BRENDA COBB MURPHY

A Lover of Jesus

It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appteite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus.

(Bill Johnson)

By the end of this Journey you will have had the opportunity to:

  • become comfortable using your spiritual senses

  • have a notebook full of good times with Jesus

  • grow more comfortable using your imagination

  • change your perspective on Jesus and Holy Spirit’s place in your life

  • gain insight into how you perceive God

  • learn to experience Jesus all day every day

  • gain valuable insight into how your current relationship with Jesus can go deeper

  • learn how to relate to Jesus as your Friend instead of a far-away God

  • have had many wonderful experiences with Jesus as you spiritually go places and do things together

EXCERPT from The Journey Guide:

This is not a study guide. It is not a left-brained exercise, all logical, informative, and educational. There are no questions marching neatly across the page, protecting you from getting emotionally involved or trying to manipulate you to get emotionally involved. If that is what you’re looking for than there are dozens of those out there, all set up for you to study, memorize, and research.

 

A relationship with Jesus is personal, making it different for everyone. There are no blueprints for what your relationship with Jesus has to look like. This is a manual of prompts to help you get started, and it is not about thinking, it is about doing. Thinking and using our heads is much easier than getting actively and emotionally involved. A study guide causes you to think. This will cause you to act. A study guide uses your head, while this gets your heart involved. It is much easier to read about a relationship, discuss it, analyze it, think about it, and write about it, but you won’t get to know Jesus doing those things. This manual will walk you step-by-step into a living, breathing relationship with Jesus, your Bridegroom Lover.

Two Prompts From the Book:

Write down at least four different smells that you associate with a memory, good or bad. What emotion do you experience as you relive that memory? What smells do you find pleasure in? Many people have experienced a wonderful supernatural fragrance in their time with Jesus. Ask Him what smells He enjoyed when He walked as man on earth. Which ones did He not like? If you don’t feel like you get anything then guess some answers and write them down.

 

PREPERATION:  Look through a magazine or search online and find a picture of scenery or an activity that pushes your button. Tear it out or print it so that you have a copy. NOTE: if finding the right picture takes more than an afternoon then skip this prompt and move on to the next. Then, once you’ve found the right picture, go back and do this one.

 

Sit back and relax. Pick up your picture you have ready and study it a minute. Pick out the spot where, if you were with Jesus, you would be standing or sitting. Now close your eyes and imagine being in that spot with Jesus. In the movie Mary Poppins Burt, Mary Poppins, and the two children jumped into the chalk picture on the sidewalk. They had all sorts of adventures inside the picture. Look at it that way. Are you walking or standing still? Is there a place in the picture that looks interesting, that you want to walk over and explore more closely? A cabin? Behind the rocks? In that grove of trees? Wading in the water? Where would you put yourself and Jesus into the activity? Are you doing the same thing or enjoying competing with each other? Spend time with Jesus in the picture, enjoying each other and talking, or just enjoy being quiet together. Let Holy Spirit lead what happens. Now write about the experience, no matter how simple or short, or unimportant you might think it is.

 

 

Until you know Christ, it's all religion.

(Marilyn Hempfling)

 
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What Others Say:

"I'm looking over my journal from the Journey Guide and I can see how much it helped me to grow from not being able to connect with Jesus, not even being able to think of him as a brother, let alone a lover or husband - to a dear friend. Thank you for sharing yourself and helping me to come farther than I imagined."

Jan C.

 

"Your book came at just the right time. I was feeling a need for something to feed me spiritually. As I got more into it I knew it was the jewel I was wanting."

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