This has been my verse since the first time I read it! It was not hard to memorize, because I related completely!
You see, I was the black sheep of the family and I was born to the black sheep of the family! My mom and I were two of a kind; both looking for love in all the wrong places; as the song goes! Where she stopped, I took off! Both rebellious, having to be strong, because there were none strong enough, so that we didn't have to be.
I learned something this year though about being strong and being weak! I had it all wrong!
Submission is strength! Choosing to lay down your will takes more strength than you can ever imagine, because everything in your flesh is screaming "don't"! But submit we must!
We must submit to The Law; we must submit to our Employer; we as women must submit to our husband and in doing so - we submit to God!
It's choosing to trust God with EVERYTHING; holding onto nothing! Walking away from control of all that we hold sacred; children, spouses, careers, homes; giving it all!
The funny thing about control; it's an illusion! The enemy lies to us and we believe it; that we control our lives! He even makes things happen in our favor to convince us that "we have it goin on!"
God allows all of this. He will give us as much rope as we need to get to the end of it, so we will turn to Him!
Know this!!! God is in control! You have no control! And the sooner you come to grips with this fact, the sooner you will find peace!
You who worry; you who fear, you who are anxious, you who stress - give up the control! Lay your stuff on the altar as a sacrifice to Him (like Abraham) and then don't pick it back up! Submit to God! Say it! "God, I give up control of __________!"
Repent of the sins of worry and fear that are keeping you in sickness and from a right relationship with Him; for worry and fear is sin!
Both state that you do not trust God, the Creator of the Universe to deal with your stuff! That you don't trust Him! Think about that! We believe He is unable! That we can do it better than He! What a joke! We call Him a liar when we don't believe, because His word says He can, and we are disobedient when we won't!
Yet, we think we are going to heaven! Hmmmmm
Repent!!!!!
Father, I pray right now, for my brothers and sisters who have believed the lie of the enemy; who are deceived into thinking they are not deceived! I pray Father God, that You would open their eyes to see the error of their ways! That You would open their ears to hear Your voice saying, "this is the Way, walk in it!" That You would change their hearts so that their desires will be for You and You alone! Give them a hunger and a thirst for the things of You! In Jesus' precious name I pray! AMEN
Even so - MARANATHA!
From 9/14/14, 12/24/14
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