and when you see it through refreshed and renewed vision it's like a whole new realm is opened up. That's worship!

You don't need to have a PhD to live a life infused with the Spirit and just because you have a PhD doesn't mean you can't live a life infused with the Spirit! It's there for us all! As Bill Johnson has famously said; "God is here, and He's in a good mood!" How did we ever get to the point where we believed otherwise?