Jesus overcame the world so we are more than conquerors!
Happy Holidays everyone!
Have you ever walked through something that you knew you needed to walk through, like you had to just see a person or go to a place and you knew you probably were going to face something challenging when you got there but you just had to do it?
Water slides for example, water slides I've not always liked, my kids really love them though, they are fast and zippy and they are wet and slippery and fun to go down and then when you land in the pool of water you have fun right? Well I had a not so pleasant experience on a water slide years and years ago like so many years it is ridiculous to even count them (and why I was even keeping track of this is weird, since I have so often said it won't be the same as it was then but there I was thinking about it, so thankful for Grace!), so anyways, well rather His Way, am I right! I felt during this trip to a water park that we went to over Christmas, that I'd just face it, when my 9 year old daughter (at the time) wanted me to race her down the water slides she had no idea that I had not been on a water slide in a long time, she didn't know I had had a not so great experience the many years ago, and she didn't know I had not been on a water slide since then. But there I was praying and facing this water slide, I got on it, prayed before and sat up the whole way I needed to know when the pool would be coming my way so I could hold my nose in time before water splashed up it! And I saw the light and held in time. Then she wanted to go up and switch slides and do it again. The first time was fun, praying again through the second one and went down the other one when the light was up ahead I plugged my nose in time, yay!! I didn't go on another time after that but a part of me wanted to conquer the 2 water slides in the other part of the facility but they weren't open during that time. They were open another time but I was done swimming and getting wet for the day so I just watched my daughter go on the slides.
The water slides was a thing I didn't even know that I would be conquering that weekend but there I was. It was fun! And what happened all those years ago didn't happen this time, a lot different with God and praying, pretty sure all those years ago I wasn't praying about my time down the water slide. Much different this time around.
Often times we may think that what happened all those years ago will happen the same way again the next time around, But God says that isn't true. Or how about when we are listening to the lie that what happened just a month ago is going to happen again this time around. Did God say that? I'd think He would not say that. Worry may say that, fear may say that, but we are no longer bound to those things. We are FREE, Jesus has given us FREEDOM from these things. We no longer need to worry about today, tomorrow, or next week or even month, we are Children of God, Loved, Protected, and have been given the authority to kick out worry and fear, rebuking them in Jesus Christ's mighty name. We need to put trust in God to know that He can carry us through any situation whether a water slide, another thing you've wanted to do again but didn't because of a previous experience, or even walking through a tough season. It ain't going to happen the same way again! Living proof, walked through so many of these scenarios, where one thing happened one time and then the next time it wasn't anything like that again. Knowing and trusting in God. Water slides was a thing I had forgotten about, but God had not. Truth is it was something I was worried about, I didn't want water up my nose, I don't like that feeling at all, I'm sure some of you can relate, but I walked through it or rather slid down it haha, and now it is no longer a concern, no longer a worry, but now I have overcome water slides. And should we go to another water slide park, I may just jump on them again!
We were not given a spirit of fear but of Power, Love and of a Sound Mind, Perfect Love casts out that fear and that Spirit of fear is rebuked in Jesus Christ's name, Amen! 2 Timothy 1:7
Sometimes we are not aware of just even the smallest thing we did not walk through or face yet until we are in a situation where it's like, oh yeah that thing that I thought so long ago, yeah that is not like that now. Because BUT GOD and 2 Timothy 1:7 we were not given fear, but we do have Love, Power and a Sound mind, Hallelujah!!! And we are more than conquerors in Christ Jesus!! Yay!!
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