Comments on: Lent for Leaders: With God in the Wilderness https://transformingcenter.org/2022/03/lent-for-leaders-with-god-in-the-wilderness/ Strengthen The Soul Of Your Leadership Sun, 20 Mar 2022 21:13:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Laura O'Neill https://transformingcenter.org/2022/03/lent-for-leaders-with-god-in-the-wilderness/#comment-731712 Sun, 20 Mar 2022 21:13:49 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=15393#comment-731712 Dear Ruth and all – Thank you for expending so much time and insight planning and producing the blogs and podcasts. The Lenten series of podcasts is extremely timely. I am confronted and comforted simultaneously. What a brutal initiation into ministry! Jesus wilderness temptations were uncomfortable and daunting – yet necessary. I sense that I’m in a season of letting go and stripping away. As we spend time with Jesus in the wilderness I feel like he is also spending time with me in my own wilderness, which until now just seemed like a wasteland rather than a proving ground. I just inserted the link to this page in my blog because it is impacting me so strongly. I’ve been blogging about liminal spaces. Wilderness, it seems to me, is the quintessential liminal space.

Learn to pronounceThank you.

]]> By: Tom Boyle https://transformingcenter.org/2022/03/lent-for-leaders-with-god-in-the-wilderness/#comment-731711 Mon, 14 Mar 2022 23:54:07 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=15393#comment-731711 I have believed for years that Jesus went purposefully into the wilderness to wrest control of the planet from Satan himself. Adam had ceded control, and Jesus had to take it back. Satan had tried to kill him as a small child through Herod, then lost track of him. When Jesus was baptized by John, it was announced to all of the spiritual realm who he was and where he was. His identity and location were no longer a mystery. Satan offered him all the kingdoms of the world because, at that moment, they were his to give — he owned them. This contest in the spiritual realm was epic. From this moment on, Satan had an opponent he could not defeat. His days were, and continued to be, numbered.

]]> By: Ruth Barton https://transformingcenter.org/2022/03/lent-for-leaders-with-god-in-the-wilderness/#comment-731696 Mon, 07 Mar 2022 14:21:26 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=15393#comment-731696 In reply to Danielle Kuznetsov.

Yes, these are great questions and the book Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership is really my attempt to begin addressing them–especially chapter 2 (“What Lies Beneath”) and chapter 3 (“The Place of Our Own Conversion”). Your questions really take us the heart of the spiritual journey and it’s not possible to adequately address them in the comment section of a blog post 🙂 so I hope you can grab the book and work through it slowly. Please know that as we continue to pray for the terrible and important fight in the Ukraine, we will pray for you as you care for refugees in Jesus’ name. God be with you and give you strength.

]]> By: Danielle Kuznetsov https://transformingcenter.org/2022/03/lent-for-leaders-with-god-in-the-wilderness/#comment-731695 Sun, 06 Mar 2022 08:18:49 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=15393#comment-731695 In reply to Jjames@transformingcenter.org.

Thank you for replying! I will try and listen. I am in Germany and we are helping refugees right now from Ukraine. We lived for many years in Russia, have family and friends in both places, and are involved in this spiritual fight. Please pray for those on the ground in Poland receiving refugees and the people of Russia who are already paying for the choice of their government.

]]> By: Jjames@transformingcenter.org https://transformingcenter.org/2022/03/lent-for-leaders-with-god-in-the-wilderness/#comment-731694 Sun, 06 Mar 2022 00:59:34 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=15393#comment-731694 In reply to Danielle Kuznetsov.

These are great questions Danielle, and I hope you are listening to the podcast season as I believe she intends to cover topics like these. Also, this is a shameless plug for podcast patrons, but Ruth takes and answers question submission on special “Ask Ruth” episodes. These would make great submissions!

]]> By: Danielle Kuznetsov https://transformingcenter.org/2022/03/lent-for-leaders-with-god-in-the-wilderness/#comment-731693 Sat, 05 Mar 2022 15:44:34 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=15393#comment-731693 Thank you for this Ruth. I have a few questions, please. First, how do we allow our motives to be purified practically? Is it through confession when the motive becomes apparent? How do we make the exchange of the false drives in us so that we are transformed to be able to lead? And finally, how do we know what our God-ordained ministry is? Thank you for sharing any wisdom.

]]> By: Ruth Barton https://transformingcenter.org/2022/03/lent-for-leaders-with-god-in-the-wilderness/#comment-731690 Fri, 04 Mar 2022 13:37:53 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=15393#comment-731690 In reply to Gary Franklin.

So good to hear from you, Gary! Glad this landed in a timely way for you. Blessings….

]]> By: Ruth Barton https://transformingcenter.org/2022/03/lent-for-leaders-with-god-in-the-wilderness/#comment-731688 Thu, 03 Mar 2022 02:50:53 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=15393#comment-731688 You’re so welcome, all! Grateful to know we are journeying together in this important season!

]]> By: Courtnee White https://transformingcenter.org/2022/03/lent-for-leaders-with-god-in-the-wilderness/#comment-731687 Wed, 02 Mar 2022 19:30:52 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=15393#comment-731687 Yes Jesus, I agree with this invitation. Please protect us from despair, let us put our hope in you. Lead us each into a wilderness time. Please clear us out, purify us. Plow up the unplowed ground. Strengthen us with the filling of your Holy Spirit. Give us eyes to see through the temptations to the true spiritual realities. Amen and Amen.

]]> By: Jeffery James https://transformingcenter.org/2022/03/lent-for-leaders-with-god-in-the-wilderness/#comment-731685 Wed, 02 Mar 2022 17:27:01 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=15393#comment-731685 Thank you for these great invitations. I am excited to journey with you in Lent through the podcast.

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