Hey guys, how are you doing? I just watched the fire chat number 59 and I
saw your faces and I heard the questions and it was just thank you so much
Ashley for going through various theological questions and it keeps
playing in my mind a lot of it made sense some things I think I still need
to kind of search or figure out but it was very helpful very helpful your view
and you explaining thoroughly some of the theological question that arose and
some of them that I had with with the teaching so thanks for that it was good
to see all of you and I just wanted to share something from this week I had the
first journey share and I was gonna do a Facebook live and I was really scared
but I was happy that I had this group that I could share it with and it went
and I was gonna share some of my story of what's going on in the rest intensive
I shared how I was searching for peace everywhere after having been a bit
burnt out and that I searched for it everywhere and I couldn't find it until
I heard this teaching about rest and I shared about how I've been learning to
live in rest and that's what rest is actually a place in God and that I'm
entitled by being the child of God to have peace all the time and how I now
experience his love in a way that I haven't done for 20 some years and it
was really good to share I was really happy afterwards that I did it and then
I did feel like a shame attack come later on just like oh I did get a few
responses like likes but not very many and in the beginning there weren't that
many that viewed it after a while it was more than 200 they viewed parts of it or
all of it but in the beginning there weren't so many and I think I was thrown
it back about being so vulnerable and sharing something deep in my heart and
not having a lot of feedback and not knowing what people felt or thought but
then I had I was at work I had five minutes in the bathroom and with God
just going through choosing to go into rest again after feeling all this shame
so that helped and afterwards there actually has been a friend of mine came
and asked me after she watched it she thought it was great and she's like how
do you enter this rest I was with her and another friend and I started to
share what God has done in my life and how I'm entering it and I shared some
examples and then she said like well for me I'm reading this psychology book
it's about you being met on your emotions when you have emotions it's
very important to let them out and that people meet you on your emotions and
also she was sharing about okay when all these things happen in my life and I get
stressed I need to go back to the root and figure out why am I stressed and I'm
learning all these things and she was showing me this psychologist book and I
don't know I don't know what you guys think about it but as soon as she
started talking about this I started thinking about the tree of knowledge
with good and evil and also the thing that you taught Ashley about bypassing
all these things that we have to do like whether it's psychological or mental or
even inner healing things and and then I thought oh gosh I don't even know what
I think about this and what is the tree of knowledge of good and evil and what
she's saying is true it's important to learn to be met on your emotions it's
good to find out the root issue of why you're reacting the way you are but then
I was like but what how does this apply the teaching that we've learned now
apply can't you just bypass it so then I was trying to tell her that it's really
good and I glad that she's learning these things it sounds helpful but I
think
I told her also, I don't actually think that that necessarily leads to freedom.
That knowledge doesn't lead to freedom or figuring these things out.
And I told her that psychology is a good thing.
It's created by God, but it's subject to God.
It needs to be from the top down to rule from the top down and not that we really need psychology.
Psychology is not God.
Psychology cannot set you free.
But God has created psychology and inner healing and mental tools so he can use for freedom.
And then I experienced that they kind of got, I think, offended or in resistance.
And one of them I felt was a bit attacking me and saying, well, like kind of saying that,
oh, you kind of, you, so you think you know it all or now I feel like you have this, a
lot of truth and, and, and that I'm not, that I can't see and you're seeing something I'm
not seeing.
And then I was literally phone back and I'm like, oh my gosh, is that how it sounds like?
I'm so sorry.
I didn't mean to really teach anything.
I just wanted to set it in perspective of you guys actually asking, how do I enter rest?
So I was a bit thrown off by that, how they kind of reacted.
And then, or maybe I did say it in an unwise way, I don't know.
But then I can tell that, oh my gosh, these things are kind of sensitive and I'm vulnerable
and sharing my heart and that it does hurt if people misunderstand me or think that
now I know everything because that's not, I feel like I'm learning and I'm trying to
figuring it out as we go.
And I have lots of questions and learning little by little and two steps forward and
one back.
So I don't know, that is actually maybe a question I could ask for a fire chat.
I don't know.
Maybe for our next rest group, but just how do you respond in those situations?
And is it like the things about being in Jesus can surpass or bypass all these things that
the world is learning and the church is learning with cognitive therapy, with inner healing,
with psychology.
So that is what I'm going through right now.
And that was interesting and also a little bit hard.
And this journey share is a little bit long, but that's what I wanted to share.
And I would love to hear you guys' feedback.
All right, have a really good Saturday and I'll see you again next week.