Security
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"Security"
Yesterday, as I was spending time with the Lord, He just said, very matter-of-factly, "today I'm going to heal you of your insecurity." I said, "okay, how are you going to do that?" I didn't hear anything right away...and I wondered if I had made it up.
So, I just waited on Him as He told me where the insecurity had begun and then led me to forgive and repent of several things.
After I did that, He said "I'm going to reach in and pull the root out." So I began praying in tongues, and then the next thing I knew...something was leaving me, I was being delivered, and I was set free!
For the last couple months I have been in a situation where I had to run to God a lot to find my peace...because it was complete chaos. God would give me very specific instructions to follow...even when they didn't make sense. Even when others told me their opinions, and they were completely different from what God had said.
I think God was using that situation to bring my insecurity to the surface. When I would go to Him he would constantly say "fear not," or "do not fret." I looked up the word fret, because it is not a word I use often. It means to be vexed, anxious or worried.
So yesterday, after I was delivered, I felt so peaceful. I felt so secure. I felt extremely confident in who I am in him. I had to sing sweet victory in Jesus! I joked with some friends...said I felt like I had been given a Holy Ghost valium. The peace was tangible.
It was amazing the contrast between how I felt just the day before!!!
Today when I went to be with the Lord, He didn't mention fretting or being afraid...because I am not doing that anymore!!!
God had put this image in my heart before the deliverance. I didn't see any relevance to my life or have anything in my heart to say about it, but afterwards I started thinking how my insecurity would cause me to try to control things or manipulate situations because I didn't trust God to take care of me...but this image reminds me...we can trust God, He's got it… He has everything… He has the WHOLE WORLD in his hands.
Talk about security. So we CAN truly trust Him to take care of us!!!
Today, this scripture is on my heart.
Perfect love casts out all fear. When we know how perfectly we are loved by God, then how can we fret? or fear...or worry?
1 John 4:18 (MSG)
To Love, to Be Loved
God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we’re free of worry on Judgment Day—our standing in the world is identical with Christ’s. There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life—fear of death, fear of judgment—is one not yet fully formed in love.
And they are singing this on IHOP as I am posting this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YvPmDtb-Po
12"x12" pastel on Canson
"Security"
Yesterday, as I was spending time with the Lord, He just said, very matter-of-factly, "today I'm going to heal you of your insecurity." I said, "okay, how are you going to do that?" I didn't hear anything right away...and I wondered if I had made it up.
So, I just waited on Him as He told me where the insecurity had begun and then led me to forgive and repent of several things.
After I did that, He said "I'm going to reach in and pull the root out." So I began praying in tongues, and then the next thing I knew...something was leaving me, I was being delivered, and I was set free!
For the last couple months I have been in a situation where I had to run to God a lot to find my peace...because it was complete chaos. God would give me very specific instructions to follow...even when they didn't make sense. Even when others told me their opinions, and they were completely different from what God had said.
I think God was using that situation to bring my insecurity to the surface. When I would go to Him he would constantly say "fear not," or "do not fret." I looked up the word fret, because it is not a word I use often. It means to be vexed, anxious or worried.
So yesterday, after I was delivered, I felt so peaceful. I felt so secure. I felt extremely confident in who I am in him. I had to sing sweet victory in Jesus! I joked with some friends...said I felt like I had been given a Holy Ghost valium. The peace was tangible.
It was amazing the contrast between how I felt just the day before!!!
Today when I went to be with the Lord, He didn't mention fretting or being afraid...because I am not doing that anymore!!!
God had put this image in my heart before the deliverance. I didn't see any relevance to my life or have anything in my heart to say about it, but afterwards I started thinking how my insecurity would cause me to try to control things or manipulate situations because I didn't trust God to take care of me...but this image reminds me...we can trust God, He's got it… He has everything… He has the WHOLE WORLD in his hands.
Talk about security. So we CAN truly trust Him to take care of us!!!
Today, this scripture is on my heart.
Perfect love casts out all fear. When we know how perfectly we are loved by God, then how can we fret? or fear...or worry?
1 John 4:18 (MSG)
To Love, to Be Loved
God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we’re free of worry on Judgment Day—our standing in the world is identical with Christ’s. There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life—fear of death, fear of judgment—is one not yet fully formed in love.
And they are singing this on IHOP as I am posting this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YvPmDtb-Po
