WHY ARE YOU STILL STANDING THERE!?!?!
I am struggling with that same ol' lifestyle again. Get up in the morning. Eat junk. Watch TV. Eat more junk. Jump up at the very last minute to get ready for work. Arrive at work 5minutes late and very stressed out. Get home. Eat junk. Watch TV. Eat more junk.
And this is something I have been freed from! The Lord has SHOWN me that I can have a more FULFILLED life than this! I was so HAPPY and STRESS-FREE when He freed me from this.
And here I am, not even three weeks later, falling back into the same bondage.
And so I ask: God, why did you tell me I could go off this fast? Why didn't you tell me to continue the Daniel's fast for longer? I don't want to live this way!
And I received the answer in the Word...
I just HAVE to post this scripture, and break it down. It's from Galatians 4 & 5:
"1What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate. 2He is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father. 3So also, when we were children, we were in slavery under the basic principles of the world. 4But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, 5to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. 6Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba,[a] Father." 7So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir."
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I feel like the Lord is saying this: "If you were still a child, I would command you to live by the law. 'No TV. No junk. No secular music.'"
And indeed, there have been times when I was younger that the Lord told me those things.
But then He says, "But you are no longer a child in my eyes. You are an heir and a ready recipient of your inheritence. You have the ability to make those decisions for yourself. How much of the inheritence to YOU want to receive? Your choices in these matters [i.e. TV, time management, food intake, etc.] will directly affect the level of inheretence that you are able to receive from Me. Do not live under the law, saying 'I can do this and I can't do that because God said so...' but make YOUR OWN choices out of a desire to obtain my best."
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"8Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods. 9But now that you know God�or rather are known by God�how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again? 10You are observing special days and months and seasons and years! 11I fear for you, that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you....
17Those people are zealous to win you over, but for no good. What they want is to alienate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them. 18It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always and not just when I am with you. 19My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you, 20how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you!
21Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says? 22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. 23His son by the slave woman was born in the ordinary way; but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a promise.
24These things may be taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. 25Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. 26But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. 27For it is written:
"Be glad, O barren woman,
who bears no children;
break forth and cry aloud,
you who have no labor pains;
because more are the children of the desolate woman
than of her who has a husband."[b]
28Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. 29At that time the son born in the ordinary way persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. 30But what does the Scripture say? "Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman's son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman's son."[c] 31Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman."
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And again, I here the Lord saying, "I could give you these gifts - your inheritence - by causing you to follow my commands as a slave to her master. You have seen me this way before. For years, you were obedient to me as your Master.
But I want to move into a new covenant with you. I want to be your Husband. Your friend. You lover.
I want to give you this inheritence through a covenant of freedom - not of slavery.
Make your choices based on this New covenant. A Sarah Covenant. I want you to have a 'baby' that is birthed from a covenant rather than one that is conceived in bondage - even if that bondage is to Me."
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"1It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery."
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Wow... I didn't intend this entry to go like this. I was just planning to copy down some Bible verses.
Wow.
Wow.
hehe...
Wow.
I think I need to go process...