Sunday, February 11, 2018

This Valentine's Day . . .

Recently I've received a revelation from the Holy Spirit - and it began with this question . . . 

 "What if you were NEVER meant to be 'there' in the first place"?


What?


What if what you are fighting against - you were NEVER meant to be fighting against in the first place?

What if what you are fighting against - the blood of Jesus Christ has already redeemed you from?


Galatians 5:1

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith 

Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled 

again with the yoke of bondage.


Sitting in my living room up late "unfollowing" a ton of toxic people in social media at 4 am in the morning; these questions are popping up into my spirit.


Recently, even before today - I have been either "blocking" or "unfollowing" toxic people in the Arena of my social media. I have felt an urge from the Holy Spirit to clean out my space and in a sense - "declutter" to make room for "good reports" and to close the door and block any "bad reports" - reports of unbelief.


Can you handle some "real talk"?


This "decluttering" has been a process of an on-purpose effort for a couple of months now - the choice and the faith to walk out in removing toxic things and people from my space.


Today in Matthew 6 my Niece and I learned about "our eyes being a gate to our heart". So if that is so - and if I believe God's Word - then, why would I allow my gate to be infiltrated with others toxic vomit - their unbelief in my Lord Jesus Christ?


You might respond with - "Wow, Wanda, isn't that a little harsh"?


I would say - "No! It isn't"! NOT AT ALL!


Am I not valuable enough to trust God and that He is leading me into even a more GREATER realm of FREEDOM? How could I honestly believe that I have arrived and I know everything there is to know about the unconditional Love and Grace of Jesus Christ?


And . . . if I gained the whole world BUT lost myself in it - what would I truly "have"?


Let me propose you this . . . Do you realize that what we tolerate in our space - and what we 'see' with our eyes will reproduce?


Matthew 6:22-23


22 “The lamp of the body is the eye. 

If therefore your eye is good, your 

whole body will be full of light.

 
23 But if your eye is bad, your whole 

body will be full of darkness. 

If therefore the light that is in you is 

darkness, how great is that darkness!



Are your eyes seeing LIGHT?  Or are they seeing darkness?


Do you want a dark spirit of unbelief to reproduce in your life?


Or do you want a spirit of LIGHT of Faith to be released inside of you and to be ignited and empowered to explode in the LOVE and LIGHT and acceptance of Jesus Christ?


Do you want a dark spirit of grumbling and a dark spirit of discontent to reproduce in your life?


Or do you want the spirit of LIGHT to be encouraged in you to believe all the more the Hope and the Victory and the Faith to believe above and beyond all that you could hope or imagine in and with Jesus Christ?


How about this . . .  Do you want a dark spirit of manipulation and witchcraft to walk into you because you've continually and repetitively allowed the door to be opened for it to come in your life?


Or would you rather simply close that door and "choose" to take responsibility for who and what you allow to speak into your life?


Listen, we get to choose what we allow in our lives‼️


I do!


You do!


They don't!


1 John 4:4 -5


4 You are of God, little children, and have 

overcome them, because He who is in you 

is greater than he who is in the world.                                    

5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak


as of the world, and the world hears them.


Therefore, I'll not give you the opportunity to take from me what Heaven has breathed into me!


It's taken a lot of prayer and boldness to reach this level of Love for myself.


This Valentines Day I ask you to LOVE yourself‼️


I pray you CHOOSE to Love yourself to the point that you are completely FULL of God's JOY even if it's spending the entire Valentine's Day by yourself.  And, if NOT one person truly offered you the Love that Jesus Christ intended for you to be adorned in - that you wouldn't be saddened or moved from your JOY.  And that you would simply bask in God's conditional Love and Grace . . . with just you and Him. 


I'm 47 years young!


All Heaven as fought for this girl‼️


And I've fought to believe and receive every ounce of Love that Jesus Christ has created in me‼️


I've face planted time and time again because I didn't believe that I deserved that level of respect - that level of Love‼️


I've grown now and I'm believing all the more how beautiful and victorious that Love is‼️


And, I ask myself the question that the Holy Spirit asked me a couple weeks back when thoughts of inadequacy wanted to creep into my self talk . . . 


 "Why would I ask you to                                                        

 tolerate something from                                                           

 which I have set you free"?



I weaped as I "had" allowed a Spirit NOT OF GOD to lie to me that - "if I just be in their space and tolerate them, then hopefully they can see the love of Jesus Christ".


What?


So is that a thought from Light - Jesus Christ?  


NO!  No it isn't.


And honestly being their punching bag or their vomit bucket isn't what is going to set them free.



Proverbs 22:24-25

24 Make no friendship with an angry man, 

And with a furious man do not go,                                                  

25 Lest you learn his ways                                                  

And set a snare for your soul.

                                               

Proverbs 22:24-25 directs us to NOT be in the space of an "angry man".  "Man" means "of mankind species" - and if we do then it will set a snare on our soul!


So, if being around and befriending an angry and hardened heart is contagious and would set a snare on us - wouldn't that be an assignment of darkness?  Wouldn't that be an assignment of the enemy?  Would he be the one that would want us going around in bondage "in order to set someone else free"?


Yes!  


That thought that I was having was from the pit of hell in order to set a snare on me.


But the Holy Spirit spoke to me to set me FREE!  And to "not be entangled again" like Galatians 5:1 guides us!


John 10:10 tells us that we have an enemy and his goal is to steal and to kill and to destroy. And then at the end of that verse - we learn what God has done for us! He gave us victory over the enemy!


John 10:10
The thief does not come except to steal,
and to kill, and to destroy
I have come that they may have life,
and that they may have it more abundantly.


We weren't created to be "wimps for Jesus Christ" - we were created to be "Warriors for Jesus Christ" living THE ABUNDANT LIFE that Jesus Christ (already) gave us on the Cross‼️🔥


And we were created to be FREE!


And personally I believe when born again Children of God rise up and walk in the VICTORIOUS and POWERFUL FREEDOM OF boldness in which we were created . . . the world, THEN, will want to be a part of us - and "be like" us.


I am not talking about walking around with a chip on our shoulder and walking in a spirit of offense.


But I am talking about walking around with the condidence and  boldness and FREEDOM  of Jesus Christ and TO "know":                        

                                      

WHO we ARE, 

WHAT we HAVE 

 and                                                            

WHAT we can DO 


through the Love and the POWER and the AUTHORITY of our "God DNA" in which we have been MADE when we made Jesus Christ our Lord‼️✝️


So, I challenge you this Valentine's Day - LOVE yourself like Jesus Christ does‼️


And rise up in that "security" and that "confidence" and that "boldness" and that "FREEDOM" that your Heavenly Savior, Lord Jesus Christ has ALREADY given you through His unconditional LOVE and GRACE on the Cross‼️❤


This Valentine's Day - be free‼️


This Valentine's Day - don't "need" them to 

dictate your value‼️


This Valentine's Day - YOU ARE ENOUGH‼️️


                                                                                     

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