Letting Go and Forsaking it All For God

I have had a real stirring in my heart to see more and more in the Body of Christ walking in the fullness of their destiny and identity in Christ. I desire to see each and everyone of us walking in complete freedom from addictions and pain and false identities. I don't want to give up on anyone, even the toughest cookies because believe you me I was one of them. I was the young woman many believed, even those in the Body, would end up on skid row.

But what happens to this vision when you see so many struggling in the same areas in their life year after year. I pray so much about this. I have so many on my heart that I know God has called to be powerhouses in the Kingdom but seem to be stuck. Then someone asked me why did I change while others did not? What was so special about me or why did God choose to work so quickly and powerfully in me while others struggle for years? I sat and thought and prayed about that. I honestly don't count myself as someone special in the fact that what God did for me He can do for all but why isn't it more prodominant in the Body? Then the Lord showed me a picture of a bulldog. Actually my husband and a counselor at church used to refer to me as God's bulldog. I grabbed a hold of Christ and would not let go. The Lord spoke to me about how for so long a would latch on to anything people would throw my way. If they said I was a hopeless mess I would latch unto that and there my identity would be found. If they said you're bulemic then I would latch unto that. In these area's I would find security in my identity. It sounds strange to those who may have never dealt with this before but it is all too true. It's a false sense of security but security none the less.

Some Christians in the Body even latch on to their ministry as their identity or their callings or giftings. It just doesn't have to be something as bad as addictions or pain. Some latch unto their diagnosis. "I'm DID, I am SRA, I am Bipolar, I am OCD" but this only leads to more pain and not life. These things will only pour more poison into your body and not life.Even the giftings and ministry will leave you empty. There is only one thing that will give you life and that's Christ. So why don't we all run and latch unto to Him? Well, fear. We are afraid. We listen to lies that the enemy plants in our life to keep up attached to the pain. "If you leave this you will be nothing, People won't notice or help you if you are no longer...,You will always be...and if you leave you will only come back later." Those are only a few of the lies the enemy throws at us.

I am here to tell you and testify to you that if you listen to the Lord and latch on to Him and forsake everything you will have life and life abundantly. Let Go!!!! Whatever it takes! If you have to smash that computer you search porn on then do it! If you have to leave and seek help even though others around you might judge go and seek it. Don't listen to others or your flesh but listen to the heart of God. I tell you this not as someone looking from the outside in but as one who has been in that very same pit. I had to literally let go of whatever I was latching onto and turn to God. I got a hold of Him and wouldn't let go. It takes you to do this. I can't do this for you and others can't do this for you. Let go of your false identities! They give you no life. Grab a hold of the the Lord and allow Him to show you the treasure you are to Him and so many around you. It's time to let go and grab a hold of God.

As we see our identities in Christ then the amazing and beuatiful creation the Body is meant to be in this dark world will emerge. We will become the Bride without spot and wrinkle. We will shine with light in the darkest hour. You need to make a choice. Continue to hold onto the familiar things in your life that keep you bound and in prison or risk it all and take a hold of the life giver Jesus Christ!