http://blog.streamsministries.com Thoughts and Talk with John Paul Jackson Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:01:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Charles Dickens’ opening statement in a Tale of Two Cities very accurately sums up what we often feel during times of transition. Everything changes and continues to change. Sometimes the change is so prolonged that it seems even change ... http://blog.streamsministries.com/2008/07/17/siritual-anchors-in-transition/ Sometimes, transition requires us to go someplace or do something so undefined that we are clueless to the next step we are to take. Much like Abraham in Genesis we have to go someplace that we don’t know. In the midst of the journey, it is easy to feel lost ... http://blog.streamsministries.com/2008/07/10/secrets-of-the-journey-to-delight/ Perhaps one of the ways to understand the third phase of transition is to understand the passage of Scripture where Jesus uses the analogy of the branches, the grapes, and the effect that pruning has on fruit production (John 15). The whole idea of our lives on Earth is fruit production ... http://blog.streamsministries.com/2008/07/02/the-delight-of-transition/ Discipline, the second phase of Transition is the most difficult phase and, like it or not, can last months or even years. That is precisely why it takes discipline. Not only will you have to keep your eyes on the vision ahead, you will have to navigate through the land ... http://blog.streamsministries.com/2008/06/18/discipline-the-second-phase-of-transition/ As the years have passed in my life and ministry I have gone through several times of “transition” I have noticed three distinct phases to transition, Desire, Discipline, and Delight. I’ll address the first, Desire, below and the other two in the next posts. DESIRE The first phase, Desire requires a very ... http://blog.streamsministries.com/2008/06/09/three-phases-of-transition/ Sorry it has been a few days since my last post. Transition is a process it is seldom instantaneous and I have been in a process of transition, one of many I have experienced over thirty years of ministry. Some of them have been easy, others have been difficult and ... http://blog.streamsministries.com/2008/05/30/prolonged-transition/ I see the analogy between “Transition” and Gideon giving God his future puzzled some of you. Here are the core elements of the analogy. Gideon underwent an enormous transition – from coward to hero in just a matter of weeks. More than a dozen times in the Biblical account of ... http://blog.streamsministries.com/2008/05/20/transitioning-to-your-future/ Transition is a difficult time for, most of us. To some it signals the chance for things to get worse. For others, it heralds that times are going to become better. There is one thing about transition, it signals it is time for us to change places. It is ... http://blog.streamsministries.com/2008/05/17/times-of-transition/ In reading some of your responses it is evident that some of you have been deeply hurt and disillusioned. To reiterate, disillusionment is good in this sense, it is the end of the belief in something that does not exist and therefore will not lead you to your destiny. However, ... http://blog.streamsministries.com/2008/05/11/illusion-and-delusion/ Have you ever been disillusioned? Walking with God is saturated in as much mystery as it is in knowledge. In neither case do we ever experience or understand it all. About the time we think we have a handle on any issue, God obliterates that handle and we crash back ... http://blog.streamsministries.com/2008/05/05/disillusionment/