Grace Basics

0:00:00 - Atmosphere prayer
0:22:21 - Talk
1:13:36 - Breakouts

Grace Basics:  Everything is already a gift from God — our inheritance, our healing, our identity — and it's already in us in the spirit realm waiting to move into our daily lives.  The entire session keeps circling back to this: we don't beg, we don't perform, we don't earn.  We just say Yes.  And the reason we struggle to say Yes in certain areas is simply that something is blocking God's love there — not a verdict on us, but an invitation to healing. 

  • God's Love Is the Foundation.  We can stop at this and hang out here:  God loves us perfectly, more than we love ourselves — and that single truth is the core of everything.

  • Every Area We Struggle to Feel Loved Is a Healing Opportunity.  Any place where we don't feel God's love is simply an area that hasn't yet been turned over to his protection — not a verdict on us, but an open door for healing.

  • Looking at God's Face Exposes What's Blocking His Love.  When we face a hard place, God's invitation is simply, look at my face — and in that looking, whatever agreement has been keeping his love out tends to surface on its own.

  • Everything Is Already a Gift — So We Don't Beg for What We Already Have.  Since everything is a gift, we don't perform interpretive dances or sing for our supper; the money's already in the bank, and our job is to align with what's already ours in the spirit. 

  • The Kingdom of God Is Within Us.  All our inheritance, birthright, gifts, and healing already exist in the spirit realm; the whole plot of the movie is simply getting it from there into our daily lives.

  • The Move Is Always from God's Love to Our Love, Inside Out, Spirit to Soul Heaven to Earth, Supernatural to Natural.  Every healing prayer, every Yes, every surrender is just cooperation with a flow that's already moving from God to us.

  • Religion Can Rob Us of the Ability to Savor.  When religion teaches starvation, it doesn't just restrict intake — it kills the appetite and deadens the taste buds until we stop expecting God to be satisfying at all.  God is not a grim duty to serve a labyrinth of prayer, but a satisfying personal friendship, in our own language, at our own pace.  Savoring is not a bonus, but the actually the point.

  • Identity Goop Is a Legitimate Stage of Transformation.  Just like a caterpillar dissolves completely inside the cocoon before becoming a butterfly, we can be fully formless and undefined in a season — and that's not a problem to fix; we're just maturing.

  • The Stockdale Paradox Applies to Healing.  We need to be 100% confident God is going to come through, while being completely detached from how and when — plant the seed, trust him with the harvest, and don't let the enemy steal it by making us catastrophize in the middle.

  • Shame Dissolves in Honest Community.  The secret to dispelling shame is simply sharing it in a safe place and hearing yeah, me too — and the flip side of shame is connection, which is exactly the kind of family sitting around the table that God had in mind. 

  • There Are No Spiritual “Levels” — Everyone Gets a Chair at the Banquet.  There are levels of maturity, but never levels of access to God or levels of dignity; a five-year-old and a fifteen-year-old both get the same love, just in different ways.

  • Prayer is Family.  Structured prayer is training wheels — not the bike itself, and definitely not the wine — and the real thing is just talking to God the way we'd talk to a brother, a father, or our closest friend, tears and all. 


THE PARAMOUNT RELATIONSHIP

I will need all of eternity to express My appreciation for you. In the limited life you now experience, all that I do and all that occurs is entirely for the purpose of nurturing love.

Thank you, from the bottom of My heart, for making our relationship paramount to all other things. Any achievement in the temporal existence will be lacking, if we are not sharing it together.

Why waste precious time with unloving living? “For life is as a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.” (James 4:14)

Yet you are part of an existence greater than you realize. When the accuser attempts to prosecute you, stand up and declare who we are and what really matters. I am your God, and you are Mine.

I will love you and support all earthly endeavors that are of My will. Without that, a person strives in vain for a poor substitute, traveling down a desolate path.

Savor everything as a gift and don’t cling too tightly to temporal blessings. See them like I do, as a means to the even greater gift of a deepening relationship with Me. Seek first the Kingdom of Christ and the abundance will be added.

You will never find more joy, more fulfillment in anything else besides Me. Endure burdens when necessary, stand with Me when you feel alone, and know that I am drawing you Home with the deepest love.

You are on your way to My paradise, the greatest thing your life will ever know.


“For with God is the fountain of life.” Psalm 36:9