James MacDonald communicates what I had heard and learned so many years prior to finding Jesus. "Have you been seeking to be the person God wants you to be by thinking the key is unlocking the past? If so, I challenge you to reject that faulty methodology." You can try to change yourself all you want, but Real changes comes through the truth and power of God. I pray that God opens the hearts and gives wisdom to anyone who listens to this.
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"True life change comes Only through partnership with God and must begin with the rejection of All faulty, self-centered, change methods." ~James MacDonald
"God wants us to face our past, deal with it, and then put it behind us." (We of course can only do this with His great help)
Faulty Methods that we need to get Rid of:
1)Environment Change – aka – Behaviorism (the belief that we are the result of the environment in which we have grown up in)
2)Change by “digging up my past” – aka – Psychoanalysis (we repress information and we may not be aware of things messing us up that we have stuffed deep inside of us, so we need to Find it and dig it up and spill our guts. And, until we do, we will never really change. But, the *Bible* teaches that the key is not ‘remembering’ things that may, or may not, have happened. The Bible teaches that the key to Real transformation is forgiving and forgetting…Not remembering.)
3)Change through Self-Discovery – aka – Humanistic Psychology (people are controlled by their own values and choices. The goal is to help you discover and achieve your own potential. ‘The answer is Within you. Find yourself! Love yourself! Help yourself!’ You have what you need to be who you want to be.) Problems with this = 1) It Doesn’t Work! 2) It’s contrary to the biblical view of man. ~The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked. Jeremiah 17:9~
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