Perception Is Powerful

[RevDWW]

To some perception is as powerful as truth...........to them perception is reality....

The disciples in the midst of a storm perceived that a Ghost was walking to them on the water....the reality was it was the God of the Storm, Jesus Christ.

[Truly Blessed]

Digging4Truth, I really appreciate what you have shared in this thread. Something that I often think of when discussing how preconceived ideas and misperceptions can taint our understanding of truth is the story of Saul. He was so convinced that he was right in what he believed and that he was actually serving God in persecuting and sending Christians to their death.

It took a powerful encounter with God in which Saul himself became an object lesson of spiritual blindness to break down his resistance. A blindness that could only be overcome by the light of revelatory truth. Only then did he receive the awesome experience of revealed truth that resulted in the understanding we have of the Body of Christ, the Church.

I pray that I will always be prepared to surrender my preconceived ideas and thoughts to whatever further knowledge God would have me to know about Him and His divine purpose for His people.

[LaGirl]

digging.......MUST YOU MAKE US THINK!!! :-)

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by Truly Blessed

Digging4Truth, I really appreciate what you have shared in this thread. Something that I often think of when discussing how preconceived ideas and misperceptions can taint our understanding of truth is the story of Saul. He was so convinced that he was right in what he believed and that he was actually serving God in persecuting and sending Christians to their death.

It took a powerful encounter with God in which Saul himself became an object lesson of spiritual blindness to break down his resistance. A blindness that could only be overcome by the light of revelatory truth. Only then did he receive the awesome experience of revealed truth that resulted in the understanding we have of the Body of Christ, the Church.

I pray that I will always be prepared to surrender my preconceived ideas and thoughts to whatever further knowledge God would have me to know about Him and His divine purpose for His people.

Wow... what a powerful example of this concept. I never even thought about Paul...

Before & after his conversion on the Road to Damascus he was serving God in all the knowledge he possessed and doing so with all his might. What he had been taught would not allow him to see Jesus as the Messiah.

I intended this thread mainly as a soul searching of my own but when we meet people who don't believe what we believe then so many times people get angry with them or deem them as hard headed. It could very well be, like Paul, that they are held captive by their own preconceived notions and, again like Paul, only God can make them free from those notions. This reminds me that we battle not against flesh & blood but against principalities & powers.

Thanks so much for sharing this thought with us.

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by LaGirl

digging.......MUST YOU MAKE US THINK!!! :-)

On occasion.... Yes ma'am... I must.

[OP_Carl]

Originally Posted by Truly Blessed

Digging4Truth, I really appreciate what you have shared in this thread. Something that I often think of when discussing how preconceived ideas and misperceptions can taint our understanding of truth is the story of Saul. He was so convinced that he was right in what he believed and that he was actually serving God in persecuting and sending Christians to their death.

It took a powerful encounter with God in which Saul himself became an object lesson of spiritual blindness to break down his resistance. A blindness that could only be overcome by the light of revelatory truth. Only then did he receive the awesome experience of revealed truth that resulted in the understanding we have of the Body of Christ, the Church.

I pray that I will always be prepared to surrender my preconceived ideas and thoughts to whatever further knowledge God would have me to know about Him and His divine purpose for His people.

Excellent. Amen.