I have been asking the Lord what TRUE maturity is. What it looks, sounds, and feels like. Many people say it is having a title, or success, being able to do certain things, or become certain things. I have heard it all. I will just be a little bold and even go as far as saying that all the things that we find important in our faith such as, healing the sick, raising the dead, seeing people set free and delivered, nations being saved, or prophesying with prestine accuracy, etc, are IMPORTANT and GOOD, but do not prove maturity. The Lord has been teaching that TRUE maturity is becoming LOVE. That does not mean that we are not to challenge or discipline. But rather it speaks to the motives of our heart. Jesus said to go out into the world, and do all that I listed above, so that the world would know of HIS amazing love for them. That he did not come to condemn but to set free. But, more often then not, we do all these things without real intimacy with the God who gives us the power to do these things!
Ex: I met an amazing Prophet who heard God, but this person was suffering from pain in the back and hip area. They had prayed, others had prayed, declared, stood in faith, etc., and still the pain persisted. My husband and I led this person through a little process of asking God where the cause of the pain was coming from. Of course this prophet was a little offended at first because they had already asked the Lord and they knew how to hear Him. Finally, the prophet came to a place where they heard the Lord say there was a judgment and what that judgement was. They repented and asked God what His truth was about the judgement, they recieved that truth, we spoke healing over the body and that prophet went home without any pain in their body for the first time in years.
My point is that the prophet heard God but lacked, in this situation, to trust in Gods love for them. Their trust had been in the gift not the gift giver. Maturity comes from the intimacy we have with our God; hearing, recieving, experiencing and believing in His truth and love. Lets ask him where our real motives stand! The Bible says if we do, all those things listed above, and have not love they are counted as nothing. ( Our motives were wrong.) God declares in the end that he never knew us. And that would be true because we trusted in the gift and never got to know the Living God, our gift giver. IT IS AN AMAZING THING WHEN WE EXAMINE OUR HEARTS THROUGH THE EYES OF GOD, IT IS LIFE CHANGING! So from one inmature person pursuing intimacy with my savior, I know that true maturity is worth the risk of seeing the ugly in my own heart, allowing Gods truth to heal my heart, and then do and become all that he has created me for, and actually BE LOVE TO A WOUNDED WORLD!
Ex: I met an amazing Prophet who heard God, but this person was suffering from pain in the back and hip area. They had prayed, others had prayed, declared, stood in faith, etc., and still the pain persisted. My husband and I led this person through a little process of asking God where the cause of the pain was coming from. Of course this prophet was a little offended at first because they had already asked the Lord and they knew how to hear Him. Finally, the prophet came to a place where they heard the Lord say there was a judgment and what that judgement was. They repented and asked God what His truth was about the judgement, they recieved that truth, we spoke healing over the body and that prophet went home without any pain in their body for the first time in years.
My point is that the prophet heard God but lacked, in this situation, to trust in Gods love for them. Their trust had been in the gift not the gift giver. Maturity comes from the intimacy we have with our God; hearing, recieving, experiencing and believing in His truth and love. Lets ask him where our real motives stand! The Bible says if we do, all those things listed above, and have not love they are counted as nothing. ( Our motives were wrong.) God declares in the end that he never knew us. And that would be true because we trusted in the gift and never got to know the Living God, our gift giver. IT IS AN AMAZING THING WHEN WE EXAMINE OUR HEARTS THROUGH THE EYES OF GOD, IT IS LIFE CHANGING! So from one inmature person pursuing intimacy with my savior, I know that true maturity is worth the risk of seeing the ugly in my own heart, allowing Gods truth to heal my heart, and then do and become all that he has created me for, and actually BE LOVE TO A WOUNDED WORLD!
