Heaven Land Devotions - The Doctrine of Experience

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There are only places the Lord can take you. You cannot get there by force or effort of yourself, it will only lead to a longer time. The Holy Ghost is the Teacher. He is the one who is taking each and every life purchased by the "Precious Blood of the Lamb," Jesus Christ and maturing them.

No one can rush the maturing process seeing He is the one who oversees and undertakes every breath, step and beat of our hearts.

There will be temptations from all sides to turn you away into intellectualism, or overspiritualization. None of which will ever get you closer to that "place" of maturing. It will only corrupt you.

Do not ever think that even many of your failings are something to be grieved over for the rest of your life and lost time. Nothing is ever lost with and in Christ. The enemy will constantly bring them into your mind with cringing memory and to try to cast you down.

However, your life is no longer being developed by Satan but by Jesus Christ. The maturity only Christ will bring you to is full bodied and robust and made for heaven. Every mistake a person makes and repents for becomes a weapon of terror against him that will defeat the devil.

Do not think of running your race unhinged trying to gain more than what the Holy Spirit knows you are ready for. The whole life is prepared by Jesus Christ to be able to give you what your life is precipitated for.

As you are agreeable and teachable, He will then begin to use your failings and shortcomings to teach others "the more perfect way." The way of His love.

He is maturing you to the be "Polished stones" in the eternal temple of God.

“Put together all the tenderest love you know of, multiply it by infinity and you will begin to see glimpses of the love and grace of God.”

― Hannah Whitall Smith, The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life