Yes we can learn from God .

Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead), and all the brethren who are with me, To the churches of Galatia. Grace to you, and peace from our Lord Jesus Christ. ... So begins Paul's letter to the Celtic churches in Galatia.

Later in this letter (1:14) Paul says "that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught but through the revelation of Jesus Christ." What a strange, unusual and extraordinary claim. Paul claimed that his teaching bypassed men. That he was no man's disciple in the Way but that He was taught by Christ directly.

If any man made any such claim today we would be suspicious, scandalized and question what drug, delusion or power trip they were on. Psychiatrists would wonder about Schizophrenia. Churches would expel him and most Christians would keep their distance.

For centuries now the church has believed that God does not speak directly to man, that prophecy is dead, that the gifts of the Spirit are no longer necessary with the advent of the Bible. In early centuries the Christians who insisted on lively gifts of the Spirit were expelled from the orthodox church as heretics. Until the Pentecostal and then Charismatic movements of the last 100 years is has stood as orthodoxy that one did not hear directly from God one read the Bible for revelation.

Paul's claim that all his teaching came by revelation from the Risen Christ is extraordinary even for charismatics and Pentecostals. It is an extreme claim that stretched my faith - and I have a gift of faith! But now, Paul's experience does not seem so strange and distant.

The reason is, that as a counselor, facilitator, therapist using Listening Prayer Therapy I have been there when people have met with the Risen Christ and been touched by Him in the hearts, spirits, inner Child and traumatic memories. My faith has been building. Paul's claims seem less and less incredulous.

Soon, I am going to start sounding like Paul. Soon I will have to admit that some of the methods that I teach came direct from the prayer encounters of clients with the Risen Christ.

Listening Prayer Therapy is growing. Now problems bring forth new solutions and they are coming fresh from revelation from Jesus the Risen Christ. Paul's claim now seems plausible because more and more Listening Prayer Therapy is rooted in such experience.

I have met the Risen Christ! He is risen, indeed, and an ongoing source of life, healing, deliverance and insight. Praise be to the Risen Christ. Amen to Paul's experience.

George <>< http://www.healmylife.com/