Every person has to travel to the cross experientially. Our lives can't be just talk, but TRUTH in us!
Steps:
1. Frustration - He wants all of me. We feel confusion, defeat and pain, loss of confidence. He is beginning to peel off layers and we feel it in our entirety.
2. Lonely, Isolated - No one else can go to the cross with us. We go alone with Jesus and we have to depend on God. God creates us for himself. Jesus carried His own cross until he could no longer bear it. God wanted absolute total dependence on Himself.
3. Fearful - Has God forsaken me? (No, He hasn't!) Way we feel!
4. Rejection - because we feel forsaken.
5. Humiliation - Valley of humiliation to failure.
6. Failure - Before we can experience and live in power, we must be humbled. Humiliated in death - Failed in our Christian life which produces anxiety. In death we feel failures in our Christian life, leads to anxiety and indecisiveness.
7. Grieved - In our spirit and attitudes when we fail in the Christian experience, we grieve. This then affects our attitudes.
8. Angry - God why are you allowing all of this - We blame other people (the church) and then God, who won't listen because He wants us to go through this.
9. Rebellious - Against the people around us and against God. I am going to make things work!! All things fall apart - Self Effort.
10. Worthlessness - In this we feel that everything is failing and nothing is working out.
11. Weary and Worn - Can't handle much more and discouragement results. God you will have to handle it. The depth of failure, failure, failure. Great!!
Go to Jesus and begin to think about Him at Gethsemane and we ask Jesus if there is any other way. There is none! We look at Christ who went to the the cross realizing that there was no other way for us to discover what God's will is unless we go there too. Satan will always offer another route and at that point we will always be saying "My God, My God." (Ex. God breaks people - the grain of wheat where the seed has to die before we can grow.) We are all fruits of the crucifixion of Jesus. He wants us to bear fruit, too.
"Lovest thou Me -
Feed My Sheep."
John 21
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