SAMPLE #4

CHAPTER 3

Introduction to Thorns 

The one on whom seed was sown among the thorns, this is the man who hears the word, and the worry of the world and the deceitfulness…choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

—Matthew 13:22

As you now know, when you’re born, you enter this world filled with feelings from the category of love. So what happens to all this fertile soil upon which God built your soul? As soon as you’re born, the enemy immediately tries to infiltrate your soul to ruin the fertile soil. He does this by placing fears of such things as abandonment, betrayal, judgment, and rejection into your soul. I call these fears thorns.

Worse yet, the enemy recruits other humans, some acting with the best of intentions, to help him ruin your fertile soil. As you’ll see, the enemy attacks immediately when you enter this world. Then, as you grow up, people, with the help and guidance of the enemy, begin to pour their own personal fears onto you. They will, of course, teach you their superstitions such as telling you not to spill the salt or walk under the ladder because such things will bring you bad luck. They will also teach you their phobias, such as a fear of heights or claustrophobia, by telling you things such as not to climb too high in that tree because you’ll fall and break your neck or not to hide in the closet because you might get stuck or because there’s a monster in there.

The fears that I’m talking about here go far deeper than silly superstitions or even real and scary phobias. The fears I’m talking about can run so deep that they affect your every waking and sleeping moment. Not only do you get to endure the pain that’s brought on by harboring these fears inside you, but you also get to pass them and their associated pain down from generation to generation.

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Your thorns take up the space inside you that Jesus wants to occupy. You ask him to enter, but then you squeeze Him in there with all those thorns. You ask Jesus to dwell in the same place as your fears of such things as abandonment, betrayal, rejection, judgment, and more.

God resides in your soul, on the love side. Removing your thorns makes more room for God to grow inside you. As God’s presence grows within you, you’ll begin to feel and experience more peace, joy, love, happiness, and freedom. You’ll then be able to ride the wave of all these God-like feelings all the way to actualizing your true potential.

The more thorns, or fear, you have in your soul, the less room there is for God within you. God is the Love in your soul. Jesus within you is your source of joy, peace, freedom, creativity, imagination, and potential. If you allow your thorns to take up space in your soul, you deny God that space and are surrendering it to the enemy. This means that you’re also trading your peace for chaos and conflict. You’re trading your joy for anxiety and your happiness for stress. You’re crowding out your imagination and creativity with worry. You’re not putting your entire God-given energy toward the fulfillment of your potential.

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Your thorns create pain in your heart that you either feel or unknowingly constantly try to avoid feeling. You may avoid people, love, and opportunity in your effort to avoid the pain of abandonment, betrayal, judgment, or rejection, but you still have done nothing to remove your fears of abandonment, betrayal, judgment, or rejection. You may feel that you’re now safe from these thorns, but actually at this point your whole life is consumed with protecting yourself from them, leaving little time to find Jesus and move in the light.

The good news is that you can allow that spark of God within you to grow into a roaring flame that consumes your whole soul and pours love into your life. To do this, you must remove your thorns.

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Eventually, on one of the occasions when you get to the place where God and His kingdom are located within you, you won’t choose to retreat. You will persuade yourself to stay there this time. At that point you’ll begin to recognize that the feelings of love are your natural, God-given feelings. You’ll be comfortable with these good feelings for the first time since childhood. You’ll finally understand that you’re entitled to feel good. God is that goodness. You’re entitled to your Father. Align yourself with how He made you, and you’ll always bask in His love and His grace.

The enemy will tempt you to do things that glorify your ego, such as putting in your two cents. He will give you the feeling that you are always right. He might even get you invited to hang out with the wrong people disguised as the in-crowd. You can fight the enemy off by declaring that you prefer to glorify your soul and the Kingdom of God that exists within you. As good things begin to happen to you and for you, it might feel strange. Don’t sabotage the goodness; instead, embrace it. Be excited, not anxious, and enjoy the flow of goodness, because you deserve it. Follow this flow to your destiny.

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Change Comes at Various Speeds; Stay with It

God won’t burden you with sudden changes to your feelings or behaviors unless He knows that you can handle them at that moment. If so, these sudden changes will feel natural and almost go unnoticed until they’ve taken hold. Most of the change you experience will be gradual, with an ebb and flow featuring moments of strength and moments of weakness. One day you just look up and realize that things have changed a bit for the better, and you look forward to the next level the Lord will be bringing you to. Either way, the point is that God will pace your change and feed it to you in portions you can handle so that it sticks. Enjoy the journey, marveling at the little changes along the way back to your real and natural self.

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