Ha, I have to laugh...in becoming re-acquainted with my blog I see three posts listed as drafts. This one was blank, only a name...urgency.
What was so urgent but, not documented? I think it was a precursor for today. Urgency, I feel an urgency to tell myself, my family my children and my friends...do not wait. Why wait?
I feel an almost desperate pang in my heart to say this: that thing you do that you love, That thing you want to do but, scares you to death, that person you think about calling but don't, those relationships that need healing and are always eating at you, that pain that you can barely swallow when it arises...why wait to do something about it?
Answer this, what are you waiting on? Do you have a logical answer? My guess is a resounding no.
Freedom is yours and it is free my friends. It is not necessarily the"Star Spangled Banner" freedom, (however, that is right there too) that I am speaking of although, we have to fight just as hard in battle for spiritual freedom. The freedom to raise your hands in praise, sing, cry, pray, cry out in honesty to your God. A freedom that allows you to live in the moment, no fear and a trust that surpasses all circumstance. Freedom of your heart.
What can prohibit your free heart? Pain, unforgiveness, pride, past experiences..we can use just about anything to be bound to. It is not that we logically choose to be in bondage and sometimes we do not even know we are bound up. The problem becomes how we work through experiences, do we deal with them head on, do we file them for later or do we ignore that they ever happened? No matter how we deal with experiences, whether they are done to us, through us or by us...they leave behind baggage or issues. It shapes how we respond to life, we allow these experiences to mold us, inhibit us and limit us.
That is not God's plan. God's plan is for us to live, hurt and experience life. God uses those experiences to refine or mold us. Do you see the difference? Life does not dictate our limits...God does.
Just think, what if your life was lived without fear...imagine, what would that look like? What would you be doing? What would you be capable of accomplishing? The outcome is unfathomable. What would our country look like, our world?
Bondage is evils best weapon. If you stay bound and fearful then you are not a threat. It is those who live out of God's promises that become the triple threat. When we open the door of our heart to break free of those things that bind us and begin to live in the power that is ours that we realize that no power, failure, pain or destruction can take away our freedom and power we have in Christ. I urge you to explore your heart. Do it for yourself. Nothing is more beautiful that seeing a man, woman or child doing, loving, living from the heart and doing what they were created to do.
What if you lived life for you not worrying about what others think of you? What if you were true to yourself and lived from your heart...what does that look like for you? What were you created by God to do?
Can you imagine what our world would look like if God's people recognized their God given power and meaning and lived out of that knowledge? LIMITLESS
What was so urgent but, not documented? I think it was a precursor for today. Urgency, I feel an urgency to tell myself, my family my children and my friends...do not wait. Why wait?
I feel an almost desperate pang in my heart to say this: that thing you do that you love, That thing you want to do but, scares you to death, that person you think about calling but don't, those relationships that need healing and are always eating at you, that pain that you can barely swallow when it arises...why wait to do something about it?
Answer this, what are you waiting on? Do you have a logical answer? My guess is a resounding no.
Freedom is yours and it is free my friends. It is not necessarily the"Star Spangled Banner" freedom, (however, that is right there too) that I am speaking of although, we have to fight just as hard in battle for spiritual freedom. The freedom to raise your hands in praise, sing, cry, pray, cry out in honesty to your God. A freedom that allows you to live in the moment, no fear and a trust that surpasses all circumstance. Freedom of your heart.
What can prohibit your free heart? Pain, unforgiveness, pride, past experiences..we can use just about anything to be bound to. It is not that we logically choose to be in bondage and sometimes we do not even know we are bound up. The problem becomes how we work through experiences, do we deal with them head on, do we file them for later or do we ignore that they ever happened? No matter how we deal with experiences, whether they are done to us, through us or by us...they leave behind baggage or issues. It shapes how we respond to life, we allow these experiences to mold us, inhibit us and limit us.
That is not God's plan. God's plan is for us to live, hurt and experience life. God uses those experiences to refine or mold us. Do you see the difference? Life does not dictate our limits...God does.
Just think, what if your life was lived without fear...imagine, what would that look like? What would you be doing? What would you be capable of accomplishing? The outcome is unfathomable. What would our country look like, our world?
Bondage is evils best weapon. If you stay bound and fearful then you are not a threat. It is those who live out of God's promises that become the triple threat. When we open the door of our heart to break free of those things that bind us and begin to live in the power that is ours that we realize that no power, failure, pain or destruction can take away our freedom and power we have in Christ. I urge you to explore your heart. Do it for yourself. Nothing is more beautiful that seeing a man, woman or child doing, loving, living from the heart and doing what they were created to do.
What if you lived life for you not worrying about what others think of you? What if you were true to yourself and lived from your heart...what does that look like for you? What were you created by God to do?
Can you imagine what our world would look like if God's people recognized their God given power and meaning and lived out of that knowledge? LIMITLESS
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