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Transformational Encounter 01.29.2026 – Crossing the Finish Line Handout

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Summary Handout: Crossing The Finish Line
(Chapter Thirteen from Liberation for Total Transformation)

Key Themes
• Healing and Freedom: Only God’s Word and love bring true healing and freedom from pain’s grip.
• Focus and Transformation: Spiritual growth requires focus, memorization, and meditation on scripture.
• Sitting at the Feet of Jesus: Transformation begins with relationship and surrender.
• Power of Choice and Surrender: God gives us the ability to choose life and surrender our will.
• Enduring to the End: Faithfulness and perseverance are required to finish well.
• Pain—A Device of the Enemy: Recognize pain’s spiritual dimension and respond with faith.
• Joy and Wholeness: Joy is strength; wholeness is God’s goal for every believer.

Key Scriptures
• Acts 20:24 (AMP): Finish the course with joy.
• Luke 8:35: Sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind.
• Deuteronomy 30:19: Choose life.
• Hebrews 3:14: Hold your confidence steadfast to the end.
• Nehemiah 8:10: The joy of the Lord is your strength.

Practical Steps
• Memorize a key verse from the chapter.
• Set aside time to “sit at Jesus’ feet” in prayer and scripture.
• Reflect on areas to surrender to God.
• Identify unhealthy responses to pain and replace them with faith-based actions.
• Practice endurance—set a goal and persist through challenges.
• Cultivate joy and gratitude daily.

Fill-in-the-Blank Prompts
• John 8:36: “If the Son therefore shall make you , ye shall be indeed.”
• Matthew 10:22: “But he that to the end shall be saved.”
• Romans 15:13: “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in , that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.”
• James 1:2: “My brethren, it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations.”
• Jeremiah 33:11: “The voice of , and the __ of gladness…”

Reflection & Discussion Questions
• What does surrender look like in your life?
• How do you respond to pain—physically, emotionally, spiritually?
• Share a time when you experienced God’s joy in adversity.
• Where do you need more hope or peace? Write a prayer asking God to fill you with His hope and peace.

Prayer
“Father, thank You for the healing and freedom found in Your Word and love. Help me to trust You with my pain and to receive Your comfort and truth today. Give me strength to endure, joy to finish well, and a heart fully surrendered to You. Amen.”

For further study:
Read the full chapter, meditate on the scriptures, and use the fill-in-the-blank prompts for personal or group reflection.

If You Don’t Know My Father – You Don’t Know Me

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Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also. (John 8:19)

Have you ever had someone mistake you for someone else? Or presumably think they knew you because they knew your name and a few details about your life. They may even venture a little further to prejudge your response to situations, circumstances and life based upon what they know happened in your yesterday. However, yesterday always represents – what was, not always revealing what is and what shall be.

Yesterday represents the past, not necessarily complimenting and/or knowing my future. What I did yesterday is only a snapshot in time, this oftentimes deludes those who only know you from past experiences. They thought they knew you, but mistakenly they forgot to turn the page of yesterday; unbeknownst to them that chapter of your life is over, and you are changed.

The scriptures declare: 2Corinthians 5:17 (AMP) Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!

People may treat you based upon who they think you are. If people disrespect, dishonor and/or devalue you that can be an indication of their lack of knowledge of who you really are in Christ, they perceive you to be someone are not. However, always remember your true value is determined by God the Father, not mere human beings.

Jesus declares; And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. (John 16:3)

You are in Christ and just like they did not know or recognize Jesus when He was in the world, the world will not recognize you, nor your true value.

The scriptures declare in Colossians 3:3-4 (AMP) For you died [to this world], and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

Jesus declares; And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. (John 16:3)

The truth is told here, Jesus is educating us that when people don’t know the Father, they are incapable of knowing you. Our new lives in Christ are hid in Him, people can not know you because the darkness that they live in blinds their eyes and they cannot see; this is why people mistake you for someone else. The only reason Peter knew that Jesus was the Christ is because the Father revealed this truth to Peters mind.

Now when Jesus went into the [a]region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”  And they answered, “Some say John the Baptist; others, Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah, or [just] one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), the Son of the living God.” Then Jesus answered him, “Blessed [happy, spiritually secure, favored by God] are you, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood (mortal man) did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 16:13-20 (AMP)

So don’t change to try to be who some say you are, continue to thank God for who you are in His Son, Jesus Christ our Redeemer!

Blessings, Sister Cathy~

Stranger Things Have Happened

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1 Peter 4:12-13

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 
But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

Oh how I love this scripture, it is indeed food for the whole man. This scripture brings such clarity in seasons of fiery trials. Why do we think it is strange to be going through a fiery trial?
Similar words to strange: odd, bizarre, outlandish, weird, peculiar, out of the ordinary, unexpected, unfamiliar, foreign, and different.

The opposite of strange is normal. It is indeed normal for true Christians to experience fiery trials. So why then are we so surprised and somewhat caught off guard when we are under fire. Sometimes I encounter Christians who are totally distraught when going through a fiery trial as if they were surprised something of that nature was happening to them.
Fiery trials are apparently different from regular trials.

Fiery defined:
• Burning or full of fire.
• Full of or prone to sudden extremes of emotions.

These kinds of trials are definitely designed to do real damage to the life and confidence of the believer in Christ. The nature of fire is to consume, it will burn and destroy until there is nothing left but ashes. Fire not only burns whatever it is on but can spread to whatever is near it, unless it is contained. That’s why when people are going through fiery trials and you step in to help make sure you are being lead by the Holy Spirit and are equip with your spiritual armor.
It is not the will of God for any sort of trial, regular or extra spicy, to defeat or destroy His people.

Isaiah 43:1-2
But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. 

If you are going through a fiery trial at this very moment, rejoice, and begin to give God praise that this thing will never overtake or consume you. Rejoice and focus on the goodness of God that is bringing you out of this situation without being burned! Now that’s supernatural. Rejoice and give God the Highest praise! You are a child of the Most High God and He will never leave you or forsake you. You have been FIRE-PROOFED! Hallelujah!

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