Graham Cooke - 1st time in Brisbane.

"Welcome, I'm a recovering pharisee,...
I haven't judged anyone for w years, x months, y days and z minutes!.......
This IS a pharisee's anonymous meeting, right? "

So starts the first of 4 sessions the hungry ones have with Graham.

He relates a dream given to him when his prophetic gift seemed very unappreciated and ineffectual.
*** An old man drove him around a city in an old and very uncomfortable car ...
as the old man drove, he would yell out the window a tirade of abuse against the defeated people he would see on the streets. (that dream was not, I thought, very helpful)
In the next dream had the same old man with a new car with a monochrome interior.
As he drove he pointed to the people and pointed out their sin but added we now have a program for each of their sin types. (that dream again was not helpful to my state of mind)
The next dream had a new driver, a new bright red car and a sat. nav. (before there were sat navs!).
The young man drives through a black and white world of people.
He shouts out through the window at these people.
He tells them who they are in the Kingdom, what is their true identity here and there.
They change from a glum black and white to a joyous full colour.****

Jesus is not concerned with our behaviours, He only wants us to know who we are in HIM.
Dream 1 : an attitude that focuses on the faults people need to clean up themselves.
Dream 2 : a helping focus on the faults that need to be cleaned up through problem management programmes.
Dream 3 : a focus on the NEW nature Jesus has totally changed us into.

Our old nature is absolutely crucified in Jesus who died as you on the cross.
You are dead to your old fallen nature and now DEDICATED to His NEW Nature in you.
It is not Jesus plus your old nature.
A focus on your dead nature only tries to raise it - which gets pretty weird!
It is not past/present old nature improvement.
It is identifying your present/future NEW nature in you right now.
There is nothing lacking about your New nature in Him.
We might need pastoral care to prophetically call out our new identity.
Just look what Sam started in Dave !
Dave takes the Goliath challenge because he believes what Sam spoke over him.