Higher Dimension In Personal Growth

When I think about the Restoration process of mankind as the Spirit of Love reaches out to him/ her and guides toward a complete knowing and understanding of who God is, who they are, and what the relationship with God was intended to be — the picture of an abused animal, and maybe even more specifically, an abused dog, appears in my mind.

♦ I see how I needed to be healed, just like that emotionally wounded animal, to come to experience what a functional, loving relationship really is with a human friend, and what a true life experience was intended to be.

♦ I see the greatest obstacles being deep-rooted fear to come close, and an uncertainty of how to behave towards love.

♦ I see the fear of “doing something wrong” that may lead to an outburst of anger and consequences that would normally have followed.

♦ I see the submission, but not because of love or to love, but rather because that’s what is expected to avoid any trouble.

♦ I see the inner desire that wants to just let go and receive the love being offered, but the uncertainty that keeps the animal from being able to do so, for fear of possible failure.

♦ I see the shivering as the desire to respond to love and just to open up wars against the logic that warns against doing so.

♦ I see the desire to be friends, but what has been taught through experience becomes the barrier that needs to be broken down, and a new mindset that needs to be programmed, over time, before a true relationship based upon love and not intimidation will ever be possible.

In the same way, ♦ I see how God needed to deal with me, and still does today!

How He patiently kept wooing me with His Love, no pressure applied, until I would feel safe to come closer, how He had to slowly convince me that what religion had taught me in experience and in forming my beliefs was a false frequency, no more than intimidation through fear.

♦ That it was never what I was supposed to experience.

♦ That a true, loving and authentic experience with Him is possible.

♦ That I don’t need to be afraid to come close to Him.

♦ That He does not change His mind or His behaviour.

♦ That Love is constant.

And as the relationship keeps growing and He is able to lead me to greater freedoms without fear, showing me that what He intended for me was even more than friendship, but Union — that He intended for me to be His Face, Nature, Character, and Personality, and ♦ that the Greatness of His Ability was designed in me to be released through me — I continue to learn to let go of everything that would restrain me from knowing Him as I should, and fully surrender to His Love.

Religion is a taskmaster that played the role of an abusive owner. A fear-monger! A manipulator that spread false narratives which resulted in a distorted view of who God really is.

When we are ready to truly meet Him as He is, the journey of trust, Love, unlearning and forgetting, and entering into new adventures in His Love — Adventures that we never even knew we could enter into or ever imagined possible — begins!

Postscript

In God’s Domain there are no rules, no laws, no religion.

He invites us to meet Him there.

“And we all, with unveiled face, continually seeing as in a mirror the Glory of the Lord, are progressively being transformed into His image from [one degree of] Glory to [even more] Glory, which comes from the Lord, [who is] the Spirit.” 1 Corinthians 3:18 AMPC.

 

~ Johann van der Hoven

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Johann van der Hoven has followed the Holy Spirit on a transformative journey since 1990. From 1991 onward, he has experienced and walked in the profound reality of God’s Presence, a journey that has shaped his life and message.

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