Hi Pastor John,
I had a wonderful experience on Wednesday that really taps into what we were rejoicing about today.
As I was leaving this farm where I buy produce, there was a gravel road that is long and goes out to the main road. I cautiously left because I knew there were families around. But when I was halfway down it, I felt a spirit that has been close to me in my life say (I call it the downward, ‘what if’ spiraling spirit of worry), “What if you left too fast and gravel kicked up and hit people?” I felt that familiar ton of bricks hit my conscience, that sinking feeling that makes you feel like you cannot breathe. The mental gymnastics of the worst case scenarios swiftly flowed through me in a familiar cadence. Then, I heard another voice, and I knew that Spirit. It was God’s Spirit saying to me, “Everything is fine. Just drive a little slower on this road next time.” I knew that voice; that’s the one we want and need to listen to! With it came this deeper awareness of how much more power God has to help us overcome whatever we go through in this life, including those familiar carnal thoughts/feelings or spirits that we have gotten close to in our lives. Those spirits were cast out of heaven to Earth and God gave us His kind of life to overcome them to be FREE through the law of liberty written on our hearts. What a joyous reality!
It’s like we said today; we’re free to rejoice and be this new creature in Christ, NOW, because of what God has freed us from. He’s not thinking about the past. He wants us to live and be free right now! He’s so happy when we are happy because that was His purpose and His kind of life…all along since the beginning of time with Jesus.
This morning, I kept seeing all these chains on God’s people. The chains to forms: Christian form, worldly forms, carnal thoughts, habitual forms, etc. And I could see God stretching out His hand to pull those chains off each of us as He teaches us something new through His love for us. He’s the only one who can take those chains. let Him do it and leave them with Him forever! As each chain left, each of us were bubbling up higher and starting to fly upwards. I could see God right there with each of us as we were levitating, happy as we are when we get to know Him more. The sky isn’t even our limit, the limits are forms. There is none with God!
What a good God we get to know more!
Wendy