Mark 8:22-26

Luke 9:59-62

How to Get Through the Spit to Experience the Shine:

1- Jesus uses uncomfortable to lead to completion. Meaning if you're looking for comfort you will always be searching for completion. Human nature has a tendency within its desire to drift toward disobedience and call it freedom. Leaning into the sanctification process and refinement of your character is the journey of trusting that the Lord will be faithful to use the ‘spitty’ seasons to shine.

2 - The first step of spit producing a shine is coming to the end of any dishonesty and walking in 100% honesty/transparency. We want our lives to shine but they feel like spit and no one knows... you cannot heal unless you are first honest. This might even mean telling Jesus that it's not working, and pressing into Him again, and again... until you find the healing your soul searches for. Don't stop pursuing the healer, until the healing power flows into your life.

3- If you do not train yourself to look up, you will not get out. We must rhythmically allow Jesus to reposition our spirit to look upon Him in order to receive the leading that has been purchased for us... we want all the benefits of a healthy spiritual life with none of the habits that make it healthy... you must learn your Savior is just as much in the spit as He is in the shine of life.