UPDATED NEW VERSION-July 20
CAN YOU “SEE” BEYOND LIMITS
(Check out the details in this cave. The 2nd level grit of our Brother Jesus cuts me deep. What a man.What a God.)
Our eyeballs are connected to our heart. We have within ourselves the actual capacity to see things that are invisible (Heb.11:27/Rm.1:20). It’s called insight far beyond eyesight. It is the mean God put within us in order to “see” His Presence in all creation. I have always been fascinated by Jesus saying ‘Unless one is born again he cannot SEE the kingdom’ (John 3:3). Why would He say this unless there really is something to see? Well, I can honestly say I “see”. I see the kingdom.
And as we are so we see.Why am I so generated to run around the world for Jesus? Because I “see” whats coming. It’s the reason the Son of God died on a cross. As our mind does process criteria that comes before our eyes so does our heart interject faith. Out of this process we choose to “see”. In each prison we enter we see as the Lord sees these men; forgotten, destitute, broken. This is what generates supernatural love. A love that people are amazed by. We are constantly asked ‘How do you do it?’. Because we see the Lord.
Just finished a prison with some beautiful men. So tragic they were all just heading into long prison terms. They were so grateful that we were able to supply the gas for their generators so they could have electricity. Total victims to the Brazilian prison system which is one of the worst we’ve been in throughout the world.
No one likes to be thought of as a victim. Our pride puts us up as no victim to another. Such stupidity. Pride says we are always in control. Even common sense chuckles. All of life can involve this madness or we can part with it immediately and start receiving the perks. Because the truth is we will never be able to learn all that can be learned on the right side of humility. It is an astonishing thing when a man can recognize his own failure, weakness and vulnerability and be able to analyze it an objective and intelligent manner. That dude has a rich life. No defensiveness or excuses. He receives abundant benefits to give others.
In other words if we can get to the point where we don’t fall apart and cave in due to the weight of our own hurt because we see a higher purpose to our fight than our own growth we truly got someplace we’ve never been before. I constantly critique and evaluate myself as both an individual son in the anointing of Christ and a member of fallen humanity wanting to help my brothers and sisters. It really melts that cold edge of self-righteousness. It is really one my primary goals for the rest of my life to help men see how we can evaluate our greatest pain in an purely objective manner as a result of a God-imparted ability to see and understand the demonic strategy in our imaginations.
Jesus was a victim of all our worst sin. Like C.S. Lewis wrote “When a willing victim offers himself in a traitors stead…”. The entire Bible is written because we are victims of Adam’s sin. The Father has provided the ultimate “Stead” for our victimhood. The Substitute stands for us because God sees we are not the origin of our sin but the victim. Sin is more complex and destructive than the most complex scientific formula. We are victim to complete spiritual ignorance.
Out only hope is humility. In fact Jesus calls us to become an overcomer because He has made so we can overcome all sense of vulnerability but not through pride. How’d ya like to actually sit down on His throne with Him? Worth doing some extraordinary stuff to change? Not works of the flesh but of the Spirit by faith. I love Pauls question “What then has Abraham found?” (Rm.4:1). Paul makes a point that Abraham “found” something within himself.
I will always be a victim and always a victor. Always dead. Always alive. Carrying my wound while carrying my cross. Always growing to help another victim by becoming an overcomer for his sake. This is the victory that overcomes the world….”our faith” (1 Jn.5:4). Do you realize there is nothing of this world that can defeat you: no thought pattern, no feeling of regret, no emotional mind trap, no sin whatsoever, etc. Jesus doesn’t speak of a defeated future but that of great reward for “an overcomer”. It means we CAN rise above our limits. When Jesus walked out of that cave He left this world and all its death in the wake of His resurrection glory.
I am just recovering from an emergency kidney-stone surgery here in Brazil. I had several large stones and could have lost one of my kidneys except for the total intervention of the Spirit. Long story but enough to say God just delivered me. It involves great pain and surrender. Surrender. Ahh. Surrender. I thought I knew it. A total victim to something far greater than me I can only surrender to His Lordship. And in this I see it is my only place of hope.
