Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Finding your Damascus Part 1

Finding your Damascus Part 1
Down the well and back again

This Lesson Comes from Episode 1 The Girl who overcame time and the boy who was just overcome.
Other lessons from this episode: Unfinished Business, All are bound till They are Free, Demons in the Past.

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           Finding your Damascus is one of my favorite ministry topics to talk about. It is a concept I came up with all on my own. The idea of finding your Damascus comes from Acts 9. The Lord audibly spoke to Saul. Saul asked what to do. Then the Lord told him to go to Damascus and there he will be told what there is for him to do. In essence, he had to go somewhere to find out what God had for him. Once he was there, his life changed forever. He encountered Jesus and gave his life to Him. He got baptized and started preaching Jesus. He was now fighting on the other side of a spiritual warfare. The trip to Damascus changed his life forever. And in case you didn’t realize it, this is the apostle Paul who wrote most of the New Testament. His trip to Damascus changed the whole world.  
Everyone has their own Damascus. Everyone has a place where they have to go where God will reveal to them things that He wouldn’t have otherwise. It might be a physical location or it might just be a an emotional place in your life. Your Damascus may be college, or a convention. It may be the shop down the road, your friend’s house, or the tree in the backyard. It may even be watching InuYasha, which I know revealed a lot to me.
For Kagome, it was the Bone-Eater’s well. When she went down the well she was transported to a different time, almost another dimension. Her life was turned upside down. She encountered the spiritual realm for the first time. She was given a new mission and a new purpose. She grew in her spiritual powers. She made new friends and had new teachers, and in the end, she even got married to someone from the other side of the well. She started fighting a spiritual warfare against Naraku and the other demons. Her trip down the well changed the InuYasha world. If she had never gone down the well, the sacred jewel would never have been back in the world for everyone to fight over. And when she came back to the modern world, do you think she was the same as before she went? No! It changed her life forever.

Your bone eater’s well or your Damascus, whichever you prefer, is out there. All you have to do is go there, and your life, and the world, will never be the same. Listen to the call of God on your life. Wherever He is telling you to go, whatever he is telling you to do, just do it.

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