by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 28, 2022 | Bible Study, correction, emotions, sanctification
Two Sisters’ Responses and Transformations (Luke 10:32-48, John 12:2-3) Watching Mary: When awareness gives rise to attentiveness, it fosters attunement, rooting a deep attachment, yielding flowering affection breeding mutual abiding amid Holy Spirit aroma and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 14, 2022 | 1 John 2:12-14, sanctification
Some individuals who know a level of spiritual maturity and dependence upon God that mark their walk as what the ancient church called The Unitive Way…….. following the childhood and youth “spiritual growth stages” of The Purgative Way and The Illuminative Way. The...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 28, 2022 | Grace, sanctification
Justification is a solitary covenant with God. He extends grace to us e RN when we are still in our sin. We repent and receive it by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Sanctification is a communal process of shared covenant to encourage and live out the “one...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 26, 2022 | Holy Spirit, sanctification
In writing about spiritual formation under the authority of the Hily Spirit, JD Walt, author of the Seedbed Daily text wrote: “There is a missing middle movement here. It is the Holy Spirit’s work of actuation. This will require the development of the most...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 18, 2022 | sanctification
(first written 7/18/2017) Love is not about each (or either) partner having a need for affirmation fulfilled by the other. It is about each partner being willing to sacrifice one’s own needs/desires for the sake of God’s BEST in the well being of the...