A FAITH-FILLED, PROPHETIC WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT!
January 6, 2024
BY CRYSTAL G.H. LOWERY
Have you reached the BLISS POINT? What does that even mean? I was reading recently about how food scientists create food products to smell and taste at optimum levels with the intent to trigger the desired response to a craving. They use strategies that target the exact amount of ingredients like salt, sugar, and fat that make your brain get excited which then releases a chemical called dopamine. The dopamine rises or falls depending on degrees of satisfaction. The idea is for the food to be produced with the precise mix of these ingredients at the precise levels to trigger your desire for that particular food. When that exact level is reached, it is called the “BLISS POINT.”
When I was reading this, I started to think about our faith journey with the Lord. We are all walking, sometimes running or sprinting, sometimes sitting or even sleeping on this journey. We have highs and we have lows. We know that (for those of us who are believers) the Lord is always with us – that He never leaves us or forsakes us. He guides us and makes paths for us where there was no path before.
Sometimes, we get tired. Often we are worn out and worn down from the attacks of the enemy. But so often, we unfortunately are weary from doing well. The NKJV in Galatians 6:9 tells us, “And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.” How often I have thought of that verse when I get tired and need to renew my mind.
There are highs and lows on this journey, but I believe that God’s best for us is not to be shaken or pulled in directions by stimuli from the world. Just the opposite….We need to renew our mind to TRUTH and to the WORD OF GOD. Just like the food scientists have the perfect calculation and strategy for their devouring consumers, our Creator designed us for peakness. That doesn’t mean that everything will go smoothly because we will face challenges. However, when we get to know JESUS, the author and finisher of our FAITH, our FAITH goes to a new level. When we spend time with Jesus and grow in intimacy with HIM, we become ONE with the One who knows us better than we know ourselves. He knows the number of hairs on our heads. He knows everything about us. We were made for HIM. And…we certainly can’t live fully or optimally without Him.
There is a point at which we reach in our relationship with Jesus that is the BLISS POINT. I believe this is where intimacy with Him really begins and it just keeps getting better. It is continual, never-ending communion and relationship with Him. This triggers our FAITH to soar because we KNOW the ONE who is the AUTHOR of our FAITH and the FINISHER of our FAITH.
If you find yourself feeling tired, worn down and worn out, or weary from doing well, lean into Jesus. Pull away from the world and zero in on the One who made you and for whom you were made. You will find that your faith begins to level up and level up and level up as your relationship and intimacy with Jesus grows. You will reach the Bliss Point and once you experience that pure bliss, you will want more and more. He takes us from glory to glory, peak to peak, bliss to bliss. Have you reached the bliss point? Based On Faith.
Crystal G.H. Lowery, Esq is a Christian Estate Planning Attorney and is the owner and founding attorney of Law Office Of Crystal G.H. Lowery, LLC. She is also the founder of Based on Faith and an ordained minister who has a passion to share Jesus with the world. Based on Faith is an organization whose vision is to become an international resource that increases biblical knowledge of faith within the Body of Christ through comprehensive teaching, discussion of law, and the prophetic.
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