Start of A New Era!!!

I have been writing a blog for the last several years, to share my journey in grace.  I recently was led of the Lord to end this blog, "Much of this was your effort, I want to do something new through you."  The original idea of the blog was from the Lord but then I went off in my own direction with it, making it mainly about my journey with the Lord.  In John 12:24 Jesus says, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit."  So forbidding farewell to the old blog (http://www.soaringson.blogspot.com/) was the seed for this new Blog.  I realize that I have come to the point in my life where I am tired of things still being about me, my heartbeat is to know and experience the heart of My Abba up close and personal.  So the Father has been wooing me to a deeper place of discovery and adventure to know Him intmately.  This is both an exciting invitation and a scarey one, much of the time I have sought the Father from a place of pain and hurt or sought for others to experience Him who are in pain.  Thus I have spent much of my spiritual journey motivated by the pain and loss in my heart from the loss of my own earthly father when I was 6 years old.  The Lord has shifted the season in my life, it is time to know My Abba up close and enjoy this relationship.  Knowing God through your pain and loss gives you one perspective, like the blind man that received his sight.  This man knew Jesus one way, as the Healer but did He know God's complete nature?  I believe the adventure My Abba has led me to undertake is the one I was born to take, my former journey has only been a small dimension of what lays ahead.  I love pictures I get of My Abba in other human beings, the above YouTube video of a father and son touches the strength, commitment, and depth of a father's love for his son (clearly it is from beyond this world).  The motivation of our heart at a deep level either eminates from fear or love, as you watch this video what is it that motivates this father to beat his body in order to run these races with his son.  I have been led by the Holy Spirit to not primarily look at people I know, or even people I don't, or look at myself.  He has been leading me to look into the eyes of Jesus through the Word of God, since Jesus is the exact expression of the Father.  I will begin this journey in the book of John, I have been drawn to the disciple John since he was the "disciple Jesus loved".  This man that was so intimate with Jesus, the Son of God, will lead me to new discoveries of Abba Father and His nature.  I honestly feel very inadequate for this journey but then I see that I am in union with the Spirit of God who leads me into all truth (John 16:13).  The Holy Spirit is going to illuminate mysteries about Our Abba that I have not seen and maybe many others.  I am well qualified by the Holy Spirit and in the natural totally unqualified (being fatherless most of my life) which is the greatest opening to know Him (personal need).  The people that knew Jesus as He walked on earth were those who needed Him, the religious did not recognize the Messiah.  The blind, the deaf, the crippled, and the demon-possessed knew Jesus as Healer whereas the religious questioned His power to heal and even said He drove out demons by Satan's power.  In John 1 it says that Jesus came out of the bosom of the Father and came to earth, Jesus is the expression of the Father's heart to the world.   Bill Johnson has said on several occassions, "Jesus is perfect theology."  I am praying that the heart of the Father will leap off the pages becoming real and life-changing.  I invite you to share in this journey into the Heart of Our Abba, we are sons and daughters with a right to know our Abba.

In My Abba's Grip,
Bret