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Prophetic scene…

I realized that the scene in Iron Man 3 where Killian contemplated jumping over the roof, but decided against it was actually quite prophetic of my NP retreat experience…


He was waiting and desiring an encounter that never happened… but it absolutely changed his life, driving him to seek greatness with everything he had.

Given, the message behind that scene in the movie and my own experience at retreat carry two very different morals, but I’m so surprised with just how dang similar they look…


Truly, death is preferable to separation from His presence… there is nothing I want more. There is absolutely nothing greater or of more value than being with You, of knowing You. You are worth more than everything.

The scary thing is that we can become highly successful in spiritual endeavors even without establishing our minds in the meditation of the word of God. We can have successful healing ministries and prophetic ministries, we can speak in tongues and prophesy, we can interpret dreams and cast out demons, but all the while our minds are flapping around in reaction to every wind that comes our way.

This is why we are simultaneously experiencing both the greatest implosion of the spiritual life and the greatest explosion of knowledge in the history of Christianity. Knowledge is useful for building a house, but control over the soul is the only thing that will enable it to remain standing.

Benjamin Israel Robinson “A Path Through Mighty Waters”
So this picture… I saw a very similar image in a vision at my first Emmaus retreat two years ago… Today I noticed it’s actually the image for LiNK’s theory of change page… A section that the R&S Department is responsible for. That’s the department I currently intern with. On top of that, a pastor who didn’t know me at all two years ago prophesied that I would return in the far future to do a great work… (during my second Sunday in Korea when I was an exchange student) In retrospect I see so clearly that God was planning this the whole time. Jesus is my greatest desire…
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So this picture…

I saw a very similar image in a vision at my first Emmaus retreat two years ago…

Today I noticed it’s actually the image for LiNK’s theory of change page… A section that the R&S Department is responsible for. That’s the department I currently intern with.

On top of that, a pastor who didn’t know me at all two years ago prophesied that I would return in the far future to do a great work… (during my second Sunday in Korea when I was an exchange student)

In retrospect I see so clearly that God was planning this the whole time.

Jesus is my greatest desire…

But Jesus wants more than merely to make me more productive, and so he wants to take from me not only futile thoughts, but my productive thoughts as well, because without His presence even productivity is futile.
Benjamin Israel Robinson “A Path Through Mighty Waters”
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