From The Final Quest by Rick Joyner:

I was thinking how descending the mountain was teaching me as much as climbing it had, when noise from the battlefield drew my attention. By now there were thousands of the mighty warriors who had crossed the plain to attack the remnant of the enemy horde. The enemy was fleeing in all directions, except for the one division, Pride. Completely undetected, it had marched right up to the rear of the advancing warriors, and was about to release a hail of arrows. It was then that I noticed the mighty warriors had no armor on their backsides-they were totally exposed and vulnerable to what was about to hit them.

Wisdom then remarked, “You have taught that there was no armor for the backside, which meant that you were vulnerable if you ran from the enemy. However, you never saw how it made you vulnerable if you advanced in pride.” Continue reading →

Meiers Briggs

Enneagram

A & B traumas and the development of the brain (The Life Model)
Type A trauma – the absence of necessary good things
Type B trauma – bad things that happen

Grace, Truth and Time, the Keys to Growth
from Changes that Heal
by Dr. Henry Cloud

When the real self comes into relationship with God and others, an incredible dynamic is set into motion: We grow as God created us to grow. It is only when you are connected to the Head (Jesus Christ) and connected to others (the Body) that “the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow” (Colossians 2:19) A coming together of grace and truth in Jesus Christ is our only hope, and indeed it is a hope that does not disappoint.

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Step 1 – We admitted we were powerless over our addiction – that our lives had become unmanageable

Step 2 – Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity

Step 3 – Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God

Step 4 – Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves

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