Letting Go
First I just gotta praise God! Thank you Lord for the work you are doing in each of us. And thank you Father for never giving up on me when I wanted to give up. I just wish I knew more words in the English language to express just how great our God is. I feel inadequate in my limited vocabulary to express my greatfulness to our Lord Jesus. I will say this I give ALL honor glory and praise to the creator of heaven and earth who has reached out his mighty hand to save me and those whom I love and those I have met along the way of this journey. First let me share and praise God for what he is doing in me. WOW, I needed fixing, really bad. And I thank our heavenly Father for being the great fixer upper! I am in awe the way he speaks to us. How he reveals things about our selves, our situations, our lives.... so much to even get written down here. God has shown me much, he loves me so much (and you too) that He in his great love for us and revealed many things. One in specific is how to let go. Whoa! I struggled with that for the last year.... I didn’t understand, and maybe a part of me was afraid to. Last April while at a marriage reconciliation conference, God spoke to me and told me, "Scott was never yours, he is Mine, let him go" I was so overwhelmed by these words I had to leave the room in tears. I never really understood why I was in tears, but it was overwhelming. I cried for I did not understand, "My people perish for they lack knowledge" and may I add lack wisdom.... Over the course of the last year I struggled with this, I didn’t understand, but then 3 weeks ago it became clear it was like the scales had indeed fallen from my own eyes. Letting go is not to stop praying for what ever the thing is your praying for, it’s believing in what you are praying for will happen. Letting go is not the end of a dream, it is a willingness to let it go and let God form that dream His way, for our own good, for everything he does is for our good and never ever for our bad. For his ways are not our ways and He can far exceed our imaginations. Letting go is not to stop loving your spouse, but letting go of the pain, bitterness, and anger that prevents you to love your mate the way God loves you and them. And if you don’t let all that "stuff" go how can you love your Father in like manner? Letting go is forgiveness, and then FORGETTING. Just as the Father forgives us and places all the sins we have committed against Him, in his sea of forgettingfulness. When you let go of the past offense you are only left with the good... just like our Lord is left with our good. If you were to ask God remember when I? He tells us well no I don’t remember anything like that. When we ask his forgiveness it is never held against us, so why do we hold these things against those who commit offenses against us, including our spouses? Letting go is not giving up, its giving it to God. Letting go is NOT giving up period! Letting go is when we stop agreeing with satan and we start agreeing with God. We stand and we fight the good fight of faith. While faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things unseen, remember doubt IS the evidence of things seen. Many of us are talking with satan more than we are speaking to God. Letting go is speaking to God and thanking him for what is already done in heaven and about to occur on earth. Letting go is obedience to His word and His desires not our own fleshly desires. Walking away from temptation and not look back to it. Let God handle that thing which is making you stumble time after time. Stopping that tug of war thing we all got going with him. Stop saying Lord I give it to you, and then taking it back just for a time Lord, ok NOW you can have it Lord, oh wait I need it back,,,,,,,, ok have it Lord......sound familiar? Cant you just see God standing there with his arms crossed about to say to us and tapping his foot with a bemused smile, when you are ready I will take this from you,,,any time now :o) Letting go is letting go of the problem and pray the solution. Stop giving our problems power and use the power God has given to us in Jesus Christ. Through Jesus we ARE victorious! Jesus did NOT shed His precious blood for nothing; he did it for you and me! Letting go is loving God Almighty with you heart mind body and soul. Its is praising him through every storm, even when you don’t feel like, because you are hurting, but He wipes our tears and when we let him he removes all that pain. The key is IF you let Him. Letting go is walking in assurance that greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world. So many times we give him that is in the world way too much power and credit. When he in fact has no power if we are children of the King! And lastly letting go is trusting. Trusting His word, His promises, His great love for you. For if God is on our side who can be against us? What do we have to fear since fear is not of God but of the enemy? Take up your spiritual Armour every day, and use your mighty weapons God has provided to each of us, nothing can penetrate your Armour if only you trust in Him who has provided it for you. I really didn’t mean
to go in this direction when I began this email, I was going to
testify on some mighty breakthroughs, but that will have to wait
for another day, I hope and pray that God in his wisdom will use
what I have written for His glory and that it shall minister to
that person who needed to hear it. God bless everyone! Remember
we are one day close as Sallie says woooooohoooooooooooooo!
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