The Power of Resurrection Living

This material is adapted from my forth-coming book, “The Power of Resurrection Living”:

 Joni Erickson Tada, author, singer, artist, radio personality, and advocate for the disabled, when asked in an interview by Dr. Tim Clinton, how she coped with being a quadriplegic. He response: “I have come to know HIS presence is enough.”

In the challenges of life we can live in God’s presence to discover He is setting us free to be the person He created us to be.

This whole site is about intimacy, intimacy with God and being more attuned to God’s loving presence and transforming power: resurrection living. 

We can also exercise our brain to be more attentive to God.  Explanation in brain basics, Scripture reflection along with insights and questions will enable you to be more intentional of God’s company in your daily life.

Expedition: A journey into authentic living.

Authenticity: The courage to be yourself.

I am a poster child for Complex Post Traumatic Disorder. Imagine you are a five year old kid in the middle of war. You’re scantily clothe, malnourished and attempting to keep yourself and a woman alive. Trying to hide, you and she are relentlessly pursued, discovered and wounded. One misstep could wipe you out, land mines and bobby-traps have been concealed throughout the landscape. The wounds go so deep you think they will never heal, all of this executed by an enemy who has betrayed you both. The reason for the battle: you. You are the cause of the conflict, suffering and unhappiness. 

Now a teenager, feeling abandoned, attempting to make your way through the mine field of daily living. Profound shame haunts your every move. You cannot need, you are unworthy. You can’t grasp the rules of healthy relationships. Still clutching your shredded clothing, you try to make the best of it. You fake it, always smile and placate so “they” won’t know what you are: toxic. 

Now as an adult, you only have faint mental images of all these things. However, you swing between feeling numb to mental flooding, anesthetized amid emotional storms and you don’t know why. 

However, I am discovering God has the power to redeem trauma into the wonder of intimacy and the seed bed of blessing others, even when the wounds are caused by a unpredictable violent alcoholic father and an over-dependent mother. 

Resurrection living is an ongoing activity in which the Holy Spirit reclaims the wounds, failures, sorrows, missteps and abandonments transforming them into a source of God’s intended creative purpose in us, being Christ-like. 

A taped message by Millard Baux was an epiphany for me. The insight became the lodestar of the Holy Spirit’s movement in my and the life of so many.

Millard stood before 600 people during a Wednesday night prayer meeting at his church in Houston, Texas and proclaimed, “I would rather be on the top of a sand dune in the middle of God’s will than pastor the largest church in Texas.”

Through a series of hilarious God-ordered events, 160 days later he was pastoring a church in Yuma, Arizona.

After some time griping and grumbling before the Lord, he shares the following conversation with Him.

“Millard, do you know why you’re here?”

“No Lord, I have no idea.”

 “I want you to drive out to the middle of the desert.”

According to Millard, he drives around the desert for some time, wondering why he is out there. He finally finds two palm trees in the shape of a large V in the middle of nowhere. He sits under them because he does not know what else to do.

The Lord, “Millard can you explain how these palm trees exist in the middle of nowhere?”

Millard, “No Lord, I can’t.”

“Go home and find out about palm trees.”

Millard discovered palm trees have a deep taproot burrowing to a water source.

The Lord, “Now, Millard, do you understand why you’re here?”

“No, Lord.”

“Just like those palm trees which have deep roots into an unknown water source, I desire to be your Water Source. You are here to discover I am your life in inexplicable ways. I want to be inside of you and before others as your fount of spirituality and life.”

This site can become your personal beginning of God’s reclamation process as He became the fount of spirituality and life.