Spiritual Living With Francois Fineberg

Spiritual growth happens best when we remain under the Lord’s direct influence. Our spiritual growth can be imminently stunted when we succumb to the culture’s influence. It takes immense focus on our part to stay within the leading of God. But when we do, growth and transformation will accompany that focus organically.    Many of Francois’ messages are delivered within the context of a spiritual...

If you do this to God, you might find that your spiritual life will begin to lose its vitality. Instead, do precisely the opposite, and you might experience an ongoing rhythm with God that is fantastic.    Many of Francois’ messages are delivered within the context of a spiritual formation school called LEGACY School Of Discipleship. The school’s emphasis is to train believers in the realities of...

It is erroneous to presume that the spiritual life is entirely a matter upon our shoulders. It’s just as wrong to think it’s all on God. The Scriptures teach a mystical union between God and man, not God replacing man or vice versa. Ingrafted spirituality means that man is ingrafted into God by the Holy Spirit, yet he remains a man with all the faculties of his humanity. Godliness is not the doing...

The New Testament uses a complex term to describe the condition of our person before God because of Christ. That term is “righteousness.” But what does it mean to be righteous before God? Even more, what should our spiritual experience be now that we’re righteous? In this message, four (4) word pictures are explained to describe the depth of the term “righteousness.”     Many of Francois’ messages...

No matter how long you have walked with God, there is always more of God to discover, experience, and enjoy. So what does a believer do with his insatiable desire to go “deeper” with God? Must he acquire more religious practices to go deeper with God? Must he know more truths? What exactly does it mean to go deeper with God anyway? This message might surprise you.     Many of Francois’ messages ar...

The Holy Spirit is just as available to us as He was for those in the first century. We can likewise experience His nourishing supply and His dynamic empowerment. What did those early believers do to gain more of the Holy Spirit in their experience? What did Jesus have to say about it?    Many of Francois’ messages are delivered within the context of a spiritual formation school called LEGACY Scho...

All throughout Scripture, some men and women were undeniably God's friends. They knew Him well. They loved Him wholeheartedly. They obeyed Him sacrificially. It's because of God's friends that we have the privilege of knowing God ourselves. Will we, too, become the friends of God now that we know Him?    Many of Francois’ messages are delivered within the context of a spiritual formation school ca...

God deposited a mystical testimony deep within a person’s spirit who has been born of the Holy Spirit. While we cannot see that testimony with our natural eye, we can nevertheless experience it. We can grow in that inner testimony. However, we can also hinder that testimony from growing within us if we maintain a lifestyle out of sync with God’s Spirit. Are you aware of that testimony?     Many of...

God's burden is to redeem sinners and introduce them to the realities of a brand new life in Him. However, He is not intent on pampering our flesh in the process of sanctification. In fact, God has a grim view of our flesh. While religion may emphasize our flesh in the growth process, God does not. He calls for its denial, not its dominion, termination, and preservation.     Many of Francois’ mess...

The Bible is full of miraculous accounts where God showed up in supernatural ways in people’s lives. There is one account, however, that is rich in the miraculous, although in unexpected ways. There were certain men selected to take care of feeding people bread. It’s a tedious and mundane job, but not for these men. They dared to believe God could be supernatural within their ordinary chores of ev...

The spiritual man has learned to see things from God’s perspective. Jesus was such a person. At one time, He said of a little girl that was dead, “she is only sleeping.” The crowd must have thought Him crazy. And we will as well unless we learn to see things the way He does.    Many of Francois' messages are delivered within the context of a spiritual formation school called LEGACY School Of Disci...

There was a man once who thought that his fleshly abilities could serve the purposes of God just fine. However, he was in for a rude awakening when God surprisingly crippled him. God did not cripple him to punish him. Instead, God touched him to transform him. To be a part of God’s purposes requires a transformed man of the Spirit, not a capable man of the flesh.     Many of Francois' messages are...

