A Hell of a perspective

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A Hell of a perspective

These are designed to be 10-15 minute meditation practices. If you don't complete the practice then good! Come back for more tomorrow and until it completes a work in your soul rhythms.
​Scripture Contemplation Guide: 1. Invite the Holy Spirit to speak, resonate, reveal, and renovate you. 2. Read through the passage and take in the landscape. What thought does the landscape provoke? What word or phrase pops from the passage of scripture for you? 3. Read slowly through the passage a second time and meditate in silence. What do you hear as you wait in God's presence? 4. Pray conversationally through the scripture to your good Father. Ask Him questions, tell Him about the things you are wrestling with in the passage. Cast your cares on Jesus, be candid, thorough, authentic, and most of all be you. 5. Now thank the Lord for the work He is doing in you and then come back for more as needed!

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Hells Canyon, located on the border of Oregon and Idaho, is North America's deepest river gorge. Its maximum depth is 7,900 feet. The canyon is almost 2,000 feet deeper than the Grand Canyon in Arizona.

Life has a way of making you feel like you have been through Hell and back! You might see the Seven Devil's in your background and no way through the canyon right now but that's your present perspective. It is driven by the emotions, negative circumstances, and experiences that happen in our story. But what if we practice new and different perspectives regarding the hellish activities of our lives and see things through the lens of Jesus?

Back when I took this photo while visiting Hells Canyon, the Lord ministered this passage to me and it has prepared me for every potential hellish experience whether by geographical location, spiritual discernment or metaphorical application! Pray through this passage and expect God for your break through!

Conversational Prayer Passage.

Psalm 43:3-5
Pour into me the brightness of your daybreak! Pour into me your rays of revelation-truth! Let them comfort and gently lead me onto the shining path, showing the way into your burning presence, into your many sanctuaries of holiness. Then I will come closer to your very altar until I come before you, the God of my ecstatic joy! I will praise you with the harp that plays in my heart to you, my God, my magnificent God! Then I will say to my soul, “Don’t be discouraged; don’t be disturbed, for I fully expect my Savior-God to break through for me. (TPT).

What the lens of Jesus (scripture) says about your present Hell.

Psalm 103:4-6
You’ve rescued me from hell and saved my life.
You’ve crowned me with love and mercy.
You satisfy my every desire with good things.
You’ve supercharged my life so that I soar again
like a flying eagle in the sky!
You’re a God who makes things right,
giving justice to the defenseless.

Psalm 144:7
Reach down from your heavens
and rescue me from this hell,
and deliver me from these dark powers.

Pause in his presence

Psalm 39:12-13
Lord, listen to all my tender cries.
Read my every tear, like liquid words that plead for your help.
I feel all alone at times, like a stranger to you,
passing through this life just like all those before me.
Don’t let me die without restoring
joy and gladness to my soul.
May your frown over my failure
become a smile over my success.
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