Continuation
from newsletter "How To Walk In A Fallen World!!! - Walk Out
and/or Keep Your Healing."
- Do you have expectations
on others to meet your needs as a parent would? Are you
still performing hoping they will say words that you NEED?
Are you in a cycle of being abused, expecting things to be
different? REMEMBER: Doing the same thing, but expecting different
results is the definition of INSANITY. Are you disappointed,
hurt and crushed every time it does not happen, AGAIN? Guess
what, they won't and it won't- change that is. Satan is setting
you up for disappointments heaped with more hurt and pain.
Let go of the expectations on others.
EXPECTATIONS is really judgement/bitterness.
Only the Lord can meet your need. When we put expectations
on someone to act like a parent or special someone, then we
made them an idol. My healing came faster when I released
the people I had expectations on. I was flooded with freedom
from my heart. Plus, they changed!
- Hurting people
hurt people. We live in a world full of hurting people.
Expect to get hurt by others, but not broken. How do I not
get broken? The faster you separate them (Romans 7 Separation
- its not them but the sin in them), forgive them (a friend
told me "forgive before the crow gets cold"), then you
won't be broken.
Jeremiah 5:25 says that we withhold good things from us. When
we don't forgive, we block all blessings! Isaiah 59:1-2 says,
God can heal us, but our sins and iniquities prevent Him.
He cannot move against our will. Our sins and iniquities are
unforgiveness and not receiving God's love.
- Are you being
driven to meet everyone else's expectations? - "Fear of
man", "fear of rejection", fear of failure", fear of abandonment",
etc. Stop if you are! God leads and satan drives.
If satan is driving you, then get out of the driver seat and
allow the Lord to lead you. Being lead is much more peaceful
than being driven in fear.
"1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which
are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness;
considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 2 Bear ye
one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. 3
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing,
he deceiveth himself. 4 But let every man prove his own work,
and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not
in another. 5 For every man shall bear his own burden."
- Do you get all caught up helping
others (advising others when they didn't ask) and not taking
care of self? False Burden Bearing is rooted in rejection!
The enemy is tricky and will use your feelings of rejection
to try to get you to help others (to steal your peace) so
that you will feel accepted but in reality satan is stealing
your peace and keeping you in "turmoil." It is meeting
a need in you to help others. Let go and let God! Let Him
be in control! Yes, pray for them but release them to the
Lord standing in faith saying "it is done."
This is activating your faith by standing!
You do want
to come along side them! We are to support them during their
trials. You are not there to solve their solutions. You don't
want to become consumed with their thoughts over the situation
and person (children, parents or someone they care about).
- Watch your thought life and don’t
dwell in the negative - Keep our thoughts captive under truth.
Casting down all imaginations that exhalts itself against
the knowledge of God. (II Corinthians 10:5).
If you believe the negative lies from satan or others, it
can cause you to go into perfection, performance and drivenness,
pull away, go into self-comparison and ultimately to loose
your peace and separate you from the Love of the Lord! Resist
him because thoughts can lead to sin! "Submit yourselves
therefore to God, resist the Devil and He will flee"..
This means submit your mind, body and soul to the Lord.
- Know God's Love Is Unconditional!
There is nothing you can do to receive more of His LOVE, and
there is no sin so large to loose His LOVE. The only difference
between the lost and the saved is we have the promises. He
loves the lost just as much as the saved. Sin separates us,
but God is always there with His arms wide open to receive
you back through His mercy. You do not need to perform to
receive more of His LOVE. It's already done! The Scripture
clearly teaches that God's love (phileo, agape, aheb, ahabah,
etc.) is unfailing, undeserved, and unilateral (completely
one-sided in initiation). But is God's love without condition--I.E.:
UN- conditional? Come into His Rest!!!
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Watch what comes out of your mouth! Is
It a Good Report or a Bad report?
(Philippians 4:8) "Finally brethren, Whatsoever things
are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things
are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things
are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there
be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things.
AND those things which ye have both learned, and received,
and heard, and seen in me, do, and the God of peace shall
be with you."
When you have symptoms, don't receive them or become one
with them.
Conclusion:
Don't be tricked by the enemy, but be wise (Hebrews 5:14) and
discern good and evil. Recognize the accuser and cast those thoughts
down and don't receive them even if they come from a person. Know
who you are to the Lord. You are precious in His sight!
I leave you with this scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:23
"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God
your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." |
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