A lady at church
Wednesday (Jennifer, she’s awesome) gave this great delivery of the word and I
think it’s too good not to share. This
take a little audience participation so you’ll have to work with me here. Imagine I give you a piece of paper or two to
write down what is currently getting you down.
What dwells in your mind or heart, what is bothering you, stressing you,
depressing you? These things take up a
lot of your time, you dwell on them every day. Take a minute and think about
it.
Got one
or two? Good. Now hand me your piece of
paper. Now I have a stack of papers that
people need help with. Can you give me
your paper? No, you already gave it to
me and you don’t have it anymore. Now
you can still walk around with your fist clenched like you’re holding it, but
you don’t have it any longer. This is
what you do when you give your problems to the Lord. He can fix them, but you have to give them to
Him. Once you give them to Him, you’re
free. You don’t have to walk around with
that burden, you don’t have to let it hinder your life any longer. Now a lot of people do, and they let it stop
them from doing things that could potentially better their situation. All because they’re walking around thinking
they’re carrying this burden that isn’t even there. The only way you have it to carry again is if
you take it back from God.
Imagine I have a stack of problems and I’m
going through and fixing them. If you
come up and take yours out of the stack before I get to fixing it, then it’s
yours to carry again and I can’t fix it because I don’t have it. Once you give your problems to the Lord, let
him take care of it for you. Don’t take
it back, you can’t handle it better than He can. If you could, it wouldn’t be a burden on
you. He is faithful, give it to him and
trust in him. Once you do this, and really
give it to Him and stop being prideful and thinking you can handle it better or
faster than He can, you’ll feel His peace because you no longer carry that
burden. Let Him fight your battles for
you, he is all powerful.
Once you let go of
your burdens, you’re free to go out and be His hands and feet. You’ll be renewed and able to go out and
spread the word of the kingdom. Nowhere
in the bible does it say that God only gives you what you can handle. It does say that you can look to Him when you
are in need. God isn’t the one giving
your problems and burdens, that’s the work of the enemy trying to bring you
down. If you give them to God, the enemy
will never win with you. That fight has
already been won.
I challenge you to
do this exercise. Think about what is
burdening you, give it to the Lord and pray.
-Adam
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