We must come to end of ourselves to find what Abraham found. Surely Abraham came to his end out there in the vast desert of scorpions, snakes and fierce desert heat. The guy was 75 yrs. old trucking through miles of sand dunes. Then it hit him. Stop. Where you going Abe? There is no place awaiting us. No destiny determined by a sidewalk, a house or a gathering of people. Our existence our very breath awaits the hand of God. It’s when we live in this tentative awareness of His Presence that we LIVE. It is when destiny goes from theory to a breathing dimension within us called eternal life. Here is where we transition. We see our utter weakness, nothingness and we wait, we hope, we believe, not in something but in One. Just One.
We spend so much of our lives trying to hold it all together—masking wounds with pride, covering fear with control, and calling it strength. But the truth is, most of what we call strength is just survival. It’s armor we’ve built out of pain, shame, and a fear of being seen as weak. We fake power because we’re terrified of powerlessness. We hustle for worth, pretend to have answers, and even try to clean ourselves up before coming to God—as if He didn’t already see straight through us.
But real strength—holy, soul-deep strength—doesn’t begin until we finally come to the end of all that pretending. When life breaks us low enough, when the masks crack and the pride bleeds out, we start to see it: we are not enough. And we were never meant to be. That ache, that emptiness, that sense of falling short over and over again—it’s not a flaw. It’s a signal. A cry from the soul that we were made for dependence, not dominance.
Only when we see our nothingness—our inability to save, fix, or carry ourselves—can we truly turn in faith to the One who can. Christ isn’t waiting for our cleaned-up version. He meets us in the collapse, in the honesty, in the ugly truth. And that’s where real life begins—not with proving ourselves, but with throwing ourselves fully on the mercy of God.
The gospel isn’t about becoming stronger. It’s about dying to the lie of false strength so we can rise in His. That’s where freedom is. That’s where peace lives. Not in being “good enough,” but in knowing we never were—and “finding” that faith that leads to the security of an old man wandering in the desert happy as a lark.
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL STORY TO GO FROM VICTIM OF PAGAN IDOLATRY TO OVERCOMER-The first man to know God. Just like you and I can know Him. There is nothing more powerful than waking up to the force of your own life. That you need not look to anyone or anything. The righteous man SHALL LIVE by faith (Rm.1:17). No greater joy than to see within yourself this process of the Holy Spirit working death and resurrection of the living Lord Jesus Christ – Choice.
A lot of people don’t run to Christ—they run to Christianity as a system. They pick up the Bible like a bandage, hoping to patch the cracks, quiet the guilt, clean up just enough to feel okay. It’s a survival move—sweep the dirt under the rug, try to earn back what was lost, perform, behave, maintain the image. But here’s the trap that’s wrecked more souls than prison or addiction ever could: the lie that says you’ve got to fix yourself before God will love you. That you have to get clean before you even deserve His attention. That’s the con that keeps people bound—“I’m too far gone, I’m too dirty to matter.” But the truth is, it’s the heart that knows it’s broken that’s finally getting close to something real. Not church culture. Not good behavior. But raw honesty—that’s where grace breaks through.
Jesus didn’t run from sin—He ran straight into it. He wore it. Felt it. Bore every twisted instinct, every shameful thought, every darkness we carry. Not to condemn us, but to overcome it from the inside out. He doesn’t wait for your best version—He steps into your worst and calls you loved. And then He pours His Spirit not into your strength, but your weakness, because that’s where His power shows up. You don’t need divine energy to climb your way to Him. He already climbed down to you. Why? Because He loves you more than He loved His own safety, His own comfort, His own blood. He overcame for you—and now He says, “Lo, I am with you always.” That’s not soft grace. That’s a war He won with love—and He’s still fighting for your soul right now.
We are working the Amazon areas of Brazil. Our work is intense. Please pray for us. Even 5 seconds.
