We’re designed to explore and grow. The problem is that as we explore, we bump into pain.

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As a result of pain, we create internal rules— often hidden from our conscious mind that cause us to self-protect going forward. Therein lies the problem—

👉 We “live out” of these rules (read: thought patterns), but we’re often not sure WHY we react the way we do in certain situations.

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In the same way muscle memory creates “automatic” behaviors physically, so also does SOUL memory.

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The takeaway: we may need a new set of rules. The patterns that served us well in the past might not work well going forward. In fact, they may hinder us….

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Next best steps

🎧 Access the previous episode, Photizo — this talk builds on that

📺 Watch the (free) “Emotional Wholeness Checklist” video on the GY6 site: https://www.gy6.online/blog/EWC

💜 Purchase the SOUL WHOLENESS masterclass— https://www.jenkins.tv/SWV

📬 Signup for “The Daily” / e-devotional of the day— www.Jenkins.tv/TD

Many times we SEE what we’ve been preconditioned to see…

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Two stories in the Old Testament, 40 years apart, illustrate this.

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Story 1– The 12 spies felt like grasshoppers compared to the giants in the promised land. Numbers 13-14

Story 2– 2 spies meet Rahab, who reveals the people of Jericho (the “giants”) have been “melting in fear” for 40 years— because they feared the children of Israel. Joshua 2

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It happens all the time to us.

We we see things “incorrectly,” it causes us to—

👉 See OTHERS differently, such that we’re not able to receive from them or encourage them

👉 See OURSELVES differently, such that we’re not able to walk into our full purpose / passion

👉 See OUR SITUATION differently, such that we don’t see God’s resources and abundance around us…

Perhaps this is why so many verses in the Bible tell us to—

✅ Consider what we think and how we think (Proverbs 23:7)

✅ Recognize that God can do far more than we can think or imagine (Ephesians 3:19-20)

✅ Realize that we have the “mind” (read: imagination) of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16)

✅ See that God has a grace-empowered destiny for us (Ephesians 2:8-10).

And…

… to the point of the title…

Paul prays that the eyes of our heart / soul be PHOTIZO / photosynthesis (life-creating, life-giving).

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Next best steps

🪩 Discover who you are— the IDENTITY book / course— https://www.jenkins.tv/identity

📬 Signup for “The Daily” / e-devotional of the day— www.Jenkins.tv/TD

A few links to projects that are running right now:

🚌 Jenkins.tv | personal development

📣 AmplifyOnline.info | platform your idea

⚙️GY6.online | PTSD + Moral Injury project

🦅 LifeLift.online | pastors/ministry leaders

Maybe you find yourself in “liminal space,” that odd space where you haven’t quite left the past season YET you haven’t quite stepped into the next season, either.

You’re in the middle, on the threshold.

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The Children of Israel learned that we often meet God in that space… the middle. For sure, we can EXTEND the stay, but we can’t “quicken” in, because there are certain things that can only be acquired in these wilderness spaces.

That’s where the Israelites encountered—

💥 God’s POWER

🍞 God’s PROVISION

🔥 God’s PRESENCE

In fact, some of them became so enamored with the wilderness they chose NOT to embrace their destiny and cross into the Promised Land.

When we cross over, though, we find that—

💥 God’s POWER

🍞 God’s PROVISION

🔥 God’s PRESENCE

… it ALL GOES WITH US…

… even if the experience of it / how we encounter it all changes.

So, pursue the PRESENCE…

If you’re experiencing a divine POSTPONEMENT, embrace it. God is doing something in you, with you…

If you’re experiencing self-imposed PROCRASTINATION, it may be time to make your next move…

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Next best steps

🍎 Free “grace basics” audio course— https://www.jenkins.tv/grace

💥 The Freedom March “self-study”— https://www.jenkins.tv/FM

📬 Signup for “The Daily” / e-devotional of the day— www.Jenkins.tv/TD

A few links to projects that are running right now:

🚌 Jenkins.tv | personal development

📣 AmplifyOnline.info | platform your idea

⚙️GY6.online | PTSD + Moral Injury project

🦅 LifeLift.online | pastors/ministry leaders