Sooner or later, the spiritual man has to learn that encountering God is not confined to “green pastures” only. Life is not a perpetual “green pasture” experience for anyone on this planet! Life can be downright difficult, especially when we lose the controlled predictability thereof. The Bible tells the narrative of a man who encountered God, not in tranquil serenity, but in a hurricane. Truly, n...

The Bible is replete with stories of men and women who had life-changing encounters with God. In fact, their effectiveness in life often sprung from their unique encounter with God that altered them as individuals. For example, in Genesis chapter two, we have such an encounter already when God put Adam to sleep.    Many of Francois' messages are delivered within the context of a spiritual formatio...

There are numerous spiritual dynamics that the teachings of men cannot impart into the core of your being. In other words, God would like to teach specific aspects of the spiritual life to you directly. After all, He is an excellent teacher, and it is your birthright in God to learn from Him. For example, have you learned from God about the things Paul prayed for in Ephesians chapter one?     Many...

In Matthew 5, Jesus confronts the culture of His day with seven indictments. It’s not too difficult to discern that the very things He spoke out against are the same things still hindering us from coming into the fullness of His Kingdom’s reality. Our traditions are as cemented into our culture as was theirs! Will Jesus’ alternative approach to human practices have an effect on us? The proof that...

Jesus was very discerning that people do not need more religious formulas. What they needed was a relationship with His Father. And so, instead of teaching more religious jargon, He cut straight to the core of interaction with God, who ached to be known as a Father.     Many of Francois' messages are delivered within the context of a spiritual formation school called LEGACY School Of Discipleship....

In this continuing message on inward spiritual “stability,” Francois shares several principles we have to pay attention to for the realization of this inward “stability.”     Many of Francois' messages are delivered within the context of a spiritual formation school called LEGACY School Of Discipleship. The school's emphasis is to be trained within the realities of the accomplished work of Jesus C...

As believers in Jesus Christ, God affords us something that neither the world nor religion can give us. In this message, Francois calls it an inward “stability.” What is this inward stability? How do we get it? How do we foster it? How do we forfeit it?    Many of Francois' messages are delivered within the context of a spiritual formation school called LEGACY School Of Discipleship. The school's...

At the core of the spiritual life is the shepherding of God. Without God’s ongoing shepherding, we will never live as He intended for us in the new covenant. So why do we resist His leading in our lives? What will it take to experience God’s pastoring the way David experienced it?    Many of Francois' messages are delivered within the context of a spiritual formation school called LEGACY School Of...

In this message, Francois briefly expounds on three items we can cultivate as we grow in Christ-consciousness. First, understand that there is a supernaturalism to the Christian life. Second, learn what it means to be submissive to Christ. And third, know what it means to have sonship bestowed upon us. These three items will aid us as we cultivate a life-consciousness in Jesus Christ.    Many of F...

To spiritually mature in Christ necessitates the cultivation of your consciousness. In other words, is your inner man still incarcerated by your old nature, or have you been calibrated to your new nature in Christ? Your inner consciousness plays a major role towards maturity or stagnation in the Christian life. Are you predominantly Christ or sin-conscious?    Many of Francois' messages are delive...

The closing verses of Romans 8 carry the tone of a super confident believer in his God. He categorically taunts every negative influence in the universe and rhetorically asks whether it has any ability whatsoever to remove the dynamic of love between believers and their God. Romans 8 climaxes with the love of God towards His children and their reciprocal love towards Him. Paul presents the crescen...

The climax of the Holy Spirit’s role in Romans chapter 8 is clearly stated in verse 29, that the sons and daughters of God would be “conformed to the image of His Son.” This is the predestined decree of God and the resolute agenda of the Holy Spirit. From God’s perspective, we have been predestined to this glory. In our experience, however, it takes time and process for its manifestation. Essentia...

Time, among many things, is God’s servant to accomplish a transformative work in His children where all things work together for our good. The good, however, is not the exemption of difficulty but the conformation to the image of God’s Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. What Satan may intend for evil against God’s children, God is well able to triumph over through the image of His Son that can be wrought...