A NEW HEART

A NEW HEART

My new book, “Silencing our Imposter” grew out of a deeply moving time from my heart surgery.

Not only did I get my physical heart fixed, but God did something to me spiritually when I wasn’t looking! Just like him to remove all self-effort so we know He gets the credit.

When I woke up from open heart surgery (six bypasses) something had changed in me. It is hard to explain, but I felt more deeply connected with all hearts around me, both friends and strangers. It was like I was looking beyond their faces into their hearts. I felt the universal connection with others that philosophers and mystics talk about. A close friend who knows me very well told me I seemed softer in describing this experience.

Next, I was shown a diagram of the surgery with the old blockages and the new bypasses. While Iooking at that picture, I had the distinct impression that it was a physical sign of a spiritual truth. God had bypassed the old ways with new routes. God was telling me he was doing a new thing in bringing truth to the world.

This is what we have discovered in Rachel’s Challenge where we have to present truth in schools without religious language. God is awakening spirits in a new way coming into schools as a spy. It is like he said, “Even if you outlaw speaking my name, I can still send my Spirit to transform hearts.” We are seeing kids come alive spiritually and forgiving each other, and starting chain reactions of kindness and compassion. We view it as a new way of spiritual transformation in a culture that will not allow the old language and methods.

God gave me a vision of his next great movement on earth. It will be the age of the PERSON rising out of the world’s political, educational, and religious systems binding the human race. Man cannot live in collective systems and will eventually break out. I shared this vision with a friend who immediately responded, “That is God’s “ONE NEW MAN.” As people discover their TRUE SELF they will be brought into harmony with God’s creation and find their place in his kingdom and body.

A few days later, God spoke to me about past relationships that were broken, because of decisions that had hurt me deeply. I was assured that these men and women did exactly what they were supposed to so I would be set free from the religious systems that bound me for decades. I was also freed from the obligation to judge and fix people. What a relief that was! Even the painful break-up of a church was part of his plan to set people free from the “dead works” of maintaining a group that had served its purpose. In fact, my Father assured me that everything that has happened to me, good and bad is part of his preparing me for my destiny. And what is my (and your) destiny? “To this end I was born, for this cause I came into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth.”

Before the creation of the universe we all began as a pleasant thought in the heart of our heavenly Father. Then he spoke the word and we became flesh to take our place in God’s plan to reconcile all things. My journey on earth began in 1941 in Kansas City. Your path had a different birthday, but we are all here for the purpose of being unique expressions of His love and grace. To this end, I wrote “Silencing our Imposter” to help us understand how to find our true identity.